Artists, Writers & Thinkers
- Writers & Poets
- Henry Miller
- Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
- Tropic of Cancer,
Tropic of Capricorn, and
Black Spring
- Sexus,
Nexus, and
Plexus
- Remember to Remember
- The Cosmological Eye
- Henry Miller on Writing
- Sunday After the War
- The Air Conditioned Nightmare
- Stand Still Like a Hummingbird
- The Time of the Assassins
- Lawrence Durrell
- The Black Book
- Bitter Lemons
- The Dark Labyrinth
- The Alexandria Quartet:
- Justine,
Balthazar,
Mountolive, and
Clea
- The Avignon Quintet:
- Monsieur,
Livia,
Constance,
Sebastian, and
Quinx
- Paul Bowles
- Let It Come Down
- The Spider's House
- The Sheltering Sky
- The Delicate Prey (short stories)
- Joseph Conrad
- Jack London
- Gary Snyder
- Turtle Island
- The Back Country
- Axe Handles
- No Nature
- Saul Bellow
- José Saramago
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
- The Stone Raft
- Blindness
- Peter Matthiessen
- Far Tortuga
- Nine-Headed Dragon River
- The Snow Leopard
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord
- William Somerset Maugham
- The Razor's Edge
- Catalina
- Of Human Bondage
- Yukio Mishima
- Spring Snow,
Runaway Horses,
The Temple of Dawn, and
The Decay of the Angel
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Miracle of Mindfulness
- Okakura Kakuzo
- Lewis Carroll
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Through the Looking Glass
- Gregory Bateson
- Steps to An Ecology of Mind
- Walt Whitman
- Henry David Thoreau
- John Steinbeck
- Blue Thursday
- Cannery Row
- The Winter of Our Discontent
- The Wayward Bus
- The Pastures of Heaven
- East of Eden
- Gore Vidal
- Jean Giono
- The Horseman on the Roof
- The Straw Man
- The Song of the World
- Harvest
- Miguel Torga
- The Creation of the World
- Edward Abbey
- Desert Solitaire
- The Serpents of Paradise
- Ernest Hemingway
- Fiesta
- To Have and Have Not
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Garden of Eden
- Islands in the Stream
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Under Kilimanjaro
- Raymond Chandler
- The Big Sleep
- Farewell, My Lovely
- The Lady in the Lake
- The Little Sister
- The Long Good-bye
- Killer in the Rain
- Dashiel Hammett
- The Glass Key
- The Dain Curse
- The Maltese Falcon
- Norman Mailer
- Jack Kerouac
- Janet Frame
- Manuel Puig
- Pubis Angelical
- The Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Roberto Bolaño
- The Savage Detectives
- Nocturno de Chile (By Night in Chile)
- Amuleto (Amulet)
- Last Evenings on Earth
- Sándor Márái
- Kanan Makiya
- The Rock: A Seventh Century Tale of Jerusalem
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Alexander Solzenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelego
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Knut Hamsun
- Growth of the Soil
- Hunger
- Mysteries
- Herman Melville
- Jim Crace
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- The War of the End of the World
- Salman Rushdie
- 'Abd al-Rahman Munif
- Cities of Salt
- Variations on Night and Day
- Endings
- Julio Cortázar
- Thomas Pynchon
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Alexander Herzen
- Randall Jarrell
- Dylan Thomas
- Michael Ondaatje
- The English Patient
- Anil's Ghost
- In the Skin of a Lion
- Running in the Family
- The Cinnamon Peeler
- S.J. Perelman
- Robert Benchley
- Don Marquis
- Sun Tzu
- Religious Texts
- The Complete Works of Chuang Tsu (trans. Burton Watson)
- The Upanishads (trans. Eknath Easwaran)
- The Tao Te Ching (trans. Lin Yutang)
- The Essential Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks)
- Further Teachings of Lao Tzu (trans. Thomas Cleary)
- The I Ching (trans. Wilhelm/Baynes, Thomas Cleary (The Taoist I Ching), R.J. Lynn)
- Books Still to Be Read
- Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread
- Dostoievsky's The House of the Dead
& Thus Spake Zarusthustra
- Lessing's The Golden Notebook
- Musil's The Man Without Qualities
- Mann's The Magic Mountain
- Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost
& The Castle in the Forest
- Sontag's The Volcano Lover
- Gogol's Dead Souls
- Goethe's Faust
- Stindberg's The Inferno
- Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
& Breakfast of Champions
- and so many more...
Visual Media
- Painters & Cartoonists
- Robert Motherwell
- Therese Oulton
- Philip Guston
- George Herriman
- Films
[this section horribly incomplete...]
- Cannery Row
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Dr. Zhivago
- Apocalypse Now
- Last Temptation of Christ
- The Razor's Edge (Bill Murray, 1984)
- The Razor's Edge (Tyrone Power, 1943)
- In the Mood for Love
- 2046
- Delicatessen
- City of Lost Children
- La Dolce Vita
- Blade Runner
- Kundun
Directors
- Akira Kurosawa
- Wong Kar-Wai
- Bertolucci
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Werner Herzog
- Jim Jarmusch
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Martin Scorcese
- David Lean
- David Lynch
- Howard Hawks
- Sergio Leone
Actors
- Nick Nolte
- Willem Dafoe
- Humphrey Bogart
- Ingrid Bergman
- Jack Nicholson
- Audrey Hepburn
- Henry Fonda
- Peter Fonda
- Dennis Hopper
- Nick Nolte
- Joan Fontaine
- Bill Murray
- Uma Thurman
- Naomi Watts
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Musicians
- Jazz, Swing, & Big Band
- Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley
- Louis Armstrong
- Chet Baker
- Count Basie
- The Complete Atomic Basie (1957)
- Art Blakey
- Clifford Brown
- John Coltrane
- Blue Train (1957)
- Lush Life (1958)
- Giant Steps (1960)
- Ascension (1965)
- Miles Davis
- Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1947)
- Birth of the Cool (1949)
- Conception (1951)
- Musings of Miles (1956)
- Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (1956)
- 'Round About Midnight (1956)
- Miles Ahead (1957)
- Kind of Blue (1959)
- Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
- E.S.P. (1965)
- Miles Smiles (1966)
- Miles in the Sky (1968)
- Bitches Blue (1970)
- Pangaea (1975)
- Agartha (1975)
- Kenny Dorham
- Duke Ellington
- Red Garland
- Manteca (1958)
- Red's Blues (1960)
- Groovy
- Dig It!
- Stan Getz
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Dexter Gordon
- Charlie Haden
- Herbie Hancock
- Coleman Hawkins
- Joe Henderson
- Johnny Hodges
- Freddie Hubbard
- Yusef Lateef
- Charles Mingus
- Blue Mitchell
- Thelonius Monk
- Gerry Mulligan
- Charlie Parker
- Oscar Peterson
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba
- Clark Terry
- Sonny Rollins
- Wayne Shorter
- Billy Strayhorn
- Art Taylor
- Ed Thigpen
- Ben Webster
- John McLaughlin
- Dr. John
- Medeski, Martin & Wood
- Steve Tibbetts
- Charles Lloyd
- John Scofield
- Bob Crosby
- Bill Frisell
- gone, just like a train (1998)
- Easy Listening
- Dean Martin
- Bert Kaempfert
- Wonderland by Night (1961)
- Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass
- World
- Egberto Gismonti (Brasil)
- Egberto Gismonti Trio, Zigzag (1997)
- Meeting Point (1995)
- Dança dos Escravos (1988)
- Música de Sobrevivência (1993)
- Solo (1979)
- Sol Do Meio Dia (1978)
- Anouar Brahem (Tunisia)
- Le pas du chat noir (2001)
- Astrakan Café (1999)
- Thimar (1997)
- Khomsa (1994)
- Conte de L'Incroyable Amour (1991)
- Barzakh (1990)
- Dhafer Youssef (Tunisia)
- Hamza el Din (Sudan)
- Dino Saluzzi (Argentina)
- Responsorium (2001)
- Cité de la Musique (1996)
- Mojotoro (1991)
- Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the South (1985)
- Ali Akbar Khan (India/California)
- Zakir Hussain (India/California)
- Ravi Shankar (India)
- Raajeswari Padmanabhan (India)
- Music of the Veena (1989)
[particularly Ninnenammitinayya - Simhendramadyamam]
- Sundaram Balachander (India)
- Imrat Khan (India)
- Shweta Jhaveri (India)
- Krishna Bhatt (India)
- L. Subramaniam (India)
- Ali Farka Toure (Mali)
- Ibrahim Ferrer (Cuba)
- Ruben Gonzalez (Cuba)
- Eliades Ochoa (Cuba)
- Solas (Ireland)
- Carlos Paredes (Portugal)
- Caesaria Evora (Cape Verde)
- Gilberto Gil (Brasil)
- Astor Piazzolla (Argentina)
- Pablo Ziegler (Argentina)
- Antonio Carlos Jobim (Brasil)
- Muzsikas (Transylvania)
- Radio Tarifa (Spain)
- Luis Delgado (Spain)
- Baaba Maal (Senegal)
- Les Mystére de Voix Bulgares (Bulgaria)
- Hossam Ramzy (Egypt)
- Oum Kaltsoum (Egypt)
- Cheb Mami (Algerian raï)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Stephan Micus
- Folk, Old Time, Bluegrass & Country
- Devendra Banhart
- Johnny Cash
- Dwight Diller
- John Fahey
- John Hiatt
- Hem
- Rabbit Songs (2002)
- Eveningland (2004)
- Jerry Garcia
- David Grisman
- Roscoe Holcomb
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Bill Monroe
- Willy Nelson
- New Lost City Ramblers
- Mike Seeger
- Pete Seeger
- Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
- Hank Williams Jr.
- Little Walter
- Doc Watson
- Gillian Welch
- Revival (1996)
- Hell Among the Yearlings (1998)
- Time (The Revelator) (2001)
- Soul Journey (2003)
- Popular, Alternative & Rock, Blues, Et Cetera
- Calexico
- David Sylvian
- Blemish (2003)
- Dead Bees On a Cake (1999)
- Brilliant Trees / Words With the Shaman (1991)
- The First Day (w/Robert Fripp, 1993)
- Secrets of the Beehive (1987)
- Gone to Earth (1986)
- Alchemy (An Index of Possibilities) (1985)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Freaky Styley (1985)
- The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987)
- Mother's Milk (1989)
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
- One Hot Minute (1995)
- Californication (1999)
- By the Way (2002)
- Primus
- Tom Waits
- Alice (2002)
- The Mule Variations (1999)
- The Black Rider (1993)
- Bone Machine (1992)
- Frank's Wild Years (1987)
- Rain Dogs (1985)
- Blue Valentine (1978)
- Small Change (1976)
- Marc Ribot
- Muy Divertido! (2001)
- Y Los Cubanos Postizos (1998)
- David Byrne
- Dire Straits
- Talking Heads
- 77
- More Songs About Buildings and Food
- Remain in Light
- Tom Tom Club
- The B52's
- David Lindley
- Peter Gabriel
- Ry Cooder
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Cracker
- Holger Czukay
- Grateful Dead
- Robert Fripp
- Jimi Hendrix
- Cream
- Deep Purple
- Motorhead
- King Crimson
- Led Zeppelin
- The Doors
- The Doors (1967)
- Strange Days (1967)
- Waiting for the Sun
- Morrison Hotel (1970)
- The Rolling Stones
- Yes
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- Creedance Clearwater Revival
- Neil Young
- Brian Eno
- Daniel Lanois
- Harold Budd
- Cocteau Twins
- Dead Can Dance
- Throwing Muses
- George Harrison
- Radiohead
- Cowboy Junkies
- Steely Dan
- Scud Mountain Boys
- Pernice Brothers
- Rufus Wainwright
- Russell Mills
- Sun Kil Moon
- Tom Petty
- Bill Laswell
- Imaginary Cuba
- Panthalassa
- Sarah MacLachlan
- Beth Orton
- Funk, Soul, Rhythm & Blues
- Graham Central Station
- Aretha Franklin
- Chic
- Jacksons
- Ohio Players
- King Curtis
- Kool & the Gang
- Booker T. & the MGs
- Marvin Gaye
- Cameo
- Wilson Pickett
- Average White Band
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Parliament
- Funkadelic
- P-Funk
- Bootsy's Rubber Band
- Brick
- Sly & the Family Stone
- Slave
- The O'Jays
- Stylistics
- The Spinners
- The Bar-Kays
- James Brown
- Isaac Hayes
- B.B. King
- Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters
- Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
- The Gap Band
- Classical
- Jean Sibelius
- Bela Bartok
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