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Jorma! and people who live on boats
iron and wine, death cab for cutie, the arcade fire, sufjan stevens, sigur ros, silver jews, gogol bordello, metric, leonard cohen, bruce cockburn, jeff buckley, bright eyes, bob dylan, joanna newsom, feist, neko case, broken social scene, cat power, boards of canada, animal collective, bing crosby, dean martin, nat king cole, nina simone, miles davis, led zeppelin, patsy cline, johnny cash, simon and garfunkel, the who, sarah harmer, cat stevens, emmylou harris, otis redding, chet baker, slipknot, killswitch engaged, stutterfly, wagner, mozart, beethoven, chopin, shostakovitch, tchaikovsky, rachmaninov, kelly clarkson, radiohead, pearl jam, nirvana, smashing pumpkins, lauryn hill, amadou and mariam, ali farka toure, wolfmother, wolf parade, smog, queen, joni mitchell, jt, rise against, the ramones
adaptation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, almost famous, the new world, waiting for guffman, the life aquatic, pan's labyrinth, volver, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, vertigo, the defiant ones, a streetcar named desire, on the waterfront, all the president's men, funny girl, the way we were, the corpse bride, big fish, a river runs through it, downfall, me and you and everyone we know, the english patient
mtv, the hour! the office! snl! the colbert report! the discovery channel, pbs, national geographic, and wild america f. my first love, marty stouffer
some current favorites are Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway, the Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Pablo Neruda, Isaiah (the Bible), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. i somehow feel i have an obligation to the classics, but when read, they rarely satisfy. i have far greater success with more contemporary reads, so i don't know why i keep torturing myself with trying to read classics that bore me a lot of the time. masochistic? probably
people who own who they are, and don't pretend to be somebody they're not. that may seem obvious, but...