"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
~William Blake
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Film, music, art, literature, guitar, writing, girls who play music, Shot in the Dark Cafe, Fourth Avenue, American Spirits, awkwardness, balderdash, calliope, cigarettes, carnivals, conspiracies, beauty and love, drugs, excessive punctuation, traveling, Minesweeper, trivia, coffee shops, Portland, Europe, trees, learning, perception, Buddhism, politics, educational conversation, running, cycling, Hungary, Ireland, depression, determination, tattoos, the big picture.
People. Every person is a diamond waiting to be cut and polished.
The Adolescents, ADULT., Aesop Rock, Alien Skull Paint, Andrew Bird, Aphex Twin, Aretha Franklin, Assemblage 23, Baaba Maal, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Bassnectar, The Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Bjork, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bob Log III, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Boo Kay Jack, The Books, Black Flag, The Blow, Brian Hullfish, Bright Eyes, Buckethead, Butthole Surfers, Cake, Calexico, Can, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Cat Power, Chicks on Speed, Chinese Telephones, Chris Whitley, Circle Jerks, Claudio Simonetti, CocoRosie, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Cream, The Cramps, Crass, CunninLynguists, Curtis Mayfield, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Deerhoof, Descendents, Dire Straits, The Dope Habitats, Dr. Dre, The Effigies, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, The Faint, Fiery Furnaces, Flaming Lips, Flogging Molly, Frank Zappa, Fugazi, Funkadelic, George Harrison, G.G. Allin, Goblin, Gorillaz, Grateful Dead, Gravy Train!!!!, Guitar Wolf, Husker Du, I Hate You When You're Pregnant, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Janis Joplin, Jason & The Punknecks, Jefferson Airplane, JFA, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Jon & Robin, Kalyi Jag, Keller Williams, Kimya Dawson, The Kinks, Lemon Jelly, Ladytron, Led Zeppelin, Leftover Salmon, Les Claypool, Lou Reed, M. Ward, The Magnetic Fields, The Marked Men, Marvin Gaye, Mates of State, Matisyahu, Melt Banana, Miles Davis, Mindless Self Indulgence, Ministry, Minutemen, The Misfits, Modest Mouse, Moistboyz, Mojo Nixon, Moldy Peaches, Morphine, Mount Sims, Mr. Bungle, Naked Raygun, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Nobody et al., Now It's Overhead, Oasis, Outkast, Oysterhead, Parliament, Pavement, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Polysics, Portishead, The Postal Service, Prick, Primus, Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, Ratatat, Recoil, Red Elvises, Reverend Horton Heat, Revolting Cocks, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Rilo Kiley, Rogue Wave, Rolling Stones, Romski Duhov Orkestar, Ry Cooder, Sam Cooke, Say Hi to Your Mom, Scissor Sisters, Screeching Weasel, The Shins, Simon & Garfunkel, Smashing Pumpkins, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, The Staple Singers, Stereolab, The Stooges, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, System of a Down, Taj Mahal, TAS 1000, Teen Idles, Tenacious D, Tom Waits, Tool, Tracy Chapman, A Tribe Called Quest, TV on the Radio, Van Morrison, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, VNV Nation, The Walkmen, Warren Zevon, Ween, Weezer, The Weirdos, Wesley Willis, White Stripes, The Who, Wilson Picket, X-Ray Spex, Zero Boys
American Psycho, Amores Perros, ...And God Spoke, Audition, Barton Fink, Battle Royale, Baxter, A Better Tomorrow, Big Fish, Blood Simple, Bottle Rocket, Blue Velvet, Brazil, Buffalo '66, A Bullet for the General, Bully, Cannibal! the Musical, Clerks, Come and See, The Conversation, The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover, Crumb, The Crying Game, Dawn of the Dead (original), Day of the Dead, Dead or Alive, Dead Ringers, The Deer Hunter, Delicatessen, Django Kill... If You Live Shoot!, Don't Look Now, The Dreamers, Dr. Strangelove, Duel, Easy Rider, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evil Dead I & II, The Exorcist, Fargo, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Four of the Apocalypse, Freaks, Garden State, Ghost World, Goodfellas, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Gummo, Happiness, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Heavenly Creatures, Heavyweights, Hero, Hideous Kinky, The Hudsucker Proxy, Ikiru, Irreversible, Kids, The Killer, Killing Zoe, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Koyaanisqatsi, The Last Emperor, Last of the Mohicans, M, Magnolia, Mamma Roma, Man Bites Dog, Matewan, Mean Streets, Meet the Feebles, Miller's Crossing, Mulholland Drive, My Cousin Vinny, Night of the Living Dead (original), Northfork, Nosferatu (both Herzog's AND Murnau's), Notorious, O Brother Where Art Thou?, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Opera, The Phantom of Liberty, Pi, Pistol Opera, Pulp Fiction, Punch Drunk Love, Raising Arizona, Rashomon, Rebecca, The Reflecting Skin, Repulsion, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, RoboCop, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Sanjuro, Secretary, Serenity, Serial Mom, The Seventh Seal, The Shining, Short Cuts, Sid & Nancy, The Sixth Sense, SLC Punk, Spirited Away, Storytelling, Sullivan's Travels, Suspiria, Talk to Her, Taxi Driver, Tenebre, Terror Firmer, Time Bandits, The Tin Drum, Toxic Avenger, Trainspotting, Tromeo and Juliet, True Romance, Vanilla Sky, Videodrome, Visitor Q, Walkabout, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wet Hot American Summer, The Witches, Yojimbo, Zombie
Arrested Development, Black Books, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Firefly, Futurama, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Home Movies, The Larry Sanders Show, Lost, Mr. Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Red Dwarf, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Spaced, Strangers with Candy, Twin Peaks, Venture Brothers, Wonder Showzen
1984, Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, A Light in the Attic, A Moveable Feast, Breakfast of Champions, Catch 22, Cathedral, Cat's Cradle, The Children's Story, Choke, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Cremaster Cycle, The Curse of Lono, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Falling Up, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fires, The Fountainhead, The Great Shark Hunt, Grendel, Hell's Angels, Holidays on Ice, The Inferno, Ishmael, Junky, Leaves of Grass, Lonesome Dove, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Metamorphosis, Naked Lunch, The Old Man and the Sea, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Prince of Central Park, Rebecca, Red Harvest, Riding Outside the Lines, The Road, Siddhartha, Slaughter-house Five, Steppenwolf, The Sun Also Rises, Survivor, The Tin Drum, Travels with Charley, Tropic of Cancer, Wayside School is Falling Down, Welcome to the Monkey House, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Where I'm Calling From, Where the Sidewalk Ends
Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Miller, Jello Biafra, Bradley Nowell, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jimi Hendrix, Ray Bradbury, Ween...