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INFLUENCES FUTURE EXHIBIT >>> - 2025 Travel Destination: South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe - Books I am reading in 2024: "Love & Other Rituals" by Monica Macansantos, "A Professional Lovla" by E.P. Tuazon, "What Happens is Neither" by Angela Narciso Torres, "Another Word For Love" by Carvell Wallace, "Do I Draw These Memories?" by Jonell Joshua, "Some People Need Killing" by Patricia Evangelista, "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese, "Beyond the Galleons" by Isabel Legarda, "Multo" by Cindy Fazzi, "The Farm' by Joanne Ramos, and "Horse Barbie" by Geena Rocero - 2024 Travel Destination: Australia, Germany, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and The Netherlands - Favorite albums of 2024: "People Who Aren't There" by Future Islands - Books I am reading in 2023: "Insurrecto" by Gina Apostol, "Wildflowers" by Beverly Parayno, "Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did" by Geloy Concepcion, "Filipinos in Greater Boston" by Mary Talusan, "Every Ounce of Courage" by Elizabeth Ann Bessa-Quirino, "Fart School" by Mel Srringer, "Ephemera" by Briana Loewinsohn, "Stay True" by Hua Hsu, "A Career in Books" by Kate Gavino, "How We Go in the Dark" by Sequoia Nagamatsu, "God of Want" by K-Ming Chang, "More Than Music" by Carol Procter, "Unruined" by Roger Vaillancourt, "Imagination and Consciousness" by Uday Dandavate, "The Secret to Superhuman Strength" by Alison Bechdel, "Meet Me Tonight In Atlantic City" by Jane Wong, "The Earl and the Pharaoh" by The Countess of Carnarvon and "Brideshead Rivisited" by Evelyn Waughn - 2023 Travel Destination: New Zealand, Tahiti/Bora Bora, The U.K and El Salvador - Favorite albums of 2023: "First Two Pages of Frankenstein" by The National and "Stereo Mind Game" by Daughter - Books I am reading in 2022: "Concepcion" by Albert Samaha, "Love, Dance and Egg Rolls" by Jason Tanomar, "Crescenciana" by Kenneth Tan, "Biyaheng Langit" by Electrolychee, "Halina Filipina" by Arnold Arre, "Abahgan: The Best Philippine Komiks," "Dead Balagtas" by Emiliana Kampilan, "Mushrooms in the Rain" by Mirra Ginsburg, "88 Stories of Inspiring Asians in America," "The Rabit and the Dragon King" by Daniel San Souci, "The Little Ouch" by Katherine Picarde, "She the People" by Jen Deaderick, "Be; Canto" by Ann Patchett, "The Indomitable Florence Finch by Robert J. Mrazek, "The Hitchhhiking Years" by Don White, "Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong" by Dawn B. Mabalon, PhD, Microchips for Millions" by Janice Lobo Sapigao, "Tale of Two Pateros" by Frederico Acuna Espiritu, "Manong Joaquin" by Jovina Navarro, "K1 Kuwento Lost Things" by Rachelle Cruz & Melissa Sipin, "Gods of Want" by K-Ming Chang, "A Career in Books" by Kate Gaviono, "Mars, May Zombie" by Chuckberry J. Pascual, "More Thank Music" by Carol Procter, "Bone Talk" by Candy Gourlay, "After Lambana" by Eliza Victoria & Mervin Malonzo, "The Secret to Superhuman Strength" by Alison Bechdel, "Not Your Lesbian Uhaul Story" by Camila Kerwin, "Stretch Marks" by Jean Munson, and "The Betrayed" by Reine Arcache Melvin - Favorite albums of 2022: "Blue Hours" by Bear's Den, "Stumpwork" by Drycleaning, "Farm to Table" by Bartese Strange, "Warm Chris" by Aldous Harding, "Classic Objects" by Jenyy Hval and "Trust" by Sohn - Books I am reading in 2021: "Instruments of Empire" by Mary Talusan, "Which Way is Home" by Mary Kiely, "Mixed Plate" by Jokoy, "After Perfect" by Maan Gabriel, "High" by Mary Sullivan, "Crying in HMart" by Michelle Zauner, "Vaughan Oliver: Archive" by Unit Editions, "A History of the World in 100 Objects" by Neil MacGregor, "Beebo" by Uday Dandavate, "The Groom Will Keep His Name" by Matt Ortile, "The Sustainable Global Marketplace" by Mary Conway Dato-on, "All This is True" by Lygia Day Penaflor, "Moments Like This" by Anna Gomez & Kristoffer Polaha, "Hello Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly, "You Go First" by Erin Entrada Kelly, "Lalani of the Distant Sea" by Erin Entrada Kelly, "The Best of Me" by David Sedaris, "The Honey Bus" By Meredith May, "Ready Player Two" by Ernest Clline, "From Page to Stage" by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, "I Who Did Not Die" by Meredith May and "Documents" by Jan-Henry Gray - Favorite albums of 2021: "New Long Leg" by Dry Cleaning, "Bills, Aches & Blues" 4AD compilation, "Far In" Helado Negor, "Songs & Instruments" by Adrianne Lenker, "Sensational" by Erika De Casier, "Sketchy" by Tune-Yards and "Unremembered Remembered" by The Wolfgang Press - Books I am reading in 2020: "I Was Their American Dream" by Malaka Gharib, "Trick Mirror" by Jia Tolentino, "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari, "Seven Brief Lessons On Physics"" by Carlo Rovelli, "Filipinos in Laos" by Miguel A. Bernard, S.J., "Watership Down" by Richard Adams, "I Am Filipino" by Nicole Ponseca & Migeuel Trinidad, "There There" by Tommy Ornage, "Fairest" by Meredith Talusan, "Notes from a Small Island" by Bill Bryson, "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandell, "Patron Saints of Nothing" by Randy Ribay, "Of Cats and Men" by Sam Kalda, "In Waves" by AJ Dungo, "The Son Of Good Fortune" by Lysley Terino, "Filipinos in San Francisco" by FAHNS, Manilatown Heritage Foundation & Pin@y Educational Partnership, "A Window For A Home Without Walls" by Uday Dandavate, "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel, "Flamer" by Mike Curato, "Guantanamo Voices" by Sarah Mirk, "Multo" by Andrew Lorenzi, "Tag! You're It" by Trinidad Escobar, "Malarkey" by November Garcia, "Maybe the Moon" by Frances Ives, "Good Talk" by Mira Jacob, "Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant" by Roz Chast, "Townie" by Andre Dubis, "The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader" by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano and Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana, "Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, And Me" by Lorina Mapa, "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubis and "The Foley Artist Stories" by Rico Siasoco - 2020 Travel Destination: The Bahamas - Books I am reading in 2019: "Dear America" by Jose Antonio Vargas, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong, "A Spectral Hue" by Craig Gidney, "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran, "The Body Papers" by Grace Talusan, "Grief Is The Thing With Feathers" by Max Porter, "Happy City" by Charles Montgomery, "Freak Kingdom" by Timothy Denevi, "Last Days" by Adam Neville, "Half Moon Bay" by Alice LaPlante, "The World According to Bob" by James Bowen, "Black Leopard Red Wolf" by Marlon James, "The Strategy of Peace" by John F. Kennedy, "Seven Times Seven, 49 Cat Tails" by Susana Lannik & Sharon L. Rich and "Old Masters and Young Geniuses" by David W. Galenson - Favorite albums of 2019: "So That You Might Hear Me," by Bear's Den, "Gallipoli" by Beirut, "Triage" by Methyl Ethel, "Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared" by Deerhunter, "Designer" by Aldous Harding, "U.F.O.F." by Big Thief, "Proto" by Holly Henderson, "I am Easy to Find" by The National, "Small Mercies" by Pixx, "Miracle" by Julia Fordham, "Altid Sammen" by Efterklang and "∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) by New Order - 2019 Travel Destination: California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah - Books I am reading in 2018: "Evolving Ourselves" by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans, "The Leavers" by Lisa Ko, "South Pole" by Ashley Shelby, "True Compass" by Edward Kennedy, "America is Not the Heart" by Elaine Castillo, "The Monuments Men" by Robert M. Edsel, Mrs. Fletcher" by Tom Perrotta, "To End a Presidency" by Laurence Tribe, "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama and "Our Endangered Values" by Jimmy Carter - Favorite albums of 2018: "All Nerve" by the Breeders, "A Poem Unlimited" by U.S. Girls, "Record" by Tracy Thorn, "Dove" by Belly, "Music from Before the Storm" by Daughter, "Boxer: Love" by The National and "I can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life" by Tune-Yards - 2018 Travel Destination: Aruba, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland - Favorite Movie of 2018: "First Reformed" - Books I am reading in 2017: "Audicity" by Jonathan Chait, "Theft By Finding" by David Sedaris, "Bedsit Disco Queen" by Tracey Thorn, "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman, "Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies" by Nick Frost, "Eastman Was Here" by Alex Gilvarry, "Red Earth and Pouring Rain" by Vikram Chandra, "A Village in the Fields" by Patty Enrado and "The Latinos of Asia" by Anthony Ocampo - Favorite albums of 2017: "Party" by Aldous Harding, "Sleep Well Beast" by The National, "NOMC15" by New Order, "Big Bad Love" by John Mooreland, "The Age of Anxiety" by Pixx, "Three Futures" by Torres, "The Far Field" by Future Islands, "Rennen" by SOHN, "No Home of the Mind" by Bing & Ruth, "Everything is Forgotten" by Methyl Ethel and "Little Fictions" by Elbow - 2017 Travel Destination: Turks & Caicos and Wales - 2017 Concert: Bear's Den - Favorite Movies of 2017: "The Shape of Water" -
Books I am reading in 2016: "Shotgun Lovesongs" by Nicholas Buttler, "Love May Fail" by Matthew Quick," "Asian American" by Dale Talde, "In the Country," by Mia Alvar and "The Land of Forgotten Girls" by Erin Entrada Kelly, "Hyperbole and a Half" by Allie Brosh, "Juan Crisostomo Soto and the Pampangan Drama" by Juan S. Aguas, "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow, "Filipino Ghost Stories" by Alex G. Paman and " The Best American Infographic 2015" by Gareth Cook - 2016 Travel Destination: Honduras and Mexico -
Books I am reading in 2015: "Visceral Pleasures" by Rick Poynor, "Gun Dealer's Daughter" by Gina Apostol, "Barkada Ng Lima" by Ninotchka Rosca, "In the Country" by Mia Alvar, "The Caprices" by Sabina Murray, "This Rimy River" by Vaughan Oliver, "Ghost Stories" by Hampton Sides, "Bruce" by Peter Ames Carlin and "Pontton" by Garrison Kielor - 2015 Travel Destination: Costa Rica and France -
Favorite Movies of 2015: Brooklyn and Star Wars The Force Awakens -
Favorite albums of 2014: "Singles" by Future Islands, "Tremos" by SOHN, Nikki Nack" by Tuneyards, "After the End" by Merchandise, "Blue Film" by Lo-Fang, "Seeds" by TV on the Radio, "Elpintor" by Interpol and "Soused" by Scott Walker & Sunn - Books I am reading in 2013: "Monstress" by Lysley Tenorio, "Rat Girl" by Kristin Hersh, "The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes" by The Editors of McSweeney's, "In the Heart of the Canyon" by Elisabeth Hyde, "Our Whistle Blower" by Carol Anderson Pacun (illustrated by Faith Hyde), "Pacquiao: Winning In & Out of the Ring" by Jose Gamboa, "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, "My Tribute to New York City" by Shigeru Okabayashi< "My Favorite Warior" by Eugene Gloria, "The Leftovers" by Tom Perrotta, "A Place for Me in the World" by 826 Boston, "Miss Perrerine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs, "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls" by David Sedaris, "Smaller and Smaller Circles" by F.H. Batacan and "Angel De La Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery" by M. Evelina Galang - Favorite albums of 2013: "Lost Sirens" by New Order, "Desire Lines" by Camera Obscura, "Trouble Will Find Me" by The National, "Ghost on Ghost" by Iron & Wine, "If You Leave" by Daughter, "Somewhere Else" by Indians, "No World" by Inc, "MVP" by My Bloody Valentine, "Adventures from Terra Firma" by Stornoway, Zomby's "With Love", The Breeder's "LSXX", "Repave" by Volcano Choir and "Bish Bosch" by Scott Walker - 2013 Travel Destination: Peru and 20 state cross country free painting give away - Books I am reading in 2012: "From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant" by Alex Gilvarry, "Manila Men in the New World" by Floro L. Mercene, "Leche" by R. Zamora Linmark, "Delivering Happiness" by Tony Hsieh, "Intorduction to Filipino History" by Teodoro A. Agnoncillo, "History of the Filipino People" by Teodoro A. Agnoncillo, "Beyond Idle Thoughts" by ML Munoz, "Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s" by Richard T. Chu and"Before Ever After" by Samantha Sotto, - Favorite albums of 2012: "Visions" by Grimes, "Shrines" by Purity Ring, "Anastasis" by Dead Can Dance, "Piramida" by Efterklang, "Love this Giant" by David Byrne & St. Vincent, "Mature Themes" by ArielPink's Haunted Graffiti, "The Wild Youth and His Youg Heart" by Daughter, "Confess" by Twin Shadow "Future This" by Big Pink and "Blues Funeral" by Mark Lanegan Band - Favorite Movies of 2012: Beast of the Southern Wild, Moonrise Kingdom, Argo, Looper, Cloud Atlas, Django Unchained and The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 2012 Travel Destination: Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia - Favorite albums of 2011: "Bon Iver" by Bon Iver, "Dedication" by Zomby, "Eye Contact" by Gang Gang Dance, "Whokill" by tUnE-yArDs, Iron & Wine's "Kiss Each Clean", Beirut "Riptide", Atlas Sound "Parallax", St. Vincent "Strange Mercy", Joker "The Vision", Throwing Muses "Anthology" and the This Mortal Coil box set - Books I am reading in 2011: World War Z by Max, Brooks, App Savvy by Ken Yarmoush, Talking to Girls about Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield, Walang Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice" Edited by Lolan Buhain Sevilla and Roseli Llano, The Common (Amherst College's Literary Journal), Brother my Brother by Bienvenido Santos, Spare Parts and Dismemberment by Josh Fernandez, 365 Days Until... Alexander and Ahesha Catlano - Favorite Movies of 2011: The Artist, Midnight in Paris, The Help, Martha Marcy May Marlene and My Week With Marilyn - 2011 Travel Destination: Paris and the U.K. - Favorite albums of 2010: Pixie's Minotaur Box Set (yes, I have the limited and signed version--only 3,000 were made!), Tindersticks's Falling Down a Mountain, Efterklang's Magic Chair, Sade's Soldier of Love, Massive Attacks's Heligoland, Serena Maneesh's No2: Abyss in B Minor, Tracey Thorn's Love and its Opposite, The National's High Violet, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's Before Today, Cocteau Twins Box Set 1, Stornoway's Beachcombers Windowsill, Brendan Perry's Arc, Interpol's "Interpol", Deerhunter's "Halcyon Digest", OMD's "History of Modern", Blonde Redhead's "Penny Sparkle", Twin Shadow's "Forget", Broken Record's "Let Me Come Home" - Books I read in 2010: Uanccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri, Black Hole by Charles Burns, The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, True Cow Tales by C.R. Lindemer, Deep Economy by Bill McKibben, An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco (my favorite book of 2010) - Favorite Movies of 2010: Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, The Last Station, The Social Network and Exit Through the Gift Shop, The King's Speech, The Fighter - 2010 Travel Destination: Belize and Bermuda - 2010 Concerts: The National, Efterklang, Tune-Yards and Serena Maneesh - Favorite albums of 2009: Bon Iver's "Blood Bank," Mark Kozelek's "The Finallt LP", Beirut's "March of the Zapotec," M. Ward's "Hold Time," Dark Was the Night, "Reckwell" by Anni Rossi, "In Ear Park" by Department of Eagles, Max Richter (all of his CDs--I love them!), St. Vincent "Actor", Camera Obscura's "My Maudlin Career", Future of the Left's "Travels with Myself and Another", Deerhunter's "Rainwater Casette Exchange", Tune-Yard's "Bird-Brains", Broken Records's "Until the Earth Begins to Part", Bjork's "Voltaic", Atlas Sound's "Logos", The Mountain Goats' "The Life of the World to Come" - Books I read in 2009 (most of the books I have been reading lately are by Filipino American Authors): Sleepless in Manila by Christina Pantoja Hidalgo, Love Walks In by Marisa De Los Santos, Oracles by Pati Navalta Poblete, The Power of Now, Our Crazies by Carol Anderson Pecun (Illustrated by Faith Hyde), Juan Luna's Revolver by Luisa A. Igloria, DreamEden by Linda Ty-Casper, Brother my Brother by Bienvenido Santos, You Lovely People by Bienvenido Santos, Filipino American Psychology by Kevin L. Nadal, PhD, The Solemn Lantern Maker by Merlinda Bobis - 2009 Travel Destination: Philippines - 2009 Concerts: Camera Obscura and the Big Pink - Favorite Movies of 2009: The Hurt Locker, An Education, Inglorious Basterds and a Single Man - Books I've Read in 2008: Giving by Bill Clinton (I really love this book), An Assault on Reason by Al Gore, Ginseng and other Tales from Manila, Strength for the Journey, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Krakatoa by Simon Winchester, Saarinen by Pierluigi Serraino, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Ruins by Scott Smilth, Love is a Mix Tape, The Secret Fool The World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies, Blindness, The Road by Cormac McCartthy, A New Earth, When You Are Engulfed With Flames by David Sedaris, In Our Own Image by Stanley Karnow, Sin by F. Sionil Jose - Favorite albums of 2008: Bon Ivers' "For Emma, Forever Ago" (everyone must get this cd!!!). Mountain Goat's "Heretic Pride", Sunkil Moon's "April", Breeders' "Mountain Battles", Portishead "Third" (my second favorite album of the year so far), Coldplay's "Viva La Vida", "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaus" by Sigur Ros, "Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel" by Atlas Sound and "Chemical Chords" by Stereolab, "Dear Science" by TV on the Radio, "Fordlandia" by Johann Johannsson, "Afton" by Anni Rossi, "Microcastle" by Deerhunter - Favorite Movies of 2008: The Wrestler, Under the Same Moon, Indy 4, Frozen River, Batman the Dark Knight, Bolt, MILK, and Iron Man - 2008 Travel Destination: Scotland, Iceland and The Philippines - 2008 Concerts: Bjork, Sigur Ros, The Cure and The Breeders - Books I've Read in 2007: Collapse by Jarred Diamond, The Omnivore's Dilemma, A Brief History of the Smile, Viajero by F. Sionil Jose, Three Trees Make a Forrest, History by Elisa Morante, The Time Travellers's Wife, Power of the Soul, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Tears of the Girraff, Rose of No Man's Land, Preacher's Son Momma's Boy, Filipino History by Teodoro Agoncillo, The Third Chimpanzee, The Rush of the River, Bangkok Haunts - Favorite albums of 2007:"23" by Blonde Redhead (my favorite cd of the year so far), Beirut's "Lon Gisland," Wolf & Cub's "Vesels", Idlewild "Make Another World," Stars of the Lid "And Their Refinement of the the Decline", Echo and the Bunnymen's "More Songs to Learn and Sing", "Our Love to Admire" by Interpol, "The Silver Tree" by Lisa Gerrard, "Watch the Fireworks" by Emma Pollock, "The Flying Cup" by Beirut, "The Modern Tribe" by Celebration - Favorite Movies of 2007: Eastern Promises, Gone Baby Gone, Juno, Attonement and The Transformers - 2007 Travel Destination: Italy, Spainand the Philippines - 2007 Concerts: Interpol and Celebration - Books I've Read in 2006: Sponsorship, The Fine Art of Corporate Sponsorship/The Corporate Sponsorship of Fine Art by Ryan McGinness, Shepard Fairey, God Made Dirt, And Dirt Don't Hurt by David Lee, Stylefile, Magrite by SFMOMA, Dalek, The Saddest Place on Earth, the Art of Camille Rose Garcia, Vinyl Will Kill, Giant, Rolito Boy Mini Book, Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz, Escape to Manila, Keith Haring, Naked Lunch, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish, America is in the Heart (re-read), The Poisonwood Bible, Mama's Boy Preacher's Son, My Life by Bill Clinton, The Blue Afternoon. - Favorite Movies of 2006: The Fountain (my favorite of the year), The Pursuit of Happyness (my other favorite movie of the year), Children of Men, An Inconvenient Truth, V for Vandetta, Thank You for Smoking, Cars, and Cache - Favorite albums of 2006: "Post War" by M Ward (the best album of 2006!), "Puzzles Like You" by Mojave 3, "Eyes Open" by Snow Patrol, "Obliterati" by Mission of Burma, "Warnings/Promises" by Idlewild, "Collected" by Massive Attack, "Tiny Cities" by Sun Kil Moon, "Get Lonely" by the Mountain Goats, "The Drift" by Scott Walker, "Return to Cookie Mountain" by TV on the Radio, "Gulag Orkestra" by Beirut (my second fav), Plague Songs - 2006 Concerts: Mojave 3, Hector on Stilts and Pet Shop Boys - 2006 Travel Destination: Hawaii - Books I read in 2005: The Disinherited, Persepolis (1 + 2), Same Difference and Other Stories, Monsters by Klaus Haapaniemi, Too Fat Can't Fly, Alphapbet City (Out on the Streets), So Crazy Japanese Toys, Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans, Eight Million Gods and Demons, The Kite Runner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Living to Tell the Tale (Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude are two of my favorite books of all time), How to be a Mystic in a Traffic Jam, Into the Wild, The Best Short Stories of Jack London, Dry, Goodbye Columbus, The God of Small Things and The Botany of Desire - Favorite Movies of 2005: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Match Point, Mano Po 2, Syriana, Walk on Water, Murder Ball, Star Wars (Revenge of the Sith), Cinderella Man, and The Great Raid - Favorite albums of 2005: Death Cab for Cutie's "Plans" (my favorite album of the year so far), The Mountain Goat's "The Sunset Tree", Cass McComb's "Prefection", New Order's "Waiting for the Sirens Call", Beck's "Guero", Minotaur Shock's "Maritime", Bruce Springsteen's "Devils & Dust", "Mysterious Skin" soundtrack and Bloc Party's "Silent Alarm" - 2005 Concerts: Keane + Coldplay - 2005 Travel Destination: Alaska - Books I read in 2004: When the Elephants Dance, Life of Pi, Tipping Point, Once Removed, Running with Scissors, Davinci Code, First They Killed My Father, Guns Germs and Steel, Dress My Family in Denim and Curdoroy, Dream Jungle, Borstal Boy and a whole bunch of art and business books - Favorite Movies of 2004: Hotel Rwanda, The Motorcycle Diaries, Birth, Imelda, Crying Ladies, Being Julia, Sideways, Kinsey, House of Flying Daggers, Spanglish, and The Incredibles - Favorite Magazines: Filipinas, New Yorker, Giant Robot, Super 7, Art Business News, National Geographics and Juxtapoz. - 2004 Concerts: Pixies, Elefant, Julia Fordham, Tanya Donelley, TV on the Radio, The Faint, Blonde Redhead and Rachel Goswell - Favorite albums of 2004: Snow Patrol's "Final Straw," Tanya Donelly's "Whisky Tango", Interpol's "Antics", The Faint's "Wet from Birth", Blonde Redhead's "Misery is a Butterfly", Elefant's "Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid", TV ON The Radio's "Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes", Bjork's "Medula", Pixie's "Best of... Wave of Mutilation", Julia Fordham's "That's Life", Le Tigre's "This Island", U2"s "How to Dismantel an Atomic Bomb", and Franz Ferdinand's "Franz Ferdinand". As you can tell, I am partial to 4AD music and anything that sounds like New Wave music from the 80's. - 2004 Travel Destination: Thailand and Cambodia - Favorite Bands/Singers of all time: New Order, Cocteau Twins, Bear's Den, The Smiths, Pixies, Everything But the Girl, The Style Council, Dead Can Dance, Bjork and the Red House Painters. - Favorite TV Show of all time: Leave it to Beaver |