I Recommend

Books:

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Rhythmanalysis by Henri Lefebvre

Music:

Rugged Uncle

High on Jackson Hill, Immaculate Machine

Of Montreal

Furr, Blitzen Trapper

My Maudlin Career, Camera Obscura

Movies:

Encounters at the End of the World

The Future of Food

The Long Good Friday – If you can get past the dramatic 70’s-style score, it’s a classic. Bob Hoskins is so great.

Rachel Getting Married

Man On Wire

Fifty Dead Men Walking

JCVD

TV:

The Wire

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

The Mighty Boosh

Freaks and Geeks

True Blood

Dollhouse

Battlestar Galactica

Other:

C’mon Sea Legs by Immaculate Machine, video by Kimberly Persley and Geoffrey Tomlin-Hood

Of Montreal, Live in Concert on NPR’s All Songs Considered

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood – the 2008 Massey Lectures on CBC Radio’s Ideas (scroll down to listen)

BBC4’s In Our Time – a weekly radio show featuring panel discussions on topics in culture, history, science, religion, and philosophy. You can listen to all of their previous shows in the archive.

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