• Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
  • A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
  • The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • The Etched City by K. J. Bishop
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  • Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Yes, I know it's a crime to not have read this yet.)
  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • Faust by Goethe (second read)
  • The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
  • Idylls of the King by Tennyson
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  • Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
  • The Master and The Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Doubt and Belief in Painting by Gerhard Richter
  • Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
  • Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
aug 11 2009 ∞
aug 12 2009 +
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  • rain
  • oil paint
  • birthday candles
  • lilacs
  • tea
  • cookies baking
  • fresh strawberries
  • bacon (cooked)
  • books (both old and new)
jul 5 2009 ∞
jul 6 2009 +
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  • the mysterious
    • and the beauty thereof
  • the numinous
  • hope
  • curiosity
  • warm darkness
  • meditation
  • Romance
  • faith
  • an open-ended narrative
  • alienation
  • strangers
  • agoraphobia
  • anxiety
jul 5 2009 ∞
jul 5 2009 +
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  • sense of humor
  • intelligence
    • must USE this quality
  • respectfulness
  • compassion
  • patience
  • good/decent taste
    • or, at least, a willingness to acquire this
    • with an occasional tolerance for bad taste
  • sense of romance
  • sense of playfulness
  • some sort of faith
  • honesty
  • self-respect
  • tolerance for my quirks
  • ability to read my mind
jul 5 2009 ∞
jul 6 2009 +
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  • hipsters who think they're non-conformists
  • the daily parade of
    • skinny jeans
    • crappy plastic jewelry
    • other trendy hipster-wear
  • crappy conceptual art
  • the lack of craftsmanship in damn near anything that actually matters
  • people who like things "ironically"
  • people who don't understand what "irony" actually is
  • the smell of unwashed bodies and stale cigarettes in the elevators
  • the pressure of the bfa show
  • the pressure from instructors to make art that is in style right this moment instead of making art that makes me happy
  • the whiny and/or ethereal high voices of girls in attempt to make themselves sound...
aug 11 2009 ∞
aug 11 2009 +
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  • My Chemical Romance
  • Copic Markers
  • Old Holland paint
  • Escoda paint brushes
  • cheesy 80s music (which I enjoy genuinely, not ironically)
  • happy endings
  • watching a lot of TV
  • good ice cream
  • watching Jerry Springer
jul 5 2009 ∞
jul 6 2009 +
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  • Alfons Mucha
  • John Singer-Sargent
  • Edward Hopper
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Edward Burne-Jones
  • Gustave Moreau
  • Gustav Dore
  • Maxfield Parrish
  • Audrey Flack
  • Giovanni Battista Piransei
jul 5 2009 ∞
jul 6 2009 +
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Vamped by David Sosnowski
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine l'Engle
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
aug 11 2009 ∞
aug 11 2009 +
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  • The West Wing
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • The Sopranos
  • Dead Like Me
  • Six Feet Under
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • The Mighty Boosh
  • Boston Legal
  • MASH
  • Vicar of Dibley
  • Mythbusters
  • Red Dwarf
  • The Daily Show
  • The Colbert Report
  • Venture Brothers
  • Dirty Jobs
  • Beavis and Butt-head
  • Jerry Springer
  • Kids In The Hall
  • The Dresden Files
jul 5 2009 ∞
jul 6 2009 +
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  • smoking
  • drug use
  • regular, excessive alcohol consumption
    • a little is okay and more than enough
  • no excessive swearing...
    • loudly in public
    • in front of little kids
    • in front of my family (until they're more familiar)
    • in every sentence without the ability to not swear
    • at me (maliciously)
  • intolerance
  • lots of tattoos
    • to me, this demonstrates short-sightedness
  • excessive jewelry
  • poor grammar
jul 5 2009 ∞
jul 6 2009 +