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prose, I will be releasing snippets soon for my very own imaginary audience. One fucking sliver at a time.

New outlet, anyone?

Film is my life, and I have spent my life appreciating films, and hopefully spend the rest of my life creating them. So this list is a big deal to me.Okay, so I have never disclosed this before, but currently these are my top ten. I have seen these films so many times, but never once had they been redundant, as even on my twentieth viewing I find something new. While you may not agree with my list, I encourage you to see them all, as these all are great films that I found to be a transcendent experience like no other and a powerful measure of what the medium is capable of.

My Top Ten Favorite Films Of All Time

10. Goodfellas
9.  A Serious Man
8.  Magnolia
7.  8 1/2
6.  Waking Life
5.  Through a Glass Darkly
4.  Requiem For a Dream
3.  Eraserhead
2.  Synecdoche, New York
1.  2001: A Space Odyssey

I am very excited to announce that I am working on my novel again. I used to work religiously on my own idea for a novel. I even managed to get over seventy pages into it before I lost the one and only manuscript in my backpack, when I left that at the mall. That gave way to laziness, and never got the motivation to work on it again. And than I sunk into a depression that blocked a lot of my creativity. But mostly I have been victim of just not caring about it enough to rejuvenate it. Recently I have been oddly inspired, so I decided to sink back into it, and am rewriting it from the ground up. It is still very similar as the details I am changing are more later on (the unwritten bit XD). I have finally wised up and am writing it all on a Google doc, so I can't lose any files - hallelujah!

The story is tentatively entitled "Apotheosis of the Mediocre Man," and it is an existential fairy tale about the meaning of life. It is completely ridiculous but my hope is that someone will get a modicum of entertainment out of it. I decidedly use my dry sardonic humor which no one seems to get in my writing, and the story is completely surreal. I wish I could share it on dA but I plan on failing to getting it published soon, and am not interested in losing my rights to it (Yes, I know dA has diligent copyright options, but frankly I am just not intelligent enough to fully comprehend them and am going to take no chances). However if someone is interested enough, I could share the document with them to view, and I could use some constructive feedback. The last time I wrote, I was intensely secretive about it, which made the story too self contained and thus incomprehensible. I make no pretenses about this writing being good, as it most likely isn't, however it is interesting and personal enough to enthrall me.

I thought it would be fun to quickly assemble a playlist that served as a soundtrack to my entire life, starting from my birth to current times, so far compiled of pop songs I just had off hand. It was fun to make, although it was hastily made, and I could probably compile a much better one with time and effort.

The entire playlist can be found, and streamed completely free, and in order right here:
www.playlist.com/playlist/1958…

*(Song Title - Artist)

Birth:
Altibzz - Autechre
Prelude - Bach
Avril 14 - Aphex Twin

Early Childhood:
All is Love - Karen O and the Kids
Tree Hugger - Antsy Pants
Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul, and Mary
Married Life - Michael Giacchino
Kids - MGMT
King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 - Neutral Milk Hotel
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Floxes
Sound Check (Gravity) - Gorillaz

Elementary:
We Are Gonna Be Friends - The White Stripes
We Will Rock You - Queen
Climbing Up the Walls - Radiohead
Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson
Neighborhood #2 (Laika) - Arcade Fire
Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest
Strawberry Feilds Forever - The Beatles

Middle School:
And The Hazy Sea - Cymbals Eat Guitars
Road To Nowhere - DJ Krush
Overture (Requiem for a Dream) - Clint Mansell
Vordhosbin - Aphex Twin
Alice - Cocteau Twins
Excuses - The Morning Benders
Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse
Frankly Mr. Shankly - The Smiths
Goldberg Variations Aria - Bach

Early High School:
The Winner Is - Devotchka
Celestial Clockwork - Illogic
Burnout - Green Day
Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
2+2=5 - Radiohead
Agoraphobia - Deerhunter
Karma Police - Radiohead
Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
To Here Knows When - My Bloody Valentine
Who Can Say - The Horrors
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
Always Returning - Brian Eno

A Year and a half ago to Present:
Kid A - Radiohead
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
5 Years Time - Noah and the Whale
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I want - The Smiths
Maps - The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Videotape - Radiohead
Float On - Modest Mouse
Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
Liztomania - Phoenix
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
My Girls - Animal Collective
The World At Large - Modest Mouse