the preparation of food and making my friends eat my creations, girls with large hoop earrings and glossy lips who wink at me or slap my butt, books with old dusty covers in equally old dusty libraries, grape juice from Costco, old people's hands when they are blue and veiny, buffalo who still live in heards and "roam free" (I'm interested to know if they actually feel free), people who can spell very well and are never wrong
..The singing bush from the Three Amigos
Alphabetically: 311, Aterciopelados, Beatles, Beck, Ben Harper, Black Keys, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Cafe Tacuba, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cold War Kids, Cottonbelly, El Gran Silencio, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Jarabe de Palo, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Kinky, Kooks, Lenny Kravitz, Mana, Manu Chao, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse, Neil Young, OAR, Ozomatli, Pearl Jam, Peter Bjorn and John, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Roots, Rusted Root, Santana, Sigur Ros, Silversun Pickups, Soul Coughing, Spoon, Supergrass, Thelonius Monk, Thievery Corporation, U2, Van Morrison, Weezer, Wilco, Zero 7
Television rots the mind, but The Office cracks me up something fierce and is the only thing that has made me happy since Arrested Development was wrenched from my hands years ago.
East of Eden, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Life of Pi
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