Opacity is an irresistible challenge
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music - Vladimir Nabokov Magic realist novels, dysfunctional memoirs, eastern-western philosiphusion, roman a clefs, bildungsromans, and down and dirty rocker bios.Self-improvement, tact (or lack thereof), snarky observations, alliteration, onomotopeia, riddles, and malapropisms (my new nickname).Also, making fun of stupid people never really gets old.
Writers; people with free money, free time, and free drugs; disillusioned bank managers, materialistic security guards, a stooge, and somebody with an "in" in the penal system.
Newest finds: !!!, Love of Diagrams.Top o' the stack: Rancid, Ryan Adams, Erykah Badu, Taj Mahal, The Pixies, The Lillingtons, Lucero, Weezer, Modest Mouse.Also...Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Amos Lee, Amy Winehouse, Beck, Billie Holiday, the Black Keys, Bob Marley, The Breeders, Bruce Springsteen, Built to Spill, Cat Power, Citizen Cope,the Clash, Common Rider, the Cure, Deerhoof, the Descendants, Dixie Dirt, Dusty Springfield, the Eels, Etta Jones, Frank Black, the Fugees, Gnarls Barkley, the Gorillaz, the Hives, James Brown, the Jane Ashers,Joy Division, Kanye West, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Lauryn Hill, the Looking Glass, Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong, Marc Bolan, M.I.A., Mike Doughty, My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, Neko Case, the New Pornographers, Nina Simone, the Nips, the Outkast,Pavement, Pixies, Portishead, Pulp, Prince, the Ramones, the Replacements, R.L. Burnside, Rufus Wainwright, Self, Soul Coughing,the Stones,the Strokes, The Temptations, Violent Femmes, Velvet Underground, We Are Wolves, Wilco, Wilson Pickett, X, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs...
Before Sunset / Before Sunrise, Shaun of the Dead, Short Circuit, Adaptation, Little Shop of Horrors, Blues Brothers, Lost in Translation, Dazed and Confused, Dracula, Dead and Loving it, Joe vs. the Volcano, Interview with the Vampire, Amelie, X-menn, Waking Life
House; Lost; Absolutely Fabulous
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead by Ariel Gore Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield Kitchen Kama Sutra by Alex Williams The Book of Exodus by Vivien Goldman--------------------------------World War Z by Max Brooks House of Leaves by Mark Danielewksi Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Enduring Love and Saturday by Ian McEwan I'm Not Really Here by Tim Allen Love in theTime of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Deep Survival------------------------------------LEAVES OF GRASS, Walt Whitman
Joan of Arc