School
Film
Literature
Music
Theatre and Opera
Visual Arts
Comic Strips from the 1930s
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Board Games
Wine and Spirits
Sports
My DVD List at DVD Aficionado
The Fall
The Mekons
Lucila Campos
King Tubby
Peru Negro
Fela Kuti
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang
Thelonious Monk
Sonny Rollins
Django Reinhardt
Robert Wyatt
Tom Waits
Talking Heads
Sly and the Family Stone
Orange Juice
Talk Talk
Delta Five
Betty Davis
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
Pharaoh Sanders
Ornette Coleman
Joe Tex
Hall and Oates
Josef K
The Go-Betweens
Harry Nilsson
The Clean
The Au-Pairs
The Buzzcocks
The dB’s
Ray Brown
Frank Zappa
CAN
Faust
Pere Ubu
Wire
X
XTC
Townes Van Zandt
Bob Dylan
Shoes
Tallulah Gosh
The Zombies
Animal Collective
Joe Gibbs
Culture
Funkadelic
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Kinks
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Television
Richard Hell
Prince
Nas
Wu-Tang Clan
The Slits
The Specials
This Heat
Kraftwerk
Syd Barrett
MF Doom
Billie Holiday
Nina Simone
Sarah Vaughn
Buddy Rich
Max Roach
Mel Torme
Bing Crosby
Big Star
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Low
Otis Redding
Stax Records
Motown Records
Sarah Records
Klaus Nomi
Gary Numan
Joe Bataan
Fania Records
Celia Cruz
Pavement
Joy Divison
The Clash
Guided By Voices
Robyn Hitchcock
Howlin’ Wolf
Blind Willie Mctell
Skip James
The Replacements
LCD Soundsystem
Belle and Sebastian
The Jesus and Mary Chain
My Bloody Valentine
Serge Gainsburg
Mission of Burma
Sam Cooke
Marvin Gaye
Gong
Joe Liggins
The Band
M.I.A.
Destroyer
Phil Spector
King Diamond
Ethiopiques Series
Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66
Kate Bush
Johnny Cash
King Diamond
Black Sabbath
Robert Johnson
The Pogues
Little Willie John
The Spinners
Steve Reich
Terry Riley
Franco Battiato
ABBA
Beulah
The Pixies
Aretha Franklin
Graham Central Station
Throbbing Gristle
Caravan
KRS-ONE
Suicide
The Wrens
Yo La Tengo
The Jam
Eartha Kitt
Stephane Grappelli
Soft Machine
Sun Ra
The Beach Boys
The Homosexuals
Magazine
Glen Branca
The Fiery Furnaces
Dinosaur Jr.
Iggy and the Stooges
Young Marble Giants
Joanna Newsom
Os Mutantes
As Mercenarias
Tower of Power
Iron Maiden
The Silver Jews
The Minutemen
And Many More
Some of my Favorite Directors:
Jean Renoir
Woody Allen
Julien Duvivier
Michael Powell
Jean-Luc Godard
Mikio Naruse
Roberto Rossellini
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Wong Kar-wai
Zhang Yimou
Takashi Miike
Pedro Almodovar
Stanley Kubrick
Sam Peckinpah
Arthur Penn
Seijun Suzuki
Marcel Carné
Jean Grémillon
Frank Capra
Alain Resnais
François Truffaut
Luis Buñuel
Terry Gilliam
Jean-Pierre Melville
Fritz Lang
Jules Dassin
Josef von Sternberg
Federico Fellini
Dario Argento
Kenji Mizoguchi
Robert Bresson
Budd Boetticher
Sergio Leone
George A. Romero
Luchino Visconti
Preston Sturges
John Huston
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jacques Tourneur
Alfred Hitchcock
Mario Bava
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Samuel Fuller
King Vidor
Billy Wilder
Erich von Stroheim
Howard Hawks
Orson Welles
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Éric Rohmer
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
And Many More
Current Favorites:
Charlie Rose
The Wire
Big Love
King of the Hill
Past Favorites:
The Simpsons
The Office
Fawlty Towers
Sports Night
Twin Peaks
Ryan’s Hope
SCTV
Doctor Who
Seinfeld
Coupling
As Time Goes By
Are You Being Served
The West Wing
Mr. Show
Gilmore Girls
The Dick Van Dyke Show
I Love Lucy
Authors:
Ernest Hemingway
Malcolm Lowry
James Joyce
T. S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bruno Schulz
Roberto Bolaño
Jorge Luis Borges
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Walker Percy
Saul Bellow
Vladimir Nabokov
Sherwood Anderson
Junot Diaz
John Williams
Richard Yates
Virginia Woolf
Tennessee Williams
Grant Morrison
Arthur Miller
Harold Pinter
Raymond Carver
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Anton Chekhov
Herman Melville
William Faulkner
George Orwell
John Berryman
Donald Barthelme
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Etc.
Magazines/Newspapers:
The New York Times
The New Yorker
Tin House
The Believer
Granta
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Film Int.
Sight and Sound