I'll probably be
in hot water for what's not included here, but for whatever it's worth, including
pure self indulgence, in no particular order, here is a list of
work I keep coming back to... Herman Melville - Moby Dick Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Misha - Red Spider White Web, Prayers of Steel, Ke-Qua-Hawk-As, Magpies
and Tigers
Edgard Varese - The Liberation of Sound Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker Joyce Cary - The Horses Mouth
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
John Cage - Silence
Harry Crews - Car
HG Wells - Complete Stort Stories
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland Kobo Abe - The Box Man
Richard Truhlar - A Porcelin Cup Placed There Nelle Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird Phillip K Dick -
Julio Cortazar - A Certain Lucas AB Guthrie - The Big Sky
JRR Tolkein - Lord of the Rings John Shirley - Heatseeker
Brian Evenson - The Din of Celestial Birds Anna Kavan - Ice Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness Ray Bradbury - The Golden Apples of
the Sun
Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials Tim Ferret - Through the Wire (short
story) Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Definitely
Maybe Jorge Luis Borges - A Universal History
of Infamy JG Ballard - Drowned World Alain Robbe-Grillet - Jealousy Cormac McCarthy - Suttree Steve Smith - Ritual Murders George Orwell - 1984 Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Cordwainer Smith - The Rediscovery of Man
Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
John Gardner - Grendel
K W Jeter - Death Arms
Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Rashomon and Other Stories Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Raymond Chandler - Trouble Is My Business
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf Brian Aldiss - Earthworks Robert Silverberg ed. - Dark Stars Beryl Markham - West With the Night Antoine de St Exupéry - Airman's
Odyssey
T E Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Czeslaw Milosz - The Captive Mind Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Preception Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance Sun Tzu - The Art of War Howard Zinn - People's History of the
United States
John Hersey - Hiroshima Jerry Mander - In the Absence of the
Sacred Evan S Connell - The White Lantern
Barbara Tuchman - A Distant Mirror Edward Leslie - Desperate Journeys,
Abandoned Souls Edward Rice - Captain Sir Richard Francis
Burton
Redmond O'Hanlon - In Trouble Again Jan Joors - The Gypsies
Karen Armstrong - A History of God Haynal/Molnar/de Puymege - Fanaticism Fritz Winckel - Music,
Sound and Sensation Harley-Davidson Inc. - XLH Service Manual & the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Theodore
Roethke, Robinson Jeffers,
Anna Akhmatova, Federico García Lorca, Bashō and David
Memmott (I know there's a picture of Lawrence
Ferlinghetti on my 'evolution' page, but I don't really like his work - he
just was the first to make me realize there were no rules in literature) Blade Runner (director's cut) - Ridley Scott 1982 Brazil
-
Terry Gilliam 1985 Dead
Man
- Jim Jarmusch 1996 Wings
of Desire - Wim Wenders 1987 Breakfast
of Champions - Alan Rudolph 1999 Farenheit
451 - Francois Truffaut 1966 Orpheus - Jean Cocteau 1949 District 9
- Neill Blomkamp 2009 The
Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman 1958 Baraka - Ron Fricke 1992 Spirited
Away - Hayao Miyazaki 2001 The
Last Battle - Luc Besson 1983
White Dawn - Philip Kaufman 1975 The Thing
- John Carpenter 1982 The
Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Robert Weine 1920 Raising
Arizona - Joel & Ethan Coen 1987 The World's
Fastest Indian - Roger Donaldson 2005
Pi - Darren Aronofsky 1998 Once
Upon A Time in the West - Sergio Leone 1969 The Blues Brothers
- John Landis 1980 Children
of Men - Alfonson Cuaron 2006 North by Northwest
- Alfred Hitchcock 1959 You
Can't Take It With You - Frank Capra 1938 Clowns - Federico
Fellini 1970 Army of Darkness
- Sam Raimi 1992 Un
Chien d'Andalou - Luis Bunuel/Salvidor Dali 1929 Das
Boot - Wolfgang Petersen 1981 Apocalypse
Now Redux- Francis Ford Coppola 1979
Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean 1962 Dreams
-
Akira Kurosawa 1990 Moon - Duncan
Jones 2009 Videodrome
- David Cronenberg 1983 Les Visiteurs - JeanMarie Poir 1993
V for Vendetta - James McTeigue 2006 Eric
the Viking - Terry Jones 1989 Everything Is Illuminated - Liev Schreiber 2005
Roadside Prophets - Abbe Wool 1992 Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese 1976 Farenheit
451 - Francois Truffaut 1966 Raiders
of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg 1981 Super
8 - JJ Abrams 2011 The Day the Earth Stood Still - Robert
Wise 1951 The
Matrix - Andy & Larry Wachowski 1999 Moby
Dick - John Huston 1956 (screenplay by Ray
Bradbury) To
Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan 1962 Flashback
- Franco Amurri 1990 The Fall -
Tarsem Singh 2006 Lonely
Are the Brave - David Miller 1962 Colors - Dennis
Hopper 1988 Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky 1979 Dr
Stranglove - Stanley Kubrick 1964 Shaun of the
Dead - Edgar Wright 2004
Valis - Eric Lampton 1977 Galaxy Quest
- Dean Parisot 1999
It Came From Outer Space - Jack Arnold 1953 Metropolis
-
Fritz Lang 1927 Fantasia
- Walt Disney 1940 Walk Hard
- Jake Kasdan 2007 Plan
9 From Outer Space - Ed Wood 1959 Night Watch - Timur Bekmambetov 2004 Ed
Wood - Tim Burton 1994 THX
1138 - George Lucas 1971 The
Emerald Forest - John Boorman 1985
Eraserhead - David Lynch 1977 The
Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson 2001 Rosencrantz
& Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard 1990 Invaders From Mars - William Cameron
Menzies 1953 The
City of Lost Children -Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1995
Midnight Run - Martin Brest 1988
Renaissance - Christian Volckman 2006
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel 1956 Pulp Fiction
- Quentin Tarantino 1994 Little
Big Man - Arthur Penn 1970
Memento - Christopher Nolan 2000
Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog 1982
Kamikazi 89 - Wolf Gremm 1982 (starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Forbidden Planet -
Fred Wilcox 1956 (soundtrack by Louis & Bebe Barron) Well
there's already quite a few links to good music scattered around these pages
(and links on those links). There's not enough room here for
a list. I would need to
include everything from David Sylvian, Marta Sebestyen, James Brown, Nusrat Fatah Ali
Khan, and Arvo Part to Coroner, Krzysztof Penderecki, Hank Williams, John
Cage and recordings from Voyager I, etc, etc, etc. Plus the fact that
I like listening to my own work. So go cruise the links and you're
bound to find something good. "Que la musique sonne."
Anyway, probably no big surprises here, but if you're not familiar
with something - give it a shot. I just don't think you can go wrong
with anything mentioned on this page.