MONTHLY PEARLS OF WISDOM: Always be happy with what you paid for...BEST PICKUP LINE EVER:
The Black Crowes, "Amorica" Sigur Ros, "Agaetis Byrjun" David Bowie, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" Wu-Tang Clan, "Enter the Wu-Tang"Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run"King Curtis, "Live at Fillmore West"Wilco, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"The Kinks, "Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround" Buena Vista Social ClubJoe Strummer and the Mescaleros, "Global a Go-Go" The Rolling Stones, "Exile on Main Street" Air, "Moon Safari" Sade, "Lovers Rock" Radiohead, "OK Computer" Oasis, "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "The Boatman's Call" Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue"The Clash, "London Calling"Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, "Clear Spot" Jamiroquai, "Traveling Without Moving" Bob Dylan, "Blood on the Tracks" Weezer, "Pinkerton" Tom Waits, "Rain Dogs" The Shins, "Oh, Inverted World"Pulp, "Different Class" Stone Temple Pilots, "Shangri-La-Dee-Da" Pink Floyd, "The Wall" Jurassic 5, "Quality Control" The Flaming Lips, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"The Harder They Come Brian Eno, "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks" The White Stripes, "Elephant" Morcheeba, "Charango"Serge Gainsbourg, "Histoire de Melody Nelson" UGK, "Dirty Money"Elliott Smith, "Figure 8" Badly Drawn Boy, "The Hour of Bewilderbeast"Mogwai, "Mr. Beast" Warren Zevon, "Excitable Boy"
Godfather 1 & 2; Raging Bull; Oldboy; Lost Highway; Down by Law; Cobra Verde; High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku); A Clockwork Orange; Jules et Jim; Indiana Jones 1 & 3; Once Upon a Time in the West; Apocalypse Now; No Country For Old Men; City of God; The Passenger; Network; Fight Club; 2001: A Space Odyssey; There Will Be Blood; Paris, Texas; Goodfellas; Manhattan; Duck, You Sucker; Todo Sobre Mi Madre; Joe Versus the Volcano; Training Day; The Prestige; Contempt (Le Mepris); Anchorman; Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead; JFK; Blade Runner; Aguirre: The Wrath of God; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Chungking Express; Stranger Than Paradise; Irreversible; Sideways; Layer Cake; Dead Man; The Player; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Usual Suspects; Fargo; Unforgiven; Conan the Barbarian; Requiem for a Dream; Killing Zoe; Trois Colours (Blue, White, Red); The Elephant Man; True Romance; The Big Lebowski; Battle Royale; Taxi Driver; Shaun of the Dead; Children of Men; Gattaca; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Die Hard; Miller's Crossing; Predator; In the Bedroom; Aliens; Funny Games; Crimes and Misdemeanors; Narc; Fitzcarraldo; Hable Con Ella; The Squid and The Whale; Platoon; Spy Game; Barton Fink; Terminator 2; Rain Man; Scarface; Tommy Boy; Crimson Tide; Seven Samurai
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville); Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy); Blindness (Jose Saramago); The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov); Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates); White Noise (Don DeLillo); A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole); Grimus (Salman Rushdie); Still Life with Woodpecker (Tom Robbins); JR (William Gaddis); Twilight of the Idols (Friedrich Nietzsche); Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee); Nostromo (Joseph Conrad); Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut); The Human Stain (Philip Roth); Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon); Atonement (Ian McEwan); Glitz (Elmore Leonard); In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust); North Dallas Forty (Peter Gent); Survivor (Chuck Pahlaniuk); How to Be Good (Nick Hornby); Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov); The Philosophy of Existentialism (Gabriel Marcel); American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)