Seen It :: Movies
Of the gobs of movies I've watched, here's those that I'd recommend - not a "best of" list or anything, just the ones that were worth the time. For all the rest, see the entire list. (p.s. I've now given up on network tv.) Netflix is salvation for tired boredom.

saw it in: 2005
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saw it in: 2004
Farenheit 9/11
Antwone Fisher
The Station Agent
50 First Dates
Big Night
Stuck On You
Sex and the City: Season 6: Disc 1
Big Fish
Love Actually
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Bonus Material
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Old School
Something's Gotta Give
Under the Tuscan Sun
The School of Rock
Lost in Translation
American Splendor
Spellbound
Revolution OS
Runaway Jury
Radio
Matchstick Men

saw it in: 2003
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
The Recruit
Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl
Seabiscuit
The Best of Primetime Glick
Identity
Panic
X2: X-Men United
Bamboozled
Finding Nemo
Frida: Special Edition
Bowling for Columbine: Special Edition
Comedian
Willam Gibson: No Maps For These Territories
Gangs of New York
The Animatrix
About Schmidt
Anger Management
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco
Catch Me If You Can
Jackass: The Movie: Special Edition
How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
About A Boy
e-Dreams
Signs
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

saw it in: 2002
The Sopranos: Second Season: Discs 1-4
Band of Brothers: Discs 1-5
13 Conversations About the Same Thing
Baraka
Croupier
Gosford Park
Boiler Room
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Fight Club
Sex and the City, Third Season
The Thin Red Line
Vanilla Sky
A Beautiful Mind
Donnie Darko
Patton
Blow
Black Hawk Down
Timecode
Waking Life
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Ali
Dogma
Training Day
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Chasing Amy
The Sopranos: Second Season: Discs 1-4
Finding Forrester
Almost Famous
Fishing with John

saw it in: 2001
The Sopranos: First Season Discs 1-4
The Matrix: Revisited
Waiting for Guffman


Heard It :: Music
These are recent tunes in heavy rotation at work and in the studio. Italics are album names, and where I list them I recommend those in particular.

american football
beck - sea change, mutations
bill frisell - the willies, blues dream, good dog happy man
bill janovitz
coldplay
dashboard confessional
david gray - white ladder
death cab for cutie
grandaddy
grant lee buffalo
guster
jay farrar
jimmy eat world
low - things we lost in the fire
modest mouse
new found glory
owen
pete yorn
rocking horse winner
roger clyne and the peacemakers
ryan adams - gold, heartbreaker, love is hell pts. 1&2
son volt
steadman
whiskeytown
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
u2 - all that you can't leave behind (and of course the 20 years of back catalog)
wheat - per second, per second... every second


Read It :: Books

What follows is a sampling of reading material I would recommend - or stuff I would have recommended at the time. for more, check out the complete 15 year list. For more info, a quick Google search should get you headed in the right direction.

read it in: 2005
Dot.Con - James Cassidy
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The American Barn - Randy Leffingwell
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

read it in: 2004
System of the World - Neal Stephenson
Mind Wide Open - Steven Johnson
Built By Hand:Vernacular Architecture Around the World - Steen & Komatsu
On Paradise Drive - David Brooks
The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
London - Edward Rutherfurd
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
The Working Life - Joanne Ciulla
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson

read it in: 2003
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Emergence - Steven Johnson
Tomorrow Now - Bruce Sterling
Enough - Bill McKibben
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Leonard Koren
The Matrix and Philosophy - William Irwin, ed.
What Just Happened - James Gleick
Thos. Moser: Artistry in Wood - Thomas Moser
What Should I Do With My Life? - Po Bronson

read it in: 2002
Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers
Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
The Art and Science of Web Design - Jeff Veen
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Faster - James Gleick
Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Art of Contemporary American Pottery - Kevin Hluch

read it in: 2001
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Warren MacKenzie: American Potter - David Lewis
The Cobweb - Stephen Bury
Interface - Stephen Bury
All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Interface Culture - Steven Johnson
On Writing - Stephen King

read it in: 2000
A Potter's Workbook - Clary Illian
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet - Hafner/Lyon
The Nudist on the Late Shift - Po Bronson
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
The Transparent Society - David Brin

read it in: 1999
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
Citizen Soldiers - Stephen E. Ambrose
The Victors - Stephen E. Ambrose
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
The Golden Globe - John Varley
First Immortal - James L. Halperin
Adolf Hitler - John Toland

read it in: 1998
Truth Machine - James L. Halperin
Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
Woodfired Stoneware & Porcelain - Jack Troy
Why the Allies Won - Richard Overy
Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
Bombardiers - Po Bronson
Culture of Craft - Peter Dormer, ed.
Cukoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll

read it in: 1997
Silicon Snake Oil - Clifford Stoll
Idoru - William Gibson
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest - Po Bronson
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Leonard Koren
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

read it in: 1996
Millenium - John Varley
Lust for Life - Irving Stone
American Potters - Garth Clark
The Mud-Pie Dilemma - John Nance
Zodiac - Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Majipoor Chronicals - Robert Silverberg
Tamba Pottery - Daniel Rhodes

read it in: 1995
Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana - Michael Azerad
Worlds Enough and Time - Joe Haldeman
The Hemingway Hoax - Joe Haldeman
The Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
Tool of the Trade - Joe Haldeman
Press Enter - John Varley
Hawksbill Station - Robert Silverberg
Millenium - John Varley
Michael Cardew, A Portrait - Garth Clark
Peter Voulkos: Dialogue With Clay - Rose Slivka
Demon - John Varley
Wizard - John Varley

read it in: 1994
The Mad Potter of Biloxi - Garth Clark
Titan - John Varley
American Ceramics 1876 - Present - Garth Clark
Warren MacKenzie: American Potter - David Lewis
Only Apparently Real: The World of PKD - Paul Williams
Shoji Hamada - Susan Peterson
Steel Beach - John Varley
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Penultimate Truth - Phillip K. Dick
A Potter's Book - Bernard Leach
VALIS - Phillip K. Dick
Hamada, Potter - Bernard Leach

read it in: 1993
Time Out of Joint - Phillip K. Dick
Camp Concentration - Thomas M. Disch
A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick
Route 666: On The Road to Nirvana - Gina Arnold
On Stranger Tides -Tim Powers
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut

read it in: 1992
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Sent For You Yesterday - John Edgar Wideman
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

read it in: 1991
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

read it in: 1990
Remarks: The Story of R.E.M. - Tony Fletcher
The Dark Half - Stephen King
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Notes To Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person - Hugh Prather
James and the Giant Peach - Rohl Dahl
The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Cider House Rules - John Irving