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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):

• http://www.sleeveface.com/
• http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
• http://bookthing.org/index.html
• http://www.avam.org/
• http://www.dimemuseum.com/ (R.I.P.)
• Don Cherry--link
• Charlie Haden--link
• Ken Vandermark--link
• John Hollenbeck and Theo Bleckmann--link
• Google Reader.

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