There's a book called Tennis and the Meaning of Life. David Foster Wallace wrote a blurb for the back cover: "My only complaint is that the title's redundant". I like that.
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These days mostly Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, and dub.
Children of Men. Pan's Labyrinth.
deceased
Some authors: Philosophy/Religion/Mythology/Social Criticism: Jacques Ellul, Morris Berman, Jack Miles, Lin Yutang, Jordan B Peterson, Robert Inchausti, Harold Bloom, Emerson, Baudrillard, Charles Bukowski Fiction: Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Flannery O'Connor, Dave Eggers, Orwell, Huxley, TC Boyle, Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski Poetry: Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Thomas Merton, EE CUMMINGS, Chris Gutkind, S.A Griffin, Chu Tu, WS Merwin Some books: The Clock Of The Long Now, Hip: The History, Counter Culture Through The Ages, A Year With Swollen Appendices, How To Be Idle, Bear v. Shark: The Novel, I, Lucifer, The Adversary, Paris To The Moon, Innocent When You Dream, Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp. Some magazines: Under The Radar, The Big Takeover, The Wire, Vice, Arthur, The Believer, In Between Hangovers. Things on newsprint: Arthur, Los Angeles Alternative Press RIP, LA Times, LA Weekly, Los Angeles CityBeat, The Onion
You. Gimme your hands, 'cause you're wonderful.