3: Lists
It’s 2:34 AM (one of those magical times of day). In keeping with the idea of introducing myself to whatever anonymous internet traveller finds me, I figure it is list time. Pay no attention to order, I’m not much for commitment. I’ll just do the essential lists for now.
Ten favourite musical acts (since this is all that really matters)
- The Low Anthem
- Alberta Cross
- Ola Podrida
- The Weakerthans
- Radical Face/Electric President/anything else Ben Cooper does (including the Astronautalis albums he produced)
- Great Lake Swimmers
- Bright Eyes/pretty much any Conor Oberst side-project (ah I’m so typical. As an aside, I’ve been known to over-use parentheses)
- Joy Division
- The Smiths/Morrissey’s solo work to a lesser extent
- Sufjan Stevens
Honorable mention: Dear and the Headlights, Simon and Garfunkel, The Dodos/Meric Long, Elliott Smith, Jeffrey Lewis.
Ten favourite films
- Spartacus
- Some Like it Hot
- What Dreams May Come
- Big Fish
- Planet of the Apes (the original)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Trainspotting
- Sunset Blvd.
- The Room (this has to be on here… oh, Tommy Wiseau!)
- A Christmas Carol (ft. Alastair Sim)
Ten favourite books
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- All the Names by Jose Saramago
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2 years ago | Tags: lists
