Drinking choclate malts at Denny's at 2 A.M. Buying CDs at Best Buy. So far...I've purchased six. Singing/songwriting. Writing. Reading. Psychology. English. Technical Communication. History. Listening to good music.
People who listen to and appreciate great indie rock music. Really, anybody that's creative and an articulate speaker.Jason Molina of The Magnolia Electric Co.
bands/musicians that influenced many of the great, innovative bands/musicians on my list and me: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Electric Light Orchestra, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, The Kinks, and Queen. musicians/bands:Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith, Earlimart, Devendra Banhart, Beck, The Shins, Jose Gonzalez, Fruit Bats, Built To Spill, Iron and Wine, A Pocketful of Deng, Akron/Family, Feist, Panda Bear, The Magnolia Electric Co./Songs:Ohia, Rilo Kiley(before their Fleetwood Mac incarnation), Laura Veirs, Bright Eyes, M. Ward, Aimee Mann, Daniel Johnston, Wilco, Hope Sandoval, Phil Elvrum, The Apples in Stereo, Pavement, Dans La Lune, Masonic, Radiohead, The Long Winters, Lightspeed Champion, Fruit Bats, The Helio Sequence, The Little Ones, The Polyphonic Spree, Juana Molina, The Ugly Beats, Golden Bear, Butch Young, The Unicorns, A Singer Must Die, The Bibles of Twang, I'm From Barcelona, Illinois, Io Perry, American Analog Set, Drink Up Buttercup, Jim Noir, Haunting Oboe Music, Mirah, The Minders, Pixies, Sparklehorse, Doug Martsch, Great Northern, Midlake, Math and Physics Club, Jon Brion, Grandaddy, Smog, Hanne Hukkelberg, Xiu Xiu, Eels...basically, good indie folk/rock, psychedelic/rock, pop/rock and some electronica music.
Garden State, Good Will Hunting, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart ( documentary), A History of Violence, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Heart of Gold (concert documentary), Rust Never Sleeps (concert documentary), Gods and Monsters,Thumbsucker, Hot Fuzz, No Country for Old Men, Philadelphia, Burn After Reading, Righteous Kill, The Cider House Rules, Street Kings, all Dirty Harry films, Cape Fear, Heat, Straw Dogs, Dig!(Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols rivarly documentary), American Gangster, Blazing Saddles, I Heart Huckabees, The Professional, Die Hard, Die Harder, and Die Hard with a Vengeance, Backbeat, About Schmidt, Lost in Translation, What about Bob?, Misery, Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Dolores Claiborne, A Clockwork Orange, The Good Son (Maculay Culkin is a pyscho motherfucker in that one!), The United States of Leland, Schindler's List, The Naked Prey, Death Wish, Everything Is Illuminated, The Squid And The Whale, Imagine (documentary), Help! (musical), A Hard Day's Night (musical), Yellow Submarine (animated musical), Ghost World, Levity, Nightwatch, Black Snake Moan, Zodiac, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, I Shot Andy Warhol, O'Brother Where Art Thou?, All Over me, Party Monster, Neil Young: Live at Massey Hall (concert footage), The Devil and Daniel Johnston (documentary), The Departed, Detroit Rock City, Taxi Driver, Strange Parallel (Elliott Smith documentary), Outside Providence, Before Night Falls, Miller's Crossing, Crumb (Robert Crumb documentary), Paths of Glory, Dogfight, The Orphanage, Speed Racer, The Strangers, Night of the Living Dead (original and remake), Terminator, Terminator 2:Judgment Day, and Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines, Pan's Labyrinth, The Front Page, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Reservoir Dogs, The Exorcist, Vacancy, Mask, Cujo, Creepshow, Phantasm, Walk The Line, The Alamo (original),Clerks and Clerks 2, The Dark Knight, Momento, 3:10 to Yuma, Smokin' Aces, Waiting, Monster,Chasing Amy. Anything that's worth watching.
I love watching All In The Family, Family Guy, Late Night with Conan O'brien, Monty Python, Scrubs, The Office, Andy Barker PI, My Name Is Earl, Welcome Back Kotter, Taxi, The Henry Rollins Show, Arrested Development....and Friends ( yeah, scratch that one out).
The Catcher in the Rye, White Fang, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Everything Buddhism (currently reading), The Road to Holocaust(currently reading)
The Beatles. Neil Young. The Kinks. Bob Dylan. The fat guy from Jake and the Fat Man. Conan O'Brien. Gene Wilder. John Ritter. Mike Mills. Andy Richter. Martin Scorsese. The Coen Brothers. Mel Brooks. Billy West. Mel Blanc. Sacha Baron Cohen. Robin Williams. Moe Howard. Curly Howard. Larry Fine. Chuck Jones. Daran Norris. Lucille Ball. Jim Gaffigan. Zack Galifianakis. Patton Oswalt. Brian Posehn. Norman Lear. William Asher. Lili Taylor. Tom Kenny. Bill Faggerbacke. Don Knotts. Paul Lynde. Carrol O'conner. Bill Murray. Paul Thomas Anderson. Burt Mustin. Steve Martin. Chevy Chase. The Marx Brothers. Laurel and Hardy. Charlie Chaplin. Cesar Chavez. Martin Luther King. Ramiro Martinez. Ronald Reagan. Jimmy Carter. Mark Felt. John F. Kennedy.