Super Furry Animals, Barenaked Ladies, Cake, Electric Six, Alanis Morrisette, Tori Amos, Steely Dan, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Michael Buble, Electric Six, Divine Comedy, Phish (okay, really just the Picture of Nectar and Hoist albums, but still), Wilco, Seal, Cake
Movies
Citizen Kane, A Philadelphia Story, Annie Hall, Yojimbo, Metropolis, Casablanca, Good Will Hunting, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Fight Club, Little Miss Sunshine, Pieces of April, X-Men, Grizzly Man, Grizzly Man, GRIZZLY MAN BITCHES, Being John Malkovitch, The Saddest Music In The World
Television
Is It Real?, Mythbusters, The Worst Jobs In History, Life On Mars, The Office, Homicide: Life On The Streets, Gilmore Girls, Northern Exposure
Books
Slaughterhouse Five, God Bless You Mister Rosewater, anything by Chekhov, anything by Terry Pratchett, John Irving, Dante, Aimee Bender, Nick Hornby, Helen Fielding, Chuck Pahlianuk, Max Barry, Melissa Bank, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Jared Diamond, Harper Lee, Tim O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Denis Johnson, Sherman Alexie, Bill James, Andrew Zimbalist
Heroes
Bill Clinton, that bear that done et Timothy Treadwell, Skipaway (no, not really)
About me: I am hoping that that is the greatest headline in all of Myspace, but alas I suppose that it is not. Somewhere out there someone has combined their love of NASCAR sonnetry and, for example, the awesome killing power of bears (Grizzly Man, not Stephen Colbert, mind you) or their love for the Four Non Blondes' smash hit "What's Going On"?
Anyway, I am a rare combination of dilettante and professional loser, and yea in these 30-odd years of my life I have learned a lot of things, including: people who listen to classical music are just doing it to pretend they're all cool and stuff, people who said "I'm Rick James, bitch!" are essentially the same people who said "yeah, baby" all the time around 5 years earlier, and don't you ever, ever f'ing cough. Again, that's not ALL the crap I've learned; consider it a sampler.
For those who think they remember me, I worked in retail for several years, went back to school after a few years off, got a job at a local radio station that I thought was going to represent a career change but actually was just a 5-year sidelight, got my degree (still have trouble believing that my white trash ass actually went to the University of Washington), and eventually left the radio gig to do customer service. Actually, I'm trying to become a writer at this point, although I am told that in order to do that for a living people actually have to want to read your work. I consider that a pretty huge roadblock so right now I'm just going to plagiarize Chekhov and see if "Glimmer Train" will publish me. It's not like anybody remembers Anton Chekhov anyway.
Who I'd like to meet: Bob Saget, for he is the humor king of our generation. Also maybe Larry the Cable Guy so I can fashion a garotte out of his stupid cable that he wears around his neck and strangle him with it.
you have a nice collection of literature listed here but may I suggest any of the following:
John Sandford - The Fool's Run Jerry Oppenheimer - Seinfeld, The Making of an American Icon Diarmuid Jeffreys - The Bureau (Inside the Modern FBI) Richard Gid Powers - The Troubled Past and the Uncertain Future of the FBI John Sandford - Sudden Prey John Sandford - Eyes of Prey John Douglas - Journey into Darkness (he was a Criminal Profiler in the FBI) John Douglas - Mindhunter John Douglas - Unabomber (On the Trail of America's Most-Wanted Serial Killer) Ronald Kessler - The Secret History of the FBI John Sandford - Chosen Prey John Miller - The Cell (Inside the 9/11 Plot, and why the FBI and CIA failed to stop it)
