inner starfish's meme
A meme from inner_starfish:
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.


decemberists

A band I stumbled across last year, recommended to me by Renee, I think. Their The Mariner's Revenge Song has some of the best lyrics ever.

kosh

He's not only one of the alien ambassadors aboard Babylon 5, but a big fluffy white cat who leaves fur all over our furniture.

richey james edwards

He's the missing Manic Street Preacher. Vanished in 1995, the band still keep a quarter of their earnings aside in case he returns. I was pretty obsessed with him as a teenager, and still think the bands' The Holy Bible is a lyrical masterpiece.

spaceghost

Spaceghost is awesome. He's on Adult Swim, they've been playing the same episodes for the last six years it seems, but they're so surreal there's always something new to see.

stanley kubrick

I was once a film student, and it's compulsory to worship Stanley Kubrick when you're a film student. A Clockwork Orange is his best, strangely faithful to the book for the most part too.

the arcade fire

Perhaps second only to Muse for making purely awesome over-the-top indie rock this decade. I pretty much play one of their albums in the 50 minutes before closing the store every time I close the store. Sometimes middle aged women will hear one of their pretty songs and buy the album, and I chuckle at what they're unwittingly getting themselves in for.

the strokes

I don't listen to them much anymore, but for a short time in 2001 I did my best to wear out their debut album Is This It. I bought it one day while feeling sad, a rare case of retail therapy for me. That, Weezer's Green album and JJ72's debut will always remind me of living with my friends Jess and Gabe.