I like learning, justice, thinking, writing, art, music, poetry, love, sex, wine, cooking, friends, family, the good things in life, the bad things in life, religion, film, politics, nature, and travel.
Young, urban professionals
Amores Perros, Spirited Away, Kicking and Screaming, Deer Hunter, The Big Red One, The Warriors, Slap Shot, The Bicycle Thief, Miracle in Milan, Office Space, Simple Men, Dead Man, Rashomon, The Hidden Fortress, The Wicker Man, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Alexander Nevsky, Battleship Potemkin, Solaris (the original), Andrei Rubelev, 400 Blows, Shoot The Piano Player, The Story of Adele H, The Man Who Loved Women, Wings of Desire, The General, Knife In The Water, The Wild Bunch, The Jack Bull, Straight to Hell, Raising Arizona, Blood of a Poet, Beauty and The Beast (Cocteau's version), 28 Days Later, Undead, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Motorcycle Diaries, Layer Cake, Sexy Beast, Battle of Algiers, Battle Royale, A Nous La Liberte, Once Upon A Time In America, Good Night and Good Luck, Walk The Line, Chin Goo, Oldboy, JSA, Tae Guk Gi, Munich, Everything Is Illuminated, Children of Men, 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Memoria del Fuego trilogy by Eduardo Galeano, most Ursula K. LeGuin, The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes, And Quiet Flows The Don by Mikhail Sholokov, Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, The Collected Works of Lord Byron, Lame Deer Seeker of Visions by Richard Erdoes, Moksha by Aldous Huxley, The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Civilization and Capitalism: 15th-18th Century Vol. 1-3 by Fernand Braudel, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, In The Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Beyond Beef by Jeremy Rifkin, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire, Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks, Killing Rage by Eamon Collins, This Coffin Has No Handles by Thomas McGrath, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Down and Out In Paris and London by George Orwell, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Lafcadio's Adventures and The Immoralist by Andre Gide, Dead Cities by Mike Davis, How The Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev, Souls of Black Folk & Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois, The Politics of Law ed. by David Kairys, I and Thou by Martin Buber