later 1980s
Kate Bush
Wenders' "Wings of Desire"
Tufte's "Envisioning Information"
Lynda J Barry (comix)
modest successor to Peanuts
Harold Brodkey
awesome prose
Moby Dick
Chimpanzee Politics, Frans de Waal
bonobos bonobos bonobos
Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations
via Joyce, or a.i.?
Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon
[fan]
WordPerfect 4.0
billgates is satan
love poems
[fan]
especially graves, millay, teasdale
Peter Redgrove
The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real [Az]
Mary Daly's Wickedary
[Az]
Blue Velvet (film), Twin Peaks (tv)
canonical
Spy magazine
Inside Macintosh docs
Penrose's "Emperor's New Mind"
for the physics and math, not the AI
MoMing (dance venue)
Alexander's "Pattern Language"
Ward Just
[fan]
George V Higgins
John Carpenter's "They Live"
LISP
early 1990s
Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky film)
Reservoir Dogs
Jacques Rivette (films)
[fan]
also Peter Greenaway
Jellyeye/Bryn Magnus/Shu Shubat (theater)
Oobleck/Jeff Dorchen (theater)
Curious/Jenny Magnus (theater/music/performance)
Mary Zimmerman (theater)
Cyc (ai)
[fan]
WZRD's latenight freeform, Suspended in Gaffa (music shows)
introduced me to several of my favorite female voices
Stewart/Gaskin, Marta Sebestyen [fan], Mary Coughlan [fan]
Robert Bly
Iron John and especially 'the little book of the human shadow' (jungian psych) [Az]
netnews, alt.religion.kibology
smart, fast, hip, funny
especially Lisa Pea (Elizabeth Higgins)
James 'Kibo' Parry
David Pacheco
Joseph Michael Bay
Michael Parenti
discovered via Pacifica radio show on WZRD
later 1990s
Herring's editions of Joyce's Ulysses notebooks
Martin Amis
a trouble child
Scott Turow
"The 100th Boyfriend"
Altavista
[fan]
Ana Voog
web exhibitionist
Armistead Maupin
via the pbs miniseries
Israel Shahak
worldtransforming (gulp!) [fan]
Jeffery Deaver
Thomas Perry
early 2000s
The Bible Unearthed
intro to the new biblical minimalism [Az]
Patrick O'Brian
Philip Pullman
[fan]
i wear their cap
Jesus Seminar, Crossan, Ehrman
[fan]
Get Your War On
Dan Brown
Dominick Dunne
Bill James, Peter Bowen, Lynn Kostoff
obscure literary crime
Dean Baker, Sam Smith
political/economic sanity on the Web
Michael Connelly
Wolfram's "New Kind of Science"
Jim Harrison's "Sundog"
[Az]
The Sims (a.i.)
Schrodinger's Kittens
quantum weirdness resolved! [Az]
Flaubert
[fan]
Malcolm Brown on Irish history
a must-read for joyceans [fan] [Az]
Never at Rest
fine bio of Newton [Az]
Conrad's Nostromo
some little paperback on graph theory
[Az?]
Carl Hiaasen
Minette Walters
later 2000s
Franzen's Corrections
Ning.com
Gruber/Tanenbaum
[fan]
Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith
[Rendell fan]
[Highsmith review]
Colin Harrison
[review]
Against the Day
[comment]
Joseph Wambaugh
Thomas Harris
Wade's "Before the Dawn"
human origins [review]
Greg Iles, Grif Stockley, Stephen White
school of Turow, mostly
Kinneavy's Theory of Discourse
[comment]
Overheard in X
the pulse of contemporary speech
Double Tongued Word Wrester
the pulse of neologising
Social Philosophy by Fink
the socioeconomic context of ethical theories [Az]
Ayn Rand's Fountainhead
sillily romantic
but accurate about persecuted idealists, imho
Ernst Mayr "The Growth of Biological Thought"
best-yet inquiry into realworld scientific method
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