Ditching a pep rally? Plus.
Seeing No Country For Old Men instead? Plus.
I love win-win situations.
Books
Candide - Voltaire
On the Road - Jack Karouac
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
Marya Hornbacher - Wasted
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Virgin Suicides - Joseph Eugenides
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski (Poe (the singer)'s brother wrote this. Isn't that cool? I think it is.)
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
Re-read Harry Potter 4-7 :D :D :D
Poems and such:
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Howl - Allen Ginsburg
Movies:
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Lost In Translation
The Shawshank Redemption (I own this movie and I still haven't seen it. What the hell is wrong with me?)
Pulp Fiction
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Factory Girl (I know everyone says it's downright horrible (I mean, just the fact that Sienna Miller is playing Edie Sedgwick makes it sound shitty), but I still want to see it.
Almost Famous
Amelie
American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Fargo
Me Without You
Juno
Crash
Chinatown
Donnie Darko
Trainspotting
Funny Face
Magnolia
Bands that I have fallen in love with in 2008
AIR
Moloko
Mazzy Star
Neko Case
Sonic Youth
Echo & The Bunnymen
Charlotte Gainsbourg
The Duke Spirit
..and of course the list goes on. If there's anything else that you recommend in any of the categories: go for it.
I'm keeping this post public, because more recommendations make me happy.