Some Favorite Musicians/Composers and Works
edit- Ludwig van Beethoven—Op. 132, String Quartet No. 15 in A-minor
- Nick Drake—Pink Moon
- Bob Dylan—"Desolation Row"
- Pete Johnson—"Basement Boogie"
- Memphis Jug Band—"Stealin'"
- Charles Mingus—"Original Faubus Fables"
- Thelonious Monk—"Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are"
- Van Morrison—Astral Weeks
- Mos Def—Black on Both Sides
- Pere Ubu—The Modern Dance
- Sâdeddin Kaynak—"Dertliyim ruhuma hicranımı"
- Erik Satie—3 Morceaux en forme de poire
- Sly & the Family Stone—There's a Riot Goin' On
- Billy Strayhorn—"Blue Cloud/Blood Count"
- A Tribe Called Quest—The Low End Theory
- Tom Waits—Rain Dogs
- Anton Webern—5 Stücke für Orchester, Op.10
Some Favorite Writers/Authors and Works
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- Charles Baudelaire—"L'ennemi"
- Samuel Beckett—Malone Dies
- John Berryman—The Dream Songs
- Jorge Luis Borges—"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
- Julio Cortázar—Hopscotch
- Emily Dickinson—Poems
- Alfred Jarry—Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien
- James Joyce—Finnegans Wake
- Galway Kinnell—The Book of Nightmares
- Cormac McCarthy—Blood Meridian
- Henri Michaux—Ailleurs
- Neşâtî—"Şevkiz ki dem-i bülbül-i şeydâda nihânız"
- Flann O'Brien—The Third Policeman
- Thomas Pynchon—Mason & Dixon
- John Skelton—Poems
- Laurence Sterne—The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass
Some Favorite Artists and Works
edit- William Blake—"Abel"
- Hieronymous Bosch—the central panel of The Temptation of St. Anthony
- John Constable—"Cloud Study"
- Gustave Doré—"The Confusion of Tongues"
- Marcel Duchamp—Étant Donnés: 1º La chute d'eau; 2º Le gaz d'éclairage...
- James Ensor—"Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889"
- Matthias Grünewald—the Crucifixion from The Isenheim Altarpiece
- Andō Hiroshige—"Moon at Seba" from The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido
- Wassily Kandinsky—"Composition VII"
- Piet Mondrian—"Broadway Boogie-Woogie"
- August Natterer—"Witch's Head"
- Emil Nolde—"Mask Still-life III"
- Ilya Yefimovich Repin—"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581"
- Georges Rouault—"Prostitute at Her Mirror"
- Paul Signac—"Harbor at Marseilles"
- Joseph Mallord William Turner—"Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on"
- Vincent van Gogh—"Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy, September 1889"