• Arcade Fire
• Bright Eyes
• City and Colour
• Dan Romano
• David Bazan
• Dawes
• Dinosaur Feathers
• Fleet Foxes
• Jeff Mangum
• Los Campesinos!
• Modest Mouse (x2)
• M. Ward
• Ra Ra Riot
• Spoon
• The Killers
• The Morning Teleportation
• The Music Tapes
• The Walkmen
• Wolfmother

• Being tactful.
  • I have the least tact of anyone I've ever met.
  • Maybe this is why people get offended when they're around me...
• Flirting.
  • HAHAAHHA, don't get me started.
  • I joke, I don't flip my hair and giggle. Hence why I have a lot of guy friends and less and less girl friends.
• Cleaning up after myself.
  • I missed the lesson in preschool about being tidy.
• Waking up in the morning.
  • I have to set my alarm to 4:30 to be able to get up by 6...
• Eating healthy foods.

• mosquiteos
• recurring nightmares
• guitar players who can only play 2 songs (and then play them over and over)
• chemistry class
• monotone voices
• cold, wet weather
• slow computers
• consevative media
• brown grass
• cold rain
• appliances that break at inconvenient times
• not being able to download music

in no particular order,

• mashed potatoes
• blueberry muffins and bagels
• bosc pears
• Peanut butter and honey sandwiches
• M & M's
• bagels with cream cheese
• green tea with honey
• whole wheat bread and bagels
• grapes
• craisins
• natural peanut butter

At some point or another in your life, you are going to have to settle with second best.

• And I'm not talking just about relationships.
• I'm talking about anything and everything.

Everything happens for a reason.

• My mother's favorite saying, which I refuse to believe 98% of the time.
  • But she has a point.

School is a game.

• After elementary school, the system stops being about cultivating young minds.
• Classes become wastes of time and resourc...

• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Angels and Demons (before the movie)
• In Cold Blood
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Jude
• I Am America (and so can you!)
• Water for Elephants
• The Catcher in the Rye
• White Teeth
• Life of Pi
• 1984
• The Great Gatsby
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Lord of the Flies
• Dharma Bums
• Oliver Twist
• the Color Purple
• something by Earnest Hemingway
• all the Agatha Christie mysteries
• The Chocolate Wars
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• mustard
• sour cream
• deli meats
  • ham
  • turkey
• asparagus
• dishes that include a lot of horseradish
• spam
• uncooked mushrooms
• olives

• The Scientist (Coldplay)
• Lost (Coldplay)
• At the Bottom of Everything (Bright Eyes)
• The Mixed Tape (Jack's Mannequin)
• Sad Eyes (Josh Rouse)
• Dustland Fairytale (the Killers)
• Beautiful Day (U2)
• I Will Follow You into the Dark (Death Cab for Cutie)
• Stolen (Dashboard Confessional)
• Love Lockdown (Kanye West)
• Rock N' Roll (Eric Hutchinson)
• Pablo Picasso (Citizen Cope)
• Bitter Sweet Symphony (the Verve)
• Let it Be (the Beatles)
• Boston (Augustana)
• Amsterdam (Coldplay)
• Such Great Heights (the Postal Service)
• Australia (the Shins)
• Bad Romance (Lady GaGa)

Dear Kelsey,

• Remember that some people are more sensitive than you, and watch the sarcastic comments that come out of your mouth when you are around them.
• Don't text as often, especially when you are around other people. It's annoying and antisocial and just plain rude.
• Don't make religiously insensitive comments, you are offending people.
• Be more honest.
• Sometimes you have to deal with people that annoy the shit out of you. Just take a deep breath and take a patience pill.
• You have a lot of stuff going for you, try and appreciate it sometimes.
• Do what YOU want, not what other people want you to want.
• Take days for yourself, that's not always bad.
• Stand up for what you believe in. Always....

• Stars
• Broken Social Scene

(trivia: those two bands have a lot of the same members)

• The Arcade Fire
• Bright Eyes (and Conor Oberst's stuff)
• The Hives
• The Shins
• Broken Bells (more trivia: same guy from The Shins!)
• Jack's Mannequin
• Something Corporate (same lead musician as Jack's Mannequin)
• The Postal Service
• Death Cab for Cutie (Same guy: Ben Gibbard)
• Regina Spektor
• TV on the Radio
• Santogold
• Margot and the Nuclear So & So's

• The Godfather
• Rear Window
• Psycho
• the Matrix (the whole thing)
• Ghost Ship
• Requiem for a Dream
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Slumdog Millionaire
• the Green Mile
• No Country for Old Men
• the Breakfast Club
• A Clockwork Orange
• Australia
• Sunshine Cleaning

• Monster's Inc. :)
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Moulin Rouge
• Inglourious Basterds
• the Dark Knight
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Fight Club
• Boondock Saints
• Walk the Line
• Edward Scissorhands