Things I Love
FAVORITE BOOKS
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Another Country (James Baldwin)
War With The Newts (Karel Capek)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X and Alex Haley)
The Devil’s Playground (Nan Goldin)
I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
The Chocolate War (Richard Cormier)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Civilization and Its Discontents (Sigmund Freud)
Before Night Falls (Reinaldo Arenas)
Mind of My Mind (Octavia Butler)
Death and the Maiden (Ariel Dorfman)
Refresh, Refresh (Benjamin Percy)
The Annunciation (Ellen Gilchrist)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Just Above My Head (James Baldwin)
The Swimming-Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst)
Life Drawing (Michael Grumley)
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (Angela Davis)
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
Hope Against Hope (Nadezhda Mandelstam)
Querelle of Brest (Jean Genet)
FAVORITE MOVIES
Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Where Is My Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
King Kong (Schoedsack & Cooper)
The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
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FAVORITE SONGS
Like a Prayer (Madonna)
You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson)
La Vie En Rose (Grace Jones)
The Passenger (Iggy Pop)
The Long Black Veil (Johnny Cash)
Like A Virgin (Madonna)
La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf)
The Silver-Tongued Devil and I (Kris Kristofferson)
Ups and Downs (Saves the Day)
Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy)
I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
Holiday in Cambodia (Dead Kennedys)
Slip Away (Clarence Carter)
When You Were Young (The Killers)
Secret Meeting (The National)
Bombs over Baghdad (Outkast)
Good Good Things (The Descendents)
Angel Gone (Beat Happening)
Master of Puppets (Metallica)
That’s How Strong My Love Is (Otis Redding)
He’s Sure The Boy I Love (The Crystals)
These Arms of Mine (Otis Redding)
He’s A Rebel (The Crystals)
Full Disclosure (Fugazi)
Letter to Memphis (The Pixies)
Monkey Gone To Heaven (The Pixies)
By Your Side (Sade)
All I’m Losing Is Me (Saves the Day)
Float On (Modest Mouse)
Thousands are Sailing (The Pogues)
Tell Yourself (Natalie Merchant)
A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke)
Man in Black (Johnny Cash)
Ain’t That News? (Sam Cooke)
Field Day for the Sundays (Wire)
Straight to Hell (The Clash)
Garageland (The Clash)
Hateful (The Clash)
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Nirvana)
I Would Rather Go Blind (Etta James)
American Jesus (Bad Religion)
Play With Fire (Rolling Stones)
Bodies (Sex Pistols)
China Girl (David Bowie)
How the West was Won and Where it Got Us (REM)
Don’t Go Back to Rockville (REM)
The Good Life (Weezer)
No One Else (Weezer)
Atomic (Blondie)
Call Me (Blondie)
Gimme the Car (Violent Femmes)
Hanging On the Telephone (Blondie)
Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (Nina Simone)
House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
Don Giovanni Overture (Mozart)
Fuck and Run (Liz Phair)
To Bring You My Love (PJ Harvey)
St James Infirmary (Perez Prados)
Commissioning A Symphony In C (Cake)
FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES
Mega Man 3 (NES)
Castlevania 3 (NES)
Mega Man 2 (NES)
Mega Man Z4 (Game Boy Advance)
Super Metroid (Super Nintendo)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PlayStation, PSP)
Castlevania: Circles of the Moon (Game Boy Advance)
Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES)
Double Dragon 2 (NES)
Zanac (NES)
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
The Castlevania Adventure 2: Belmont’s Revenge (Game Boy)
Castlevania: Bloodlines (Sega Genesis)
Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance)
Final Fantasy Adventure (Game Boy)
Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance)
Golden Axe (Arcade)
Metroid 2: Return of Samus (Game Boy)
Dragon Warrior 3 (NES)
FAVORITE POETS
Adrienne Rich
Sharon Olds
Osip Mandelstam
Langston Hughes
Adam Zagajewski
Seamus Heaney
Anna Akhmatova
Yusef Komunyakaa
T.S. Eliot
Galway Kinnell
Audre Lorde
William Carlos Williams
Federico Garcia Lorca
June Jordan
Kenneth Rexroth (’s translations from Chinese and Japanese)
Joseph Brodsky
William Shakespeare
Vladimir Mayakovsky
