MUSIC:
I listen to a lot of
alternative rock. I love
literature;
poetry is my life.
White Oleander is my favorite modern book, but I only say that
because I really couldn't pick, yet people seem to insist. More on
books later.
My top three favorite bands are
Coldplay,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
and
Kings of
Leon.
Other than that, I listen to:
(bonus points if you can read all of this in one breath!
...Actually, don't do that. You'll die.)
One Direction (<--just kidding!) Ray Lamontagne, Matt Nathanson,
David Gray, Eric Hutchinson, Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind,
Counting Crows, The Decemberists, Death Cab For Cutie, The
Lumineers, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Imagine Dragons,
Jason Mraz, Pink Floyd, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, O.A.R.,
Of Monsters and Men, Regina Spektor, The Script, Semisonic,
Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, The Verve, Led Zeppelin, Walk The
Moon, Young the Giant, The Verve Pipe, Train, Bell X1, Sublime, The
Strokes, South Jordan, James Blunt, OneRepublic, New Radicals,
Mumford and Sons, MGMT, Ingrid Michaelson, Florence and the
Machine, Jimmy Eat World, Grouplove, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Fray,
Foster the People, Foo Fighters, Slightly Stoopid, The Cure,
Citizen Cope, Radical Face, Broken Bells, Blue October, Blind
Pilot, The Black Keys, Alabama Shakes, Bon Iver, Matt Costa,
Explosions in the Sky, New Order, Kate Nash, Ed Sheeran, Fun., Lana
Del Rey, Sia, Hall & Oates, Blitzen Trapper, Jack Johnson,
Tracy Chapman...
I bring new meaning to the phrase 'the list goes on and on.'
I DO have a pretty extensive music taste, though. I grew up on a
strange combination of oldies, nineties music, classic country,
light rock, classical piano, and a genre all to itself which I like
to refer to as Eclectic Stuff That Is Entirely Unclassifiable And
Which I Probably First Heard On A TV Commercial.
Oh, and then there's the music that I encountered through figure
skating. Trust me, once you rehearse a routine to a song about
thirty times a day, six days a week, it is IMPOSSIBLE to forget the
song. EVER. In case it wasn't implied, I'll just clarify: I was a
competitive figure skater until the age of fourteen, when both of
my rinks closed down.
MOVIES:
Armageddon, Never Let Me Go, Requiem For A Dream, Donnie Darko, all
of the Harry Potters, Into The Wild, The Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, Sweeney Todd, Across The Universe.
DOCUMENTARIES:
Clash of the Gods, Titaniboa: Monster Snake, Catherine The Great,
March of the Penguins, The Seven Deadly Sins, Born To Kill?, Planet
Earth
YOUTUBE-ERS:
Jenna Marbles all the way.
Also, I'm obsessed with Marcel the Shell, even though that was sort
of a one-time deal.
TV SHOWS:
How I Met Your Mother (Nobody wants to know how many times I've
seen this all the way through)
Criminal Minds
Game of Thrones
Fringe, Ghost Whisperer
Law and Order SVU
Friends
The Big Bang Theory
The Office
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (In spite of the crippling idiocy
of the show, it keeps me laughing.)
BOOKS:
I HATE this question. I'm a writer, learned to read when I was two
and a half, and am the sort of person who'd rather list everything
than go through the harrowing process of narrowing favorites down
to a few. Do you have any idea how many incredible books you can
fit into sixteen years of reading? Even when I try to list them
all, I end up feeling traitorous when I realize I've forgotten
one.
Argghhh... Well...
If I absolutely had to name some all-time favorites, I'd probably
say:
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery
(Would you believe I've gotten to the point where I can spell that
guy's name without missing a beat?)
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Dream Work, Mary Oliver
Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath
The 100 Best Poems of All Time
Good Poems, collected by Garrison Keillor
