Books, Brit comedy, England, guitars, human rights, journalism, music, pianos, politics, shoes (I have entirely too many pairs [11!!!], and you'd never figure... If you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, does this mean I'm all over the place and can't concentrate?), writing
!!!, 2pac, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Ryan Adams, Aesop Rock, Against Me!, Air, Alexisonfire, Apostle of Hustle, The Arcade Fire, As I Lay Dying, The Avalanches, Bad Religion, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Belle and Sebastian, Hector Berlioz, The Beta Band, Between the Buried and Me, Bjork, Black Flag, The Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Bloc Party, Blur, Andrea Bocelli, The Books, Botch, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, The Bronx, Jeff Buckley, Built to Spill, Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Calexico, Camera Obscura, Cat Stevens, Ray Charles, The Clash, Coldplay, John Coltrane, Converge, Elvis Costello, The Cure, Cursive, Danger Mouse, David Bowie, Miles Davis, The Decemberists, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Shadow, The Doors, Doves, Dr. Dre, Nick Drake, The Drones, Bob Dylan, The End, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Marvin Gaye, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, José González, Green Day, George Harrison, Haste the Day, Husker Du, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jay-Z, Jimmy Eat World, Joy Division, K'Naan, The Killers, The Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, Talib Kweli, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, The Libertines, M.I.A., Madness, Manic Street Preachers, Manitoba, Mare, Bob Marley, (old school) Metallica, Charles Mingus, Minor Theat, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Moneen, Thelonius Monk, Morrissey, Mos Def, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, NOFX, Phil Ochs, Operation Ivy, Opeth, Outkast, Pavement, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Pogues, The Postal Service, Primal Scream, Propagandhi, Pulp, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ramones, The Rapture, Otis Redding, Lou Reed, Refused, Rites of Spring, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, The Shins, Shostakovich, Sigur Ros, A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Simon and Garfunkel, Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, Sonic Youth, The Specials, Gwen Stefani, Sufjan Stevens, The Stills, The Streets, The Strokes, Joe Strummer, System of a Down, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Television, Tool, Peter Tosh, U2, The Unicorns, The Velvet Underground, Antonio Vivaldi, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, The Walkmen, The Weakerthans, Whiskeytown, The White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, John Williams, Xiu Xiu, XTC, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young
Almost Famous, Amélie, American History X, Bend It Like Beckham, Braveheart, The Commitments, The Deer Hunter, East of Eden, Empire of the Sun, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fiddler on the Roof, Fight Club, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gandhi, Garden State, The Godfather series, Goodbye Lenin!, High Fidelity, Hotel Rwanda, The Hours, Kill Bill 1&2, Life is Beautiful, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, The Motorcycle Diaries, Moulin Rouge, The Pianist, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Schindler's List, School of Rock, Team America: World Police, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects
Unless it's the news, I don't watch TV.
1984 (George Orwell), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Mordecai Richler), Animal Farm (George Orwell), Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut), The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser), Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis), The Master and the Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov), Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (Noam Chomsky), Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson), Orientalism (Edward W. Said), The Razor's Edge (W. Somerset Maugham), Requiem for a Dream (Hubert Selby, Jr.), The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis), The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie), The Stranger (Albert Camus), Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), The Stranger (Albert Camus), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges), Watership Down (Richard Adams), Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë), You Shall Know Our Velocity! (Dave Eggers)