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Foods Meals Cuisines Must haves Herbs Spices Holiday Meals best diet items worst "best" diet items Worst Tasted to Never Eat Best Pizza Worst Pizza
1. Oysters
2. Cheese
3. Korean Pickled Stuff
4. Shellfish
5. Soup
6. Noodles
7. Good Caviar
8. Fish (raw, smoked, cured, pickled, or cooked - you name it)
9. European Bread
10. Spanish Ham
1. Dim Sum
2. Korean Barbeque
3. Riz Toffel
4. Jul Bord
5. A Classic French 7 course Meal from Aperitif to the after dinner Cheese Plate - 'bon apatite'
6. Sushi
7. Sauerbraten or Eisbein, with Dumplings, Red Cabbage, Beer - Sultze starter & Leber Knodel Suppe. -+
Strudel & Coffee
8. Bouillabaisse
9. Indian Buffet
10. Chinese Banquet
1. Chinese
2. French
3. Japanese
4. Italian
5. Indian
6. Turkish
7. German
8. Mexican
9. Spanish
10. Deli
TOP 10 "must-have at least one" FOOD FLAVORS!
1. Salt
2. Onion
3. Garlic
4. Soy Sauce
5. Hot Chili Pepper
6. Sugar
7. Ginger
8. Cinnamon
9. Vinegar
10. Pepper/White Pepper
1. Parsley
2. Cilantro
3. Basil
4. Oregano
5. Rosemary
6. Bay Leaves
7. Mint
8. Sage
9. Tarragon
10. Dill
1. Pepper/White Pepper
2. Cinnamon
3. Paprika
4. Cumin
5. Nutmeg
6. Saffron
7. Cloves
8. Coriander
9. Allspice
10. Fennel
1. Jul Bord (Swedish Christmas smorgasbord)
2. Seder (the Passover meal)
3. Thanksgiving Dinner
4. Mother's Day Brunch
5. Easter Ham
6. Feast of St. Michael spaghetti pile
7. Memorial Day Picnic/barbeque
8. Ginza festival Japanese street food
9. Greek Easter Lamb
10. Diwali Day Indian feast
Top 10 best Pizzas (within my limited experience)!
1. Pizzeria Due's (Chicago) Deep Dish Sausage, Onion, Black Olive, Green Pepper, & Garlic
2. Giordano's (Chicago) Stuffed Sausage
3. Any Pizza in or near Napoli - especially with anchovies (my favorite is Napolitan)
4. A Slice of cheese + 1 at any reputable Pizza Joint in NYC (must be huge and folded in half to eat)
5. Pizza for one in Paris with an egg in the middle and a bottle of chili infused olive oil on the table
6. Pizza in an outdoor cafe in Rome - you each get a different one and share. Eat with a fork and knife. Yum
7. White Pizza with Arrugula (my wife's favorite): in Italy mostly but some USA places will make it "off the menu"
8. Eduardo's (Chicago) Stuffed Spinach - plus mushrooms if you don't mind the moisture
9. German/Austrian pizza loaded with speck (cured pork belly) - salty greasy goodness and great in the winter
10. Vito's (Los Angeles) New York Style Cheese & Sausage (must be served immediately so the crust snaps)
Top 10 WORST Pizzas! - (note: even if the pizza is bad some of these are fun)
1. Single serving micro-waved pizzas at the movie theater - they are expensive AND THEY SUCK!
2. Any "Store Brand" frozen pizza "On Sale!" It's bound to have rubbery tasteless crust & sparse freezer burned cheese - yuck
3. Chuckey Cheese - OMG! If you are not throwing a kid's B-day party then WHY? WHY?
4. Domino's (the more ingredients the more tolerable) But why not save the calories and throw salt & tomato-water on some cardboard
5. Little Ceasar's/Pizza Hut Express/Pepe's and other such chains (This is what the rest of the world is referring to when they complain that American's have no understanding of food and that we institutionalize great cuisines just to make a buck)
6. Shakey's Pizza & Pizza Hut the restaurant (eat here for the salad bar and the pitchers of soda - these are better than any of the above - kind of like Store-brand TV dinners are better than munching on really good cat chow)
7. Any thin Pizza, even good pizza, that sits in the delivery box for too long: The crust is mush. IT'S MUSH I TELL YOU!
8. CPK - California Pizza Kitchen - 5% of the time I actually enjoy their Thai or Barbeque pizza - but the other 95% it seems like nothing more than leftovers on a crust. Save the 20 bucks and dump that old carton of Kung Pow Chicken on a cheap frozen pizza and bake it up - it's the same as CPK only without the groovy calorie counter in the menu.
9. Back in the old days there were "do-it-yourself" pizza kits kind of like Hamburger Helper for Pizza. WOW - WHAT A MISTAKE! I tried to make one with my mother once. It came out like a half raw mutant pretzel with Ragu on it.
10. The dry corners & left over bits of yesterdays once drunken binge delivery "za" eaten on day two with a hangover - this may sound awful but it is truly the best out of all of the above
Top 10 best low cal eats for dieters!
1. fresh Cucumbers (eat one peeled with a sprinkle of salt as a snack - 15 calories)
2. Cabbage (especially as soup - no calories or fat - its filling - and you can eat a ton)
3. Root and Cabbage stew (onion, cabbage, carrot, celery, turnip, beet, and any other non-starch root or veg)
4. Daikon Radish with a sprinkle of Lawry's season salt (just a touch)
5. V8 juice with lots of celery
6. Tofu
7. Raw Salmon, Tuna, and Yellow Tail (low cal, all protein, delicious)
8. Salad - lots of greens - no oil or croutons (try balsamic herb dressing or homemade yogurt ranch)
9. Egg whites - very low cal - and if you add one yolk to every three whites it's almost like regular.
10. bring Pop chips or flavored rice cakes to movie theaters instead of popcorn (100-300 cals instead of 500-2000)
Top 10 worst supposed low cal eats for dieters!
1. trail mix & granolas (tons of fat and calories)
2. roasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds (might as well eat a meatball sandwich)
3. "Low Cal" Dressings (YIKES! These can ruin a diet fast they have so many calories)
4. dried fruit (all the calories of real fruit only you can eat a lot more of 'em)
5. Fruit juice (add vitamin C to some Mountain Dew - it's similar in calories)
6. pickles (they have no calories and are perfect when you need some diet-deli, but there is SO MUCH SALT that you will swell like a balloon and it may take you days to lose the water weight).
7. lean Red Meat (it is shocking how much fat and calories it has compared to chicken and fish - SHOCKING)
8. Specialty Salads ordered in a Restaurant (they are usually over 1000 calories each - it is more than the pot roast dinner: BEWARE)
9. Beans (eaten the right way beans are great - but in general they are very high in calories and carbohydrates: VERY HIGH)
10. Chinese WOK stir-fry at a restaurant (this is 3000 calories per communal serving dish and all salt: not a diet backslide but an AVALANCHE)
Top 10 least favorite foods that I do not like or will not try!
1. Any type of edible bug (I had my first and last roasted cricket in Bangkok - BRRRRRR)
2. Eyeballs (only blended into hot dog meat please)
3. Animal Genitals (rocky mountain oyster or any penis) - if they are big enough to see then get 'em outta my food!
4. Things that have been in other people's mouths - especially that fermented spit-drink in the Amazon
5. Raw Sea Squirt (it tastes like band aid adhesive)
6. Snake bile in Chinese "good health" drink -- NO THANK YOU!
7. A "Baloot" - The Pilipino chicken egg where the chick is almost fully developed - GHAAGHAG!
8. Chicken anus - it's a big deal in Singapore - BUT NOT FOR ME!
9. Botarga - a Sicilian delicacy, it is the sperm of the tuna. Ughhh - NOT ON MY LIST!
10. The sadistic delicacy in Asia of live brains eaten out of a monkey's head. I'D BURN DOWN THE RESTAURANT FIRST!
Top 10 WORST organic substances we accidentally Swallow!
1. Weird stuff during sex that shouldn't be there
2. Eating meat that has already turned and not realizing it - the taste memory haunts you for weeks
3. One's own vomit swallowed back to avoid spewing it out in a public place
4. Boogers - we all tried 'em when we were little - REMEMBER?
5. Seeing that a loved-one didn't wash their hands after pooping and then they serve you food - I can almost see the specks
6. Baby Spit-up - impossible to avoid eventually getting some in your mouth when you're feeding your baby
7. Finding a half eaten roach in your food - especially at a restaurant -- where's the rest?
8. Gobbling down a bowl of cereal that you realize later is full of weevils
9. Eating something in the dark that doesn't taste right. When the lights go on you see that it is covered in mold-fur.
10. A drink at a party that you think is yours but its not, and someone has spit or put a cigarette out in it. SLURP!
US cities Cities in Europe Spots on Earth Countries Art Museums Disneyland rides All Cool Places Sex Spots Non-Urban US spots Non-Urban European Spots
1. Chicago
2. New York
3. New Orleans
4. San Francisco
5. Boston
6. Washington DC
7. Seattle
8. Huston
9. Los Angeles
10. Honolulu
1. Paris
2. Venice
3. Vienna
4. Barcelona
5. Prague
6. London
7. Amsterdam
8. Madrid
9. Rome
10. Istanbul
Top 10 Non-Urban Spots in the USA!
1. Provincetown, MA
2. Bristol, VT and the surrounding Green Mountains and farms
3. The forests and lakes of Wisconsin
4. The majestic coastline of California
5. Napa & Sonoma Valley
6. the Red Rock area around Sedona, AZ
7. The Rockies
8. The great forest lands of the South Eastern US
9. Crumbling Antebellum mansions near the bayous outside of New Orleans (I would buy one in another life)
10. The jungle covered mountains of Oahu, HI
Top 10 Non-Urban Spots in Europe!
1. Fjords in Norway
2. Cutting through the Ice Sheets on the Frozen Baltic in Winter in a ship
3. Passing the Rock of Gibraltar on the way to North Africa
4. Greek Islands
5. Karnack - the prehistoric field of monoliths in Western France
6. The Battlefield of the Verdun (my grandfather fought there in WWI)
7. The mountain towns of Transylvania
8. The bone filled churches of Austria
9. The fountains of Tivoli outside of Rome
10. The Swiss Alps and Alpine Villages on the way up to Jungfrau at 14,000 ft
Top 10 Favorite Spots on Earth!
1. Going South towards the John Hancock on Lake Shore Drive (Chicago)
2. Sant Chapelle with Vivaldi music playing (Paris)
3. The canals in Bruges during the Summer, floating in a small boat (Belgium)
4. The Red Light District in Amsterdam - alone (and single) at midnight (Netherlands)
5. Walking Barefoot at the Shuadagon Pagoda (Rangoon, Burma)
6. 60 feet underwater in the amazing coral reef at Grand Cayman (The Caribbean)
7. Arriving at my daughter’s school and watching her face light up when she sees me (Anywhere that she is)
8. Stepping out of the old train station in Venice and suddenly seeing the first canal. Breathtaking! ("sinking" part of Italy)
9. The deserts and ruins surrounding the Valley Of The Kings at Sunset (Egypt)
10. Driving into Las Vegas at night with my gal and a pocket full of cash (Wonderland)
1. The Musee de Orsey (Paris)
2. The Lourve (Paris)
3. The Kunst Historiche Muset (Vienna)
4. The National Gallery (Washington DC)
5. The Prado (Madrid)
6. The Art Institute (Chicago)
7. The Metropolitan (New York)
8. The Vatican (Rome)
9. The Topkapi Palace (Istanbul)
10. The Riijk's Museum (Amsterdam)
Top 10 Best Rides at Disneyland's Magic Kingdom!
1. Space Mountain
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. The Haunted Mansion
4. Thunder Mountain
5. Star Tours
6. The Jungle Cruise
7. Peter Pan
8. Storybook Land Boat Rides
9. It's A Small World
10. The Matterhorn
1. in your bed or the other person's bed
2. in a tent, and then outside the tent, and then back in the tent
3. in anyone else's bed (especially the parent's bed when the parent's are gone - it's so nasty)
4. in any car at every possible angle
5. Drunk as hell up against the wall or sink in the Bathroom of a bar
6. In a back room at a crowded party - alone or with another couple (or more - what the heck!)
7. in a hotel or motel room as soon as you walk through the door and drop your bags (and your pants)
8. in the Alley - for a gloriously depraved sense of insatiable virility (and koodies)
9. in the video stall of an adult bookstore (a clean one preferable - if not, don't touch the floor)
10. Any time, any place you can find out of public view (or in it for a real thrill); just drop to the ground and go for it
Master List for Best Places on Earth
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
TOP 10 FILMS FOR ME AS A FILM SNOB!
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
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
(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
Top 10 ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS!
1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien,
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
3. The Diaries of Anais Nin
4. A Biography of Adolf Hitler by John Toland
5. Creation by Gore Vidal
6. Pillars of the Earth by John Fowlet
7. Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
8. Contact by Carl Segan
9. Shogun by James Clavel
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Top 10 Historical Novels (not listed elsewhere)!
1. The Civil War Series by Bruce Catton
2. Caligula by Anthony Burgess
3. The I Claudius book series by Robert Graves
4. Lincoln by Gore Vidal
5. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
6. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
7. Julian by Gore Vidal
8. Girl with the Pearl Earring
9. The Iliad & The Odyssey - Homer
10. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
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1. Jurassic Park by Michael Creighton
2. Sphere by Michael Creighton
3. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
4. Tai Pan by James Clavel
5. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
6. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
7. Disclosure by Michael Creighton
8. Contact by Carl Segan
9. The Stand by Steven King
10. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
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Top 10 Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels (not listed elsewhere)!
1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien,
2. The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
3. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
4. Titus Groan & Gormengast by Mervyn Peake
5. The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams
6. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
7. Book of Blood by Clive Barker
8. The Sword of Shanarra by Terry Brooks
9. Brave New World by Alois Huxley
10. The Andromeda Strain by Arthur C Clark
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Top 10 Favorite Classics (not listed elsewhere)!
1. Ring of the Niebelungen (epic mythos)
2. The Time Machine by H G Wells
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
8. Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn by Mark Twain
9. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
10. Le Morte de Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
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1. Sexual Persona by Camiel Paglia
2. Siddhartha by Thomas Mann
3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederick Nietzsche
4. Borca's Brain by Carl Sagan
5. What have you done with my country by Michael Moore
6. The Old Testament (selected parts - my new favorite is Ezekiel)
7. Magick by Alistair Crowley
8. No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
9. The Yaqui Way of Knowledge/Tales of Power series by Carlos Castaneda
10. Sun And Steel by Yukio Mishima
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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 De Saint-Exupery Antoine : The Little Prince,
by : Tecumseh,
by : Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Gregory : Nigger,
by Arthur C Clark: Andromeda Strain, 2001, 2010,
by : The Biography of Rudolf Von Habsburg,
by : 1491
by : The Last Emperor of Mexico
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In General People I Know People I Don't Know In History
Top 10 General Influences on ME!
1. Parents & Family (especially the Legacy of my Father & Mother)
2. Friends & Lovers
3. Teachers, Classes, & Learning
4. Books, Music, Art & Museums (especially in other countries)
5. Theater & Movies
6. Spirituality & the Question of The Unknown (the Occult World of Mysticism and the Gods)
7. Travel & Adventures to Foreign Lands (especially Food)
8. Being a Father and a Husband
9. The Drive to Succeed - to Realize my Potential fully - to be Excellent at Something - and To Become Rich
10. The Need to be Remembered by History
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Top 10 People that I know well who became Guru-Influences on ME!
1. Josephine Raciti Forsberg (My Mother - an amazing teacher, theater guru, & psychologist)
2. Rolf Forsberg (My Father - a scholar, world traveler, gourmand, and independent filmmaker)
3. Paolo Durazzo (my first new movie-maker buddy in Hollywood - he dreamed the dream)
4. Charles Schneider (an Artist and Filmmaker friend - he was always creating something - I was his acolyte)
5. Chris Henry (a High School friend into Pink Floyd, getting high, Eastern Spiritualism, & D&D)
6. Martin deMaat (a close cousin and an improv teacher - so loving & fun - I visited him in NYC a hundred times)
7. Neil Giuntoli (an influential friend throughout my life - very opinionated and smart)
8. Cousin Albert (he taught me how to be a street-punk when I was a kid - now he's in the slammer a lot)
9. David Latt (a producer at The Asylum - he took me under his wing and helped me develop half a dozen scripts)
10. Marie Stone (my High School literature teacher - she taught me how to think)
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Top 10 People that I did not know who became Guru-Influences on ME!
1. JRR Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit changed my life at 12: he is my soul's father)
2. Anais Nin (She is my journal writing Guru and my heart's guide to the French literary life - she is magical to me)
3. Mike Oldfield (His first 3 albums became the soundtracks to my life until my mid twenties)
4. Philip Glass (His music became the soundtrack to my life in my 20s & 30s)
5. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather was more than a movie - it was a treatise on how to be a man)
6. Michael Moore (his ultra liberal diatribes helped shape the blob of my own liberal political make-up)
7. Vincent vanGogh (I wrote a play about him and felt that he was with me. He's still there in a way - for the good)
8. Stuart Gordon (he made great fun theater in Chicago when I was growing up - my own plays emulated his)
9. John Toland (his obsession with Hitler and World War II became mine - I am horrified and fascinated - everyday)
10. Chairman Kagga (his show Iron Chef changed my life and bonded me to my wife indelibly - she's a chef)
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Top 10 Influential People on Western History!
1. Jesus
2. Moses
3. Walt Disney
4. Galileo
5. Isaac Newton
6. Leonardo deVinci
7. Albert Einstein
8. William Shakespeare
9. Charlemagne
10. Mohamed
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Painters Musicians Architects Designers
Top 10 Painters!
Vincent Van Gogh
Claude Monet
Turner
Rubens
Hokusai
Gigor
Dali
Vameer
Bottocelli
William Morris
Carl Larson
Tolouse Lautrec
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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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Sensations Feelings Body Parts Kitchen Utensils Best Smells Worst Smells
1. Sex
2. relieving yourself after the agony of having to REALLY go!
3. getting something spiny out of your eye
4. getting something annoying out from between your teeth
5. scratching a really bad itch
6. chugging down a tall glass of water when parched
7. sleeping next to your lover with your arms wrapped around them
8. a great, wet, sexy kiss
9. throwing your shoes and clothes off at the end of a hard day
10. a really comfortable hotel bed
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1. Having a family
2. Love
3. being liked
4. Success in one's work
5. the physical relief of suddenly getting a pile of money and not having to worry anymore
6. winning
7. Finishing a book
8. Getting a good report from the doctor
9. Giving a gift that is needed
10. When someone likes your cooking
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TOP 10 Body Parts to have that do not keep you alive!
1. Eyes
2. Ears
3. Hands & Arms
4. Tongue
5. Genitals
6. Feet & Legs
7. Butt
8. Groovy Tail
9. Siamese Twin
10. Dangly, Unconscious, Fetal Twin
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Top 10 Most Useful Kitchen Utensils!
1. Knife
2. Spoon
3. Can Opener
4. Spatula
5. Fork
6. Ladle/Big Spoon
7. Strainer
8. Prongs
9. Wisk
10. Cork Screw
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1. something good cooking
2. sandalwood
3. her perfume
4. flowers
5. a forest
6. mom's house (when she was younger)
7. approaching an airport/jet fuel (it means a trip)
8. the pool area at a really nice resort
9. freshly washed girl-hair
10. air after the rain
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Top 10 Worst things to suddenly Smell!
1. some guy taking a crap in the stall next to you
2. crazy alley-person piss-pants
3. old dog turds after the snow melts (it has fermented - like shit-cheese)
4. a stranger's fart wafting over to you in a restaurant
5. coffee/cigarette/tooth decay morning breath
6. the stinky guy (we all know one)
7. yeast infection
8. rotten meat
9. dead rat in the wall
10. week old porta-potty innards
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Last edited 08/18/2011