i'm interested in people. but only those who realize that "habilitated" is not a way to express an impairment. that would be debilitated.
Anyone who will go into business with me . . .
And anyone to pay for my tuition and expect nothing in return
James Brown
whatever blake shows me
blue velvet
after hours
panic in needle park
broken flowers
dead ringers
jeremy's ladder
the propostition
conversations
city of lost children
withnail & i
rosemary's baby
drugstore cowboy
brazil
legend
down in the valley
s.o.b.
the parallax view
happiness
the last detail
eraserhead
how to get ahead in advertising
blood for dracula
mark of the devil
the maltese falcon
chinatown
illegal bu$ine$$ (ha)
the graduate
the player
notes on a scandal
volver
alphaville
winter passing
little children
La Vie En Rose
Inland Empire
big love
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them . . .
so i should have an advantage over at least a few men
Fiction/Drama/Poetry Only: (not in any particular order)
Franz Kafka,
Gravity's Rainbow,
Thomas Mann: Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice),
Thomas Pynchon,
James Joyce, Maxine Hong Kingston,
Toni Morrison,
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children,
Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths,
Italo Calvino,
Umberto Eco,
Luigi Pirandello,
Sadeq Hedayat: The Blind Owl,
John Steinbeck,
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye,
D.H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Women in love
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
Richard Ford, Independence Day
Haruki Murakami all of them esp Kafka on the Shore
Jude the obscure!
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire, Lolita
Moby Dick
Karel Capek: R.U.R.,
Hubert Aquin: Trou de Memoire (Blackout),
Douglas Coupland: Generation X - Tales for an Accelerated Culture,
E.T.A. Hoffmann: der Sandmann,
The Illiad,
Ovid: Metamorphoses,
Philip Roth,
Don Delillo,
Kobo Abe,
plays by Jean Paul Sartre,
Samuel Beckett,
Simone de Beauvoir: L'invitee,
Albert Camus,
Hermann Hesse,
Nick Hornby,
Monica Ali,
Sophocles: Oeidpus Rex,
Anais Nin: Delta of the Venus,
Guenther Grass: Die Blechtrommel,
Paul Auster,
J.M. Coetzee,
pretty much any short story by H.P. Lovecraft,
Edgar Allen Poe or Raymond Carver,
Cynthia Ozick,
Sylvia Plath: Bell Jar, Boccaccio: Decameron, Virginia Woolf,
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables, 93,
Susanna Tamaro: Anima Mundi,
Rohinton Mistry: A fine Balance,
Christa Wolf,
Paul Celan,
pretty much anything by Oscar Wilde,
Ibsen: Nora,
Euripides: Medea,
Jonathan Carroll: The Land of Laughs,
Arthur Schnitzler: Traumnovelle und der Reigen,
Milan Kundera,
Friedrich Duerrenmatt,
George Orwell,
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis,
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451,
H.G. Wells,
Tom Robbins: Still Life with Woodpecker,
anything by Terry Pratchett,
William Gibson: Virtual Light,
Aldous Huxley: Island and Brave New World
Kurt Vonnegutkurt,
everything Ayn Rand
....and many more that I can't remember at this point...