| General | Laughing. Ending hatred, fear, and ignorance. Freedom. Travel, music, film, art, gazing at the sky, architecture and design, non-American cultures, LPs, cooking, organic foods, wine, linguistics, hiking, boogie-boarding, cycling, boating, literature, history, philosophy, photography, and poetry. People. Spontaneity. Afterthoughts. | | Music | Air, The Adults, Al Green, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Bauhaus, Beethoven, The Be Good Tanyas, Belle and Sebastion, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bloc Party, Bowie, The Bravery, Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, Chopin, Circle Jerks, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Cold War Kids, Concrete Blonde, Cracker, Czars, Damien Rice, Daniel Johnston, Dead Kennedys, Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Descendents, Devotchka, Dylan, Eagles, Eliott Smith, Endochine, Emmylou, The Frames, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Ghostland Observatory, The Go! Team, Gypsy Kings, Hurts to Purr, Iggy Pop, Imogen Heap, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jacques Brel, James McMurtry, Jeff Buckley, Joan Armatrading, Joe Strummer, JT, Kayne West, Kate Bush, Keane, Killers, Kurt Weil, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Leonard Cohen, Les Rita Mitsouko, Libertines, Lucinda Williams, Manu Chao, Mary Gauthier, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, MC Solaar, Metric, Minor Threat, Missy Elliott, Moby, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, The National, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Old 97's, Operator, Patty Griffin, Pavement, Peaches, Pine Leaf Boys, Pink, Phoenix, Postal Service, Pyschedilc Furs, Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ray LaMontagne, Richard Buckner, Roky Erickson, Roxy Music, Rufus Wainwright, Saqi, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Sigur Ros, Smiths, Social Distortion, South San Gabriel, Soundteam, Souixsie, Spoon, Steve Earle, Stereolab, The Shins, Shiny Toy Guns, Strokes, The Stones, Sufjan Stevens, Suicidal Tendencies, Tanya Tucker, The Toadies, This Mortal Coil, Tim Buckley, T.I., Tokyo Police Club, Townes, Tricky, Tupac, Uncle Tupelo, The Veils, Velvet Underground, The Walkmen, White Stripes, Wilco, World Party, X, Yo La Tengo, Zeppelin... the list goes on and on; I like all genres. | | Movies | Angel Heart, Best in Show, Blade Runner, Boogie Nights, All About Eve, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Das Boot, Heavenly Creatures, Hud, High Art, Thelma and Louise, Silence of the Lambs, Swimming Pool, Hitchcock, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, Jackie Brown, Jesus Christ Superstar, An Officer and a Gentleman, Urban Cowboy, Valley of the Dolls, La Femme Nikita (original), Mullholland Drive, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Blow Up, Gallipoli, Rushmore, Little Miss Sunshine, The Bounty, Crash, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Psycho, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Team America, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Giant, Sid and Nancy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Vanilla Sky, Shallow Grave, The Hunger, Living In Oblivion, everything by Peter Weir. | | Books | Wuthering Heights, The Quiet American, The Fountainhead, A Secret History, Case Study Houses, Hemingway, Shakespeare, PD James, Minette Walters, Blake, Camus, and most of the classics with the exception of Thomas Hardy. | | Heroes | My brother Bill, who totally rocks. |
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