Letters have no Arms!, Fresh (preferably German or Austrian) bread, Travel, Photography, the smell of kerosene when boarding a plane, Andalucia, Playing Music, Listening to Music, Film, Walking, Playing Distortion back to back with Psychocandy, Photoshop, Art, Benicassim, Doner Kebabs on Whitechapel Road, Books, Pool, Pitchforkmedia.com, Valencia graffiti, planning future trips, Hype Machine, Evenings in the Centre Pompidou, My beautiful new Vaio, Berlin, Night-time taxis through the city, music-blogs, The smell of farms in the winter, museums, waking up in big unexplored cities, drinking coffee while watching someone's ship come in, Tapas, the hills when they're alive with the sound of music, bottle caps, random words on walls, Mountains, Food, the Seine and a bottle of wine, My Pet Journal, People with something to say, Parks, pine trees, She who makes my heart beat faster and my mind alive, Early morning singing, Badminton, Plaza Major de Madrid, Trains, Ferries, Scrabble, Piers, Nights, Paris, Cheap hotel rooms with even cheaper paintings on the walls, Bubblegum and experimental music and nothing in between...
Music
Check out Letters have no Arms, a music blog I co-run and contribute to. Or just look below for our Hype Machine link and recently added tracks:)
I also like: Pop songs your new boyfriend is too stupid to know about, and a daily/weekly/monthly dose of new, unheard stuff. The following have also made me happy/dance/sing in the past:Afghan Wigs, And you will know us by the trail of dead, Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, Art Brut, Babyshambles, Belle & Sebastian, Lou Barlow, Beastie Boys, Beirut, Beat Happening, Big Star, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Boards of Canada, Bonnie Prince Billy, Breeders, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Camera Obscura, CSS, Cardigans, Cat Power, Clap your hands say yeah, Clientele, Cocorosie, Daft Punk, Evan Dando, Death Cab for Cutie, dEUS, Dinosaur Jr, Doves, Evil Superstars, Explosions in the Sky, Flare, !Forward Russia!, the Fall, Felt, Field Mice, Fugazi, Future Bible Heroes, Futureheads, Girl Talk, Girls Vs Boys, Gonzales, , Gothic Archies, Grandaddy, Guided by Voices, Halo Benders, Hidden Cameras, Idlewild, Interpol, Jesus & Mary Chain, Josef K, Joy Division, Kings of Leon, Kings of Convenience, Klaxons, the Knife, Kool Keith, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Jens Lekman, Jeru the Damaja, Lemonheads, Les Savy Fav, Lali Puna, Libertines, Love, Low, Lucksmiths, M83, Magnetic Fields, Stephen Malkmus, Mary Onettes, Math and Physics Club, Matt and Kim, Menomena, Mercury Rev, Microphones, Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Moldy Peaches, Morrissey, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Notwist, Of Montreal, Pastels, Pavement, Peaches, Pete & the Pirates, Peter Bjorn and John, Pet Shop Boys, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Radio Dept, Raveonettes, Jonathan Richman, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Sebadoh, Shangri-Las, Shins, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, Elliott Smith, Smiths, Silver Jews, Slint, Smog, Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Stars, Stereolab, Stereo Total, Sufjan Stevens, Stooges, Strokes, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Suede, Swan Lake, Talk Talk, Tapes n'Tapes, Teenagers, Television, Television Personalities, Thermals, These New Puritans, Tilly and the Wall, Justin Timberlake, Tocotronic, TV on the Radio, Unicorns, Walkmen, Weezer, Kanye West, Wilco, Patrick Wolf, Whirlwind Heat, White Stripes, Wu Tang Clan, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo and about a million other bands and songs. Check out my Last.FM page for a real idea of what I like and listen to.
Movies
Mulholland Drive, Brazil, Magnolia, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Indiana Jones, Goodbye Lenin, Waking Life, Wizard of Oz, Pi, I heart Huckabees, Storytelling, Igby Goes Down, Amelie, Manchurian Candidate, Traffic, Crash, Raising Arizona, Punch-Drunk Love, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Abre Los Ojos, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, Woody Allen, Garden State, Full Frontal, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, The man who wasn't there, 24hour party people, The Royal Tenenbaums, Babel, and all the rest I've forgotten right now...seen in cinemas across the world, classrooms, trains, planes, and in dreams.
Television
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Books
The Magus - John Fowles, Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger, Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis, Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson, The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles, All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland, Choke, Survivor etc - Chuck Palahniuk, John Ashbery, Jean Baudrillard, JP Sartre, Albert Camus, Roald Dahl, A man in full - Tom Wolf, Nietzsche (always good for a laugh), Harry Potter etc
'Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.'
Rousseau
I can't remember a single detail, but I can see the rigorous succession of circumstances. I have crossed seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have plunged the course of rivers towards their source or else plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and I could never turn back, any more than a record could spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where? To this very moment, to this bench, in this bubble of light humming with music.
-JPSartre-
On The Patty Winters Show this morning a Cheerio sat in a very small chair and was interviewed for close to an hour.
— American Psycho - B.E. Ellis
For my part I know I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind the world would consider me a monster of depravity.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
A cookie has no spirit because it is just a cookie. But before that it was milk and eggs. And in the eggs there is a potential life.
-Jean-Claude van Damme
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
-Chuck Palahniuk
Hello steven!! thankyou soo very much!! we are soo glad you like our music!! we checked out the blog. very nice!! keep in touch.. and hopefully you can come to our next gig.. have a great week!! love Hannah and Sam.
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