• Bay Area
• Chicago
• Grand Rapids
• East Lansing
• Philadelphia
• Boston

1. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut (I've loved everything else I have read by him, but have never managed to read this. I don't know how)
2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (I freaking own this. Every time I go to finish it, I somehow end up reading something else. In fact, this just happened today.)
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (I made a promise to myself to read this three years ago, and I still hav...

• Closed mindedness
• People on "My Super Sweet 16"
• The idea of art as a commodity
• Gel deodorant
• Homophobia
• When bands i like release crappy records
• Pitchfork
• Patriarchy
• Infotainment (this does not mean satire)
• The fact that cherry flavored things do not taste like cherries
• Capitalism
• Pompous/pretentious people
• Dogma
• Racism/xenophobia
• Paying bills
• Stadium churches with creepy statues of Jesus
• Trendhoppers
• People who l...

• Sicko
• Bobby
• The Boys From Brazil
• Bullit
• Mother Night
• Goodbye Lenin!
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Babel
• Y tu mamá también
• Science of Sleep

(this list sounds so college it is ridiculous)

• Pancake Night
• Goldeneye drinking games
• Drunken conversations about politics/life
• Bell's Pizza on Friday and Saturday night
• Breaking people's tables by dancing on them
• Being broke
• Wanting to burn down DKEs
• Wanting to burn anything
• Mugs with presidents on them
• Stealing blenders
• The library
• Taking my pants off in public
• Remembering to pick up "our" beer
• Ian saying tha...

• Walking to the video store
• Throwing things off the roof
• Skipping school
• All-night movie marathons
• Anticipating the release of certain videogames
• Falling in love
• Being in love
• Not having responsibilities
• Not worrying about the world
• Not being broke

• Stubborn
• Bite nails
• Teeth
• Expect too much
• Index finger longer than ring finger (apparently this is connected to homosexulaity in men. go figure)
• Want to take action, but afraid to
• No musical talent
• Sweaty palms

(This is not a list of favorites. Judge me all you want, I'm not going to front)

1. Blink 182 - Dude Ranch (I was 13, this was the first piece of music I ever fell in love with. This started my addiction to music.)
2. NOFX - Punk in Drublic (I still remember listening to "Don't Call Me White" on repeat running around the house on a Saturday morning after having not gone to bed the night before. This was m...

• forget how insignificant most everyday problems are
• compromise myself out of convenience
• become a bourgeois liberal asshole
• become a capitalist
• give up the hope that a better world is possible
• become opportunistic
• become dogmatic
• vote conservative