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You are Dylan Thomas - a poet who lives to spite the banal continuity of modern life. You are the new word, the new voice. You will trample on tradition, and breed a new school of poetry.
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people engaged in living and learning
Rickie Lee Jones, Shamsi Ruhe, The Be Good Tanyas, Laurie Anderson,
Wilco, Bebel Gilberto, Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem, Lou Reed,
Lucinda Williams, Air, Gillian Welch, Dido, Moby, Coldplay,
Massive Attack, Diana Krall, Dinah Washington, John Coltrain,
Patty Griffin, cocorosie, David Gray,
Indigo Girls, Dr. John, Tom Waits,
Norah Jones, Johnny Cash, The Waterboys, kd lang,
Tori Amos, Joe Jackson, Willie Nelson,
Cassandra Wilson, Shirley Horn,
Everything But the Girl, Shawn Colvin, John Prine, Betty Carter
Ray Charles, Wanda Jackson, the Lady day, Ben Allison,
Tammy Wynette, Tosca Opera, Peggy Lee
Theivery Corporation, Ben Harper, John Prine,
Chris Smither, Damien Rice, Enya, Antonio Carlos Jobim,
The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Sinead, Art Tatum, Lester Young,
Shirley Horn, Miles Davis, Chris Connor
Laurie Anderson: National Debt
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Classic Films
A Streetcar Named Desire (51 Vivien Leigh –Leigh’s second Oscar; first for “Gone With The Wind†and Marlon Brando’s first nomination/’95 Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin)
African Queen (Bogart’s Oscar and Katherine Hepburn nominated ‘51)
All About Eve
Auntie Mame (both versions)
The Balcony (Shelly Winter & Peter Falk play out Jean Genet's story)
Blonde Venus (Marlene Dietrich)
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (’58 Liz Taylor and Paul Newman/ 76 Olivier, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner/85 Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones)
Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman)
East of Eden (James Dean)
Elevator To The Gallows (French, B&W/Miles Davis soundtrack/murder mys.)
Equus (amazing script, disturbing)
Face In A Crowd (megalomaniac)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Marilyn Monroe)
The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman as a Young Man, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, great soundtrack)
Hud (Paul Newman)
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (Bette Davis, spooky)
Hustler (pool, Paul Newman, Gleason)
In A Lonely Place (Bogart)
In Cold Blood (based on Capote novel)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Mommie Dearest (Joan Crawford acted by Faye Dunaway)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Pandora's Box
The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
Razor’s Edge (great novel- mediocre film there were two versions one in ’46 with Tyrone Power & Anne Baxter/one in the 80s or 90s with Bill Murray -- ’46 better)
Rebel Without A Cause (James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo)
Seven Year Itch, The (Marilyn Monroe)
Ship of Fools
Some Like It Hot (Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon)
Suddenly Last Summer (Montgomery Clift, Katherine Hepburn and Liz Taylor)
Tea and Sympathy (’56 Deborah Kerr, John Kerr – not related)
To Have and Have Not (Bogart and Bacall with the chemistry of new lovers)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane (Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, ’62 great acting, Davis spectacularly weird)
Who Killed Teddy Bear (subtle by today’s standards, but spooky, Sal Mineo)
Films By Great Directors
Woody Allen:
Take the $ and Run,
Annie Hall,
Radio Days,
Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy,
Sleeper
Altman:
Come Back To The Five and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean (slow but beautiful/ Cher is great),
Fool For Love (Sam Shepard wrote the play and acted in the film?don’t miss),
M*A*S*H* (not as good as the TV show but served as the inspiration),
Nashville (Check out Lilly Tomlin)
PT Andersen:
Magnolia (great soundtrack by Amiee Mann)
Besson:
la Femme Nakita,
5th Element (shallow but hot)
Tim Burton:
Edward Scissorhands,
Mars Attacks,
Sleepy Hollow
Jane Campion:
Angel at My Table (amazing story of a writer locked up as insane)
Capra:
Arsenic and Old Lace
Coen Bros:
Fargo,
Barton Fink,
Big Lebowski,
O Brother,
Raising Arizona
Coppola:
Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)
Terry Gilliam:
Brazil,
Fisher King
Hal Hartley:
Henry Fool,
Trust (my favorite of his),
No Such Thing (big foot goes metro),
Book of Life (PJ Harvey plays Mary Mag in this one/Long Island Humor)
Todd Haynes:
Safe
Hitchcock:
The Birds,
Psycho,
****Stage Fright (Marlene Dietrich cameo)****,
To Catch a Thief
Jarmusch:
Stranger Than Paradise,
Night on Earth
Kubrick:
Dr. Strangelove
Spike Lee:
Do It A Cappella (’90 tv),
Malcom X,
Bamboozled
Mike Liegh:
Vera Drake (mother, wife, criminal)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
... aka Secrets et mensonges (France)
Ken Loach:
The Navigators,
Bread & Roses (UNION)
Merchant and Ivory:
Room With A View (Forrester novel),
Ballad of a Sad Café
Mira Nair:
Monsoon Wedding,
Mississippi Masala
Potter:
Pennies From Heaven (the BBC tv series)
Russell:
Altered States
Savoca:
Dogfight (Lilli Taylor/ouch)
J. Sayles:
Secret of Roan Inish
Schroeder:
Barfly
Scorsese:
Taxi Driver (hard core)
Tarantino:
Jackie Brown, True Romance, Pulp Fiction
John Waters:
Serial Mom (funny)
Orson Welles:
Citizen Kane (megalomaniac)
Great Foreign Directors
Fassbinder:
Tin Drum
Goddard:
Alphaville (old black and white sci fi),
In Praise of Love (video verses black and white film),
Hail Mary (modern day virgin birth story)
Tony Gatlif:
(gypsy music and beautiful dancers) Vengo,
Swing (based on the story of Gatlif’s own childhood summer in France),
Latcho Drom
Keislowski:
Blue (Juliette Binoche)
Malle:
Elevator to the Gallows (Miles Davis sound track to French Murder mystery),
Damage (Juliette Binoche cheats on fiancé with future Father in law Jeremy Irons, naughty and hot),
Pretty Baby (young Brooke Shields, should her mother have pimped her out as a sexual object at just 13?)
Polanski:
Rosemary’s Baby (classic horror), Oliver Twist, Macbeth, Oliver Twist,
Rohmer:
Autumn Tale, Rendezvous in Paris (accordion scene)
Truffaut:
Fahrenheit 451 (novel is better)
Lars Von Trier:
Dancer In The Dark, Dogville, Breaking the Waves (these three films are a psychological study of woman as victim, heavy), Five Obstructions
Wim Wenders
(poetic, my favorite) Until the End of the World,
Wings of Desire,
Far Away So Close,
Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones practice session)
Action Adventure
The Bank (Austrailian)
Batman Begins
Billy Jack
Bonnie and Clyde
City of Lost Children (FRE)
Clay Pigeons
Fight Club
Ghost
GI Jane
The Grifters (Angelica Huston is Fantastik)
Inspector Morse
Long Kiss Goodnight (G. Davis and S. Jackson give one liners, cheer them on!)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Papillion (prison film)
Picture Claire
Prime Suspect (UK woman detective series w/ Helen Mirren)****
Serpico (Pacino)
Set It Off (Queen Latifah, bank heist)
The Silence of The Lambs
The Sixth Sense
Thelma and Louise
True Romance
Witness
Stand Up Comedy
Lewis Black: Unleashed, Back on Broadway
Margaret Cho: Revolution, Notorious, Assassin, I’m The One That I Want
Funny Ladies (collection)
Kathy and Mo (HBO special) Parallel Lives
Eddie Izzard: Dressed To Kill, Unrepeatable
Suzanne Westenhoefer (HBO special)
Whoopie Goldberg
Comedy
Absolutely Fabulous (British TV show/ hilarious)
American Graffiti
An Everlasting Piece (Irish)
As Good As It Gets (Nicholson)
Benny and Joon (Depp)
Being There (Peter Sellers at his Best)
Best In Show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (action soap, Josh Whedon is witty)
But I’m A Cheerleader
The Caroll Bernett Show
Chocolat (Depp and Binoche)
Cold Comfort Farm
Danny Deckchair
Da Ali G Show season one
Dazed and Confused
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dirty Filthy Love
Doing Time For Patsy Cline (Australian)
Dogma
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Eating Raoul (the 70’s sets are amazing)
Everlasting Piece (Irish)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Penn)
Fear and Trembling (French and Japanese)
French & Saunders (British skits)
Full Monty (unemployed steel workers try stripping)
Go Fish
Goldfish Memory (Irish/ terrific soundtrack)
Good Morning, Vietnam (Robin Williams)
Guru (American Baliwood)
Harold and Maude (Cat Stevens soundtrack. Great love life story)
Happy Accidents
Happy Endings
High Fidelity (vinyl stax)
Hotel New Hampshire
The Jerk (Steve Martin)
Laugh In (television)
Lilly for President (Tomlin)
M*A*S*H (comedy drama tv)
The Meaning of Life (Monty Python)
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Branaugh)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moonstruck (I love Cher and Nicholas Cage in this romantic comedy)
Mystic Pizza (Lilli Taylor)
Napoleon Dynamite (sophomoric fun)
Pricilla, Queen of the Desert (Australian, gay, funny)
Private Benjamin (Goldie Hawn)
Rhoda (TV)
Saved (born again high school)
The Saddest Music In The World (Isabella Rossalini/bizarre)
Say Anything (Lilli Taylor)
Saved (Christian high school farce)
Search For Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe (Lily Tomlin)
Shirley Valentine (Woman ?’s her life)
Stir Crazy (Richard Prior and Gene Wilder)
Strictly Ballroom (Australian, hilarious)
Sordid Lives
Summer House
Triplets of Bellville (animated/French)
Tootsie (Dustin Hoffman)
The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo)
Valley of the Dolls
Drama
13 Moons (Indy, sad clowns)
The Accused (Jodi Foster, terrible rape story)
Agnes of God (Fonda)
All The Real Girls
Almost Famous (boy rock and roll reporter)
American Beauty
American Buffalo
Angels & Insects
The Apostle (Duvall
Ballad of Jack and Rose (narcissistic progressive and his unstable daughter)
Beaches
Bearskin (Tom Waits)
Beautiful People (many intertwined stories)
Beloved
Benny & Joon (Depp. Great soundtrack)
Between Strangers (three women transform and interconnect)
Big Night (food and dreams)
Blow Out (John Travolta & Nancy Allen)
Boys Don’t Cry (sad, based on true story)
Boys on the Side (Whoopie)
The Breakfast Club (high school)
Brokeback Mountain
Brother To Brother (echoes of Langston Hughes)
By Hook or By Crook (great script, beautiful video footage)
Carnal Knowledge (Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkl)
Charlotte Gray (English woman joins the French resistance)
Children’s Hour (Lillian Helman)
Children of a Lesser God
Cinderella Man
Coal Miner’s Daughter (story of Loretta Lynn)
Country (Sam Shepard & Jessica Lange)
The Color Purple (novel is better)
Constant Gardener
Crash (racism in LA)
Crying Game
Daughters of the Dust (South Carolina Island, escaped slave boat maintains African culture undetected)
Dead Man Walking (Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn)
Death in Venice (based in novella by Thomas Mann)
Dear Frankie (Scottish tale of the lengths one would go to)
Dresser (theatre)
Doing Time For Patsy Cline (Australian)
A Doll's House (Fonda)
Dopamine (artificial intelligence & Alzheimer's confuse issues of love and chemistry for young man)
Erin Brokovich
Everyday People (story of a city diner)
Female Perversions (Camille Paglia)
Flawless ( Deniro & Seymour Hoffman)
For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow was enuf
Frances (Jessica Lange/ based on a true story/ actress gets lobotomy/ sad)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Gandhi
The Girl In The Café (can you make a difference?)
Go Fish (gay girls)
Good Night and Good Luck
Good Will Hunting
Happy Accidents
Henry and June (Anais Nin and Henry Miller story)
A Home at the End of the World
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
In America (Irish, family film)
Iron Jawed Angels (women fight for the right to vote, based on history, good soundtrack)
I Shot Andy Warhol (Lili Taylor plays Valerie Solanas)
Kinsey (Story behind the Kinsey Report)
Lakawana Blues
Ladies in Lavendar (Dench)
The Laramie Project (based on a true story)
Laurel Canyon
Lawless Heart
Lenny
Levity
Lord of the Flies (novel is better)
Love Song for Bobby Long (I didn’t suspect that Travolta had it in him)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (INDY)
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Express
Million Dollar Baby
Monster
Music of Chance (spooky)
My Beautiful Laundrette
Mysterious Skin (warning rape scene)
Nell
‘Night Mother (great play by Marsha Norman)
The Notebook (hopelessly romantic)
Norma Rae (Sally Field/Union)
Once Were Warriors (Australian Aborigine, disturbing)
One Flew Over The Coo Coo’s Nest (Jack Nicholson)
Oranges Aren’t the Only Fruit (BBC Janette Winterson story. Read her books!)
Our Song (girls at a city school/ being closed down, great acting by unknowns
Pandaemonium (Linus Roache and John Hannah star as poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.)
Paper Moon
Patsy Cline (Jessica Lange)
Pelican Brief
Pi (freaky)
Rabbit Proof Fence (Australian)
Racing with the Moon (Sean Penn and Nicholas Cage)
Rain Man
Real Women Have Curves
Requiem for A Dream (dizzying camera angles as characters struggle w/ addictions)
The Safety of Objects (a take on alienation of modern society)
Seven and A Match (group of friends meet at big house in Maine)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Shawshank Redemption
Silkwood (Cher is great/story of a whistle blower)
Sling Blade (Tommy Lee Jones)
Soldier’s Girl (terrific script by Ron Nyswaner and excellent acting!)
Stage Beauty (Shakespearean actor must begin to play male role)
The Station Agent
Strangers In Good Company (Canadian story of wmn on a bus that breaks down)
Sybil (Sally Fields plays girl with multiple personality disorder)
Terms of Endearment (Larry McMurtry novel better than film)
Till Human Voices Wake Us? (Helena Bonham Carter)
The Theory of Flight (Helena Bonham Carter, beautifully touching story)
True West (Sam Shepard Play featuring John Malcovich as young method actor)
Tic Code (Gregory Hines, nice story)
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vera Drake (mother, wife, criminal/Mike Leigh film)
The Verdict
Virgin Suicides (great soundtrack by Air, French electronica group)
Waiting For The Moon (story of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein)
Welcome To The Dollhouse (modern existential)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Depp and DiCaprio)
Without You I Am Nothing
The World According To Garp (Robin Williams/ check out the novel)
Waydowntown (indy)
What Dreams May Come (Robin Williams goes to hell)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp)
When Night Is Falling (Austrailian, circus, colorful, gay)
Yes (modern film, script in verse)
You Can Count On Me (a brother trying to get it together)
Documentary
Alberto Giacametti (French)
Aileen Wuornos; selling of a serial killer
Billabong Odyssey (surfing 60 foot waves)
Bush Family Fortune
Capturing the Friedmans (crime documentary)
Citizen King
Crumb (cartoonist)
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fog of War (Errol Morris won an Oscar for this realistic portrait of Robert McNamara)
Future of Food (Deborah Koons Garcia)
The Gleaners and I (French/ vignettes of people who glean/well done)
Guerilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
Hitler’s Secretary (German)
In The Mirror of Maya Deren (Documentary about avant garde film maker)
Jupiter’s Wife (story of Homeless woman)
Life and Debt (World Economy and Jamaica)
Maya Lin (the Vietnam Memorial)
(My Architect life and career of Louis Kahn filmed by his illegitimate son, Nathaniel. Essential viewing for anyone with “father/child†issues)
Paradise Lost (murder?)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Smartest Guys in The Room (Enron story)
Stonewall
Story of the Weeping Camel
Super Size Me
To Have and To Be (French kindergarten teacher)
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill****
Family
The Bad News Bears (Tatum O’Neil)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Dark Crystal
The Empire Strikes Back
E.T.
Freaky Friday (Original with Jodi Foster/ Modern version with Jamie Lee Curtis)
Into the West
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of UnfortunateEvents
The Mask
Return of the Jedi
Star Wars
Whale Rider
Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz (has been re-released on dvd with additional songs and dances cut from the original)
Foreign Films
Cuban
Nada +
Czech.
House of Fools (King of Hearts meets One Flew Over the Coocoos Nest with an accordion)
Up and Down
Dutch
Babette's Feast (What a menu)
Question of Silence, A (union)
French
8 Women (murder mystery musical farce)
The Accidental Hero (boy and mother)
A Man And A Woman (great soundtrack)
A Man And A Woman (20 Years Later)
Amelie
Avenue Montaigne (Waitress discovers theatrical clientèle and Brancusi's "Kiss")
Betty (beautiful cinematography)
The Barbarian Invasions (French Canadian)
Blue (part of the Keislowski trilogy this one stars Juliette Binoche)
Camille Claudel (story of sculptor in love with Rodin)
Celestial Clockwork
Chaos (comedy)
Chocolat (I have actually watched this dubbed into French/ sad or what?)
The Closet (comedy)
Diva (opera singer and young man on moped)
Dreamlife of Angels
Drycleaners (a night at the disco changes a couple’s life forever)
Elevator To The Gallows (Miles Davis soundtrack/black and white/suspense)
Eyes Without A Face (wow?noir?? Out of sight, check it out)
French Twist (comedy)
Girl on the Bridge (knife thrower)
Ghost River aka “La Vie Promise†(beautiful cinematography, nice soundtrack, Isabelle Huppert/a mother and daughter search for each other)
Green House (great story, grandfather is inspired to become a hero by granddaughter during French résistance)
Irma Vep (nice scenes of Paris at night)
It Starts Today (elementary school teacher in France faces class struggles)
Jean de Florette (classic)
King of Hearts (classic)
Kings and Queen
La Buche (family reunites at Christmas after not talking for many years)
La Lectrice (woman reads to people for an adventurous career)
Le Petit Amour
Les Choristers (The Chorus)
Les Miserables (not what you think it is)
Love Me If You Dare (great frustrating love story)
Madame Bovary (Isabelle Huppert is disgusting as Madame Bovary)
Manon of The Spring (classic sequel to Jean de Florette)
Man on A Train (Two men imagine what it would be like to have lived differently)
Ma Saison Preferee
Ma Vie en Rose (sweet)
Monsieur Ibrahim
Pour Quoi Mas? (funny, gay)
Purple Noon (scary, gay)
Rosetta
Redlights (adventure)
Ridicule
Same Old Song (musical comedy)
Sequins
Son of Gascogne
Swing (gypsy music)
Time of the Wolf (apocalyptic, ambiguous, troubling, poetic)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Catherine Deneuve at fifteen)
Vagabond (sad and beautiful)
Widow of St. Pierre
Farsi
Children of Heaven
The Color of Paradise
Kandahar
German
Das Experiment
The Edukators (revolutionary)
Fanny and Alexander (classic)
Goodbye Lenin
Head On
In July (road trip buddy romance with good soundtrack)
Princess and the Warrior (same director as Run Lola Run)
Run Lola Run
Shultz Gets the Blues (polka player can’t help but play zydeco)
The Legend of Rita (radicals forced to reinvent themselves)
Tin Drum (classic)
Until The End of the World (favorite, people addicted to dream machine)
Wings of Desire (favorite, angels and people discussing time)
Icelandic
Cold Fever
Indian
The Bandit Queen (radical)
Monsoon Wedding
Silent Waters
Spices (radical)
International
Tuvalu (multiple languages, surreal film conceptually based on a real place that is being covered with water as the sea level rises)
Israeli
Walk on Water (In German and Israeli)
Italian
The Bicycle Thief
Life Is Beautiful (cry, cry, and cry)
Kurdish
Turtles Can Fly (orphans on the Turkish/Iraqi border collect land mines for $)
Mexican
El Norte (powerful, if you find this film let me know where)
Spanish
Don’t Tempt Me (an angel and a devil both hot fight for the soul of a boxer)
Like Water For Chocolate (food and love)
Motorcycle Diaries (the inspiration of Che’ Guevara)
Nine Queens (scam after scam, great fun)
Tunisian
Satin Rouge
Horror
The Exorcist
Rosemary’s Baby
Martial Arts
The Drunken Master (hilarious)
The Real Jackie Chan (Documentary about Jackie Chan’s training and life)
Musicals and Movies with Music
8 Women (musical farce French)
The Commitments (Irish)
Coal Miners Daughter (Sissy Spacek plays Loretta Lynn)
The Doors (Stone)
Grease
Hair (mean hippies)
Jacque Brell Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Music Man (with original Broadway Cast)
Moulin Rouge
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rose (Bette Midler in Joplinesque tale)
A Star Is Born (Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Streisand)
Same Old Song (French)
Saturday Night Fever
The Sound of Music
Sweet Dreams (Jessica Lange plays Patsy Cline)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French classic)
Victor Victoria
Walk the Line
Willie Wanka’s Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz (new dvd release includes song and dance routines cut from original as well as award footage)
Music Videos and Documentaries
Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute
Buena Vista Social Club
Big Time (Tom Waits)
Cuba Feliz
Dancing To New Orleans
Diana Krall (live)
Don’t Look Back (Bob Dylan 1967)
Down from the Mountain (the concert film for Oh Brother)
Elevator to the Gallows (French Film Miles Davis Sound Track)
Everything but the Girl: Like the Deserts Miss the Rain
From a Whisper to a Scream (The Living History of Irish Music)
Indigo Girls: Live at Uptown Lounge
Indigo Girls: Watershed
Joni Mitchell Shadows and Light
K.D. Lang Live by Request
The Last Waltz
Last of the Mississippi Juke Joints
Man in the Sand: Billy Bragg and Wilco
The Work of Director Michel Gondry (music videos some English some French)
Naked Songs: The Life & Times of Rickie Lee Jones
Norah Jones Live in New Orleans
The Quintessential Peggy Lee
Rickie Lee Jones: Live at the Wiltern
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Sympathy for the Devil (Stones, long rehearsal)
Volumen (Bjork’s early music videos)
Porn
Annie Sprinkle
Lucas
Sci Fi
Alien
Aliens
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Dr. Strangelove
ET
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Tank Girl
X-Files
Westerns
The Lonesome Dove (series books by Larry McMurtry are great)
Inside The Actor's Studio, Hardball,Buffy,
Standup Comedy, Law and Order, Carol Burnett,X Files
Girls Behaving Badly
Fool For Love and Other Plays,
The Stone Angel,
Angels and Demons,
The Presence of the Past,
The Lonesome Dove series,
Crime and Punishment,
Moby Dick,
Secret Life of Bees,
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,
Franny & Zooey,
Henry & June
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates,
Oranges aren't the Only Fruit,
The Gnostic Gospels,
An Astrological Mandala,
The Ephemerides,
the Dictionary,
Poetry,
French magazines,
No Exit,
To The Lighthouse,
Beloved,
A Season In Hell
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tete a Tete
Songs of Inocence
Leaves of Grass
the namesake
Mythologies
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