Thom Palmer

Any Swedish Rockabilly, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Elvis Costello, Franz Liszt, Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, The Clash, Philip Glass, Charles Ives, The White Stripes, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Guy, All on Seven, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Steely Dan, Hall and Oates

Mine. A few others: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, The Inferno, Pale Fire, Ada, Lolita, Madame Bovary, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Cloud Atlas, Mansfield Park, Tom Jones, Gravity's Rainbow, Hopscotch, The Geography of the Imagination, Ficciones, The Names, Libra, The Border Trilogy, An American Childhood, Where I'm Calling From, Letters, Sabbatical, The Rabbit Tetralogy, Remembrance of Things Past (Yes, I've read the whole thing), Anna Karenina (the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation), AND the Oxford English Dictionary, which has all of these other books in it albeit in slightly different form. Did I mention mine?, Dante, Shakespeare, Proust, Nabokov, Palmer, David Mitchell, David Foster Wallace, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, Philip Larkin, Czeslaw Milosz, Henry Fielding, Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard, Gunter Grass, Michael Chabon, Raymond Chandler, Gabriel Garcia-Marques, Julio Cortazar, Don DeLillo, P.G. Wodehouse

Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, It's a Wonderful Life, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, Red River, Day for Night, The 500 Blows, The Grand Illusion, Good Fellas, Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, M*A*S*H, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Shampoo, La Dolce Vita, Breathless, Raging Bull, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, No Country for Old Men, Vanya on 42nd Street, Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Godfather, The Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, Sexy Beast, The French Connection, Sergeant York, Bonnie and Clyde, Tootsie, Lolita, The Verdict, Halloween, The Seven Samurai, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Wallace and Gromit, Bladerunner, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Glengarry Glen Ross, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Zelig, When We Were Kings, Hearts of Darkness

The Sopranos, Iron Chef America, Jeopardy, The Simpsons, Your Pittsburgh Steelers, Your Pittsburgh Penguins, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives

The kitchen, the liquor store, the library

Writing, reading, crosswords, guitar, violin, graphic design, cooking, films, scotch, tennis, football, baseball, hockey, gardening, spelling, theology, guitar, violin, collecting scotch, tennis, amateur chemistry, sarcasm, Scrabble

The US Postal Service

Progressive

Catholic

Work is for saps.

University of Pittsburgh

Ambridge Area High School

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