Bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

Starting residency in general surgery at NYU in July.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Cat's Cradle, The Sun Also Rises, On the Road, The Road, The Life of Pi, Lolita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mrs. Dalloway, White Noise, Franny and Zooey, Age of Innocence, Raymond Carver shorts

Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Annie Hall, Shawshank Redemption, Breathless, There Will Be Blood, Swingers, Indiana Jones, A Very Long Engagement, The Lives of Others, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rear Window, Rashomon, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sunset Boulevard, 400 Blows, Amelie

The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Louie, Party Down, Arrested Development, Friday Night Lights

Radiohead, The National, Bon Iver, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Books, The War on Drugs, Explosions in the Sky, Four Tet, Gold Panda, Burial, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Balmorhea, Elliot Smith, The Field, Fleet Foxes, Jose Gonzalez, Kurt Vile, M83, Mogwai, Weezer, Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Debussy, Sibelius

This American Life, Radiolab

I spend more time thinking about the things I could do without.

I taught myself the guitar. Now I want to learn the banjo. And mandolin. And be my own bluegrass band.

Dive bar

You don't care about my shitty car or that the AC doesn't work. We both like driving with the windows down anyway.