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jazz, boogie woogie, rock and piano-oriented music; film; visual arts; classical literature; history; pop-culture.

Movies: 13 Days, Apocalypse Now, Big Fish, Blowup, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Empire of the Sun, The Falcon and the Snowman, Falstaff, A Fish Called Wanda, Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, Go, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Heat, High Plains Drifter, The Insider, JFK, Jackie Brown, To Live and Die in L.A., Magnum Force, The Natural, Nixon, Paths of Glory, A Perfect World, Platoon, The Quiet American (2002), Quiz Show, Strangers on a Train, The Thin Red Line (1998), The Third Man, Touch of Evil, U-Turn, Valdez is Coming, Zodiac. Shows: PBS' American Experience, Calfornia's Gold with Huell Howser, The McLaughlin Group, CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Twilight Zone (1959-64), The X-Files (earlier episodes), HBO really raises the bar sometimes.

CSNY, Chet Baker, Beck, James Brown, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Paul Desmond, The Doors, Bill Evans, Ben Folds, Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock, John Lee Hooker, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Amos Milburn, Thelonious Monk, Van Morrison, Tito Puente, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sade, Santana, Shuggie Otis, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Art Tatum, Cal Tjader, McCoy Tyner.

Ancient Evenings, Ape and Essence, A Bright and Shining Lie, Chimes at Midnight, Churchill's Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind, Cities of the Red Night, City of Quartz, Crome Yellow, Crowds and Power, Crime and Punishment, Daybreak, Death is a Lonely Business, The Decline of the West, The Doors of Perception, Eyeless in Gaza, From Hell (anything written by Alan Moore), The Gates of the Forest, The Gathering Storm, The Genealogy of Morals, The Golden Bough, Heart of Darkness, Heaven and Hell, The Inferno, Jack Keruoac: King of the Beats, Johnny Got His Gun, Journey to the End of the Night, Literary Outlaw, Manufacturing Consent, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Midnight's Children, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Moby Dick, The Neon Wilderness, Night, The Place of Dead Roads, Post Office, Preacher (by Garth Ennis), The Reluctant Belligerent, The Road to Wiggan Pier, The Sea Wolf, Son of the Morning Star, Spite House, The Stand, Thinner, Time Must Have a Stop, The Trial, Twilight of the Idols, The Western Lands, Wide Sargasso Sea, You Can't Win, etc.