Steely Dan, Jeff Buckley, Ben Folds, The Arcade Fire, Spoon, Postal Service, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, The New Pornographers, Wilco, The Shins, Aloha, The Silversun Pickups, Nada Surf, TV on the Radio My Morning Jacket, Kathleen Edwards, Led Zeppelin, Wolf Parade, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Death Cab, Ween, The Strokes, Paul Simon, Kings of Convenience, The Little Ones, Otter Petter, Belle and Sebastian, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, Tapes N Tapes, Stars, Rufus Wainwright, Kurt Elling, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sigur Ros, Oh No Oh My, Beck, Magic Numbers, The Long Winters, Say Hi, Of Montreal John Scofield, Office, James Taylor, Interpol, Headlights, Harry Connick Jr, Elvis Costello, Camera Obscura, Broken Social Scene, At the Drive In...
Movies
That I've seen and love: The Big Lebow, Office Space, Braveheart (I know Mel Gibson is a crazy asshole, but this is still a good movie), Waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap, The Three Amigos, Wet Hot American Summer, Bottle Rockets, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Odd Couple, Strange Brew, Borat
That I can't believe I haven't seen yet: Any 007, Scarface, Good Night and Good Luck, Slap Shot for fuck's sake!
Television
Ah. Television.
Books
More or less in order of favor:
Catch 22 - Heller; Hitchhikers Guide "Trilogy" - Adams; Any and all Vonnegut (although Slapstick is my fave); 1984 & Animal Farm - Orwell; The World According to Garp - Irving; Carl Sagan; Running With Scissors & Dry - Burroughs; Fear and Loathing - Thompson; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Eggers; Bret Easton Ellis; The Dirk Gently novels - Adams; Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Haddon; White Noise - Delillo; The Bell Jar - Plath; Bukowski (although it took some stomaching); A Separate Peace - Knowles; Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
hey, good to hear from you! how's work? i'm working over christmas and then going to FL for new year's. let me know when you come up this way and we can get together. i'm pretty busy from here until the new year, but will have time to get on the mountain after that. would be great to get together again. have a nice christmas
Hey yo! How was your birthday? Can you believe I finally remembered on time this year? Hooray for myspace and phone alarms. (Don't take offense, I do the same thing to remember my family's) I hope despite work that you got to do something fun. Maybe a bday dinner or something??? PS I was looking at your pictures...is that the same green NorthFace that you lost at WMU? HAHAHA don't ask me how or why I remember these things...
hey russ, how are you? how's the new job treating you? vail is good, OB is good. i'm doing the night shift now so i'm trying to adjust to that schedule. i'll be in denver in a couple of weeks. we should get together for a couple of drinks!
I just saw the new Hunter S. Thompson documentary over the weekend and thought of you. It was FABULOUS! I suggest you go see it pronto if you haven't already. Hope life is good! :)
Hey. The show only ran for the month of December, but it was awesome. (The NY Times and Post agreed.) :0) It was weird not bring in CO for xmas though. How is school going?
