This is just a list of crap that I happen to like. Laugh if you want.

Stuff from the 60s and 70s - a lot of dead people
• Bob Dylan
• The Doors
• John Lennon (solo stuff)
• Led Zeppelin
• Janis Joplin
• Fleetwood Mac
• Jimi Hendrix
• The Mamas and the Papas
• ABBA
• Santana

Modern Stuff
• U2
• Beastie Boys
• The Cure
• Cake
• Red Hot Chili Peppers (my latest obsession)
• Cibo Matto
• Moxy Früvous
• Blondie
• Elvis Costello
• 311
• The Cardigans
• Moby
• Tom Waits (kind of modern, I guess)
• The Sugarcubes
• Perry Farell (world's biggest FrootLoop)
• They Might Be Giants
• Third Eye Blind
• Pizzicato Five
• Macy Gray
• Rage Against the Machine
• Beck
• The Urge
• Travis
• Morcheeba

Classical - definitely dead people
• Beethoven
• Tchaikovsky
• Chopin
• Mozart
• Vivaldi

Music that I'm ashamed to admit that I once liked and now lives under my bed in a Birkenstock shoebox or has been traded in at a fine used record store(everyone has a collection like this...)
• Garbage
• Bush
• Everclear
• Republica
• Alanis Morissette
• Ace of Base (now that goes back a while!)
• Pearl Jam
• Green Day
• Silverchair

My Lilith Fair phase (some of these live under my bed, too)
• Paula Cole
• Fiona Apple
• Sarah McLachlan
• Tori Amos
• Ani DiFranco

Tacky music that's just fun (I don't actually own all of these but will tolerate in small doses)
• The Pure Disco and Pure Funk series
• Spice Girls
• Ricky Martin
• Madonna
• Robbie Williams
• Enrique Iglesias

And of course my favorite radio show, Dr. Demento!

The latest editions to my CD collection are: Renegades by Rage Against the Machine (4.5 out of 5 stars) and Fragments of Freedom by Morcheeba (5 out of 5 stars).

Previous Ratings

• 1 by The Beatles - 4.5
• Staring at the Sea: The Singles by The Cure - 3.5
• Walls and Bridges by John Lennon - 3
• The Man Who by Travis - 3.5
• Macy Gray on How Life is by Macy Gray - 4
• Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine - 4
• Thornhill by Moxy Früvous - 3.5
• The C Album by Moxy Früvous - 5
• Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants - 3.5
• Midnite Vultures by Beck - 4
• Receiving the Gift of Flavor by The Urge - 3.5
• Don't Give Me Names by Guano Apes - 4.5
• Factory Showroom by They Might Be Giants - 4
• Third Eye Blind by Third Eye Blind - 4.5
• The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five - 4.5
• Blue by Third Eye Blind - 5
• Proud Like a God by Guano Apes - 4

Concerts Attended

• July '96 (? - not 100% sure on the year - ?) - Bush w/ Souls and Jesus Lizard
• January '98 - Bob Dylan
• November '98 - Bob Dylan w/ Joni Mitchell and some awful opener
• April '00 - Ben Folds Five w/ some forgettable opener

• Jack Kerouac
• Maya Angelou
• Allen Ginsburg
• Ernest Hemingway
• Dante Alighieri
• George Orwell
• Aldous Huxley
• William Shakespeare
• Ayn Rand
• Ray Bradbury
• Franz Kafka
• Pearl S. Buck
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Anthony Burgess

I am currently reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

I give the last book I read, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, 3 out of 5 stars.

Previous Ratings

Thomas Harris' Hannibal - 3.5
• Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs - 4
• Thomas Harris' Red Dragon - 4
• Jack Kerouac's On the Road - 5
• Thornton Wilder's Our Town - 4
• John Knowles' A Separate Peace - 3.5
• Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer - 3
• John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath - 4.5
• Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein - 3.5
• Leon Uris' Mila 18 - 4
• Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire - 4.5
• C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters - 2
• Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five - 4.5
• Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha - 3
• Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird - 4
• Alex Haley's Roots - 3.75
• Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - 1
• Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits - 5
• Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth - 4
• Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot - 3
• Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - 4.5
• Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange - 5

• Salvador Dalí
• Peter Max
• Frida Kahlo
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Joan Miró
• Henri Matisse

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