• James Mercer of The Shins
  • Ex: "It's a luscious mix, of words and tricks/ that let us bet, when we know we should fold." Caring is Creepy
  • You should at least know this song
• Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin
  • Ex: "It is the summer of my smiles, free from me Keepers of the Gloom./ Speak to me only with your eyes, it is to you I give this tune." The Rain Song
  • You should at least know this song
• Ezra Furman of Ezra Furman & the Harpoons
  • Ex: "When a body catch a body, falling from the sky/ and you realize, that you're both sky high/ it gets quiet, and both can hear the sun, as it cries." Weak Knees
  • You should at least know this song
• Nathan Willet of Cold War Kids

• Set up my music room
• Grill
• Read in the backyard
• Spend a whole day in just my boxers
• Play obscene rap music as loud as possible
• Play classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, etc.) as loud as possible
• Dance
• Get a puppy
• Play with puppy... a lot
• Buy paintings
• Build a fire pit
• Buy random instruments to hang on the walls
• Play guitar in the backyard
• Learn to play a lot of Iron & Wine
• Plant some sort of fruit plant
• Plant a hot pepper plant
• Set up my work desk
• Stock the bookshelves with classics

Clean

• "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
• "Bold as Love" by John Mayer (sorry Hendrix fans, Mayer's tone is a little "bolder")
• "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
• Anything Stevie Ray Vaughn ("Wall of Denial" If I had to pick just one)

Distorted

• "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix
• "Mexican Dogs" by Cold War Kids
• "The Extremist" by Joe Satriani
• "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth" by Coheed and Cambria
• "Blue Morning, Blue Day" by Foreigner

Honorable Mentions

• Are You Experienced? by The Jimi Hendrix Experiement
• Bake Sale by The Cool Kids
• Deja Entendu by Brand New
• Emotionalism by Avett Brothers
• Fleet Foxes by The Fleet Foxes
• Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon
• Give Up by The Postal Service
• Good News for People Who Like Bad News by Modest Mouse
• I'M Wide Awake, It'S Morning by Bright Eyes
• Inside the Human Body by Ezra Furman and the Harpoons
• Manners by Passion Pit
• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
• Neon Golden by The Notwist
• Never Better by P.O.S.
• Oh Inverted World by The Shins
• OK Computer by Radiohead
• Robbers and Cowards by Cold War Kids
• Sam's Town by The Killers
• Shepherd's Dog by Iron & Wine
• Start Something by Lostprophets
• The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me... by Brand New

• Respect others, no matter the circumstance
• All things in moderation
• Think for yourself
• Don't waste your talent
• You have to listen to be heard

• The Socratic Dialouges by Plato
• ✔ Ulysses by James Joyce
• VALIS by Philip K. Dick
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
• ✔ Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Freakanomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
• Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

• Lengthy lunch with Professor Cowart
• Be able to obtain a reference from at least one Professor in the Business school.
• Literary class review over coffee with Cayla
• Complete the Beer Wall with David
• Apply for London internship and scholarships
• Hit a punching bag again
• Attend a play at Longstreet Theater
• Learn basic French
• Write on Tumblr more often
• Map out Going Blind Starts with a Rainbow
• LSAT practice, essay writing, and Law School research
• Campus Moviefest
• At least one more adventure with Tommy
• Tell her how much I love her every single day
• Address "Columbia Eats" list
• Talk with Farrah over break. Reconnect w...

• +Sentient
• A Little to the Left
• A Polysyndetonic Life
• A Series of Quixotic Adventures
• A Train in a Storm
• And Also: Grapefruits?
• Berger Principles
• Broca's Aphasia
• Craftsmen, Merchants, Artists, Thieves
• Damaged Goods
• Dodging Smoke Clouds
• Fresh Produce
• Go for Two
• Going Blind Rainbows
• Grow Where the Wind Blows
• I Don't Like to Talk About It
• I've Heard This Road Before
• It's a Birthday Party
• Keeping Light In
• Let the Cinema Play
• Listen to be Heard

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• A Seven-fold Tie
• ✔ A Go-to Karaoke Song
• ✔ At Least One Jacket with a Gratuitously Colorful Lining
• ✔ Luxurious Underclothes
• A Go-to Whiskey
• A 10'' Chef's Knife
• A Tailor Who Knows You By Name
• ✔ Working Knowledge of Knots
• A Serious Pair of Wingtips
• ✔ A Cast Iron Skillet
• A Wallet That's Worth More Than The Money In It
• Socks That Show You Are Not Afraid
• An Espresso Machine
• A Jacket with Elbow Patches
• ✔ One Good Quote in a Dead Language
• Proper Hangers
• Alternative Evening-wear

Winter

• Spend an entire day watching movies
  • The Lion King
  • Pocahontas
  • Amélie
  • Garden State
  • Benjamin Button
• Breakfast in bed
• Watch the sunrise
• Let her sit in her chair
• Shower
• Meet my family
  • Talk about Germany with my dad
  • Talk about painting with my sister
  • Talk about... anything really... with my mom
  • Puppies
• Meet my friends

Everytime I fall head-over-heels for a girl, there is one song that always accompanies my thoughts and memories of her, and I can't listen to these songs without thinking of them still. These are in order of my crushes.

• Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band
• Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
• Walk Through Hell by Say Anything
• First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes
• Such Great Heights by The Postal Service
• Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra
• Skinny Love by Bon Iver
• Nude by Radiohead, Lament by Balmorhea, & Jezebel by Iron & Wine

• Economics: Keynesianist
  • A completely free market can fail
  • Government has responsibility to intervene during times of economic hardship
  • Corporate oversight and regulations neccesary
  • Pro Tariffs and Import Fees (at a time when jobs and capital are leaving for cheaper costs)
  • Pro "green" and renewable incentives (particularly those reducing foreign energy dependence)
• Taxes
  • Taxes are a responsibility, not an evil
  • If you can afford more, you should give more
• Government Spending
  • Military and Education spending should ba...

• "I win. You lose. It's that simple."
• "Impressive speech, but sadly, I just wasn't convinced."
• "Okay, I believe you... but my tommy gun don't."
• "My dear Mr. Bond, I don't want you to talk. I want you to die."
• "...Yahtzee."
• "Dodge this."
• "I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon thee!"
• "Pow. Right to the moon."
• "It's been like this; It's always been like this. And you just let it happen."
• "Sure, I'll give you a shot. In fact, I'll give you two."
• "Goodnight, sweetheart."

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
• Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

• "Burial of the Dead", "The Fire Sermon", and "What the Thunder Said" of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
• Act V, Scene II, Lines 4041 to 4053 (Horatio) of Hamlet by Shakespeare
• If by Rudyard Kipling
• Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same by Robert Frost
• Ode to Autumn by John Keats
• Parts I, III, and Footnotes of Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• Parts IV and V of The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
• Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt Whitman
• Portrait d'Une Femme by Ezra Pound
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
• ✔ The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
• ✔ "On This Bridge" by Speed Levitch in Waking Life

• Zach Braff
• ?uestlove
• Natalie Portman
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Thomas Pynchon
• Zooey Deschanel
• Kanye West
• Jon Stewart
• MIA

• Crash
• Shawshank Redemption
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Taxi Driver
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Memento
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Fargo
• Reservior Dogs
• Full Metal Jacket
• Spartacus
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Ben-Hur
• Life of Brian
• Amalie

• "All of the Lights" or "All Falls Down" by Kanye West
• "Always and Never" by Coheed and Cambria
• "Animal Arithmetic" by Jonsi
• "Born to Run" or "Badlands" by Bruce Springsteen
• "History Repeating" by Propellerheads ft. Shirley Bassey
• "I Don't Care Anymore" or "Take Me Home" by Phil Collins
• "Ive Seen All Good People" or "Leave It" by Yes
• "Janglin'" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
• "Pistola" by Mos Def
• "Reckoner" by Radiohead
• "Shoulda" by Jamie Woon
• "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service
• "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd
• "Will Do" or "A Method" by TV on the Radi...

As peer decided, find:

• A food product with a large penguin on the packaging
• A little girl in a pink dress, smiling
• A penny on the ground, heads up
• An automobile with a canoe or kayak on the top
• An elderly woman with a shopping cart
• An inappropriate student-teacher relationship
• An outdoor acoustic musician
• Capability
• Courage
• Irony
• Radiant, warm innocence
• Raw Meat
• Simple extravagance
• Someone getting in touch with their inner child
• Someone smoking a cigarette backwards
• Something subtly sustainable

• Radiohead
  • 15 Step
  • Airbag
  • Reckoner
  • Nude
  • Lucky
  • Karma Police
  • House of Cards
  • Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
  • Climbing Up the Walls
  • All I Need
  • No Surprises
  • Exit Music (For a Film)
• Hipster Music
  • "Little Secrets" by Passion Pit
  • "Mexican Dogs" by Cold War Kids
  • "Don't You Evah" by Spoon
  • "Caffinated Conciousness" by TV on the Radio

I want to:

• Take at least two rolls worth of pictures with the old Minolta from the 70's I found.
• Be able to run two miles in twelve minutes
• Have recorded at least three songs
• Be able to bench press 180lbs
• Have gone backpacking at least once
• Have gone on a legitimate road trip
• Volunteer at Bonnaroo (and attend for free!)
• Be able to play:
  • On Guitar:
    • "Heartbeats" by Jose Gonzalez
    • "Boy with a Coin" by Iron & Wine
    • "Sky Blue Sky" by Wilco
    • "Reckoner" by Radiohead
    • "Never Going Back Again" by Fleetwood Mac...

• Attend a Native American Pow-wow
• ✔ Attend or be involved with a weekend long music festival
• Backpack to Machu Pichu
• Become an amatuer wine/champagne conisuer
• Box
• Breakfast in bed (an actual breakfast)
• Create Something Lasting
• Drive a stick-shift
• Film a music video
• Play violin
• Play cello
• Rave
• Rebuild a car engine
• Spoken-word poetry
• Stand-up comedy
• Suprise a significant other with an over-the-top romantic evening
• Tailor my clothes
• Take a bubble bath