prancing, insane dreams, screaming, random nightly adventures, construction sites, awkwardness, Sutter Home white zin, trees, chocolate chip granola bars, virtual snowflakes, my forest of bad ideas, my sexy tiger-print retainer, squirrel watching, knitting, emotional cocktails, touching people, swing, apples to apples, being sneaky, biting, post-its, lightning, the animal game, brick people, fractions, orgasms, skee ball, midnight cult classics, bowling, fruit snacks, losing my car keys, coke from a can, social criticism, the DMV, pizza-by-the-slice, canasta, pants parties, tortilla espaola, killing mini-vans, tulips, snakes
someone who marches to the beat of their own drum.
Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, Elliot Smith, Spoon, Cake, Violent Femmes, Alkaline Trio, Bob Dylan, Sublime, Neon Blonde, Blood Brothers, Rise Against, Sondre Lerche, The Shins, Diamond Nights, Damien Rice, Save Ferris, John Lee Hooker, Wolf Parade, Bad Religion, The Mars Volta, Hifana, Billie Holiday, The Arcade Fire, Peter Bjorn and John, Feist, Danny Elfman, The Books, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Presidents of the U.S.A, Norah Jones, B-52s, The Darkness, Weezer, Pennywise, Beck, Chuck Berry, The Doors, Flight of the Conchords, Go Betty Go, Indigo Girls, Louis Prima, Queen, James Brown, Frank Zappa, Ben Harper, The Robot Ate Me, Nico, Ray Charles, Lauryn Hill, Wilco, Patrick Wolf, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, Social D, Janis Joplin, Handsome Furs, Beirut
the big lebowski, the salton sea, the fountain, kiss kiss bang bang, old boy, wassap rockers, 13 Tzameti, national treasure (!!), pan's labyrinth, a clockwork orange, blues brothers, royal tenenbaums, west side story (okay just about any musical), spirited away
the office. dexter. aqua teen.
I'll set this list once I'm done being brain washed by my english major and can read beyond Victoria Literature. But for now these are a few that have altered these past tender years for me: Kurt Vonnegut, An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce), Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, White Oleander, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joyce's Dubliners, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Chuck Palahniuck, Nikolai Gogol, Aubade by Philip Larkin, and a life without [Calvin & Hobbes] is incomplete.
I find all sorts of "heroes" in the most unusual of places, like that stranger who offered me his Cheetos when my Pringles can was flipped over just seconds after bought it from the vending machine. THATS TRUE HEROISM.