Art, art history, comic books and graphic novels, all things Canadian, Predators hockey, concerts, IKEA, current events, travel, simplicity, brain usage, and the Sugar and Spice pancakes at Pancake Pantry.
Music
U2, Muse, Weezer, Audioslave, Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, Rage Against the Machine, the Arctic Monkeys, Fellow, Finna, Ben Folds(Five), Chevelle, Led Zeppelin, the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, Mute Math, Cream, the Who, Chris Cornell, the Shins, Fountains of Wayne, Hard-Fi, Amy Winehouse, CCR, Franz Ferdinand, Nelly Furtado, Fuel, M.I.A., No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Johnny Cash, Alanis Morissette, Switchfoot, Talking Heads, Bleu, the Cure, the All-American Rejects, Tool, Radiohead, Beck, the Clash, Depeche Mode, Dave Gahan, the Ramones, Saul Williams, Girl Talk, Kasabian, Kanye West, Madonna, Metallica, Oasis, Moby, the Police, Michael Jackson, Silverchair, Cake, Queens of the Stone Age, Sixpence None the Richer, Garbage, the Killers, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Wolfmother, Tom Petty, Booker T and the MGs, William Shatner, N*SYNC.
Movies
Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Serenity, Alice in Wonderland, Breaking Away, The Bourne Identity, Kill Bill, X-Men, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, Lost in Translation, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Life Aquatic, Spirited Away, Fight Club, Signs, Pride and Prejudice, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Ocean's 11/12/13, The Graduate, Run Lola Run, The Sound of Music, A Clockwork Orange, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Shaun of the Dead, Jerry Maguire, The Truman Show, Mean Girls, The Princess Bride, Spiderman, Monty Python, V for Vendetta, My Fair Lady, Overboard, Fantasia, Bend it Like Beckham, Indiana Jones, The Breakfast Club, Good Will Hunting, Reality Bites, Office Space, Rebel Without a Cause, Vertigo, Match Point, The Godfather, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Art School Confidential, Half Nelson, The Prestige, Pieces of April, Wallace and Gromit, Hot Fuzz, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, Juno, Iron Man, Ghost Town, Slumdog Millionaire.
Television
Lost, Firefly, Fringe, The West Wing, Invader Zim, Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development, Alias, Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Extras, 30 Rock, Flight of the Conchords, House, The Venture Bros., The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Seinfeld, MST3K, the Discovery Channel.
Books
Titus Groan, Gormenghast, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, Perelandra, V for Vendetta, Bone, Watchmen, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, East of Eden, Sense and Sensibility, Maus, Catcher in the Rye, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Subtle Knife, Fax From Sarajevo, Franny and Zooey, Watership Down, Harry Potter, Oliver Twist, The Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment, Women in Love, Great Expectations, Lolita, Notes From Underground, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pride and Prejudice, Fushigi Yugi, James and the Giant Peach, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Blink, Emma, Life of Pi, Death in Venice, Waiting for Godot, The Metamorphosis, A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, Middlemarch, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lord of the Flies, 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, Wuthering Heights, Seize the Day, Heart of Darkness, The Brothers Karamazov, The Gun Seller, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, The Stranger, A Clockwork Orange, Of Mice and Men, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Freddy and Fredericka.
Heroes
My Dad, my Mom, and my brother Joel (yes, my favourite sibling). Anyone who has produced an unassailable work of art.
About me: "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." (C.S. Lewis)
"The only thing that makes art of a bloody piece of grocery string hanging from a bloody tack is the power of coercion." (Mark Helprin)
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." (Michelangelo)
"I only want to do simple, very simple art... with no other thought in mind but to render... the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true." (Paul Gauguin)
"To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try to slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand- that is art." (James Joyce)
"A man melts the sand so he can see the world outside..." (U2)
Who I'd like to meet: C.S. Lewis, Mervyn Peake, Jane Austen, the Edge, Jan Vermeer, J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Jim Lee, Han Solo, Larry Mullen Jr., Jon Stewart, Andy Goldsworthy, John Cassaday, Bono, Jamie Oliver, MLK, Natalie Portman, John Singer Sargent, James Dean, Noah, Marcel Duchamp, Adam Clayton, Albrecht Durer, P.G. Wodehouse, J.A.M. Whistler, Job, J.K. Rowling, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alan Moore, Chuck Jones, Hugh Laurie, Hayao Miyazaki, Lewis Carroll, Nigella Lawson, Piet Mondrian, Joel Stein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jack White.
"Serve just the cheese and chocolate, because they're complimentary...no, not complimentary as in 'free'!"
"I thought you meant complimentary as in 'You taste very good, Chocolate!' 'Oh, thank you, Cheese! You taste very good, too!'"
Jim and Brandon at our fondue experiment tonight. Had to make up for lack of quotes earlier.
Ok, I was NOT texting while driving, I was sitting in a Chipotle parking lot after a great burrito having my Smartees dessert before I hit the road again :P
Oh, and I made it to Louisiana just fine (that's where we ended up going) and then to TX just fine as well. New game idea! --->Where in the World is Ryan Sandiego? haha...he's in FL now, but soon to be all across the country ;)
