• The Hunger Games (x2)
• Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Ted
• To Rome With Love
• The Dark Knight Rises (x3)

2003

• April 21—Good Charlotte (Less Than Jake, New Found Glory) (lolz, they were my friend’s favorite band and we went for her birthday)

2005

• August 4—Coldplay (Black Mountain)
• August 26—The Rolling Stones (Maroon 5)
• September 9—Green Day (Jimmy Eat World)
• October 4—Paul McCartney (No opener)
• December 7—U2 (Institute)

2006

• April 4—Coldplay (Richard Ashcroft)
• September 1—Bob Dylan (No memory of any opener, but there probably was one)
• October 9—The Strokes (South)
• November 8—Death Cab For Cutie (Ted Leo...

• Life in Technicolor ii 7" single (bloody impossible to find)
• Prospekt's March , Coldplay
• Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends , Coldplay (the damn UPS man left mine out on the driveway and it melted side B)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix , Phoenix
• It's Never Been Like That , Phoenix
• Is This It , The Strokes
• Room on Fire , The Strokes
• Hard to Explain , 7", The Strokes
• Heart in a Cage , 7", The Strokes
• Reptilia , 7", The Strokes
• The Modern Age EP , The Strokes
• Last Nite , 7", The Strokes
• You Only Live Once , 7", The Strokes
• Juicebox , 7", The Strokes
• 11th Dimension , 7", Julian Casablancas
• What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? , The Vaccines
• Wetsuit/Tiger Blood , 7", The Vaccines
• Come Around Sundown , Kings of Leon
• Hot Fuss , the Killers

MET:

• Barack Obama
• Chris Martin (x4)
• Guy Berryman
• Jonny Buckland (x2)
• Will Champion (x2)
• Phil Harvey (x3) (he counts as Coldplay, OK)
• Simon Pegg
• Mat Berninger
• Albert Hammond Jr
• Justin Young (x2)
• Freddie Cowan
• Arni Arnasson
• Pete Robertson

SEEN "IN THE WILD":

• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Chris Martin
• Albert Hammond Jr
• Jerry Seinfeld

• One Day (August 19, 2011)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2
• The Great Gastsby (2012)
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (US) (December 21, 2011)
• The Dark Knight Rises (July 20, 2012)
• Contagion (September 9, 2011)
• The Hunger Games (March 23, 2012)
• 50/50 (September 30, 2011)
• Ides of March (October 14, 2011)
• Pearl Jam Twenty (September 20, 2011)
• The Iron Lady

• Ribena, especially strawberry Ribena
• Vaseline lip balm (with aloe)
• Batchelor's Supernoodles
• Everything Nando's
• Cadbury's chocolate (whole range)
• Jaffa cakes that don't cost a million dollars a box

• RELEASE STROKO IV
• ANNOUNCE US OR UK TOUR DATES THAT ARE COMPATIBLE WITH MY CRAZY SCHEDULE AND TRAVEL PLANS
  • OK, they kind of did this since they're playing Coachella and Sweetlife and Oxegen and I'm going to all three
• Not take so long with the next album
  • This seems like it might actually happen? They're starting work on Stroko V in April 2011?!
• Hire me to work/intern for Wiz Kid to sort out their hiccups

• Skydive/bungee jump
• Scuba dive
• Snorkel
• Work in food services
• Work in customer service (permanently, anyway)
• Work in sales (permanently)
• Like beer
• Solicit customers/future customers (once I leave my current job, anyway)

• Tea is good
• Ribena is better
• Don't expect to get any errands done if you leave the house past 3PM
• I have a love/hate relationship with public transport
• It rarely, if never goes above 80*F or below 25*F
  • You can therefore wear the same wardrobe all year by adding and subtracting one midweight and one winter coat, and sandals vs. boots
• Rain isn't as frequent in East Anglia as in other parts of the country, but always have BOTH an umbrella AND a scarf
• Tesco peanut butter is the closest you're going to get to American peanut butter
• You will either burn or freeze your hands/face every time you wash them, so decide early on which is the lesser evil

• "WHERE'S MY MAC AND CHEESE?!?!"
• "I love America. Just because I think gay dudes should be allowed to adopt kids and that we all should have hybrid cars doesn't mean I don't love America."
• "I had a Three Musketeers for breakfast."
• "Are you the one who ordered cream soda in bulk?"
• When I dropped a cheesecake on the floor but ate it anyway
• When I got mayonnaise on my feet at Nando's
• "Get me out of this dress! I can't breathe!"
• "Ugh. No, it's too loud in there." [In response to shopping in Abercrombie and Fitch]
• "You found a hair style that works for you as long as it's not too humid."
• "The ugly duckling has turned into a vagu...

• Anytime at All
• I'll Cry Instead
• I'll be Back
• I'll Follow the Sun
• I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
• What You're Doing
• I Need You
• I've Just Seen a Face (until Across the Universe made it popular)
• I'm Down
• And Your Bird Can Sing
• For No One
• I Want to Tell You
• Getting Better
• Baby You're a Rich Man
• The Inner Light
• Hey Bulldog
• It's All Too Much (God, I forgot how awesome this song is)
• Dear Prudence
• Martha My Dear
• Across the Universe (_Naked_ version)

• Coldplay: "See You Soon" or "Shiver"
• The Strokes: "What Ever Happened?" or "Is This It" or "Ize of the World"
• Sigur Rós: "Með Blóðnasir"
• The Beatles: "Across the Universe" and "For No One"
• Phoenix: "One Time Too Many"
• Snow Patrol: "How to be Dead"
• Jónsi: "Sinking Friendships"
• U2: "Electrical Storm (William Orbit)"
• Death Cab for Cutie: "Marching Bands of Manhattan"
• Radiohead: "Let Down"
• The Killers: "All These Things That I've Done"
• Vampire Weekend: "Giving Up the Gun"
• Julian Casablancas: "Glass"
• Kings of Leon: "Notion"
• The National: "All The Wine" and "Apartment Story"

Too many to list, but these spring to mind:

• At Home by Bill Bryson
• Icons of England edited by Bill Bryson
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron
• Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
• Everything else by Ian McEwan that I haven't gotten to yet
• Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Scott Pilgrim , all volumes
• The Listography book itself
• House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
• Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• Everything by Anthony Bourdain (already r...

• Up in the Air
• It's Complicated
• Nowhere Boy
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Boys Are Back
• Brothers
• Valentine's Day
• A Single Man
• Invictus
• The Last Station
• Alice in Wonderland
• Leap Year
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Blind Side
• The Ghost
• I Am Love
• Cemetery Junction
• Iron Man 2
• The Hurt Locker
• American: The Bill Hicks Story
• Four Lions

• INTOLERANCE
• Too many exclamation points when typing online
• Misspelling common words everyone should know
• Lack of punctuation in texts/Facebook wall posts etc.
• Your vs. you're
• Apostrophes where they shouldn't be
• Wearing a coat inside when the temperature's fine
• The phrase "London Town"
• Hats worn when it's not cold outside/fashion hats
• Black mascara/eyeliner on people with blonde hair
• Blonde hair dye
• Guys that are more fussy about their hair than I am
• When you have to tell someone a story twice and they act like you've never told th...

• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Moon
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Mulan
• Pocahontas
• Better Off Dead
• Apollo 13
• Julie & Julia
• Nowhere Boy
• Monster's Inc.
• In the Loop
• Arrested Development , all seasons
  • Digital copies, seasons 2 and 3
• Spongebob Squarepants , seasons 2 and 3
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Good Will Hunting
• The Social Network
• Batman Begins
• The Dark Knight
• Never Let Me Go

• Coldplay
• The Strokes
• Falling snow
• Sparklers and/or fireworks
• SpongeBob
• Thunderstorms (as long as I'm inside with no plans to go out til it's over)

• Coldplay (x21)
• U2
• Snow Patrol (x3)
• Phoenix
• Paul McCartney
• The Who
• The Pretenders
• Green Day
• Jay-Z (x2)
• White Lies
• Girls Aloud (ugh)
• Bob Dylan
• The Strokes (x4)
• South
• Radiohead (x2)
• Death Cab for Cutie (x3)
• Pearl Jam
• Elbow
• Jimmy Eat World
• Maroon 5
• The Rolling Stones

• Sitting on my hands
• Chewing the inside of my mouth
• Showering too long (not sustainable)
• Sleeping too late (I don't really care)
• Buying too many bags
• Buying too many hoodies
• Buying a whole lot of books and then not reading them and buying more

• Tina Fey
• Meryl Streep
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Allison Janney
• Barack Obama
• Julian Casablancas + The Strokes
• Paul McCartney
• Chris Martin
• Simon Pegg
• Jonny Buckland
• Will Champion
• Guy Berryman
• Ringo Starr
• Rachel Maddow
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Anthony Bourdain

• Healthcare (free)
• Public transport
• Gun control laws
• Crime rates (CCTV?)
• Chocolate
• University tuition
• Fries/chips (debateable)
• Attitude towards alcohol/drinking age
• Pubs in general
• Cider
• Summer temperatures
• Ketchup (too close to call)
• Nando's
• Paprika Pringles
• H&M
• HMV
• Paperchase

• CHRIS MARTIN
• JULIAN CASABLANCAS
• George Harrison
• Thomas Mars
• Gary Lightbody

(are we noticing a trend here?)

• Gerard Piqué
• Jonny Buckland
• All of the Strokes + Ryan
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Jude Law
• Dev Patel
• Barack Obama
• George Clooney
• Jim Halpert

And for the girl crushes (i.e., only people I've ever wished I could be other than myself):

• Gwyneth Paltrow

• Wake Me When It's Over , Rob Sacher
• The Marriage Plot , Jeffrey Eugenides
• My Seinfeld Year , Fred Stoller

• Beatles (???)
• Coldplay—12 (two too small)
• LCD Soundsystem
• The Strokes—5 (one too small), plus hoodie
• Albert Hammond Jr—2
• Julian Casablancas
• Radiohead—3 (one too small)
• Kings of Leon
• Phoenix
• Snow Patrol
• Arcade Fire
• The Black Keys-2
• Jónsi
• Sigur Rós
• The National-2
• U2
• Vampire Weekend—2
• Death Cab For Cutie—3
• Rolling Stones—2 (one too small)
• The Who

• In Light , Givers
• The Winter of Mixed Drinks , Frightened Rabbit
• The Midnight Organ Fight , Frightened Rabbit
• Sing The Greys , Frightened Rabbit
• Watch The Throne , Kanye and Jay-Z
• We Bought A Zoo , Jónsi
• The Rhumb Line , Ra Ra Riot
• The Orchard , Ra Ra Riot
• Inni , Sigur Rós

• Blur
• The National
• The Horrors
• Arctic Monkeys
• Last Shadow Puppets
• Devendra Banhart
• Beirut
• Tokyo Police Club
• Mumford and Sons
• Interpol
• Animal Collective
• Broken Social Scene
• Foals
• The Drums
• The Libertines
• Guided By Voices
• Bloc Party
• Ra Ra Riot
• Warpaint
• Geographer

• Reptilia (The Strokes)
• Shiver (Coldplay)
• Giving Up the Gun (Vampire Weekend)
• Tighten Up (The Black Keys)
• The Scientist (Coldplay)
• Phrazes for the Young Preview Video (Julian Casablancas)
• Consolation Prizes (Phoenix)
• I Will Possess Your Heart (Death Cab for Cutie)
• Christmas Lights (Coldplay--because I watched them make it and was in it, less about the content of the video)
• You Only Live Once (The Strokes)--Warren Fu version
• You Only Live Once (The Strokes)--Samuel Bayer version
• All of the Lights (Kanye West)

• Baking bread
• Baking cookies
• Things baking in general
• A wood fire in fall or winter
• Coffee
• Fall
• Laundry out of the dryer
• Certain types of soap

• Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
• The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
• Gone Bamboo by Anthony Bourdain
• Bobby Gold Stories by Anthony Bourdain
• At Home by Bill Bryson
• Icons of England edited by Bill Bryson
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron
• Slam by Nick Hornby
• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
• How to be Good by Nick Hornby
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• Seems like everything Ian McEwan has ever written is on Kindle, so I'm good there
• An Education , adaptation by Nick Hornby
• An Education by Lynn Barber
• My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason
• Silence of the Grave by by Arnaldur Indriðason
• Draining Lake by by Arnaldur Indriðason
• Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indriðason

• Mad Men
• Skins generations 2 & 3 (my heart belongs to the first)
• Entourage
• The Wire
• Weeds (have seen seasons 1 &2)
• Arrested Development (BUY AND REWATCH)
• Chuck (all seasons but the first)
• Community (catch up with rest of last season)
• Outsourced (when it starts)
• BBC's Sherlock
• Jeeves and Wooster

• Bucks New University (England)
• Sheffield University (England)
• Berklee(online)
• London College of Music
• London Metropolitan University
• Steinhardt School of Culture, Education ... (BEST)
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• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• Ender's Game and the whole Speaker series by Orson Scott Card
• The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
• The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
• All Harry Potter by JK Rowling
• A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

• See You Soon
• Ladder to the Sun
• Your Love Means Everything (collab.)
• Brothers and Sisters (all 3 versions)
• Glass of Water
• Ode to Deodorant (musically, anyway)
• The World Turned Upside Down
• The Goldrush
• A Spell A Rebel Yell
• Shiver (just because they don't play it live because Guy's whiney)
• Careful Where You Stand
• Rainy Day
• Warning Sign
• Harmless
• A Ghost
• I Ran Away
• Crests of Waves
• Sleeping Sun
• The Escapist (Extended)
• Swallowed in the Sea

• American TV
• Goldfish crackers
• Tide to Go
• Annie's Mac and Cheese
• Reese's (PB & chocolate as an acceptable combo in general)
• Corn muffins/corn bread/corn dogs
• REAL hot dogs, not sausages or pale immitations
• Alfredo sauce
• Grilled cheese (not cheese toasties)
• Swiffer cleaning products
• Watching SpongeBob on Saturdays when I get up
• J. Crew
• Gap (at affordable prices)
• Target brand ANYTHING
• Wendy's chicken
• Five Guys cheese dogs
• Top bedsheets
• DINER FOOD
• Pancakes, french toast, waffles

There are too many to list, so this is a kind of random sampling.

• When Did You Last See Your Father?
• Sliding Doors
• New York, I Love You
• Brick Lane
• Paper Heart
• Fever Pitch (UK version)
• About a Boy
• Backbeat
• The Road
• Four Lions
• Agora
• Eat, Pray, Love
• Angela's Ashes
• Bottle Rocket
• Life During Wartime
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• An Education
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• Somewhere

• London by Edward Rutherford
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Innocent by Ian McEwan
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• 'Tis by Frank McCourt
• Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (audiobook)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Up in the Air by Walter Kirn
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson

• Coldplay in general
• Watching the Coldplay Live 2003 DVD
• The Strokes
• Hot Fuzz
• Last approx. 200 pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Iceland and most things pertaining to it
• The West Wing

• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
• Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
• Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
• Falling Man by Don DiLillo
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer (re-read)
• Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Solar by Ian McEwan
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (audiobook)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
• Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon by Julia Baird
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan lee O'Malley

• The Killers
• Sigur Rós (have seen Jónsi Þor Birgisson, though)
• The Beatles (impossible)
• Vampire Weekend (seeing in September!)
• Travis
• JULIAN CASABLANCAS (so pissed none of his dates worked for me)
• Albert Hammond, Jr.
• Arcade Fire (Coachella)
• Kings of Leon (Coachella)
• The National (Coachella, Oxegen)
• The Black Keys (Coachella)
• The Vaccines (seeing in September)
• Arctic Monkeys

To See Again:

• Coldplay (obviously)
• Paul McCartney
• Phoenix
• The Strokes (Coachella, Sweetlife, Oxegen)

• United States (citizen)
• England (legal resident)
• Scotland (X2)
• Wales
• Canada (X2)
• Netherlands
• France (X2)
• Ireland (X2)
• ICELAND!
• Germany
• Greece

• Iceland
• Norway
• Sweden
• Greece
• Australia
• Spain
• Ireland
• Czech Republic
• Germany
• Italy
• Denmark (all of Scandinavia, really)

• Target
• Highway road signs
• Road rules and traffic controls
• CLOTHES DRYERS IN HOMES
• Customer service
• Attention to detail
• Snack food
• Dollar bills (not coins)
• Education? (open to lengthy debate, but better in the US if you ask me)
• Winter (in New England etc.)
• Window screens
• Plumbing/water pressure
• DINERS
• Hours of store opening
• Thunderstorms in summer
• Sinks with ONE FAUCET

• Tour manager on international music tour
• Really anything relating to the music industry, especially working for a particular band or artist
• Event management/planning
• Something in movie production
• Stage manager for live theater
• Stay at home mom