I Recommend

Books:

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Rhythmanalysis by Henri Lefebvre

Music:

The Ecstatic, Mos Def

The Virgins

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix

Dark Night of the Soul, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse

La Roux

Rugged Uncle

High on Jackson Hill, Immaculate Machine

Of Montreal

Furr, Blitzen Trapper

Movies:

Food Inc.

Coraline

The Informant!

Inland Empire

Encounters at the End of the World

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

Fifty Dead Men Walking

JCVD

TV:

Breaking Bad

Glee

The IT Crowd

The Wire

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

The Mighty Boosh

Freaks and Geeks

Dollhouse

Battlestar Galactica

Other:

Monty Python’s Wonderful World of Sound, The Mighty Boosh interview Python on BBC radio.

A History of Scotland, BBC documentary series

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)

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