Because everyone should have the right to be miserable.
“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I amâ€
Spending time with that child o' mine, reading, painting, writing horrible poetry, hanging out with my family, making sarcastic and rude comments about unsuspecting citizens, etc.
Conor Oberst, Bono, interesting, intelligent, obscure people, and these two goofballs...
U2, U2, U2!!!!! Bright Eyes, Oasis, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Jimmy Buffett, Eric Clapton, CCR, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Peter Gabriel, Grateful Dead, Etta James, Aaron Neville, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Jane's Addiction, REM, Violent Femmes, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Weezer, Goo Goo Dolls, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, Live, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Greenday, Sarah McLachlan, Mazzy Star, Stone Temple Pilots, System of a Down, Poe, The Cranberries, Kina, Garbage, The Breeders, Rilo Kiley, The Cure, Bikini Kill, ect.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Death at a Funeral, Sweeney Todd, Atonement, Arsenic and Old Lace, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Night Of The Living Dead, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, National Lampoon's Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Goonies, American History X, Office Space, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, Dogma, Road To Perdition, Dirty Dancing, Pride and Prejudice 2&3, Stigmata, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, ect.
Masterpiece Theater, Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, Ghost Hunters, Most Haunted, pretty much anything on Court TV, I watch the History Channel a lot, Antique Roadshow, Keeping Up Appearances, ect.
Lisey's Story, Duma Key, The Dark Tower Series, Needful Things, The Dead Zone, The Dark Half, It, Salem's Lot, Rose Madder, Everything's Eventual, The Regulators, The Stand, Bag of Bones, Desperation, Cell, The Colorado Kid-by Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House-by Stephen King and Peter Straub, Little Dorrit, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale Of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nicklby, Bleak House-by Charles Dickens, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park-by Jane Austen, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Mask of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum-by Edgar Allan Poe, To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee, Middlemarch-George Eliot, East of Eden-John Stienbeck, The Five People You Meet In Heaven-Mitch Albom, The Scarpetta books-Patricia Cornwell, Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil-John Berendt, Speak To Me Of Love-Dorothy Eden, Darkness Peering-Alice Blanchard, A Painted House and A Time to Kill-John Grisham, The Pillars of the Earth & A Dangerous Fortune-Ken Follett, The Ripple Effect-Lynn Erickson, The Bridget Jones Diaries 1&2-Helen Fielding, The Harry Potter Series-J.K. Rowling, Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte, Vanity Fair-William Thackery, Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde, The Divine Comedy-Dante Alighieri, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand, Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut, Of Human Bondage-W.Somerset Maugham...among so many more.
My grandma and Jane Austen