Favs
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...

books

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)
movies
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)

music
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.

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