reading out loud, writing down truth, taking pictures, telling jokes, cookies, music that makes my heart hurt, conversations + understanding, making snowflakes, spoken word, swinging on swings, daffodils, bike riding at night, pink lemonade, being caught up in your life story
Music
AIDAN KNIGHT, and you will know us by the trail of dead, american analog set, american football, andrew bird, aqualung, ARCADE FIRE, arcitecture in helsinki, BECK, bedouin soundclash, the be good tanyas, bend sinister, BEN FOLDS, bloc party, boards of canada, brendon benson, bright eyes, broken social scene, cat power, chopin, CHRIS GARNEAU, chris smith, clap your hands say yeah, coldplay, cr avery, cursive, damien jurado, damien rice, danielson famile, dashboard confessional, death cab for cutie, do make say think, the doers, the doors, elizabeth, esther drang, the februarys, feist, flaming lips, franz ferdinand, frou frou, THE FUGITIVES, godspeed! you black emperor, grizzly bear, gwen stefani, hawksley workman, hayden, hejira, immaculate machine, imogen heap, IN MEDIAS RES, interpol, iron and wine, joel plaskett, johnny cash, jonathan inc, joni mitchell, justin timberlake, kelly clarkson, the killers, kings of convenience, k-os, lauryn hill, mae, maplewood lane, mark berube, meligrove band, metric, midlake, mobile, modest mouse, mogwai, my chemical romance, nat king cole, neil young, neutral milk hotel, neverending white lights, the new pornographers, the notwist, ok go, outkast, PEDRO THE LION, philip glass, pink floyd, the polyphonic spree, the postal service, pretty girls make graves, radiohead, rant music, RILO KILEY, the road less travelled, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, scissor sisters, sean wesley wood, sheree plett, the shins, shukov, SIGUR ROS, snow patrol, sondre lerche, starflyer 59, stars, starsailor, the strokes, SUFJAN STEVENS, taking back sunday, teddy thompson, tegan and sarah, tilly and the wall, thirteen senses, three inches of blood, t-t-tracy, THE WEAKERTHANS, the white stripes, wolf parade, xiu xiu, yann tiersen, yo la tengo, YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!, the zombies
Movies
about a boy, accepted, alive, ALMOST FAMOUS, amelie, american beauty, american history x, amores perros, angels in america, as good as it gets, BABEL, beyond borders, bottlerocket, brick, bridgit jones' diary, capote, casablanca, children of men, city of god, the chumscrubber, CLOSER, clue, CLUELESS, cool hand luke, c.r.a.z.y., the delicate art of parking, the departed, dog day afternoon, donnie darko, down with love, elephant, e.t., eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the family stone, FIGHT CLUB, forrest gump, garden state, good night and good luck, the graduate, half nelson, high fidelity, the history boys, HOOK, the hours, the ice storm, !GBY GOES DOWN, i heart huckabees, in good company, interview with a vampire, the iron giant, the island, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, kill bill 1+2, kramer vs. kramer, layer cake, life as a house, LITTLE CHILDREN, LOST IN TRANSLATION, the lives of others, love actually, lovely and amazing, lucky number sleven, magnolia, me and you and everyone we know, mean girls, memento, the mirror has two faces, moonstruck, moulin rouge, mr. and mrs. smith, napolian dynamite, ned kelly, the neverending story, newsies, the object of my affection, oh brother where art thou?, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, ORDINARY PEOPLE, the painted veil, pan's labyrinth, the pianist, prince of tides, proof, pulp fiction, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, the pursuit of happyness, roman holiday THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, the rules of attraction, run lola run, say anything, the sandlot, the science of sleep, session 9, the shawshank redemption, shortbus, sin city, sleepless in seattle, songcatcher, the squid and the whale, stay, stranger than fiction, talk to her, things you can tell just by looking at her, 13 going on 30, 13 tzameti, thumbsucker, transamerica, TRANSFORMERS, the truman show, tully, 28 DAYS LATER, the united states of leland, waking life, walk the line, the war, water, the way we were, the wedding singer, when harry met sally, white squal, win a date with tad hamilton, the usual suspects, vertigo, v for vendetta, x-men (1,2,+3), YOU'VE GOT MAIL, y tu mama tambien, zombieland
Television
arrested development, carnivàle, dexter, freaks and geeks, friends, gray's anatomy, jeopardy, mad men, scrubs, sex and the city, so you think you can dance?, star trek tng, veronica mars, what not to wear
Books
a heart breaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers, blue like jazz by donald miller, catcher in the rye by jd salinger, the chronicles of narnia by cs lewis, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by mark hadon, dance of the dissident daughter by sue monk kidd, demian by hermann hesse, east of eden by john steinbeck, e.e cummings, einstien's dreams by allen lightman, the fountainhead by ayn rand, franny and zooey by jd salinger, freakonomics by steven d levitt and stephen j dubner, the great divorce by cs lewis, the house on mango street by sandra cisneros, how green was my valley by richard lewellyn, immortality by milan kundera, jane eyre by charlotte bronte, the kite runner by khaled hosseini, lamb - the gospel according to biff, christ's childhood pal by christopher moore, leaves of grass by walt whitman, letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke, life after god by douglas coupland, life of pi by yann martel, the little prince by antoine de saint-exupéry, lord of the rings by jrr tolkien, the lovely bones by alice sebold, lucky by alice sebold, the man who was thursday by g.k. chesterton, the maze in the heart of the castle by dorothy gilman, notes on love and courage by hugh prather, the outsiders by s.e. hinton, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by stephen chbosky, peter and wendy by j.m. barrie, the picture of dorian grey by oscar wilde, the red tent by anita diamant, roots by alex haley, the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd, self by yann martel, the sisterhood of the traveling pants by ann brashares, till we have faces by cs lewis, to kill a mockingbird by harper lee, travelling mercies by anne lamott, unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera, veronika decides to die by paulo coelho, watchmen by alan moore, the world according to garp by john irving
Heroes
Martian Luther King Jr., Dave Eggers, Leonard Cohen, Benjamin Gibbard
About me: "Consequently, I hold back a lot of the things I mean to say on first impulse, which makes me appear quieter than is my nature, and shy in a way that lacks charm and novelty." -Mehmet
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A Warning To My Readers
Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.
-Wendell Berry
"I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective neither. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time..."
-Sylvia Plath
To a Common Prostitute
Be composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman,
liberal and lusty as Nature;
Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you;
Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you,
and the leaves to rustle for you,
do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
My girl, I appoint with you an appointment—and I charge
you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,
And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
Till then, I salute you with a significant look, that you do not forget me.
-Walt Whitman
oh, yes
there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.
-Charles Bukowski
For what is life but reaching for an answer?
And what is death, but the refusal to grow? -Mary Oliver
The Thing Is
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.
i have a new goal. blow up yer page with comments cause it doesnt seem like anyone else knows how cool you rock the ether. and not only on the weekends either.
im talkin straight-no chaser espresso from ethical (dark roast no less) or if you are me.....watch you, while drinkin whiskey from the broken bottle of this empty heart.....
shoots.
but i do have a nostalgic longing for the simpler days of young lives at a crossroads.....and coffee and cigs, and scarves and tooks...and well dressed canadians....hehehhe, and my skid/hippie friends who i like. yep.
Thanks for the friendship..hope you are well.. The new video for Hollywood has just been revealed.. check it out now.. and please sign up to the mailing list for tour news and updates at www. angusandjuliastone. com love from the stones xx
