religion making: and learning how I might be able to control weaker individuals through manipulation, hypnosis, machiavellianism, technology, diet, creationsism, the republican party, the democratic party, spiritualism, stories of the savior, red-letter texts, the teachings of Ellen G. White, the exodus led by Brigham Young, the sermon on the mount, and bearing false witness about coveting my neighbor's wife.
A good cook, a masseuse, and Dr. Feelgood.
The absolute understanding that modern day rock-n-roll music has replaced religiosity for young people, and the worshipping of rock figures (Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, et al.) has taken the place of spirituality; and understanding Joseph Smith's power is akin to understanding what Bob Dylan did in the early 1960s.
The Triumph of the Will, not because Miss Riefenstahl was a Nazi, or a Nazi sympathizer, or more simply, was employed by the Nazi party, but more that she was able to crystallize the beauty of propaganda more that anyone before or since. Nor has anyone succeeded in outperforming that particular beauty.
The History Channel, with its "H" on bottom right corner, which really should be an "N" for Nazi's, which is all they show presumably because of the high ratings watching Nazi's yields and apparently will always yield.
Don Quixote, Romantic Poetry, Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, Histories, The Bible, Essays, The Economist, biographies.
Well, firstly - Steven Patrick. And then? Oh, so many - half of them fictional I think- It was Emerson who said there is no history, only biography, and I've delved into a bit of it: Leopold Bloom, Falstaff, Ma Petite Amie, Errol Flynn, Professor Harold Bloom, Enid Coleslaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Seberg, Emperor Julian, David Ben Gurion, Alan Konigsberg, Eric Drache, Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Lincoln, Gore Vidal, David Thomson, The latter Roosevelts, Lyndon B. Johnson, MLK Jr., Robert E. Lee, Winston Churchill, Walter Pater, Shelley and Keats, James Joyce, Larry Bird, Ingmar Bergman, James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, Philip Roth, Jennifer Tilly (I'm dead serious, I love her), Irving Thalberg, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Hunter S. Thompson, Edward G. Robinson, The Marx Bros., Dana Carvey, John Malkovich, Johnny Marr, Martin Short, Peter Buck (so much more dynamic than Stipe!), am I getting a little carried away??? Nevertheless, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, James Dean, Jimmy Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Raoul Walsh, Gordon Gano (Ha!), okay, begrudgingly, a nod to Christopher Guest, but work BEFORE Waiting for Guffman, err, that Flowers fellow of that one band, didn't he write a certain song or other about some bloke who supposedly did some thing that really wasn't quite as glamorous as all that?... did I add Papa San?