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You. Honest! If not you, then someone that listens to my music. The curse of growing up on Long Island is that it is such a wasteland musically... hardly any bands play and the majority of the people listen to truly awful music. They do, seriously. I have been told I am a music snob... so be it.
I still love this video:
The Pixies, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Blur, Pulp, Suede, Interpol, Bauhaus, The Decemberists, Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, Apples in Stereo, Charlatans, British Sea Power, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros, Dinosaur Jr., The Raveonettes, Violent Femmes, Wondernaut, The Modifiers, The Atomic Hep Cats, AM, The Wading Girl, The Smarties, They Might Be Giants, Radiohead, Meat Beat Manifesto, Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, Switchblade Symphony, Talking Heads, Belle & Sebastian, Caulfield Sisters, Dinosaur Jr, TV on the Radio, David Bowie, 50 Foot Wave, R.E.M., Kitchens of Distinction, The Stills, The Shins, Snow Patrol, Sonic Youth, Concrete Blonde, The New Pornographers, The Replacements, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lemonheads, Nirvana, Stone Roses, Peter Murphy, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Ministry, The Ramones, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Bloc Party, Death From Above 1979, Lush, Ministry, Neil Young, Otis Redding, JOHNNY CASH, Marvin Gaye, Morning Theft, New Order, Luna, Dresden Dolls, Gomez, XTC, Mogwai, Grandaddy, Jane's Addiction, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Leonard Cohen, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Cult, Public Enemy, Frank Black, Breeders, Lake Trout, Elastica, Matthew Sweet, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Elk City, Elizabeth Harper, The Hold Steady
The City of Lost Children, Akira, The Professional, Sid & Nancy, Pump Up The Volume, The Crow, Dangerous Liasons, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Contact, The Player, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Ring, The Exorcist, Neverending Story, Labrynth, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Punch Drunk Love, The Godfather, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Spirited Away
Lost, Rome, Seinfeld, X-Files, That 70's Show, Northern Exposure, M*A*S*H, The Office (UK), Extras, Deadwood, Entourage, Carnivale, The Tudors
William Gibson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E. A. Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Neal Stephenson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, Tad Williams, Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z. Brite, Tim Powers, Kurt Vonnegut, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, C.S. Lewis, Gene Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Nick Hornby, Max Barry, Cormac McCarthy... please read "The Road"... I still cannot get over that book.
Johnny Cash, the father from The Road...