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<p>Book: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Website: superbad.com
Recording/Song: "Bensusan" by Michael Hedges
Source of Inspiration: A clear blue sky, a classic piece of prose or poetry, and a lawn chair.
Movie line: (Mine is really long, but it's the speech from The Count of Monte Cristo that starts): "Life is a storm...."
Movie: Braveheart
Adjectives: Industrious and Inquisitive
Memento: My watch, given to me by my grandfather
Word: Corpuscle</p>
<p>Book: "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy
Website: rogerebert.com
Recording/Song: "Let's Not **** Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)" by Bright Eyes
Source of Inspiration: James Joyce
Movie line: "Hey, don't knock masturbation! It's sex with someone I love!" (Annie Hall)
Movie: City Lights
Adjectives: Articulate, steadfast
Memento: Holepunch from state debate
Word: DEFENESTRATION</p>
<p>Book: The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Website: google
Recording/Song: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto played by Heifetz
Source of Inspiration: Music
Movie line: From V for Vendetta... don't have it on hand right now
Movie: Citizen Kane
Adjectives: Outgoing, down to earth
Memento: My violin
Word: Osculate</p>
<p>It's probably his worst book, but his most accessible. And saying that it's his worst book says more about the rest of his work than it does about No Country. </p>
<p>Haha, sorry to turn this into a McCarthy thread, although he deserves it.</p>
<p>Yeah, I loved The Road! Interestingly, I've kind of worked backward through his body of work. I read The Road first, then No Country, and so on.</p>
<p>Book: The Count of Monte Cristo
Website: collegeconfidential
Recording/Song: I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Source of Inspiration: Inspirational Music
Movie line:Pursuit of Happiness
Movie: Blood Diamond
Adjectives: Funny, I don't remember the other one
Memento: A Birthday letter from my homeroom teacher
Word: Accepted</p>
<p>Book: Faith of My Fathers - John McCain
Website: TED.com
Recording: Croatian Rhapsody - Maksim
Source of Inspiration: Internet
Movie line: from The West Wing (which is not technically a movie. And the line, about Mars exploration, is really long - probably a suicidal move)
Movie: Cold Mountain
Adjectives: Intelligent and sociable (if my memory serves me well)
Memento: a diary
Word: Serendipity</p>
<p>Book: Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Website: homestarrunner.com
Recording: When Your Hearstrings Break - Beulah
Source of Inspiration: Music
Movie line: "I don't like food, I love it. If I don't love it, I don't eat it." - Ratatouille
Movie: Truman Show
Adjectives: Crazy an Trustworthy
Memento: Yellow wristband from friend
Word: Quid pro quo</p>
<p>Book: Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Website: Wikipedia.org
Recording: Clubbed to Death by Rob Dougan
Source of Inspiration: the Quran
Movie line: "There are two types of tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it." - Lord of War
Movie: The Matrix
Adjectives: Mature and Honest
Memento: scarf i bought in NYC with friends
Word: coalesce</p>
<p>Book: The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Website: freepoverty.com
Recording: Perry Mason, seasons 1-9
Source of Inspiration: my mom
Movie line: don't remember exactly, but it was the one from Forrest Gump where he's in Watergate Hotel
Movie: Across the Universe
Adjectives: driven and quirky
Memento: woven grass bracelet from Botswana
Word: sassy</p>
<p>hehe, all of my answers seem kind of juvenile...</p>
<p>Book: The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Website: Youtube/Wikipedia
Recording: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Source of Inspiration: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Movie line: "One word: Plastics." - The Graduate
Movie: Amelie
Adjectives: Leader & Determined
Memento: Scapbook documenting my elementary school life.
Word: Catalyst</p>
<p>Book: Catch 22
Website: Toles Cartoon
Recording: Death of a Maiden: Schubert
Source of Inspiration: After eating Italian food
Movie line: "I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want the environment to be a product of me" The Departed
Movie: The Prestige
Adjectives: Mature/Critical
Memento: Music programs
Word: ambiguous</p>
<p>Book: East of Eden by Steinbeck
Website: postsecret.com
Recording: "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
Source of Inspiration: My Latin Teacher
Movie line: "Life's like a box of chocolates..." Forrest Gump [this was really the only answer I didn't like but I couldn't think of a quote that I liked better, not much of a movie guy]
Movie: Donnie Darko
Adjectives: Genuine and Thoughtful
Memento: Decorative Boomerang from my trip to Australia [actually, didn't really like this one either]
Word: patior, latin meaning to suffer or to endure [for a greater cause]</p>
<p>Ticktock- oooh, a lot of yours would have been my second choices. I seriously considered putting down that quote from Departed! (The Prestige was good, but I cried waaaay to much at the end of it to classify it as my favorite movie!)</p>
<p>Book: As I Lay Dying
Website: Wikipedia
Recording: Autechre - LP5 (oops, I took this to mean an album)
Source of Inspiration: living life
Movie line: "On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion." - Speed Levitch, Waking Life
Movie: Waking Life
Adjectives: contemplative and sincere
Memento: old photo albums
Word: eudaimonia</p>
<p>Man oh man do I look like a pretentious blowhard in hindsight.</p>