INTERESTS
Music
This could go on for nine million years, but I'll keep it a little shorter. I bet that's what killed the dinosaurs.
Ben Kweller
Be Your Own Pet
Etta James
Billie Holiday
Vampire Weekend
Bright Eyes
Komeda
Lily Allen
Adele
Amy Winehouse
Girl Talk
The Virgins
The Clash
Chester French
XTC
Sonic Youth
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Spill Canvas
Sarah Vaughn
Herp Albert & The Tijuana Brass
Straylight Run
Yo La Tengo
Conor Oberst, in all of his creativity's musical reincarnations.
Why am I having a brain fart right now?
Books
The Stranger, The Time Traveler's Wife, Book Of Blues, On The Road, I love some of Poe's short stories, even though they freak me out; Fear and Trembling (I love existentialism), The Seducer's Diary; and many more.
Most notably (not notably in the notoreity sense, mind you; sadly, far too few people have been graced by the literary presence of this work of genius), Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. I think right now, and maybe for forever, that it is my favorite book, if not the most brilliant, beautiful book in history, present and all perceivable future.
I also love Plato; especially 'The Allegory Of The Cave' and The Life And Death Of Socrates.
I am very fond, in a similar sense, of John Updike. In particular, this short story he wrote about Morocco, and another one of his short stories entitled 'A&P'.
I'm currently making my way through one of Allen Ginsberg's poetry books. I know, this is a much less initially positive introduction for this brilliant man than those of the former authors, but I mean him no diss. I'm just still meditating over a few of his works.
Television
Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, WKUK, NCIS, The Closer, Hannah Montana (and no. I'm not ashamed. Even though it's a guilty pleasure. That's an oxymoron at first glance, but I'll elaborate: I'm not ashamed that it's a guilty pleasure of mine), Say Yes To The Dress (Oh, the human drama that is involved in the selection of a perfect wedding dress, you would not believe! It's scintillating, really.), What Not To Wear
Film
His Girl Friday
Casablanca
Roman Holiday
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Lolita
The African Queen
those are my favorites. my brain fart is extending over to film, so I can't remember any others. I watched a few 60's Beach Blanket Bingo-esque movies that I'm fond of now. I love Audrey Hepburn, Jayne Mansfield, Lauren Bacall, Alexis Bledel, and other people. My brain fart again is clouding my memory.
Videogames
Not really my bag.
But Pokemon is swell.
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