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One of my favorite things in the world to do is to make lists. Lists of things that I have to do, lists of things that I have done and of course, lists of all of my favorite things to do, see, eat and visit.

 

 

The Lists

 

( Food places,    movies,    books,  artists,   music )

 

 

 

  The grand scroll of favorite foods (top 10 favorites)

 

1.                  Oysters & other Frutte d’Mar (especially Lobster & Crab)

2.                  Cheese  (Appenzeller is #1)

3.                  Chinese Food (especially Dim Sum)

4.                  Japanese Food (Negiri, Maki, Tempura, Yaki skewers, all Noodles,)

5.                  German Food (especially Wild Game)

6.                  Italian Food (any pasta, any veal, any gelato)

7.                  Riz Toffel (the best is in Amsterdam)

8.                  Wine & Beer (red wine, amber beer)

9.                  Indian Food (with sweet mango chutney please)

10.             Gal Bee feast with Kim Che (the more pickles the better)

 

 

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  places in the world that I love most

 

1.                  Going South towards the John Hancock on Lake Shore Drive

2.                  Driving Up Topanga Canyon Road at night with music blasting

3.                  The Pantheon in Rome with my daughter chasing a ball

4.                  Café Central in Vienna talking with friends over a mélange mit schlag and a Sacher torte

5.                  Sant Chapelle with Vivaldi music playing

6.                  The Red Light District in Amsterdam alone (and single) at midnight

7.                  Stepping out of the train station in Venice

8.                  The canals in Bruges during the Summer

9.                  The art Nuevo façade across from the clock in Prague

10.             Walking Barefoot at the Shuadagon Pagoda

11.             The Todra Gorge in Morocco, me riding on a donkey

12.             Flying into Queenstown, New Zealand

13.             The Swan Boats at the Commons in Boston in the early Summer

14.             McDougal Street at Dusk with coffee or booze in me and Martin still alive

15.             climbing through the ruins at Mesa Verde

16.             The underground cities of Cappadoccia, Turkey

17.             The lakes & mountains of Guilin, China

18.             The deserts and ruins surrounding the valley of the kings at Sunset

19.             Effes (particularly the prostitute’s footprint)

20.             60 feet underwater in the reef at Grand Cayman

21.             Driving South on the 101 into Hollywood on a clear night

22.             Arriving at my daughter’s school and watching her face light up when she sees me

23.       Entering the Lobby of the Palmer House in Chicago, my home away from home

24.       At the base of the mountain called "the queen", near Troll Stiegan in Norway

25.        The view from the top of the rock hill on Birka, Sweden

26.       Coming into Las Vegas at night with a pocket full of cash

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            My top most watched movies as an adult

 

 

       The obligatory Hollywood boyz list of the ten best films

 

1.      The Godfather I & II

2.      Fellini’s Satyricon

3.      The Good The Bad and The Ugly

4.      Taxi Driver

5.      Citizen Kane

6.      Rosemary’s Baby

7.      2001 A Space Odyssey

8.      Seven Samurai

9.      Lawrence of Arabia

10.    Fight Club

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       60 of the best films (mostly American movies)

 

1.      The Godfather

2.      Jacobs Ladder

3.      Total Recall

4.      Schindler’s List

5.      Braveheart

6.      Working Girl

7.      The Matrix

8.      Sense and Sensibility

9.      The Big Picture

10.  Moonstruck

11.  Sophie’s Choice

12.  Gettysburg

13. The Deer hunter

14.  The Lord of the Rings

15.  Platoon

16.  Only the Lonely

17.  Raging Bull

18.  The Shawshank Redemption

19.  Pretty Woman

20.  Far and Away

21.  A Beautiful Mind

22.  Gladiator

23.  American Beauty

24.  Gandhi

25.  Primary Colors

26.  Brazil

27.  Goodfellas

28.  Queen Margot

29.  The Pianist

30.  Field of Dreams

31.  Hunt for Red October

32.  Casablanca

33.  Henry and June

34.  Dave

35.  The Big Night

36.  Once Upon a Time in America

37.  Cabaret

38.  Altered States

39.  Beverly Hills Cop

40.  Groundhog Day

41.  48 Hours

42.  Sex, Lies and Videotape

43.  Forest Gump

44.  Legends of The Fall

45.  Silence of the Lambs

46.  American President

47.  The Year of Living Dangerously

48.  The Player

49.  And the Band Played On

50.  The Conversation

51.  Spirited Away

52.  What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

53.  Shakespeare in Love

54.  The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her Lover

55.  A Beautiful Mind

56.  Cinderella Man

57.  The Year of Living Dangerously

58.  Repulsion

59. The Tenant

60.  Maltese Falcon

 

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      (30 Movies that I watched over tens times each as a kid)

 

1.  Billy Jack

2.  The Fearless Vampire Killers

3. The Poseidon Adventure

4.  The Man Who Would Be King

5.  Fantasia

6.  Bless the Beasts and the Children

7.  The Adventures of Robin Hood (with Errol Flynn)

8.  The Wizard of Oz

9.  Monty Python and the Holy Grail

10.  Blazing Saddles

11.  Young Frankenstein

12.  Risky Business

13.  Videodrome

14.  Reds

15.  Trading Places

16.  Night of the Living Dead

17.  El Topo

18.  Eraser Head

19.  Star Wars

20.  Spartacus

21.  Patton

22.  The Exorcist

23.  Barbarella

24.  Barry Lyndon

25.  Aguirre, Wrath of God

26.  The Tenant

27.  Blow Up

28.  Excaliber

29.  Jaws

30.  Dune

              

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       Favorite Books & Writers     -  or   click here for a list of all the books I've ever read

 

FAVORITE BOOKS

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien,

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

Brave New World by Alois Huxley

Shogun by James Clavel

The Cider House Rules by John Irving,

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco,

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake,

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis,

A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway,

The Diaries of Anais Nin,

A Biography of Adolf Hitler by John Toland,

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone,

The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin,

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederick Nietzsche,

Sexual Persona by Camiel Paglia

Creation by Gore Vidal

Julian by Gore Vidal

Pillars of the Earth by John Fowlet

I Claudius by Robert Graves

Contact by Carl Segan

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

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ALL THE BOOKS & PLAYS I'VE READ  (in alphabetical order by Author)

by Louisa May Alcott: Little Women,

by Dante Allegretti: The Inferno,

by Hans Christian Anderson: Collected stories

by Kenneth Anger: Hollywood Babylon,

by Fernando Arrabal: And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers,

by Antonin Arteau: Theater and its Double

by Isaac Asimov: THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY

by Clive Barker: The Book of Blood

by Peter Benchly: Jaws,

by William Peter Blatty: The Exorcist,

by Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential, Nasty Bits

by Terry Brooks: Sword of Shinnarra,

by Pearl S Buck: The Good Earth,

by  Anthony Burgess: The Naked Ape,  Caligula,

by Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden,

by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian,

by William S Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Junkie,

by Frijov Capra: The Tao of Physics,

by Lewis Carol: Alice in Wonderland,

by Lin Carter: Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, The Tolkien Reader

by Carlos Castaneda: The Yaqui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality, The Teachings of Don Juan, Tales of Power,

by Bruce Catton: Before the Storm, Stillness at Appomattox, the Killer Angels, This Hallowed Ground,

by Julius Caesar: Conquests,

by James Clavel: Shogun, Tai Pan, Noble House,

by Collette: Collected Stories

by Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness,

by Michael Creighton: Jurassic Park, Congo, Rising Sun, Eaters of the Dead, The Lost World, Sphere, Flashback, Content,

by Alistair Crowley: 777, Magick, The Book of Thoth,

by E E Cummings: Collected Poetry,

by Babba Ram Das: The only Dance There Is,

by Philip K Dick: Collected Short Stories,

by Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations,

by Dostoevsky: White Nights,

by Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle: Sherlock Holmes,

by Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy

by Lord Dunsany: If, Laughter of the Gods, Collected Plays,

by Will Durant: Selected Histories,

by Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose,

by E R Edison: The Worm Oraborus,

by TS Eliot: The Book of Cats, The Wasteland,

by Euripides: The Bacchae,

by F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby,

by E M Forester: Passage to India,

by John Fowlet: Pillars of the Earth,

by Paul Gauguin: Noa Noa,

by Kahil Gibran: The Prophet,

by Goethe: Faustus

by Robert Graves: I Claudius, Claudius the God,  Greek Myths

by the Brothers Grimm : Tale from the Brother's Grimm,

by Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land,

by Ernest Hemmingway: A Movable Feat, Collected Short Stories,

by Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf,

by Frank Herbert: Dune

by Homer: The Oddesy (Fitzgerald translation),

by Victor Hugo: Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dam,

by Aldeus Huxley: Brave New World, Doors of Perception,

by  Eugene Ionessco: Rhinoceros,

by John Irving: The Cider House Rules,

by Thomas Jefferson:

by James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners,

by Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis,

by Jack Kerouac: On The Road,

by Stephen King: The Stand,

by Rudyard Kipling: Collected Stories

by Harold Lamb: Omar Kayam,

by Ursula LeGuin: THE EARTHSEA TRILOGY: The Wizard of Earthsea,

by CS Lewis: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Horse and His Boy, The Silver Chair, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Magician's Nephew, The Last Battle, THE SPACE TRILOGY: Paralandra, Out of the Silent Planet, That Hideous Strength.  The Screwtape Letters, A Question of Faith, A Case for Miracles,

by Astrid Lindgrin: Pippi Longstocking,

by HP Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Letters of HP Lovecraft,

by Machiavelli: The Prince,

by Albertus Magnus:

by Sir Thomas Mallory: La Morte de Artur

by Geoffrey of Manmoth: History of the Kings of England,

by Thomas Mann: Steppenwolf, Siddhartha,

by Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus,

by McGregor Mathers: Magick in Theory and Practice, A Practical Key to the Tarot

by George McDonald: The Golden Key

by John McPhee: Annals of the Former World,

by Abra Melin: The Sacred Book of Abra Melin the Mage,

by Herman Melville: Moby Dick,

by Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman,

by Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer

by  A A Miln: Winnie the Pooh,

by Yukio Mishima: Sun and Steel, Spring Snow,

by Mohamed: selections from the Koran,

by Michael Moore: What Have You Done With My Country,

by William Morris:

by Frederick Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra,

by Anais Nin: THE DIARIES OF ANAIS NIN, Delta of Venus,

by George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm,

by Camille Paglia: Sexual Personae, Essays on Popular Culture,

by Mervyn Peake: THE GORMENGAST TRILOGY: Titus Groan, Gormengast, Titus Alone

by Petronius: The Satyricon,

by Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party,

by Plato: Utopia,

by Edgar Allen Poe: Collected Stories

by Ezra Pound: Cantos,

by Ann Rice: Interview with a Vampire

by Jean Paul Sartre: No Exit, Being and Nothingness,

by Patricia Schultz: One Thousand Places to Go Before You Die,

by Carl Segan: Contact, Borca's Brain

by Seneca: Oedipus,

by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Henry V, Richard III,

by George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion, A Study of Wagner's Ring Cycle,

by Alain Silver: The Director's Team,

by Socrates:

by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex,

by Albert Spear: Inside the Third Reich,

by Irving Stone: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Lust for Life,

by Jeffery Sweet:  Something Wonderful Right Away,

by Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail,

by John Toland: The Biography of Adolf Hitler, Empire of the Rising Sun,

by JRR TOLKIEN: The Hobbit, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King. The Silmarillion, The Unfinished Tales (with Christopher Tolkien), Smith of Wooton Major, Farmer Giles of Ham, Sir Gawain and the Green Night, Beorthelm - Beortnoth's Son,  The Father Christmas Letters, Songs of Middle Earth (with Donald Swan), The Letters of JRR Tolkien,

by William Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces,

by Sun Tsu: The Art of War

by Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror,

by Amos Tutuola : My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

by  Mark Twain: Prince and the Pauper, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life of the Mississippi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,

by  Vincent van Gogh: Dear Theo (the letters of Vincent van Gogh),

by Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,

by Gore Vidal: Creation, Lincoln, Burr, Julian, Empire, The Road to Golgotha, Hollywood,

by Erik Von Donigat: Chariots of the Gods

by Kurt Vonnegut: Welcome to the Monkey House, Slaughterhouse Five,

by  H G Wells: War of the Worlds, The Time Machine,

by Charles Williams: The Greater Trumps

by Xenophan: Cyrus the Great,

by William Butler Yeats: Collected Poems,

by Roger Zelazney: The Zelazney Trilogy,

by Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States,

by various ancient authors: The Bible (old testament, new testament, apocrypha, Revelations, letters of Paul), selections from The Bhagavad-Gita, The Ramayana, Beowulf, The Mabanogion, The X Codex, The Popol Vuh, The Ring of the Niebelungend, The Torah, selections from The Talmud, selections from the Kabala, the Prose Edda, the I Ching, the Book of Tao, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Gilgamesh, Selections from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Gnostic Bible, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene,  Selections from the Aenid,

by  various occult text books: Power Through Witchcraft, Practical Candle Burning, The Satanic Bible, I Ching, a Pictorial key to the Tarot,

by  Various Children's Authors: Aesop's Fables, Cat in the Hat, The Sneeches, Green Eggs and Ham, Danny and the Dinosaur, A Fly Went By, Goodnight Moon, Fairy Tales from Mexico, Lyle the Alligator, Tales of Children from Around the World, MY BOOK HOUSE BOOKS, MOTHER GOOSE, Frog and Toad, The Purple Fairy Book, A Viking Adventure, Leif Eriksson, Tecumseh, The Life of Buddha, Gopal,

by Text Book Authors: The Course of German History, History of the Middle Ages, The Early Middle Ages, Historical Maps of World Diasporas, Maps of the World through the Ages, Tanks of the Soviet Union, A Look at Transactional Analysis, History of the late Middle Ages, The Age of Reason, Advanced Theories in Mathematics, Fundamentals of Go, Joseki Attack and Kill, The End Game, An Encyclopedia of Chess, PADI dive manual, The Ancient World, TIME LIFE BOOKS - Early Man, The Universe, The Sea, The Orient, Mexico, All About Dinosaurs,

by  Art Books and Compilations: Western Art of Heaven and Hell, Tarzan Films, Movies of the Silent Era, The Films of Laurel and Hardy, the Films of Charlie Chaplin, The History and Art of Walt Disney, Book of the Weird, Bizarre Things, Swedish Cinema, Dutch Painting through the Ages, Chicago - a History in Pictures, A Collection of American Poetry, Poetry of the World, The Art of Paul Gauguin, Impressionism, The Art of Vincent van Gogh, Picasso, Hans Holbein, An Encyclopedia of Strange and Unusual Things, Culinaria,

by  : Godel, Escher, Bach

by : In Search of the Golden Horn

by : A History of Intoxicants

by : Diary of a Sex Addict

by : The Bell Jar,

by : Plants are Like People

by  : Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,

by  : The Family,

by  : Helter Skelter,

by  : "M" Caravaggio,

by  : Mythology,

by  : The Biography of Camile Pissaro,

by  : Einstein's Dreams,

by  : Sophie's Dreams,

by  : The Sword of Constantine,

by  : Chaos

by  : In Search of Middle Earth

by  : Since Yesterday,

by  : Girl With the Pearl Earring,

by  : Utrillo's Mother,

by  : The Little Prince,

by  : Tecumseh,

by  : Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Gregory  : Nigger,

by : Andromeda Strain, 2001, 2010,

by : The Biography of Rudolf Von Habsburg,

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       FAVORITE ARTISTS

 

Vincent Van Gogh

Claude Monet

Turner

Rubens

Hokusai

Gigor

Dali

Vameer

Bottocelli

William Morris

Carl Larson

Tolouse Lautrec

 

 

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       FAVORITE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

 

Mike Oldfield

David Bedford

Philip Glass

Steve Reich

Brian Eno

Deep Forest

Enigma

Dead Can Dance

Yes

Genesis

Gentle Giant

Pink Floyd

Bach

Wagner

Puccini

Renaissance Music

Fakir Ali Khan

Indian Music

Kaleed

Finnish Folk Fusion

Lucio Dalia

Andre Bocelli

French Cabaret Music

Many Musicals (Les Miserables, Sweeny Todd, Aspects of Love...)

 

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