A few, in alphabetical order: Anathallo, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Archers of Loaf, Architecture in Helenski, Artica Sonata, As I Lay Dying, As Tall As Lions, At The Drive-In, The Ataris, Beach Boys, Bear Vs. Shark, Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Blonde Redhead, The Blood Brothers, the Books, Brand New, Built to Spill, Camera Obscura, Colour Revolt, Copeland, The Cure, Cursive, Damnwells, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab For Cutie, the Decemberist, Dinosaur Jr., Do Make Say Think, The Doors, Dredg, Drive Like Jehu, Early November, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eels, Elliot Smith, Emery, Everytime I Die, Explosions in the Sky, the Fire Theft, Flaming Lips, Folly, Frank Sinatra, Fugazi, Gatsby's American Dream, Get Up Kids, Glassjaw, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Grizzly Bear, Headphones, Heavens, Incubus, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jawbreaker, Jesus Lizard, Jets to Brazil, Jimmy Eats World, Kevin Devine, Koufax, Lifetime, Lightning Bolt, Low Flying Owls, Mae, Magnetic Fields, Manchester Orchestra, Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Maximo Park, Men, Women and Children, Mew, Mewithoutyou, Microphones, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Morcheeba, Murder by Death, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Pornographers, Joanna Newsom, Nirvana, the Offspring, Pavement, Pixies, Poison the Well, Portishead, Postal Service, Promise Ring, Radiohead, Red House Painters, Rise Against, Say Anything, the Shins, Shudder to Think, Sigur Ros, Skybox, the Smiths, The Snake The Cross The Crown, Sneaker Pimps, Something Corporate, Sonic Youth, Sparta, the Spill Canvas, Stone Roses, Straylight Run, Strike Anywhere, Sublime, Sugarcult, Sunny Day Real Estate, Thrice, Thursday, Violent Femmes, Tom Waits, the Weepies, Weezer, Wilco, the Wrens, Yo La Tengo, and millions more (literally).

I've tried to make the perfect list of music I love dozens of times but it never goes well. I like what I like & I don't, what I don't. Don't try to convince me of the merits of a band I already know I'm not a fan of--I'll just think less of you. I'm rather passionate about it & can go on for hours talking about it so the "what's your favorite band/song/album/concert" is one you shouldn't ask unless you have a decent amount of time to spare and a legitimate interest. I love talking about music and have been known to drive some insane with my passion lol.

In general (genre-wise), alternative (take it as you will), early 90's radio, singer-songwriters, indie rock (again, any sense), a well-written pop song (especially if it'll make me crash my car dancing along to it), hardcore/punk, brit-pop with an adequate amount of shoegazing involved, anything acoustic, decent lyricism with something behind it, politically charged activism music, good ole americana & anything in between or far beyond any of that.

Good Will Hunting, Trainspotting, Resvoir Dogs, Amelie, Pi, Requiem for A Dream, Rounders, Garden State, Brazil, Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, SLC Punk, Fight Club, American History X, Most Disney movies (with a special love for Lady & the Tramp, Happy Feet, the Little Mermaid and Hercules), Fools Rush In, It's A Wonderful Life, Garden State, First 50 Dates, Walk to Remember, 10 Things I Hate About You, Practical Magic, What Women Want, High Fidelity, The Parent Trap. Anything that ends with a happy love story, Shadow of A Doubt, North by Northwest, Vertigo Strangers on a Train, or anything else by Hitchcock. The only problem is I can't watch them without my cinematographer eye being on.

I do love movies and it's hard to list them all here.

I love to read and it's always going to be a part of me: Chuck Klosterman, Nick Hornby, Daniel Dennett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard, (the former three men being my three favorite philosophers), Italo Calvino, Irvine Welsh, Fydor Dostoevsky, Jennete Winterson, Sherwood Anderson, Mikhail Gogol, Gustave Flaubert, Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahnuik, Douglas Copeland, Peter Irons (nonfiction involving Supreme Court cases), Anthony Burgess, Thomas Pynchon, Stendhal, Dave Eggers, etc.

I usually say that I hate most American Literature but it turns out I'm a big fan of a bunch of it. I also love Slavic-Eastern European writers.

Just like with music, literature can involve hour-long conversations (though, even I will admit they are shorter than music ones).

People of Interest:
Best boy ever? Best friend ever? You? Odd question.


Places of Interest:
Brooklyn Brewery, Maxwells, Bowery Ballroom, Continental & CBGB's & the RIP Bowery belt venues, Union Square, Any locals that serves sushi...or Yuengling, Olive Garden, Mountain tops, ST offices, Underneath trees, Long Beach, Montauk, Bay Ridge, the Moon & all other extra-Earth places, Southpaw, Northsix, Brooklyn and all exterior boroughs, etc.

Things of Interest:
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