Books:
The Great Gatsby
The Long Goodbye
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
The Fortress of Solitude
Go Tell it on the Mountain
American Tabloid
Apology, Crito and Phaedo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Movies:
(from my itunes collection)
The Departed
No Country for Old Men
The Social Network
Purple Rain
Music:
(top ten ranked songs in my itunes collections. Yes, I rank the
songs in my songs collection. Please don't judge)
10. Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman
9. Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa
8. Blue Rondo ala Turk - Dave Brubeck
7. How Deep is your Love - The Bad Plus
6. Miles Beyond - The Mahavishnu Orchestra
5. (Theme from) Chariots of Fire - The Bad Plus
4. Something in the Way of Things (in town) - The Roots
3. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
2. Glass - Blink
1. Intro-inspection - Ossymysso
In addition, I am secure enough in my manhood to confess that the
following songs can make me sob like a jilted prom queen:
Way to Blue - Nick Drake
Mother - John Lennon
Cuban Welterweight Rumbles Hidden Hitmen - Bows
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Autumn in New York - Billie Holiday
Card Cheat - The Clash
Nautilius - Contemporary Noise Sextet
Already Dead - Beck
She Wanted to Leave - Ween.*
Everyone Says Hi - David Bowie
Big John Shaft - Belle and Sebastion
*Yes, Ween.
But why stop there...
My favorite humans:
Reggie Watts
John Cleese
Thelonious Monk
Matt Ridley
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Pam Grier
Tom Stoppard
Steven Pinker
My favorite marsupials:
The thing whose name I don't remember
The Koala
The Kangaroo
Sexiest pouts:
Nastassia Kinski
Lisa Bonet
Michelle Pfeiffer
Avril Lavigne
Brigitte Bardot
Favorite letters:
M
J
Q
V (number four and rising, baby!)
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