CAPS LOCKs, exclamation points!, multiple exclamation points!!!, multiple exclamation points followed by the number one !!!!!!111, LOLs, festiveness, animals, stuffed animals, winning stuffed animals out of crane games at Meijer (loving them all equally), no eating/torturing of the animals, trees are good, carrots are yums, passion is my favorite, love comes in a close second.
The next big thing.
David Bowie, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Goldfrapp, Rilo Kiley, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, EELS, early Clapton, Hem, Queen, Brazilian Girls, Jefferson Airplane, Ingrid Michaelson, Patty Griffin, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes or Death Cab when I'm feeling nostalgic, Portishead, Prince, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley!, Belle and Sebastian, The Smiths, more.
PERSEPOLIS, Once, Pan's Labrynth, There Will Be Blood, Factory Girl, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Amelie, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Elling, The Big Lebowski, Factotum, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Volver, Resevoir Dogs, All Dogs go to Heaven 1. Oh, and that porn where the guy is invisible.
Curb Your Entusiasm, The Office, Jeopardy!, House, Conan, Big Love, WEEDS!! (esp. with Mikal), Roseanne, Flight of the Conchords, Top Chef, The Loop, Entourage, don't tell me tv rots my brain its better than sitting around getting high you hippies, and Baseball Tonight.
David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Sarah Vowell, Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Oh the Glory of It All, The Glass Castle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Choke, Unhooked, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Middlesex, Against Love, I love reading but I'm not a dork... even though I don't think those are synonymous outside of highschool........... WHATEV, DON'T MESS.
SURVIVORS... no, not the Holocaust kind (well, maybe them too but..).. more like umm.. this guy: GUTS CONTESTANTS OLD YELLER Phillip Jones oh and maybe like Hellen Keller or something, but mainly people that don't do anything significant or worth being in a book about.