• Alexi Murdoch - Four Songs
• Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
• Aesop Rock - Labor Days
• Zero 7 - Simple Things
• Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
• Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
• Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• Yoko Kanno - Cowboy Bebop: Future Blues
• Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
• The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
• Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
• M.I.A. - Kala
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
• Gorillaz - Demon Days
• Snow Patrol - Final Straw
• Beck - Sea Change
• Norah Jones - The Fall

STOP DOING THIS:

• Procrastinating
• Smoking, you idiot
• Being sick
• Oversleeping
• Wishing you were different in various ways
• Spending lots of time on the computer
• Overanalyzing things

START DOING THIS:

• Looking for a job more seriously
• Going to bed earlier
• Waking up earlier
• Writing more often
• Cooking more often

KEEP DOING THIS:

• Daydreaming
• Learning/researching/taking notes
• Reading when you get bored

• Standing on a hill in a mountain of dreams - Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems
• I get the news I need on the weather report - I can gather all the news I need on the weather report - Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile
• And last night's phrases - Sick with lack of basis - Are still writhing on my floor
• A conversation once colored by esteem - Became dialogue as a diagram of a play for blood
• I faced the door and all my shame - Tearing off each piece of chain - Until they all were broken - But no matter how I tried - The other side was locked so tight - That door it wouldn't open
• And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking - Racing around to come up behind you again - The sun i...

• He wrote the most exquisite poetry I've ever read
• He has created an alternate reality complete with:
  • Over a dozen languages
  • Thousands of years worth of history and mythology
  • Countless characters (each unique and worth mentioning)
  • Multitudes of regions and cities
    • made up of their own unique races, dialects, history, and folklore
• He was an expert in philology
  • He was familiar with two dozen languages
  • His fictional languages:
    • Are rooted in Norse, Greek, old English, Latin, and Finnish (to name a few)

• Nat King Cole
• George Michael
• Martin Gore
• Marvin Gaye
• Ray LaMontagne
• Bjork
• Edith Piaf
• Fiona Apple
• Norah Jones
• Freddie Mercury
• Sophie Barker

• Macaulay Culkin
• Rupert Grint

• Saunas
• Bonfires
• The air while it rains
• My particular Tresemme shampoo
• Lilacs
• Baking cookies
• Cooked onions
• White wine and shallots

• Audrey Hepburn
• Keira Knightley
• Natalie Portman
• Penelope Cruz
• Marion Cotillard
• Audrey Tautou
• Sarah Chalke
• Keri Russell
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Eva Green
• Zooey Deschanel
• Rachel McAdams
• Norah Jones

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Campbell
• In Cold Blood - Capote

• Arrested Development
• Scrubs
• Extras
• Cowboy Bebop
• Samurai Champloo
• Futurama
• Tom Goes to the Mayor
• Tim and Eric
• Six Feet Under
• Seinfeld
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Breaking Bad
• Dexter

• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
• Depeche Mode - Violator
• Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
• Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
• The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
• Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
• The Beatles - The Beatles
• Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
• Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
• Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
• Nick Drake - Pink Moon
• Nujabes - Metaphorical Music

• Backflipping Donatello Ninja Turtle
• Street Sharks monster truck
• Jurassic Park dinosaurs
  • A big, dark red T-rex
  • A bunch of velociraptors
• Legos (especially the pirate ships)
• Star Wars action figures
  • Han Solo in carbonite
  • Dash Rendar
  • Boba Fett
  • IG-88
  • Darth Vader with removable helmet
• An orange plastic Han Solo blaster pistol
• A green plastic lightsaber
• Supersoakers
• Pokemon cards

• Watching Friends
• Reality show drama (especially Project Runway)
• Listening to Wham!
• The most boring and intensely educational documentaries on television
• Japanophilia
• Eating the whole box of cheez-its
• Sleeping in reeeeaaaallly late
• Sitting around and doing absolutely nothing, save for thinking to myself
• Article-hopping on Wikipedia
• Article-hopping on Encyclopedia Dramatica
• Facebook stalking
• Making lists

• Upscale apparel
• Boater hats
• Bowler caps
• Cigarette holders
• Pipes
• Dinner parties
• The clatter of fine china
• Afternoon picnics
• Charcuterie
• Artisan cheese
• Artisan breads
• Champagne
• Croquette
• Vinyl jazz records
• Chanson music
• Baseball in the early 1900's
• Handwritten letters

• Foie gras
• Demi glace
• Salted butter
• Coconut milk
• Nori
• Anything cooked with charcoal
• Blackberries
• Goat cheese on lightly toasted bread
• Pumpkin pie
• Juicy hot dogs and ketchup
• Honey
• Black truffles
• Hummus

I love these songs, but they're the only songs I have from their respective artists.

• The Wallflowers - One Headlight
• Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
• The Jam - Town Called Malice
• Al Green - Let's Stay Together
• Lou Reed - Take a Walk on the Wild Side
• Blue Oyster Cult - Fear the Reaper
• Khachaturian - Gayane's Adagio
• Debussy - Clair de Lune
• Leo Kottke - Busted Bicycle

• Tammany Hall NYC - Cindy
• Old 97's - Question
• The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
• Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather
• The Beatles - Hey Jude
• Neil Diamond - Delirious Love

• Gollum
• Daniel Plainview
• Spike Spiegel
• Sean Maguire
• Broken Sword
• Okkoto
• Charles Foster Kane
• Angel Eyes (Sentenza)

• Mora
• Damascus
• Bite
• Smite
• Ruin
• Meat
• Envelop
• Crack
• Mist
• Plethora
• Exquisite
• Antiquity
• Harvest
• Autumn
• West
• Insatiable
• Chaos
• Break
• Oblivion

• Two pieces of styrofoam rubbing together
• Biting down on popsicles
• Biting down on silverware
• Scraping teeth
• Dry hands

• Tina (VI)
• Dancing Mad (VI)
• Aerith's Theme (VII)
• Blue Fields (VIII)
• Liberi Fatali (VIII)
• Freya's Theme (IX)
• Pandemonium (IX)
• Guadosalam (X)
• Purgatorial Road (X)
• To Zanarkand (X)
• People of the North Pole (X)

Various people of fame whom I have modeled myself after.

• Zach Braff
• Stanley Kubrick
• Bob Dylan
• Harrison Ford
• Tim Heidecker
• Eric Wareheim
• Ernest Hemingway
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
• Thomas Keller
• Hiroyuki Sakai
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Siddhartha Gautama
• Theodore Roosevelt

Well-thought-out according to significance and impact.

• Garden State
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Oldboy
• Pulp Fiction
• The Two Towers
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heavens Door
• Citizen Kane