My father, age 24. Some meanings to the means. A new name for everything.
Interpol, Tegan & Sara, Wilco, Matisyahu, M.I.A., Johnny Cash, Coheed and Cambria, Cursive, Sigur Ros, Saves the Day, Bright Eyes, Desapericidos, The Darkness, anything 80's, The Cure, The Weakerthans, Death Cab for Cutie, Sparta, The Postal Service, Ani Difranco, Belle and Sebastian, The Good Life, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Pat Benatar, Weezer, The Mars Volta, Dashboard Confessional, At the Drive In, Rainer Maria, Thursday, Scraps and Heart Attacks, Gym Class Heroes, Kill the Front Man, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Rilo Kiley, Radiohead, Morrissey, The Smiths, Otis Redding, The Cardigans, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Microphones, Jay-Z, Alkaline Trio, The Anniversary, Fiona Apple, Beastie Boys, Gwen Stefani, Beck, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Elliot Smith, Franz Ferdinand, Tegan and Sara, Hot hot heat, Journey, The Beatles, Modest Mouse, Outkast, Old-school Madonna, The Police, The Pixies, Further Seems Forever, R.E.M., Missy Elliot, Onelinedrawing, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon, The Talking Heads, No Doubt, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Tears for Fears, Green Day, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Joanna Newsom, Le Tigre, Damien Rice, The Knockdown, Mirah, Phil Collins, Kelly Clarkson, Stevie FUCKING Wonder, Sleater-Kinney, Alexi Murdoch, Hole, Frou Frou, Billy Idol, Heart, Doria Roberts, Erasure, Feist, The Flaming Lips, Iron & Wine, Jack Johnson, The Killers, Luscious Jackson, Melissa Ferrick, Snoop Dogg, Tilly and the Wall, When In Rome, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Kanye West, Kings of Convenience, Sufjan Stevens, Bloc Party, Cat Power, The Magnetic Fields, Circa Survive, Depeche Mode, Eisley, Kalpana, Gang of Four, Ghost Tales, The Like, Annie, Maximo Park, Prince, Band of Horses, Al Green, Mates of State, Gnarls Barkley, TV on the Radio, Regina Spektor, Angels & Airwaves, The Radio Department, Aphex Twin, New Order, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, As Tall As Lions, The Sounds, Cold War Kids, Kate Nash, Ingrid Michaelson, Keane, A Fine Frenzy, Hot Chip, An Horse, Against Me!
Amelie, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Wit, High Art, Happenstance, Fight Club, Magnolia, Ghost World, Kissing Jessica Stein, Chicago, Anchorman, The Neverending Story, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Memento, Brokedown Palace, Party Monster, Kill Bill Vol. I, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, 21 Grams, House of Sand and Fog, Edward Scissorhands, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Harold and Maude, Monster, Hotel Rwanda, The Pianist, Napoleon Dynamite, The Player, Zoolander, The Wedding Singer, Billy Elliot, The Chorus, Me You & Everyone We Know, Seducing Dr. Lewis, The Constant Gardener, V for Vendetta, Capote, A History of Violence, Paradise Now, Friends with Money, Wet Hot American Summer, Tsotsi, Rushmore, The Breakup, Waking Ned Divine, An Inconvenient Truth, Baraka, Life is Beautiful, Delicatessan, In America, Little Children, The Last King of Scotland, The Science of Sleep, Pan's Labrynth, Year of the Dog, Volver, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Grey Gardens, Paradise Now, Munich, A Very Long Engagement, The Squid and the Whale, Shopgirl, Sophie's Choice, Half Nelson, There Will Be Blood, Atonement, Into The WIld
Six Feet Under, Big Love, Dexter, Weeds, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Ellen, Conan O'Brien, Adult Swim, Jeopardy, The L Word, America's Next Top Model, Friends, Deadliest Catch, The Golden Girls, Project Runway, Top Chef, Work Out, Thirty Rock, Scrubs, Intervention, everything HGTV.
Cunningham, Sedaris, Sontag, Salinger, Quinn, Roy, Rilke, Silone, Woolf, Burroughs, Olds, Hosseini, Didion, Steinbeck, Jensen, Chbosky, Eugenides, Marquez.
My father1955-2006