• Ephraim
• Prometheum
• Kurt

I fucking suck at this

Simply list your favorite person (I'm doing celebs) from each country. One per nation, dead or alive or in-between.

• America - Kurt Cobain
• Argentina - Jorge Luis Borges
• Canada - Neil Young
• Chile - Pablo Neruda
• Colombia - Gabriel García Márquez
• Czechoslovakia - Milan Kundera
• England - Ian Curtis
• France - Albert Camus
• Italy - Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Nigeria - Tunde Adebimpe
• Russia - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• South Africa - J. M. Coetzee

• People
• The 90's
• Microsoft
• Mathematics
• Female Crushes
• Capitalism
• Window Shopping
• Giftees
• Politics
• Masturbation
• Friendship
• Pretension
• The Toronto Star
• U2
• Chemistry
• Cameras
• Classical Music
• Sprite
• Ethnic Adoration Phases

• Frost/Nixon - 8.2/10 (Stephen, Anmol, Naomi)
• Slumdog Millionaire - 9.4/10 (Ben, Melissa)
• Milk - 8.0/10 (Ben, Melissa)
• Million Dollar Baby - 8.6/10 (Raza, Oyeyinka)
• The Dark Knight - 8.7/10 (Arthur & Co.)
• Doubt - 7.0/10 (Raza)
• Waltz with Bashir - 8.8/10 (Raza)
• Thank You For Smoking - 7.0/10 (Mother)
• Closer - 7.6/10 (Mother)
• Finding Neverland - 8.1/10 (Family)
• Big Fish - 7.5/10 (Family)
• Australia - 5.1/10 (Rosamund)
• There Will Be Blood - 9.3/10
• No Country for Old Men - 9.1/10
• Children of Men - 9.0/10
• Palindromes - 8.9/10
• Crumb - 8.8/10
• Fight Club - 8.5/10

Some albums are of the past.

• The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• The Clash - London Calling
• Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
• Nirvana - Nevermind
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
• U2 - The Joshua Tree
• X - Under the Big Black Sun

Others continue to amaze me.

• Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
• The Beatles - White Album
• Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
• Bob Dylan - Modern Times
• Deerhunter - Microcastle
• Elvis Costello - My Aim is True

• Ballpoint pens
• Fine ink pens
• Sturdy binders
• Mechanical pencils - 0.5
• Notebook
• Pencilcase
• Agenda (?)

• Brave Tundra + V-Taker
• Gore
• Eyes
• Bastid
• Bette Middler's Sister
• Triangle Kids
• Compass
• Lookalike Lesbians
• Longhaired Child

• Copious amounts of facial hair
• Mustaches
• Chest hair
• Armpit hair
• Grandmother's cooking
• Being sensitive
• Black Metal
• Dumb Gangsta Rap
• Neo-Nazi Country/Folk
• Guilt
• Jealousy
• Self-Pity
• Emotional disconnect
• Scheduling conflicts
• Extra-Spicy foods
• Miscarriages
• Sexuality
• Homophobia
• Scary movies

• William S. Burroughs - Quality queer.
• Albert Camus - Vividly introspective.
• Dennis Cooper - Love is disgust.
• John Steinbeck - Less an author, more a painter.
• Kurt Vonnegut - Cynic of the soul.

• Iceland
• Japan
• India
• California
• Central America
• South Africa
• Algeria
• Cuba

• Twitter
• Google Calendar
• heart.ning.com
• Facebook
• Gmail
• TDSB Webmail
• tumblr
• Pitchfork
• zip.ca
• Kingdom of Loathing
• Toronto Public Library
• Something Awful
• YouTube
• Listography

• Jeremy Sumpter
• Ewan McGregor
• Johnny Depp
• Paul Dano
• Neil Patrick Harris
• Zachary Quinto
• Mario Maurer

• "He acts the hero, paint a zero - on his hand."
• "It's so relieving to know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid..."
• "The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes but then they buried her alive..."
• "Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?"
• "I got the bombs to make you blow, I got the beats to make you bang! bang! bang!"
• "Goddamn my hope I can't pass high school."
• "Out on tour, The Smashing Pumpkins - nature kids - I/they don't have no function. I don't understand... what they mean... I could REALLY give a fuck. The Stone Temple Pilots, they're elegant bachelors; they're foxy to me, are they foxy to you? I will agree they deserve absolutely nothing, nothing more than me."

• Charles Baudelaire
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Charles Bukowski
• Leonard Cohen
• David McFadden
• Sylvia Plath

This isn't a grab for sympathy. I swear it.

I am...

• too dramatic
• too frivolous with information
• not motivated enough
• lacking in priorities
• missing a sense of initiative
• not empathetic toward real people much