Movies
FILMS: The Science Of Sleep, Silence Of The Lambs, Betty Blue, The Crying Game, Vanilla Sky, Edward Scissorhands, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Philadelphia, Fried Green Tomatoes, A Room With A View, Amores Perros, Requiem For A Dream, American Beauty, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Volver, Pan's Labyrinth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Life Is Beautiful, The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Y tu mamá también, Titanic, 25th Hour, American History X, Billy Elliot, Being John Malkovich, Moonstruck, As Good As It Gets, Ordinary People, No Country For Old Men, Revolutionary Road
DIRECTORS: Jonathan Demme, Pedro Almodóvar, Clint Eastwood, Werner Herzog
ACTORS: Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Edward Norton, Gael García Bernal
Books
Non-fiction: Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig ~ god is not Great and The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens ~ The Nasty Bits, Kitchen Confidential, and A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain ~ The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins ~ Our Kind, Good To Eat, and Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches by Marvin Harris ~ The End Of Faith by Sam Harris ~ Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser ~ and The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman. Fiction: Silence Of The Lambs, The Red Dragon, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris ~ Animal Farm, 1984, and Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell ~ and anything written by Robin Cook. Short Stories: The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe ~ and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Poetry: Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost