Books

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, James Howard Kunstler

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell

This Is Burning Man, Brian Doherty

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A. J. Jacobs

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession, Adam Leith Gollner

Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Elizabeth Royte

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens

And I Alone Survived, Lauren Elder

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

T.A.Z. Temporary Autonomous Zones, Hakim Bey

All Quiet on the Western Front, Anti War

Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea, Steven Callahan, Survival

A Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Reality

Art and Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland, The Challenges of Artmaking

My Life So Far, Noalla O'Fallain, Middle Age

Sore Winners, John Powers, TV criticism

4 Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Jerry Mander, TV Criticism

The Prize, Daniel Yergin, History of Oil

This is Burning Man, History of Burning man

Alive, Piers Paul Read, Survival

Out of Control, Kevin Kelly vivisystems: living systems

Phantoms of the Brain, Ramachandran, Neurology and Phantom limbs

An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks, Neurology

Sound Design: A Handbook of Musical Instrument Building, Reinhold Banek & Jon Scoville

Natural Born Cyborgs, Cyborgs

Trust Us We're Experts, Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber How industry manipulates science

A Little Book on the Human Shadow, Robert Bly, The human shadow

The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff, Taoism

Mapping the Mind, Rita Carter, How the Brain Works

The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins, Evolution

Movies

Moral Oral: season 1

Delecatessen- Very dark comedy

Charlie Wilson's War

Favela Rising- Documentary about Brazilian Slums

Breakfast on Pluto

The Fall- Another awsome movie from Tarsem Singh He also made "The Cell" Both Visually stunning

Battlestar Galactica

Bomb it

Lars and the Real Girl

I Like killing Flies- Documentary about a resturant in NY

Black Snake Moan

The Fog of War

The lives of Others

Kagemusha-Akira Kurosawa. This film started my adult passion for
films. ( Star Wars started my childhood passion)

Robot Chicken

Flight of the Conchords

MirrorMask

Super High Me

Sealab 2021

Secretary

Semi Pro

The Mist

The Big Lebowski

Alpha Dog

Renaissance

Pan's Labyrinth

Tideland- If you like Terry Gilliam you should like this but many
people hate this movie. I don't understand.

Dark Star- early 70's sciFi farce, bad special effects and hilarious
story

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Art School Confidential

The Lathe of Heaven- excellent 1970's movie adaptation of Ursala
LeGuins SciFi novel

American Pimp- Pimp Documentary

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Saved!- Great parody

This Film is not Yet Rated

Helvetica- For all you Font Geeks

Blades of Glory

Brick

Sideways

Genghis Blues

Long Way round

Idiocracy- Great

Napolean Dynamite

Rize

The Story of the Weeping Camel

War Dance

War Inc,

Groundhog Day

Shadow Company

Religulous

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job

Frisky Dingo season 1

Venture Brothers Season 2

Burn After Reading

Family Guy Blue Harvest

Step Brothers

Atomic Café, 1950 's Atom Bomb propaganda, montage

Touching the Void, Joe Simpson Survival

Being John Malkovich

Kanal, Wadj Polish Resistance in W.W.II