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Likes

Books

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• On the Road by Jack Keroac
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (Well, at least the first six books, anyway...)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Urban Sprawl and the Death of the American Dream by Duany, Pleter-Zybek, and Speck
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
• All Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Gallic War by Julius Caesar
• And, of course, the collective Calvin and Hobbes works by Bil Waterson

Music

• Led Zeppelin
• Depeche Mode
• Massive Attack
• Nine Inch Nails
• Pink Floyd
• Apollo Sunshine
• Handsome Boy Modeling School
• Deltron 3030
• Orbital
• Kosheen
• BT
• Tori Amos
• Blur
• Lamb
• New Order
• Garbage
• Travis
• The Gorillaz
• Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
• Ashley MacIsaac
• Aphex Twin
• Bjork
• Tricky
• Goldie
• Grooverider
• Roni Size
• Smashing Pumpkins
• Paul van Dyk
• Peter Gabriel
• David Bowie
• Dhol Foundation
• Basement Jaxx
• Portishead
• Belle and Sebastian
• Poe
• Juno Reactor
• Jurassic 5
• Junkie XL
• Zero 7
• Thievery Corporation
• Federico Aubele

Places I Have Been (And Actually Stopped and Looked Around)

Yamerica (and Canada)

• Boston, Massachusetts
• New York City. New York
• Washington, DC
• Montreal, Quebec
• Chicago, Illinois
• Badlands National Park
• Mount Rushmore
• Jackpot, Nevada (the best-named place ever)
• San Francisco, California
• Los Angeles, California
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Grand Canyon
• San Antonio, Texas
• Houston, Texas
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Memphis, Tennessee
• Nashville, Tennessee
• Walt Disney World
• Orlando, Florida
• Miami, Florida
• Madison, Wisconsin
• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Indianapolis, Indiana
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Columbus, Ohio
• Kansas City, Missouri
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Toronto, Ontario
• Seattle, Washington
• And, of course, all over New England

The UK

• London...and not just the touristy parts either. I've been to Croydon too. Not that that's anything to be proud of.
• Bath
• Winchester
• Glastonbury
• Manchester
• Glasgow
• Stirling
• Edinburgh
• St. Andrews
• Nottingham
• St. Albans
• Cambridge
• Gibraltar

France

• Paris

French Polynesia

• Tahiti
• Moorea
• Bora Bora

Spain

• Malaga
• Marbella
• Ronda
• Granada
• Algeciras
• Tarifa

Morocco

• Tangier

Belgium

• Brussels

Places To Visit in the Near Future

• Tokyo
• Moscow
• Berlin
• Hong Kong
• Milan