Music, cars, sports, movies, travel, TV, volunteering, reading, writing, shooting pool, darts, beer, concerts, etc etc etc..."Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." ~Abraham Lincoln~
Christopher Walken, Jeff Buckley, River Phoenix, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Brad Nowell, Martin Luther King, JFK, Kurt Vonnegut, Robin Williams, Stephen Lynch. I got to take Lucky Boys Confusion off the list after my birthday weekend :)
I shared a little too much personal info in this section as well. I need to learn to be an iceberg, only showing 10% of myself when I meet people. I'm going to go and practice being an iceberg, so talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic: Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. DISCUSS!
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I'll break it down like this:
Rock (or something like it) --- Aerosmith, Quietdrive, Better Than Ezra, Matt Nathanson, Zack Hexum, Head Automatica, Lucky Boys Confusion, Queen, Cream, Cake, Beck, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Sublime, 311, MxPx, Beatles, the Black Keys, Aqualung, Something Corporate, the Darkness, the Ghettobillies, Ben Harper, Radiohead, Muse, Goldfinger, OKGo, Landon Pigg...
Rap/Hip Hop (I said rap, not CRAP!) --- Slick Rick, Mobb Deep, Blackalicious, Common, Talib Kweli, 2pac, Biggie, Snoop, Eazy E, Rahzel, the Roots, OLD SCHOOL Black Eyed Peas, Ski Lo, Bone Thugs & Harmony, A Tribe Called Quest, Slum Village, Mos Def, Kanye West...
Other stuff that is neither Rock or Rap/Hip Hop --- Fiona Apple, HelloGoodbye, Mark Ronson, Stevie Wonder, Shiny Toy Guns, Wierd Al...
I'll fill in the rest later.
On to local bands:
Tally Hall, Exit the Ordinary, HiFi Handgrenades, Curbstone Beauty, Paper Street Saints, Cowboy Messiah, Schaeffer, Manna & Quail, Freer, Lime Regal, the Nice Device, Hey Sailor, Grande Nationals, the Silent Years, Potty Mouth Sissys, the Disparity Clause, the Debt, Breathing Underwater, Search the City, the M80s, the Amino Acids, Blisstrip...
American History X, Usual Suspects, Toys, Supertroopers, What Dreams May Come, Princess Bride, High Fidelity, Real Genius, LA Story, Field of Dreams, The Pest, Xmen (1 and 2), The Exorcist, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Giants, Blues Brothers, Pump Up the Volume, Good Morning Vietnam, Full Metal Jacket, Spaceballs, Shawshank Redemption, Willow, Labrynth, Brave Little Toaster, the Green Mile, Private Benjamin, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Serendipity, Necessary Roughness, Any Given Sunday, The People Under The Stairs, Dead Poets Society, Dogma, Fifth Element, Face Off, Gattaca, Swing Kids, Sleepers, Donnie Darko, Animal House, Uncle Buck, Stripes, O Brother Where Art Thou, American Splendor, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, School of Rock, MST3K the movie, Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Pay It Forward, Better Off Dead, the Breakfast Club, LOTR, Earth Girls Are Easy, Waynes World, Grosse Pointe Blank, Shrek, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Meatballs, Ghost Busters, Garden State... again I could go on for hours but I don't feel like it.
SNL reruns (before Tina Fey started writing everything), Kids in the Hall, Reno 911, Law and Order, Cold Case Files, Extreme Home Makeover, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Southpark, Unsolved Mysteries, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Hey Dude, Pete n Pete, Spongebob, Simpsons, American Justice, CSI, I Love the 90s, Monk, That 70's Show, Malcolm in the Middle, News Radio (funniest show ever), Daily Show, pretty much anything on the History Channel, TLC, Discovery Channel, A&E, Comedy Central (except MadTV), etc etc etc....
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby,
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman,
I Know This Much is True and She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams, He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt,
Normal Girl by Molly Jong-Fast, Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, Celestine Prophecies by James Redfield, Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, Intensity by Dean Koontz, The Shining by Stephen King, I Am America, and So Can You! by Stephen Colbert, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt....
Know of a book I might enjoy? I love suggestions!
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