"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." ~ Jack Kerouac
THE BEES KNEES, !!!, American Football, Arab Strap, Azure Ray, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Blonde Redhead, Brand New, Brandtson, Bright Eyes, Cibo Matto, Coheed and Cambria, Cursive, The Decemberists, Desaparecidos, Eastern Youth, Elliot Smith, Enon, The Faint, Franz Ferdinand, Gin Blossoms, The Good Life, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jets to Brazil, The Killers, Le Tigre, Lenny Kravitz, Mates of State, Mars Volta, Matt Pond PA, Moby, Modest Mouse, Of Montreal, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Postal Service, The Promise Ring, Rilo Kiley, Rx Bandits, Spoon, Streetlight Manifesto, Taking Back Sunday, Ted Leo/ Rx, 30 Seconds to Mars, Treble Charger, Mates of State, Dashboard Confessional, Rainer Maria, Collective Soul, Dispatch, Guster, Guns N Roses, R.E.M., Placebo, Spin Doctors, Less Than Jake, Bush, Saves the Day, Reggie and the Full Effect, Catch 22, UB40, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Led Zepplin, The Beatles, The Shins, Broken Social Scene, Green Day, Maroon 5, , Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Hey Mercedes, Jimmy Eat World, The Juliana Theory, Angel Youth, LWL, Mighty Might Bosstones, Danny Elfman, Beethoven, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Slackers, Sublime, The Specials, The Streets, The Roots, The Royalties, Talib Kweli, Elvis Costello, Marvin Gaye, George Gershwin, Q and Not U, Seals and Crofts, Sponge, Styx, Talking Heads, Telefon Tel Aviv, The Tragically Hip, Treble Charger, The Verve, The Wallflowers, Westbound Train, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Requiem For A Dream, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, American Beauty, Secretary, Trainspotting, Edward Scissorhands, James and the Giant Peach, Frankenweenie, Sleepy Hollow, Indiana Jones movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dracula (1979), A Pirate Movie, Possession, Quills, The Red Violin, Run Lola Run, I Am Curious, Matrix movies, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Aladin, Sleeping Beauty, The Story of O, Caligula, awesome cult flicks
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"The Fountainhead" - Ayn Rand, "A Clockwork Orange" - Anthony Burgess, "On the Road" - Jack Kerouac, "Catcher in the Rye"- J. D. Salinger, "Farenheight 451" - Ray Bradbury, "Sirens of Titan" - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Stranger" - Albert Camus, "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories" - Tim Burton, "Lolita" - Vladimir Nabokov, "Inferno" - Dante Alghieri, "The Scarlet Letter" - Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Season of Migration to the North" - Tayeb Salih, "The Assault" -Reinaldo Arenas, "When the Emporer Was Divine" - Julia Otsuka, "Rolling the R's" - R. Zamora Linmark, anything Shakespeare (especially King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure), Rainer Maria Rilke, Marquis de Sade, Pauline Reage