Since I like to read, watch movies, and listen to music, I tend to respect those who can write, sing, write songs, write books, and make movies a lot. Those creative artists are my heroes for today. (it’s part of that nablopomo thing)

So here are my list of favorite books

  1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
  2. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  3. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
  5. The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
  6. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  7. East of Eden by John Steinbech
  8. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Movies

  1. Pan’s Labrynth
  2. The English Patient
  3. Shawshank Redemption
  4. Giant
  5. Blue Crush
  6. Amelie
  7. Vertigo
  8. Splendor in the Grass
  9. Kill Bill Volume 1
  10. The Sixth Sense

Music (some of these are albums and some are songs)

  1. When the Pawn . . . by Fiona Apple
  2. August and Everything After by The Counting Crows
  3. A Thousand Kisses Deep by Leonard Cohen (pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen but I’m not familiar with his individual albums)
  4. Adagio in B by Barber
  5. Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones
  6. American Idiot by Green Day (the whole album)
  7. Man of Leisure by the Big Cats
  8. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
  9. Firestarter by Prodigy
  10. Warning Sign by Coldplay