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

i love movies so much

happy birthday :-)

Neil Young - Heart of Gold

i want to live, i want to give
i've been a miner for a heart of gold

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

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