Music Music Music, My beloved Blue Jays (oh, how they break my heart), Writing in my black hardcover blank paper journal with a high-quality fine black ink pen, Playing my shitty Chinese made acoustic guitar (praying the string pins don't pop out and blind me), Collecting chinese pirated Dvd's while avoiding the 'Man', Walking my dog (and training her to attack the vicious racist chickens who attack me on a daily basis during my walk to school), Whoring my Photographic Art out to the highest bidder (usually lame Expat Shanghai magazines in which I also whore out my writing skills), Riding the train alone with a good book, Pretending I don't speak English, Teaching my students all the really really good swear words....
Eomer, King of the Horse Lords.....what?.....oh please, like you don't want to meet him too....
David Fucking Bowie! Frank Zappa (thanks Dad), The Tragically Hip, Joe Cocker, Patti Smith, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Massive Attack, Led Zeppelin (thanks De), Dave Matthews Band, Throwing Muses, The Clash, Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Rage Against the Machine, The Velvet Underground, Elvis Costello, Sam Roberts, Neil Young, Otis Redding, Nirvana, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Iggy Pop, Nine Inch Nails, Tom Petty, Mos Def, Sublime, Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman, everything the Beatles ever did, Josh Freeze, John Frusciante, Madonna, Brendan Benson, The White Stripes, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Miles Davis, Black Crowes, A Perfect Circle, Henry Rollins, Smashing Pumpkins, The Pretenders, Count Basie, Tool, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Machines of Loving Grace, The Who, Elliot Smith, Esthero, Van Morrison, Beck, Beta Band, John Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Pulp, Janis Joplin (thanks MOM!)
The Lordy Trilogy! Titus, Before Sunrise/Sunset, The Breakfast Club, Gia, Empire Records (obviously), High Fidelity (clearly), Indian Jones I, II, III,...IV? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Dark Crystal, Trainspotting, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Se7en, Natural Born Killers, Legend, Casino, Amadeus, The Crow, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Romeo and Juliet, Almost Famous, Full Metal Jacket, The Shawshank Redemption, Everything by Kevin Smith, Roman Holiday, Lords of Dogtown, Fifth Element, Bridge on the River Kwai, Dazed and Confused, Blade Runner, Garden State, Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Vanilla Sky, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, The Princess Bride, To Kill a Mockingbird, Monty Python - Life of Brian, Wicker Park, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Last Unicorn, Dark City, The Secret of NIMH, Starship Troopers, Good Will Hunting, Star Wars IV, V, VI....
TV is a depraved form of enterainment...that said, there are a few gems that can be wrested from the pool of slop...The Daily Show, Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Family Guy, The Discovery Channel! The History Channel! Behind the Music, A&E Biography, BBC, Train 48, That 70's Show...and the only English station on Chinese television CCTV9!
How I miss my boxes and boxes of books in Canada...these are the ones I smuggled overseas....Tandia, Still life with Woodpecker, Getting it in the Head, It, No Exit, Nausea, American Psycho, Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Driving Men Mad, The Chomsky Reader, The Rum Diary, Hunter S. - A Collection, On the Road, Allan Cross - Alternative Music Almanac, and as many Rollingstone and Spin magazines I could fit (plus a few Vogue and Jane for flair)...
Hunter S. Thompson, Mookie Wilson, Mike McCormack, Salvador Dali, Gandalf...