I believe a well-crafted playlist is (almost) always better than a well-crafted wine.
Spider by Nash Edgerton
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"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."
"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."
Artisan gelatos, Japanese combini toys, free street festivals, waist-deep snow, expensive meat, a good beat and reliable transportation.
Tegan and Sara.
Yes. Except for that Britney Gangsta shit.
Movies I love, still think about, and/or will sit down to watch if they're on TV (in no particular order): Lars & the Real Girl, Thank You For Not Smoking, Good Night and Good Luck, Goodfellas, Gimme Shelter, Personal Velocity, Down By Law, Apocalypse Now, Wild At Heart, The Devil's Backbone, Blood Simple, Santa Sangre, The Great New Wonderful, The Sweet Hereafter, Heavenly Creatures, Wings of Desire, Spirited Away, City of God, Children of Men, The Godfather I & II, Jesus' Son, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Last Waltz, The Piano, The TV Set, Network, Audition, Closer, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Trainspotting, Sophie's Choice, Schindler's List, The Departed, The Big Lebowski, Leon, Borat, Chuck & Buck, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Jackie Brown, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Dr. Zhivago, Young Frankenstein, The English Patient, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Things Behind the Sun, Burnt By the Sun, All About Eve, About Schmidt, Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don't Cry, Into the Wild, Delicatessen, In the Bedroom, The Girl in the Cafe, Barefoot in the Park, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies, Curse of the Wererabbit, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost Dog, Dog Day Afternoon, Sexy Beast, Dumbo, E.T., Thirteen, Tarnation, Primer, Magnolia, Grosse Point Blank, Laurel Canyon, Mullolland Drive, American Splendor, Team America, The Lord of the Rings, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Empire Strikes Back, Platoon, All's Quiet on the Western Front, Saving Private Ryan, Tigerland
Mad Men, 30 Rock, Dexter, The Office, Heroes, 10 Items or Less, My Boys, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Lost, This American Life, Chappelle's Show, Arrested Development, Extras, The West Wing, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Grey's Anatomy, The Colbert Report, Project Runway, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Flight of the Conchords, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks.
Books I recall liking: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. The Corrections. Love in the Time of Cholera. Life of Pi. Middlesex. Dante's Inferno. The God of Small Things. Me Talk Pretty One Day. Geek Love. Beloved. Jazz. Kornwolf. Devil in the White City. The Tipping Point. The Crying of Lot 49. The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. The Poisonwood Bible. The Sun Also Rises. Everything Is Illuminated. As I Lay Dying. The Master and Margarita. Like Water For Chocolate. Jitterbug Perfume. Skinny Legs and All. The Diary of Anais Nin. Jane Eyre. The Moon and Sixpence. Ubuk. The Wasp Factory. A People's History of the United States. A Problem From Hell.Desperate Networks. Is That a Gun In Your Pocket? Found Magazine. Anything by Chuck Klosterman or Greil Marcus or William Shakespeare. Poems by TS Elliot, Guillame Apollonaire, Sandra Cisneros, Edgar Allen Poe, James Dickey and Boris Pasternak. Plays by Sam Shepard, Maria Irene Fornes, Paula Vogel, Adam Rapp, Sarah Ruhl, and Jose Rivera. Phaidon art books. Where the Sidewalk Ends. Ultra-Violet Catastrophe or The Unexpected Walk With Great Uncle Magnus Pringle. Harry Potter. The Island of the Skog. Clifford, the Big Red Dog. Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All. Books about LA history, art history, film history. Books about Walt Disney. Vice Magazine's Fashion Dos and Don'ts.
My dad. And Bill Nighy.