Ignoring the odds and fighting to make the world a better place/Not letting ones growing sense of hopelessness stop you from doing what should be done.
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Time for a revamp here. Here is what I have been listening to these days (in Alphabetical Order no less):1905, Alkaline Trio, Andrew Bird, At The Drive In, At The Gates, Atom and His Package, Bad Religion, Bane, Bikini Kill, Boy Sets Fire, Bright Eyes, Chokehold, Circle Takes The Square, Conflict, Crass, Cursive, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Death, Death Cab For Cutie, Defiance Ohio, Descendents, Dragonforce, The Dresden Dolls, Earth Crisis, Elliott Smith, Erin Tobey, Finntroll, Fugazi, Gather, The Get Up Kids, Gorilla Biscuits, His Hero Is Gone, Jawbreaker, Job For A Cowboy, Johnny Cash, Kimya Dawson, Madeline Adams, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Metallica (old), Miki Greenberg, Mirah, The Moldy Peaches, Motorhead, The Mountain Goats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nile, Operation Ivy, Opeth, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Propagandhi (my favorite band), Requiem, Rilo Kiley, Rise Against, Slayer, Sleater Kinney, Spit For Athena, Spoonboy, Strike Anywhere, Submission Hold, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, Tom Waits, Tragedy, Trial, Undying, The Weakerthans, Weezer and X-Ray Spex
The best few movies I have seen lately are The Orphanage, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men & The Signal.A long list of movies I liked enough to buy (also in alphabetical order because I'm OCD about shit like that):12 Monkeys, 28 Days Later, 40 Year Old Virgin, The Adams Family, Alien, Amelie, American History X, An American Warewolf In London, Anchorman, Basket Case Trilogy (hell yes I have all 3), Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, Best In Show, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Borat, Bottle Rocket, Buuba Ho-Tep, But I'm A Cheerleader, The Cell, Children Of Men, Children Of The Revolution, Clerks, The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Craft, Creepshow, David Cross "Let America Laugh", The Da Vinci Code, Dead Alive, Death To Smoochy, Delicatessen, The Departed, The Descent, Dirty Pretty Things, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Eastern Promises, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine On The Spotless Mind, Event Horizon, Evil Dead Trilogy (Army Of Darkness should just go here, not under A), Fargo, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Fearless (The Jet Li one, not the Jeff Bridges One), Fearless Hyena, Fern Gully, Fierce Creatures, Fight Club, First Blood, First Strike, The Fly, Four Rooms, The Frighteners, From Dusk Till Dawn, Hard Candy, Harold and Maude, Harry Potter movies, Head On, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, He Loves Me He Loves Me Not, Hero, High Tension, Hostel, Hot Fuzz, Human Nature, I <3 Huckabees, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Jackass, Jacob's Ladder, Ju-On, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Lord Of Illusions, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (both theatrical and extended), Manufacturing Consent, Mars Attacks, Me and You and Everyone We Know, A Mighty Wind, Monster House, Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Murderball, Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie, The New Guy, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Nightmare On Elm Street, Night Of The Living Dead, Not Another Teen Movie, Ocean's Eleven, Office Space, Old School, One Missed Call, Operation Condor, Pan's Labyrinth, Pi, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Princess and The Warrior, The Professional, Pulp Fiction, Reality Bites, Rejected, Rumble In The Bronx, Reservoir Dogs, The Return Of The Living Dead, The Ring, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rounders, The Royal Tenenbaums, Saved, School Of Rock, Scream 1 and 2, Secretary, Serenity, Severance, Shallow Grave, The Shining, Sid and Nancy, Sin City, The Simpsons Movie, Sixteen Candles, SLC Punk, Slither, Slums Of Beverly Hills, Spellbound, Star Wars (Episodes 4, 5 and 6), Stranger Than Fiction, Strangers With Candy, Suicide Club, Superbad, Tank Girl, Taxi Driver, Team America World Police, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, This Is Spinal Tap, Time Bandits, The Toxic Avenger (1 and 3), Trainspotting, Tromeo and Juliet, Unleashed, V For Vendetta, Videodrome, Volver, Waiting For Guffman, Wet Hot American Summer and What To Do In Case Of Fire.This is by no means all the movies I love, but that list would take me days on IMBD to assemble and this one is stupidly long as it is.
I don't watch TV except on DVD for the most part (though I do admit having a shameful addiction to "The Biggest Loser" for some reason. However, the awesome shows that I do watch on DVD are:Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Dexter, Kids In The Hall, Monty Python, Mr. Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Office, Ren and Stimpy, The Sarah Silverman Program, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Strangers With Candy, The Wire and The Young Ones.
Largely political books, fantasy books, graphic novels & fucked up fiction (ala Chuck Palahniuk). I take the train to work so I read a bunch while commuting to the burbs.
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