Music, drama, radio, old-time radio, audio production.
...anyone interested in student jazz.
Too numerous to mention, but here are some DESERT ISLAND DISCS: Beach Boys – Pet Sounds, SMILE, Beatles – Rubber Soul, White Album, Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits Vols 1 & 2, Dave Brubeck – Time Out, J.J. Cale – Naturally, Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow, John Coltrane – Giant Steps, Miles Davis – Kind of Blue, Paul Butterfield Blues Band – East West, Steely Dan – A Decade of Dan, The Sundays – Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, Pat Metheney Group - The First Circle
Anything but chick flicks and chucklehead comedies. If you haven't seen them, try these: The Wizard of Oz (1939) The African Queen (1951) The Blackboard Jungle (1955) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) West Side Story (1961) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) Charade (1963) A Hard Day’s Night (1964) A Shot In The Dark (1964) A Thousand Clowns (1965) Thunderball (1965) The Endless Summer (1966) Don’t Look Back (1967) The Graduate (1967) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Bullitt (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Monterey Pop (1968) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Easy Rider (1969) Woodstock (1970) Let It Be (1970) M*A*S*H (1970) The French Connection (1971) Shaft (1971) Deliverance (1972) The Godfather (1972) American Graffiti (1973) Rocky (1976) Taxi Driver (1976) Network (1976) American Hot Wax (1978) The Shining (1980) Das Boot (1981) My Dinner with Andre (1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) One From The Heart (1982) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Parker (1984) Lost in America (1985) Back to the Future (1985) Round Midnight (1986) Rain Man (1988) Defending Your Life (1991) Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) Jurassic Park (1993) Groundhog Day (1993) Crumb (1994) Braveheart (1995) Apollo 13 (1995) Fargo (1996) When We Were Kings (1996) L.A. Confidential (1997) Saving Private Ryan (1998) The Big Lebowski (1998) The Muse (1999) Finding Forester (2000) Cast Away (2000) Gladiator (2000) High Fidelity (2000) Waking Life (2001) Master and Commander (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Ray (2004) Sideways (2004) Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) Cinderella Man (2005) Sin City (2005) Good Night and Good Luck (2005) Munich (2005) Walk the Line (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
American Idol. What can I say? It's a guilty pleasure.
Those things with pages, right? Okay, here are a few: "The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue" by Robert Klein and "Our Endangered Values" by Jimmy Carter.
Musicians, actors, artists. For what they give us.