Monday, September 15, 2008

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Master List

Music:

  • Moondog
  • Fred Frith--Cheap at Half the Price
  • Shugo Tokumaru--Night Piece, Exit
  • Ground Zero--Grande Pikenese Opera
  • Aram Khachaturian--Cello Concerto
  • John Coltrane--One Down, One Up, solo on Walkin' from Miles Davis in Stockholm 1960
  • Bjork--Medulla, Vespertine
  • Bob Dylan--The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
  • Explosions in the Sky--The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
  • The Roots--Things Fall Apart
  • K-OS--Atlantis
  • Sage Francis--Personal Journals
  • Killswitch Engage--Alive or Just Breathing
  • Krakatoa--Channel Static Blackout
  • Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell
  • The Julliard Quartet--Bartok String Quartets
  • Pablo Casals--Bach Cello Suites
  • Rostropovich--Shostakovich Cello Concerto
  • Radiohead--OK Computer, Kid A
  • The Beatles--Abbey Road
  • Neutral Milk Hotel--In the Aeroplane Over the SeaWeezer--Blue Album, Pinkerton
  • Pavement--Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Brighten the Corners, Slanted and Enchanted
  • Serge Gainsbourg
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Beirut
  • Tom Waits (the early(ier) years)
  • Wilco/Jeff Tweedy
  • Granddaddy/Jason Lytle (specifically this video: http://www.stewdio.org/jed/ )
  • Elliott Smith
  • Terry Riley and Don Cherry--Bootleg (download!)
  • Victor Feldman--Arrival of Victor Feldman (Scott Lafaro's major recording debut)
  • Curtis Hasselbring--New Mellow Edwards
  • Steve Lacy/Joelle Leandre--One More Time
  • Morton Feldman--String Quartet No. 2 (a six hour continuous piece of music)
  • La Monte Young-The Well Tuned Piano
  • Charles Ives--Universe Symphony, String Quartet No. 1
  • Giacinto Scelsi--Quattro Pezzi Su Una Nota Sola (Four Pieces on a Single Note)
  • Cursive--Sierra
  • Regina Spektor--Samson
  • Coldplay--Don't Panic
  • Bright Eyes--Waste of Paint
  • Mogwai--Autorock
  • The Stone Roses--Fools Gold
  • Gwen Stefani
  • Garbage--Sex Is Not the Enemy
  • Men, Women, and Children--Dance In My Blood!!!
  • Archers of Loaf--All the Nations Airports (1996)
  • Seam--The Pace Is Glacial (1998)
  • Les Savy Fav--The Cat and the Cobra (1999)
  • Super Furry Animals--Rings Around the World (2001)
  • Q and Not U--Power (2004)
  • Seu Jorge--The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions (2005)
  • Maritme--We, the Vehicles (2006)
  • Tokyo Police Club--A Lesson Crime (2006)
  • Georgie James--Places (2007)
  • Okkervil River--Stage Names
  • The Zombies--Odessey and Oracle
  • Neko Case--Blacklisted
  • Ryan Adams--Cold Roses
  • The Shins--Chutes Too Narrow
  • Jonathan Richman - Surrender to Jonathan
  • Randy Newman - Sail Away / Good Old Boys
  • Nick Lowe - Rose of England/Jesus of Cool
  • Gram Parsons - GP/Grevious Angel
  • Bee Gees - Main Course
  • Kenny Rogers - Eyes That See In the Dark
  • Tom Waits
  • The Dismemberment Plan (esp. Emergency & I)
  • Animal Collective (esp Merriweather Post Pavilion)
  • The Silver Jews
  • Loretta Lynn
  • The Velvet Underground
  • Prince - Purple Rain
  • Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
  • They Might Be Giants - Flood
  • New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
  • Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
  • Arcade Fire - Funeral
  • Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
  • Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle
  • Bon Iver
  • She + Him
  • MGMT
  • Pete and the Pirates
  • Animal Collective
  • Reid Anderson
  • Laura Cantrell – When The Roses Bloom Again
  • Ambulance LTD – Self Title LP
  • Antony and the Johnsons – I am a bird now
  • Tilly and the Wall – Bottoms of Barrels
  • Ingrid Michaelson – Girls and Boys
  • Apples in Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder
  • The Minders- It’s a Bright Guilty World
  • Roxy Music - Roxy Music
  • Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
  • Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
  • Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
  • The Clash - London Calling
  • David Bowie - Hunky Dory


Spoken Word/Poetry/Podcasts:

  • Taylor Mali
  • Savage Love
  • Raymond McDaniel
  • Alice Fulton
  • Baudelaire

Books:


  • Any Haruki Murakami (especially Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore)
  • Vonnegut--Welcome to the Monkeyhouse (short stories)
  • Jonathan Safran Foer--Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Ernest Hemingway--Old Man and the Sea
  • Nicholson Baker--Box of Matches
  • Vladimir Nabakov--Lolita
  • Irvine Welsh--Trainspotting
  • Vonnegut--Slaughterhouse Five
  • Douglas Hofstadter--Metamagical Themas
  • Ayn Rand--Atlas Shrugged
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky--Crime and Punishment
  • Vonnegut--BluebeardDavid Eggers--A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • Richard Brautigan--The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
  • Richard Brautigan--Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
  • Herman Hesse--Narcissus and Goldmund (I read the Hesse books a long time ago and couldn't tell you what they're about, but I remember really really liking them).
  • Herman Hesse--Steppenwolf
  • John Barth--The Floating Opera and The End of the Road (They're coupled together purposefully by the author.)
  • Mary Shelley--Frankenstein (I know it's a classic, but I feel like it's a classic that a lot of people haven't actually read. It's great, you should read it.)
  • Harper Lee--To Kill a Mockingbird (Another classic and maybe some of you were forced to read this in grade school, but I didn't read it until I was 25 and it blew my mind.)
  • Nick Bantok--The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy (It's just neat, you'll see.)
  • Neil Gaiman--The Sandman (graphic novel series)
  • Michael Chabon--The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • Jack Kerouac--Dharma Bums, American Haikus
  • Coleman Barks--The Soul of Rumi
  • Samuel Beckett (first minimalist)--Collected Plays of Samuel Beckett
  • Andre Breton--Nadja - I wouldn't expect many people to be able to find this, or like it.
  • Mark Danielewski--The House of Leaves
  • Steve Erickson--Zeroville - great book for film people
  • Alan Weisman--The World Without Us
  • Junot Diaz--The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wilde (book on tape version) - you have to hear him read it in his own work, amazing voice.
  • Shampoo Planet--Douglas Copeland
  • In Our Time--Ernest Hemingway
  • Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov
  • Travels With Charlie--John Steinbeck
  • Shoeless Joe--W.P. Kinsella
  • Chuck Klosterman--Killing Yourself To Live
  • Yann Martel--The Life of Pi
  • John Hodgman--Areas of Expertise
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez--One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Steve Martin--Born Standing Up
  • Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake, Slaughterhouse Five, Mother Night
  • Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged (it was a phase but I did genuinely enjoy the book)
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground
  • Jim Bouton - Ball Four
  • George Orwell - 1984
  • Joseph Heller - Catch 22
  • Alan Moore--Watchmen
  • Williams Goldman--The Princess Bride
  • Joseph Heller--Catch 22
  • Dave Eggers--Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • Harry Potter books
  • The Prehistory of the Far Side
  • John Hodgman-–More Information that You Require
  • Junot Diaz–-Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Michael Chabon-–Yiddish Policemen’s Union
  • Hiruki Murakami–-Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • John Updike--Rabbit Run
  • The Holographic Universe-–Michael Talbot
  • Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind--David Berreby
  • Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming-–Paul Hawken
  • Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression-–Mildred Kalish
  • Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life–-Barbara Kingsolver
  • V.--Thomas Pynchon
  • Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (my favorite is actually Speak Memory, but that's non-fiction)
  • Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

Film:

  • Jan Svankmejer shorts
  • The Big Snit Animation
  • Amelie
  • Donnie Darko
  • Almost Famous
  • Man On Fire
  • Equilibrium
  • Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
  • Anything Wes Anderson (top three, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic)
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia)
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Christopher Guest (This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show)
  • Eyes Without a Face (1960)
  • It Happened One Night (1934)
  • The Fisher King
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • The Way of the Gun
  • I Heart Huckabees
  • It's A Wonderful Life
  • Childhood Favorites:
  • The Labyrinth
  • The Never-ending Story
  • Anything by David Lynch
  • True Stories (David Byrne film)
  • Outside Out (Michael Gordon film featuring Col. Bruce Hampton)
  • Film (Buster Keaton)--Samuel Beckett
  • City Of God
  • Annie Hall
  • Manhatten
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Capote
  • Hard Candy
  • Persepolis
  • The Fountain
  • The Kids Stay In the Picture
  • Nightwatch
  • Conversations With Other Women
  • Eagle vs. Shark
  • Field of Dreams
  • Annie Hall
  • Manhattan
  • Stranger Than Fiction
  • The Lives of Others
  • Bullets Over Broadway
  • Conversations With Other Women
  • Children of Men
  • The Prestige
  • Memento
  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Boogie Nights
  • Better Off Dead
  • Animal House
  • The Truman Show
  • Dr Strangelove
  • Annie Hall
  • 28 Days Later
  • Miller's Crossing
  • The Muppet Movie
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • UHF
  • Angel A
  • Brick
  • CQ
  • Dear Wendy
  • Guatemalan Handshake
  • Cashback
  • Jonestown: The Life…of People’s Temple
  • In Bruges
  • Ghostbusters
  • Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
  • Easy Rider
  • Midnight Cowboy
  • FUBAR
  • Usual Suspects

Television:

  • Arrested Development
  • Entourage
  • The Office (British version)
  • Heroes (1st Season)
  • Seinfeld Season 9, especially "The Burning" episode
  • The Adventures of Pete and Pete
  • Freaks and Geeks
  • The Office (American)
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • My So-Called Life
  • The Cosby Show
  • Twin Peaks
  • Flight of the Conchords
  • Anything Steve Coogan--Knowing Me, Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, Saxondale
  • The Loop
  • Wings
  • Extras
  • Lookwell!--Conan O'brien sitcom pilot
  • JPOD
  • OZ
  • Stella
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm--Season Six
  • It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia--Season Three
  • Extras--Season Two
  • Friday Night Lights
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • 30 Rock
  • Corner Gas
  • The Wire
  • Anything on the History Channel
  • The Simpsons
  • Three Sheets
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • You Can't Do that on Television
  • Firefly
  • Lost
  • Orangutan Island
  • Absolutely Fabulous
  • 21 Jump Street (Seasons 1-3)
  • Fishing With John
  • Tom Goes to the Mayor

Art:

  • Manet--Execution of Emperor Maximilian (Boston MFA Version)
  • Degas--David and Goliath
  • Piero Manzoni--Artist Feces
  • Jacques Hnizdovsky prints
  • Leonard Baskin
  • Euan Uglow paintings
  • Dali
  • M.C. Escher
  • Marcel Dzama
  • Henry Darger
  • Mark Rothko
  • m. bovie
  • Robert RauschenbergSouther Salazar
  • Annie Leibovitz--photographer
  • David LaChappelle--photographer
  • Jim Dine
  • Brassai--"Lovers In a Small Cafe..."
  • Henry Callahan--"Chicago" when women were called broads
  • Ralph E. Meatyard--People In Creepy Masks

Video Game:
  • Bioshock



Places (actual or virtual):


Food/Drink:

  • Dalessandro's cheesesteak (Philadelphia)
  • Grimaldi's pepperoni and extra basil pizza (Brooklyn)
  • Dumont cheeseburger (Brooklyn)
  • Old Speckled Hen English Ale
  • Black Boss Porter
  • Don Fulano Tequila (Mexico)
  • Mutsu apples
  • Rick's mashed potatoes and bread pudding
  • Jessica's mom's hot German potato salad
  • Indian Potato Salad – Gittings Recipe
  • Curry Chicken Salad (Jamaican-ish) - Gittings Recipe
  • Masaman Curry Beef or Chicken (Thai) – Gittings Recipe
  • Curry Tuna (Indian) – Gittings Recipe
  • Panang Beef in Red Curry Peanut Sauce – Gittings Recipe
  • Grilled Cheese and French Fries
  • Super Sundae 5-Scoop (3 scoops chocolate, 2 scoops vanilla, hot fudge, optional whip)
  • Munchie Mania
  • Double Thick Milk Shake in Chocolate
  • Turkey Club SuperMelt and French Fries
  • Kickin' Buffalo Chicken Strips

Be A Better Person:

  • Have intellectual conversations
  • Donate blood
  • Recycle
  • Drive less
  • Play games
  • Be curious
  • Community Mediation


Skip the Bar:

  • Cedar Point Amusement Park!
  • Coed Softball
  • Tennis
  • Bikes rides on Gwynn Falls Trail or through Druid Hill Park
  • Duckpin bowling
  • Poker nights
  • Foot races
  • Going to the ocean
  • Crosswords
  • Rome, Italy and all the piazzas