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geomorphology | topographic maps | all categories of Earth science | sedimentology | measuring sun angles | Earth rotation | geomagnetism | social deconstruction | radical politics and Marxism | deserts and desert exploration | thunderstorms | lightning observation | flash flood observation | radio static | Thailand | Southeast Asia | Asian women | ~o-o~

Wizard of Oz | Freaks (greatest movie of all time?) | Theremin (about Leon Theremin, inventor of the first electronic instrument. One of the most fascinating documentaries I've ever seen and featuring the great and amazing Clara Rockmore, world's greatest theremin virtuoso.) | Hitchcock films | The Manchurian Candidate (the original directed by John Frankenheimer, not the horrible, unimaginable remake [Why are Hollywood types such idiots these days?]) | Casablanca | Gone With The Wind | Some Like it Hot | Dr. Strangelove | Bonnie and Clyde | Joe | most of Woody Allen's films | Rosemary's Baby (sex with the Devil scene = truly horrifying; this film creeps me out/gets under my skin like no other horror film; for me, it is the greatest horror movie of all time) | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Midnight Cowboy | A Clockwork Orange | The French Connection | French Connection 2 | Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, star and director) | Werner Herzog's entire oeuvre | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Scarecrow | Fat City | Taxi Driver | Badlands | Coal Miner's Daughter | Carrie | Apocalypse Now | Hearts and Minds (documentary about the Vietnam War) | the entire oeuvre of documentarian Emile de Antonio, in particular In the Year of the Pig (about the Vietnam War) and In the King of Prussia (about real Christians) | Elephant Man | Clerks | Full Metal Jacket | Blue Velvet | A Night on Earth | The Shawshank Redemption | Falling Down (great LA movie) | Pulp Fiction | Jackie Brown | The Bicycle Thief | Beauty and the Beast (1946 Cocteau film; NOT the Disney cartoon!) | The Fog of War | The Most Dangerous Man in America (about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers) | Michael Moore's films (Roger & Me; Capitalism: a Love Story; etc) | Unforgiven | Inland Empire | Kinky Sexy Asian Girls vol. 35. | Television? I don't own one...... ~o-o~

Neil Young | Igor Stravinsky | Captain Beefheart | the glorious hits of Motown | Frank Sinatra | Bascom Lamar Lunsford | Sex Pistols | Thelonius Monk | Tiny Tim (America's most underrated musical genius) | James Brown | Talking Heads | Miles Davis | The Ramones | Warren Zevon | Janis Joplin | Public Image Limited | Steve Reich | Brian Eno | Bob Dylan | Jah Wobble | The Beatles | John Coltrane | Lou Reed | James Marshall Hendrix and his electrical guitar | Pylon | Bob Marley and the Wailers (special admiration for the Barrett brothers rythm section) | Television/Tom Verlaine | The Clash | Joni Mitchell | The Troggs | Sylvester Stewart (aka Sly Stone) | Josef Zawinul/Weather Report | Wayne Shorter | Jaco Pastorius | Blue Cheer | Tom Waits | MC5 | Hanna Shenkute | John Cage | radio static | ~o-o~

Geomorphological texts: Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology (Leopold, Wolman, and Miller) | Hillslope Form and Process (Carson and Kirkby) | Desert Geomorphology (Cooke, Warren, Goudie) | World Geomorphology (Bridges) ........... Geographical texts: The Astronomical and Mathematical Foundations of Geography (Charles H. Cotter) | Apollo's Eye (Cosgrove) | Physical Geography of North America (Orme, ed.) | Physical Geography of Asiatic Russia (Suslov [translation]) | Mapping (Greenhood) | the geographer Mark Monmonier's entire oeuvre | Why Geography Matters (Harm de Blij) | Blue Highways (William Least Heat Moon) | PraryErth (William Least Heat Moon) | Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez) | Rising Tide (John M. Barry) | Cities of Gold (Douglas Preston) ........... Earth science books: Geology Illustrated (Shelton) | Glacial and Quaternary Geology (Richard Foster Flint) | Petroleum Geology (K. K. Landes) | Hubbert's Peak (Deffeyes) | Beyond Oil (Deffeyes) | Earthquakes in Human History (de Boer and Sanders) | John McPhee's "geology" books: Basin and Range; In Suspect Terrain; Rising from the Plains; Assembling California; Annals of the Former World (McPhee's geology books are the best introduction to geology for the laymen. They have been called 'Earth science for poets') | Volcanoes of North America (Wood and Kienle, eds) | Volcanoes (Alwyn Scarth) ........... Desert books: Charles Bowden's entire oeuvre (in particular 'Blue Desert', 'Red Line', and 'Blood Orchid') | Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey; and nearly all of the remainder of Abbey's books) | Desert Notes (Barry Lopez) ........... Mathematics: The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny (Ekelund) | Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature (Marcus du Sautoy) ........... Cultural and political texts: The entire oeuvre of the cultural critic Greil Marcus, in particular 'Mystery Train' (the greatest book ever written about rock'n'roll), 'Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century' (partly about the Sex Pistols), and 'The Shape of Things to Come' | Rotten: No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish (Lydon) | Studs Terkel's entire oeuvre | Hunter Thompson's entire oeuvre | Autobiography of Malcolm X | 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention' by Dr. Manning Marable | William Burroughs' entire oeuvre | Thomas Frank's entire oeuvre (in particular 'What's the Matter with Kansas?' and 'The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule') | 'Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism (Sharon Smith) | 'The Society of the Spectacle' (Guy Debord) | 'Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life' (Theodor Adorno) | Ho Chi Minh: A Life (Duiker) ........... Literature: Tropic of Capricorn (Henry Miller) | John McPhee's entire oeuvre | Ian Frazier's entire oeuvre (in particular 'Great Plains' and 'On the Rez') | 'Angela's Ashes' and also 'Teacher Man' by Frank McCourt | Charles Bukowski's entire...umm...(I hesitate to use the word oeuvre with Charles)...how about entire works...(ha!) | ~o-o~