EVERYTHING IDOL ROUND 2 CONTESTANTS:

 

Kitties, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Air conditioning, Bob Dylan 1965-66, Star Wars: the original trilogy, The Simpsons, The stories of Raymond Carver, Home cooking, The lightbulb, Homicide: Life on the Street, Ping-Pong, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, Scissors, Google.com, Sex, US Postal Service, Chocolate-chip cookies, The Lord of the Rings (the movies), Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, Email, Rushmore, In the Aeroplane over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, Fight Club, Beef, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Books, The Big Lebowski, Batman, The Far Side by Gary Larson, Seinfeld, The Office, Preacher by Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, In Utero by Nirvana, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Office Space, Couches, Automobiles, Citizen Kane, Water, Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys, chocolate, friends, Johnny Cash 1994-2003, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, Your favorite Ernest Hemingway book, Love, The wheel, Computers, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Art, Music, Film, Poetry, Prose, Television, Science

And the losers' brackets:


FILM: Boogie Nights, Edward Scissorhands, Lawrence of Arabia, Pulp Fiction, This Is Spinal Tap, Young Frankenstein, Some Like It Hot, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Casablanca, The Godfather Part I & II, Gone with the Wind


MUSIC: Surfer Rosa by the Pixies, Otis Redding's oeuvre, Automatic for the People by R.E.M., "Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, The Velvet Underground's four studio albums, iPod/iTunes, London Calling by The Clash, Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie, The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Ritual de lo Habitual by Jane's Addiction, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement, Superunknown by Soundgarden, Vs. by Pearl Jam, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins, Speaking in Tongues by Talking Heads, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy, OK Computer by Radiohead, My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco, Thin Elvis, Fat Elvis, Johnny Cash 1958-1980, the best of The Rolling Stones, Who's Next by The Who


TV: Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Sopranos, Freaks and Geeks, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Futurama, Fawlty Towers, The Larry Sanders Show, The Cosby Show, South Park, NewsRadio, Alias, Gilmore Girls, Oz


LITERATURE: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, Peanuts by Charles Schulz, Krazy Kat by George Herriman, The Invisibles by Grant Morrison, The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, 1984 by George Orwell, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Underworld by Don DeLillo, Paradise Lost by John Milton, Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer


FOOD & DRINK: apple pie a la mode, Guinness Stout, pizza delivery, Coca-Cola, NyQuil, bourbon, chicken, seafood, pork, macaroni & cheese, In-N-Out Burger, wine, ice cream


OTHER: shoes, eBay.com, Mapquest.com, Weather.com, money, power, fame, that picture of Johnny Cash flipping the bird, righteous indignation, correct spelling, carpet, dinosaurs, nemeses, film, grooved vinyl, magnetic tape, optical discs, future magic hard drives, Superman, Spider-Man, X-Men, planes, trains, rocketships, earth, wind, fire, masturbation, weekends, pandas, puppies, faith, hope, charity, the screw, the lever, the pulley, the wedge, David by Michelangelo, Guernica by Picasso, Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, peace, houses, swearing, Christmas