Good music, good times, good friends. Procrastinating, staying up late and not doing anything productive. Making grandiose plans and dreaming about them relentlessly. Picking up bad habits. Writing the Great Canadian Unfinished Novel/Zine/Song. Getting random things tattooed on my body, and never quite getting around to starting my sleeve. Getting pierced because it costs less. Not petting Bob. Pirates and Ninjas living in harmony. The pier on the Island when I'm not crazy. Charcoal Charlie's magical powers. The ever elusive Road Trip. Playing Marco Polo with grizzly bears on back country roads. Crazy eight countdown. Shocking people with rye and Coke. Midnight picnics. Midnight swingsets. Midnight...midnights. Baby animals. You.
My great-grandfather Finnie, Elvis, Louisa May Alcott (so I can thank her for Little Women), Mike Holmes, John Lennon, J. Bruce Ismay, David Suzuki. For starters.
First and foremost, Against Me! (especially the early days) and Defiance, Ohio. Those bands changed my life.
But I also enjoy these other sweet sounds:
Minor Threat, O Pioneers!!!, Social Distortion, Flogging Molly, Minus the Bear, Murder by Death, Bear vs Shark, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Latterman, The Sainte Catherines, The Buzzcocks, Television, Raised Fist, Tijuana Bibles, The Threat, Springloaded, Zeke, Say Anything, Corb Lund, The Burnitdowns, Hot Water Music, Gogol Bordello, Tom Waits, Greg MacPherson, and this list would probably go on forever if I'd let it.
Currently: Pride and Prejudice, and I have no idea why.
I watch a lot of nerdy documentaries about oil rigs and sewer systems. And I love Mike Holmes.
Eleanor Rigby. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Little Women. The Great Gatsby. The Catcher in the Rye. Anthem.
My grandmother, my friends and my family.