• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
• Tuesday's With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Click: One Novel, Ten Authors by David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park and Tim Wynne-Jones
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
• Sifting Through the Madness, For the Word, The Line, The Way by Charles Bukowski
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope by Jenna Bush
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

• The Fountain
• Moonrise Kingdom
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Sling Blade
• Django Unchained
• His Girl Friday
• The Visitor
• Les Misérables
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Argo
• The Impossible
• Alien
• Blue Velvet
• No
• Goodfellas
• A Day in the Country
• Antoine and Colette
• "Toby Dammit" from Spirits of the Dead
• The Matrix
• Blue Valentine
• Jackie Brown

1900's

• A Trip to the Moon (1902)
• The Great Train Robbery (1903)

1910's

• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Les Vampires (1915)
• Intolerance (1916)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
• Broken Blossoms (1919)

1920's

• Way Down East (1920)
• Within Our Gates (1920)
• The Phantom Carriage (1921)
• Orphans of the Storm (1921)
• The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922)
• Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 (1922)
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terrors (1922)
• Häxan (1923)

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by William Goldman
• Chasing Shakespeare by James Bird

• Alejandro Rivera
• Andy Warhol
• Bansky
• Claude Monet
• David Hockney
• Edward Hopper
• Francesco Clemente
• Frida Kahlo
• Gregory Euclide
• Gregory Thielker
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautre
• Hubert Marot
• Jacek Yerka
• Kumi Yamashita
• Leondaro Da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• Pablo Picasso
• Rafał Olbiński
• Ray Caesar
• Richard Prince
• Salvador Dali

• Alexa Chung
• Audrey Hepburn
• Audrey Tatou
• Dakota Fanning
• Diane Kruger
• Elizabeth Olsen
• Elle Fanning
• Emma Watson
• Florence Welch
• Joni Mitchell
• Kate Winslet
• Lily Collins
• Meryl Streep
• Michelle Williams
• Natalie Portman
• Patti Smith
• Sylvia Plath
• Winona Ryder
• Zooey Deschanel

• Allen, Woody
  • What's Up, Tiger Lily?
  • Take the Money and Run
  • Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (TV short)
  • Bananas
  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask
  • Sleeper
  • Love and Death
  • Annie Hall
  • Interiors
  • Manhattan
  • Stardust Memories
  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
  • Zelig
  • Broadway Danny Rose
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Radio Days

Bukowski, Charles

• "About Competition"
• "At the Edge"
• "At Last"
• "Bob"
• "The Column"
• "Excuses"
• "Fly Boy"
• "The Great Escape"
• "Houses and Dark Streets"
• "The Joke Is On the Sun"
• "Like a Polluted River"
• "Little Poem"
• "Misbegotten Paradise"
• "Nobody But You"
• "Observations On Music"
• "Re-Union"
• "A Sickness?"
• "So You Want To Be a Writer?"
• "Unblinking Grief"
• "War Some of the Time"

• The Sixth Floor Museum (5/24/11)
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (6/30/11)
  • The Steins Collect (6/30/11)
• Dallas Museum of Art
  • Jean Paul Gaultier (2/12/12)

• Films
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • An Education
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Black Swan
  • Bottle Rocket
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • The Darjeeling Limited
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Fight Club
  • The Godfather
  • The Godfather II
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Juno
  • Kick-Ass
  • L.A. Confidential
  • The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou
  • Lost in Translation

• The Omelettry
• Hamilton Pool
• Amy's Ice Cream
• Kerbey Lane Cafe
• Esther's Follies
• Mount Bonnell
• Pete's Dueling Piano Bar
• A night on Rainey St.
• Pluckers Wing Bar
• Try a new food trailer
• Zilker Kite Festival
• The Oasis
• Nutty Brown Cafe
• Magnolia Cafe
• Gourdough's Donuts
• Blues On The Green
• Austin City Limits
• Spider House
• Alamo Drafthouse
• Home Slice Pizza
• Hey Cupcake!

• Black Swan
• The Godfather
• Midnight in Paris
• Pulp Fiction

• creatures of the wind
• dear creatures
• ellie saab
• jason wu
• jean paul gaultier
• jil sander
• jill stuart
• lauren moffat
• marc by marc jacobs
• marc jacobs
• oscar de la renta
• porter grey
• rachel antonoff
• rodarte

• attend Austin City Limits music festival
• attend Bonnaroo
• attend Coachella music festival
• attend South by Southwest
• become fluent in Spanish
• bury a time capsule
• crochet an amugurumi doll
• drink coffee from the original Starbucks
• fall in love
• fly a kite
• have a chocolate party
• have a tea party
• have a foreign pen pal
• learn to play an instrument
• make the noise Mr. Fox does in Fantastic Mr. Fox
• paint a series of themed paintings
• plant a tree
• publish a short story
• own every Aronofsky film
• own every Sofia Coppola film

Chopin, Kate

• "Désirée's Baby"
• "Emancipation: A Life Fable"
• "A Respectable Woman"
• "A Shameful Affair"
• "The Story of an Hour"

Eggers, Dave

• "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her"
• "Another"
• "Notes For a Story Of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone"
• "She Waits, Seething, Blooming"
• "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Solider Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• adobe photoshop
• adobe illustrator
• avid
• html
• spanish
• piano
• photography
• swing dancing

• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Death of a Salesmen by Arthur Miller
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill

• "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver (Birdy cover)
• "Mad World" by Gary Jules

Breaking Bad

• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three
• Season Four
• Season Five

Game of Thrones

• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three

Girls

• Season One
• Season Two

Mad Men

• Season Five

Seinfeld

• Season One

• Ellen Von Unwerth
• Elliott Erwitt
• Robert Frank
• Sally Mann

• chocolate gooey butter cookies x
• double chocolate espresso cookies x
• lofthouse style soft frosted sugar cookies x
• mexican hot chocolate snickerdoodles x
• nutella pretzel brownies x
• puppy chow x
• red velvet brownies x
• red velvet cupcakes x

• Girls (1/30/10)
  • Smith Westerns (1/30/10)
  • Magic Kids (1/30/10)
• Vampire Weekend (10/6/10)
  • The Very Best (10/6/10)
  • Beach House (10/6/10)
• I Am Donald Tour (5/2/11)
• 2011 Austin City Limits (9/16/11 - 9/17/11)
  • Bright Eyes (9/16/11)
  • Santigold (9/16/11)
  • Pretty Lights (9/16/11)
  • Kanye West (9/16//11)
  • Telekinesis (9/17/11)
  • The Antlers (9/17/11)
  • Twin Shadow (9/17/11)
  • Young the Giant (9/17/11)
  • Alexander (9/17/11)

• avoir le cafard (French) - to be so bored you become enveloped in depression
• brontide - the low rumbling of distant thunder.
• chatoyant - a chatoyant stone or gemstone, such as the cat's-eye
• colossal - extremely large
• esoteric - understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest
• frenetic - frantic; frenzied
• l’esprit de escalier (French) - The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said.
• notion - a general understanding
• perpetual - continuing or enduring forever
• petrichor - the smell of rain on dry ground; the pleasant smell of rain after a dry spell.
• plethora - overabundance; excess
• sabaism - the worship of stars or the spirits in them.