Music
jazz - Brazilian/Japanese, bluegrass, Motown & Stax, honky-tonk
Movies
Sorta current: Recount, U.S. vs. John Lennon, Chicago 10, Steal This Movie, Sicko, Inconvenient Truth, Shut Up & Sing, Jesus Camp, Leatherheads, Supersize Me, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Atomic Cafe; ........................
CULT: Little Shop of Horrors, Cannibal Women of the Avocado Jungle of Death, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Johnnie Dangerously, Cry Baby, Rocky Horror Mystery Show, Love At First Bite, Harold & Maude, Saving Grace, Ed Wood, Dogma, Eating Raoul, Kinky Boots; ..........................
OLDER & CLASSIC: Harvey, Cool Hand Luke, Pacific Heights, Pirates of the Caribbean, Raiders of the Lost Ark, My Little Chickadee, Thank You For Smoking, Play Misty For Me, Bridge of the River Kwai, African Queen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Marx Bros. movies, Amadeus, Big, All of Me, To Have or Have Not, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Birdcage, The Full Monte, Calendar Girls, Good Night & Good Luck, Fighting Temptations, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Motorcycle Diaries, League of Their Own, La Vie en Rose, Importance of Being Earnest, Waitress, Last Waltz, Memories of a Geisha, Taming of the Shrew, Mrs. Doubtfire, Talented Mr. Ripley, Songcatcher, Odd Couple, Silkwood, The Princess Bride, The Producers, Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, West Side Story, Funny Girl, Remains of the Day, Bee Season, Walk the Line, Tootsie, Whale Rider, just for starters...
Television
'most everything that I really like gets canceled: Northern Exposure, Pushing Up Daisies, Arrested Development, Boston Legal; ................................
British Comedies: Are You Being Served?, Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By;
Other: Rick Steves Europe, International House Hunters, The Daily Show & Colbert Report, No Reservations, Antiques Roadshow, 30 Rock,
Books
To Kill a Mockingbird, Cannery Row series, Monkey Wrench Gang & Hayduke Lives, Roughing It, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, Tisha, Blue Highways, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, Desert Solitaire, A Sand County Almanac, The Population Bomb, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Kon-Tiki, Siddhartha, A Simple Monk, Grapes of Wrath, Everyday History of Somewhere & Edges, Legacy of Luna, Memories of Geisha, Joy Luck Club, Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Catch-22, The Bean Trees, The Color Purple, Fried Green Tomatoes, Secret Life of Bees, Animal-Vegetable-Miracle, Eat-Love-Pray, Three Cups of Tea, Life of Pi, Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Old Patagonia Express, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Old Man & the Sea, Like Water For Chocolate, Chocolat & Girl With No Shadow, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn & Tom Finn, Tender Is the Night, Water For Elephants, The Glass Castle, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Suite Francaise, My Life In France, A Year In Provance, French Toast, You Can't See Paris From Here, Diary of Anne Frank, The Secret Garden, The Liars' Club, Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Bel Canto, The Sweet Potato Queens, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Shipping News, Thousand Acres, Stone Diaries, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, All the Pretty Horses, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Prairie Home Companion, Angle of Repose, Da Vinci Code, Almost French, Farm Sanctuary, Under the Tuscan Sun, Fight For Your Health: betrayal of the FDA, travel books, art books, vegetarian cookbooks, AND SO MANY MORE!
+ LOCAL AUTHORS: Todd Borg (Tahoe Blow Up, Tahoe Ice Grave, etc.)& Perri O'Shaughnessy (mysteries taking place around Tahoe).
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