TIME Top 100 Books
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul BellowAll the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn WarrenAmerican Pastoral (1997) by Philip RothAn American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore DreiserAnimal Farm (1946)...
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Things Fall ApartFairy tales - Hans Christian AndersenThe Divine ComedyEpic of GilgameshBook of JobOne Thousand and One NightsNjál's SagaPride and PrejudiceLe Père GoriotMolloy, Malone Dies, The...
View ArticleBloom's Western Canon
The Theocratic AgeThe Ancient Near EastGilgameshEgyptian Book of the DeadHoly Bible (King James Version)The ApocryphaSayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)Ancient IndiaMahabharataBhagavad-GitaRamayana
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The I ChingThe Old Testament (I've read the Pentateuch and other important sections like Job)The Iliad and The Odyssey by HomerThe UpanishadsThe Way and Its Power, Lao-tzuThe AvestaAnalects, Confucius...
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Chris Ware: Jimmy CorriganHitoshi Iwaaki: KiseijuuBill Waterson: Calvin and HobbesAlan Moore: WatchmenPaul Hornschemeier: Mother, Come HomeMatsamune Shirow: Ghost in the ShellOsamu Tezuka: AdolfMakoto...
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8.5:Dark SoulsShadow of the Colossus8.0:Half-lifeMetal Gear Solid 3MorrowindPathologicPortalResident Evil 4Super Mario 64Metroid PrimeTetrisThe Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask7.5:Castlevania: Symphony...
View ArticleBest rock albums of the 2000s
8.0:Antlers: Hospice (2009)Battles: Mirrored (2007)Cerberus Shoal: Mr Boy Dog (2002)Dan Deacon: Bromst (2009)Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing (2008)Grails: Burning Off Impurities (2007)Have A Nice Life:...
View ArticleBest movies (that I've seen)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: SunriseAbel Gance: NapoleonFritz Lang: MBuster Keaton: The GeneralLeo McCarey: Duck SoupOrson Welles: Touch of SinBilly Wilder: Double IndemnityMarcel Carne: Children of...
View ArticleBest albums (that I've heard)
Rock:Television - Marquee MoonMinutemen - Double Nickels on the DimeBuilt to Spill - Perfect From Now OnNeu - s/tTalking Heads - Remain in LightPeter Green - The End of the GameWire - 154Yes - Close to...
View ArticleFavorite documentaries
David Attenburough: Nature Documentaries (Planet Earth, Life, Frozen Planet, "Life of" series, among many many wonderful others)Michael Apted: UpCarl Sagan: CosmosWerner Herzog: Wings of HopeJacob...
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This American LifeBookworm Michael Silverblatt has got to be one of the most intelligent and lovable literary personalities out thereHardcore HistoryWelcome to NightvaleFilmspottingCBC's IdeasKevin...
View ArticleBest albums of 2013
7.5:Body/Head - Coming ApartClipping - midcityDawn of Midi - DysnomiaFire! Orchestra - Exit!Gnod - ChaudelandeHaxan Cloak - ExcavationThe Knife - Shaking the HabitualYelena Eckemoff - Glass Song
View ArticleBest books (that I've read)
Transcendent Reading Experiences: Barth, John: The Sot-Weed FactorJoyce, James: UlyssesLem, Stanislaw: SolarisMann, Thomas: BuddenbrooksMarquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of SolitudeMcCarthy,...
View ArticleConcerts that I've been to
Amazing:[2014]SwansGreat:[2014]Nick Cave[2014]Arcade Fire[2014]Dan Deacon[2011]Hey Rosetta!Good:[2015]Zaum[2015]Zebra Pulse[2015]Jealousy Mountain Duo[2014]Russian Circles[2014]Atlas...
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2015:Alex Garland: Ex Machina2014: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu: BirdmanNuri Bilge Ceylan: Winter SleepRichard Linklater: BoyhoodDan Gilroy: NightcrawlerAndrey Zvyagintsev: LeviathanJennifer Kent: The...
View ArticleBest rock albums of the 1990s
9.0:Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On (1997)My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (1991)Swans: White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (1991)Tortoise: TNT (1998)8.5:Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun...
View ArticleBest albums of 2014 (that I've heard)
8.0:John Luther Adams - Become Ocean Just riveting...7.5:Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to PaintMajor Parkinson - Twilight CinemaOliver Lake Organ Quartet - What I HeardSwans -...
View ArticleBest albums of 2015 (so far)
8.0:Kamasi Washington - The Epic7.5:Gnod - Infinity MachineThe Pop Group - Citizen ZombieVespero - Fitful Slumber until 5 A.M.
View ArticleBest Canadian Stuff
Albums:Neil Young: ZumaJoni Mitchell: BlueLeonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard CohenArcade Fire: Arcade FireGodspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Yr Skinny FistsThe Band: s/tMary Margaret O'Hara: Miss...
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Weihenstephaner VitusHacker-Pschorr WeisseKonig Ludwig WeissbierBaronLead Dog AleFuller's London PorterLa Trappe TripelMaisel's WeisseGuinnessErdinger DunkelSapporo
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Anna Meredith - VarmintsNot Waving - AnimalsRoly Porter - Third Law
View ArticleFavorite ambient albums
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969)Popol Vuh - In Den Garten Pharaos (1971)Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)Eberhard Schoener - Meditation (1973)Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells...
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