My Favorite Entertainment

Literature

Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I tend to prefer gritty contemporary literature. The following are some of my favorite authors and works.

J. D. Salinger, short stories
Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Mark Twain, short stories
Elmore Leonard
Franz Kafka, short stories
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
George Orwell

Music

I have Van Gogh's ear for music.

These are some of my favorite bands and artists.

AC/DC
Beck
Billie Holiday
Bob Dylan
Cake
Charlie Parker
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Daft Punk
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Eric Clapton
Everlast
Hank Williams
Jamiroquai
Janis Joplin
John Coltrane
John (Cougar) Mellencamp
Johnny Cash
Led Zeppelin
Louis Armstrong
Mose Allison
The Neck Stomp Band
No Doubt
Phish
The Pixies
R. E. M.
Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Simon And Garfunkel
Sublime
The Tower of Power
Weird Al Yankovic
Woody Guthrie

Movies

I prefer movies that are set in the real world with stories that do not depend on magic and that rely more on acting than on special effects. I tend to like independent films and dislike blockbusters. I also feel that that there is a lack of movies that portray strong, complex, or multi-dimensional female characters and so I prefer movies that do. I am not offended by depictions of sex or violence. These are some of my favorites.

A Clockwork Orange A Few Good Men Almost Famous Amelie * American Beauty Apocalypse Now Bend It Like Beckham * The Big Lebowski The Bridge On The River Kwai Bullitt Chinatown Crimson Tide Dead Man Walking Dolores Claiborne Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Easy Rider Fargo Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Fight Club Full Metal Jacket Go Good Night, and Good Luck The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Gossford Park The Graduate Love and a .45 The Godfather The Godfather 2 Jackie Brown Killing Zoe Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels The Magnificent Seven Magnolia The Man Who Wasn't There Miller's Crossing Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life North By Northwest One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Out Of Sight Permanent Midnight Psycho Pulp Fiction Requiem For A Dream Reservoir Dogs The Royal Tenenbaums * Lola Rennt [Run Lola Run] Scarface Scent Of A Woman The Secret of Roan Inish * Secrets And Lies Seppuku (aka Harakiri) Se7en Shichinin No Samurai [The Seven Samurai] The Silence Of The Lambs The Shawshank Redemption Swimming Pool Sydney (aka Hard Eight) This Is Spinal Tap Tonari no Totoro (aka My Neighbor Totoro) * Trainspotting True Romance 12 Monkeys The Usual Suspects U-Turn Whale Rider * * Suitable for children.

Television

Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

I don't own a television receiver. I only watch TV shows from the internet.

These are some of the television shows that I have enjoyed in my life:

3-2-1 Contact
60 Minutes
Andy Richter Controls The Universe
Arrested Development
The Daily Show
Frontline
Jackass
Jeopardy
Meet The Press
Nova
Pinky And The Brain
The Powerpuff Girls
Saturday Night Live
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
The Simpsons
Trailer Park Boys
sports

I get most of my news from National Public Radio and Google News. I also find Car Talk entertaining.