Thursday, May 31, 2012

a list that describes my sophomore year

books

brave new world - best book i've ever read. i think about it all the time

a visit from the goon squad - the part about the punks in 1970s new york was pretty cool

the catcher in the rye - i didn't read this this year but i kept finding myself relating many of the themes to my life

animal farm - i know we read this in school but it's still one of my favorite books ever. i love allegories



albums

sonic youth / daydream nation - repeat repeat repeat repeat

the white stripes / de stilj - best white stripes album and the opener is sooooo good

zoo kid / zoo kid - this is the coolest album i've ever heard and it doesn't hurt that zoo kid is super attractive

deerhunter / halcyon digest - very very beautiful and many of the songs manage to give me chills

minks / by the hedge - this album puts me in a strange state of mind. i like it though and i think it's fantastic for a chilly, rainy day


the velvet underground and nico - this album had always intrigued me but i don't think i truly appreciated its brilliance until this year. heroin is probably the best song ever written

pavement / crooked rain, crooked rain - whenever i hear this album, it always makes me think of california skateboarders in the 1990s. i wasn't there so i can't really say, but i have to imagine that it was pretty cool

led zeppelin / I - one of the sexiest albums of all time. i mean just listen to that bass line in dazed and confused. hot DAMN.


girls / album - it's beginning to get overplayed but it still contains some of my favorite songs (lust for life, morning light, summertime, curls)

the beatles / white album - my favorite beatles album by FAR

the strokes / is this it - it had to go on here. the tightest album i know (although it might have overstayed its welcome this year). still, it just gives me that feeling...


movies

easy rider - this is the movie that made me want to hop on a motorcycle and go wherever the road takes me

dazed and confused - i genuinely just love this movie. it makes me happy

wayne's world - PARTY TIME PARTY TIME

the virgin suicides - a beautiful but unsettling movie. sure, it's a stereotypical tumblr movie but still, it's fantastic

clerks - one of the funniest movies i've ever seen

gummo - the most haunting movie i've ever seen but also the most memorable


tv shows

freaks and geeks - i feel like i could have been really good friends with lindsey weir lol

skins generation one - best teen drama i've ever seen

copying katya and putting (some of) my stickies on here

songs with good basslines (found on the internet)
taxman the beatles
walk on the wild side lou reed 
guns of brixton the clash
the lemon song led zeppelin
my generation the who
dreams fleetwood mac
money pink floyd
roxanne the police
nude radiohead
daft punk is playing at my house lcd soundsystem
machine gun jimi hendrix
hustle and cuss the dead weather
flashlight parliament
pump t up elvis costello
break on through the doors

deerhunter / related projects (that i need to download)
lotus plaza - spooky action at a distance
deerhunter - microcastle, cryptograms, fluorescent grey
atlas sound - logos

result of a weird psychological test that i thought was scarily accurate
You are expecting too much from the world and this lack is expressing itself in frustration and dismay. Often there will be a distinct problem with a loved one caused by unrealistic expectations of perfection. If this is the case, then there may be sexual problems caused by this lack of understanding or empathy.

Feelings of insecurity, both physical and mental, are creating stress and anxiety at the moment. A desire to experience the fullness of life is being met with frustration. You are searching for both fulfillment and sympathetic friendship, and unfortunately finding neither. There is a desire for intimate connection to the outside world and a fear that this may not be possible.


books to read
wuthering heights - emily bronte

the stranger - albert camus

lord of the flies - william golding

catch-22 - joseph heller

a farewell to arms - ernest hemingway (halfway though)

the old man and the sea - ernest hemingway

their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston
babbitt - sinclair lewis (halfway through)
one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
all quiet on the western front - erich maria remargue
slaughterhouse-five - kurt vonnegut
a doll's house - henrik ibsen
a room with a view - e.m. forster (halfway through)
middlesex - jeffrey eugenides
the marriage plot - jeffrey eugenides
girl, interrupted - susanna kaysen
the bell jar - sylvia plath
miss lonelyhearts and the day of the locust - jonathan lethem
tender is the night - f. scott fitzgerald
the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
the last tycoon - f. scott fitzgerald
she's come undone - wally lamb
i am the messenger - markus zusak
a visit from the goon squad - jennifer egan
one flew over the cuckoo's nest - ken kesey
fight club - chuck palahniuk
choke - chuck palahniuk
the sun also rises - ernest hemingway
a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
1984 - george orwell
brave new world - aldous huxley
fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
on the road - jack kerouac
fear and loathing in las vegas - hunter thompson
naked lunch - william burroughs
trainspotting - irvine welsh
last exit to brooklyn - hubert selby jr
american psycho - bret easton ellis
the millennium trilogy - stieg larsson
1Q84 - haruki murakami
the unabridged journals of sylvia plath 
the invisible man - ralph ellison
lolita - vladmir nabokov
the fountainhead - ayn rand
the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - douglas adams
white oleander - janet finch
looking for alaska - john green
persepolis - marjane satrapi
me talk pretty one day - david sedaris
flowers for algernon - daniel keyes


movies to watch
-Girl, Interrupted
-Marie Antoinette
-An Education
-Beginners (partway through)
-50/50
-Garden State
-The Royal Tenenbaums
-Rushmore
-The Graduate
-The Big Lebowski
-Submarine
-Fear and Loathing in LV
-Somewhere
-Lost in Translation
-Almost Famous
-Nine
-Ghost World
-American Beauty
-Reservoir Dogs
-Pulp Fiction
-Fight Club
-Amelie
-Magnolia
-Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
-Fish Tank
-Thirteen
-Kids
-Trainspotting (halfway through)
OH MY GOD THIS IS OUR LAST DAY TODAY IT'S ALL STARTING TO HIT ME I'M LITERALLY ABOUT TO START BAWLING THIS IS HORRIBLE OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

Friday, May 11, 2012

uh uh uh i feel so good finally done with ap us HELL YEAH

Monday, May 7, 2012

today is my birthday but i don't feel any different, i don't really feel anything at all