kindred spirits, battleships. (i will sink you...), counterpoints, and friends.

music, painting, video games, skateboard, hockey, reading, vinyl, making paper airplanes, vintage anything, green tea, accelerating heart rates, scenic routes, road trips, storytelling, comic books, movies, IKEA, guitar, my friends, their friends, touring, peace, activism, proactivity, philantropy, shooting stars.

Evil Dead movies, The 5th Element, Night of the Living Dead, Casablanca, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi , Wall-E, Indiana Jones, Citizen Kane, Hard Boiled, Closer, Blade Runner, Battle Royale, Back to the Future, Rec, anything Kevin Smith touches, Fight Club, The Last Unicorn, Scanners, The Shining, Ong Bak, The Omen, Rosemary's Baby, Island of Death, Manos, Shutter, the Eye, Audition, Acacia Tree, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Buba Ho-Tep, Alphaville, Gleaming the Cube, Play Misty For Me, Everything is Illuminated, Mars Attacks!, every horror ever made, High Fidelity, Say Anything, Virgin Suicides, Waking Life, V for Vendetta, I <3 Huckabees, Rushmore, Nosferatu, Empire Records, Automaton Transfusion, i will list more later...

Spaced, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Tim & Eric, House, Battlestar Galactica, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Project Runway, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Adult Swim, Discovery and History Channel, The Office, Arrested Development, Mr. Bean, various BBC shows

heavy rotation as of late (check my music player):
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Phoenix, Camera Obscura, Passion Pit, Faded Paper Figures, She & Him, Santogold, The Changes, Coco Rosie, Kplecraft, Animal Collective, Blur, Japanther, Boards of Canada, The Pharcyde, Fat Lip, Justice, Cut Copy, Coconut Records, Hawnay Troof, April March, Beaulah, Young Mothers, Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin, Braid, Sunny Day Real Estate, Hot Chip, Best Fwends, YMCK, Dealership, Fugazi, My Bloody Valentine, D.O.A., The )Mifits, Dead Kennedys, UK Subs, The Specials, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, Magnetic Fields, The Advantage, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Elvis Costello, Life In Pictures, Where Eagles Dare, Red Sun, Ted Leo, House of Blow, Grandaddy, Madness, Jeff Buckley, Blow, The Go Find, Hawnay Troof, Les Savy Fav, Mum, Sigur Ros, Imogen Heap, Iglu & Hartly, Definace Ohio, The Mountain Goats, French Quarter, Teague Cullen, Crystal Castles, the Old 97's, Lucero, The Cars, Devo, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Pteradon, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Titles, Pinback, The Outline, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Zombies, Bloc Party, Between the Buried and Me, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Norma Jean, Jeff Buckley, Ted Leo and the RX, The Strokes, the sounds the ocean makes when no one is looking...


vinyl is my way of life.

anything Vonnegut, William Butler Yeats, and Jack Kerouac, House of Leaves, The Slaughterhouse-Five, Dexter series, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Cat's Cradle , The Perks Of Being A Wallflower , The Star Gazer , Killing Yourself To Live , Letters from the Earth , To Kill A Mockingbird , The Beautiful and the Damned , The Great Gatsby , The Whalestoe Letters , You Shall Know Our Velocity , The Catcher in the Rye , Where the Red Fern Grows , The Art Of War , The Giver , This Side Of Paradise , Glamorama , Youth In Revolt , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The Naked Ape , Unbelievable Work of Staggering Genius , A Separate Peace , The Lucifer Principle , The Global Mind , Breakfast of Champions , some authors that i dig: , e.e. cummings , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Stephen Chbosky , KURT VONNEGUT , Chuck Klosterman , Ernest Hemingway , Harper Lee , Bret Easton Ellis , C.D. Payne , Mark Danielewski , Aleister Crowley , J.D. Salinger , Sylvia Plath , Albert Camus ,William Blake , Howard Bloom , Noah Levine , Pablo Neruda ,Plato ,Aristotle , Milan Kundera , Rene Descartes , John Locke ,Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Friedrich Nietzsche , George Berkeley , Richard Bach , Immanuel Kant , Herman Hesse , Stephen Hawking , Martin Heidegger , Hunter S. Thompson , Thomas Hobbes , Francis Bacon , John Rawis , Aldo Lepold , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Leo Tolstoy , Benedict Spinoza , Jean-Jaques Rousseau , George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Soren Kierkegaard

A.C.N.<3, my companion cube, Vonnegut, being pleasantly surprised by people, tour, tolerance, peace, integrity, intelligence, awkward silence, people who recycle, Mr. Bean, music, reading the written word, art, self-expression, passion, nerds, shoe box smell, Nate Dern, Star Wars, best friends, social interaction, making clothes, building forts, 1965 Bob Dylan, TRANSFORMERS, hockey, skateboard, provocation, intellectual intercourse, and kindred spirits, hand-picked playlists, saying what you mean and meaning what you say.

pants, Hello Kitty, worry, people who have a sense of entitlement, Nancy Grace, abrasiveness, being itchy, the smell of coconut, girls who pro actively choose to be stupid, mob mentalities, my anemia, horseradish sauce, talking shit via the internet, the parking in L.A., and bad manners.