i heart transitive pictograph verbalizations.

laughing at the misfortune of others, losing weight, scurvy, swearing in front of your kids, community service.

autour de lucie, elliott smith, bright eyes, leonard cohen, howie day, wilco, old 97s, aimee mann, bob schneider, gillian welch, gus gus, vienna teng, ian moore, patty griffin, ryan adams, sage francis, death cab for cutie, the shins, the white stripes, stevie ray vaughan, van morrison, etc.

mulholland dr., happiness, american beauty, donnie darko, being john malkovich, the hours, igby goes down, magnolia, requiem for a dream, kiss kiss bang bang, ghost in the shell, the nightmare before christmas, the royal tenenbaums, a clockwork orange, barton fink, blue velvet, crash, natural born killers, the machinist, every horror film ever made,

The daily show

naked lunch, the information, ulysses, the tetherballs of bougainville, the wind-up bird chronicle, the savage god, glamorama, house of leaves, journey to the end of the night, generation x, middlesex, virgin suicides, siddhartha, the hours, infinite jest, steps, the rules of attraction, the agony and the ecstasy, the satanic verses, the sound and the fury, mahabharata, ramayana, notes of a dirty old man, a clockwork orange, junky, the elecric kool-aid acid test, a confederacy of dunces, pastoralia, the bell jar, lolita, the catcher in the rye, the neal pollack anthology of american literature, slowness, immortality, unbearable lightness of being, the trial, everything is illuminated, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, suicide's girlfriend, the stranger, etc.

profanity is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate mother-fu**ers