When Artists Make Me Cry...

• Nina Simone's song "Strange Fruit"
• Klaudii Lebedev's oil painting "The Fall of Novgorod"
  

I want...

Someone with the exact same musical taste as me and lots more money so they'll take me to see Ozomatli and Mushroomhead and Barenaked Ladies and Reel Big Fish and Ani Difranco.

Please?

Books I want to own

Cormac McCarthy's various novels (The Road, in particular)

Robert Irwin's Seeing is Forgetting the Name of What One Sees

Howard Zinn's autobiography: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Zinn's Emma: A Play in Two Acts About Emma Goldman, American Anarchist

Gilbert Gustave's Nuremberg Diary

Zizek's Revolution at the Gates

Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham's Fables

Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse

More Things I Want

• every Tanya Stephens CD ever made
• salsa lessons
• a new UMFK coffee mug
• shoes from Victoria Secret
• a variety of gum
• jogging armband for my iPod Nano
  

Things I Want

• a kitchen timer so I stop burning cookies
• a 401(k)
• a well-designed tattoo
• Jenga
• a digital camera
• tickets to anything
• a gift certificate to the Willy Street Co-op (http://www.willystreet.coop)
• a gift certificate to Trader Joe's (http://www.traderjoes.com)
• a filing cabinet
• nice gel pens that do not bleed through thin paper
• an office shredder
• a printer