I'll probably be in hot water for what's not included here, but for whatever it's worth, including pure self indulgence, in no particular order, here is a list of work I keep coming back to...



Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Misha - Red Spider White Web, Prayers of Steel, Ke-Qua-Hawk-As, Magpies and Tigers
Edgard Varese - The Liberation of Sound
Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
Joyce Cary - The Horses Mouth
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
John Cage - Silence
Harry Crews - Car
HG Wells - Complete Stort Stories
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
Kobo Abe - The Box Man
Richard Truhlar - A Porcelin Cup Placed There
Nelle Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Phillip K Dick -
Julio Cortazar - A Certain Lucas
AB Guthrie - The Big Sky
JRR Tolkein - Lord of the Rings
John Shirley - Heatseeker
Brian Evenson - The Din of Celestial Birds
Anna Kavan - Ice
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Ray Bradbury - The Golden Apples of the Sun
Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials
Tim Ferret - Through the Wire (short story)
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Definitely Maybe
Jorge Luis Borges - A Universal History of Infamy
JG Ballard - Drowned World
Alain Robbe-Grillet - Jealousy
Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
Steve Smith - Ritual Murders
George Orwell - 1984
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Cordwainer Smith - The Rediscovery of Man
Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
John Gardner - Grendel
K W Jeter - Death Arms
Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Rashomon and Other Stories
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Raymond Chandler - Trouble Is My Business
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
Brian Aldiss - Earthworks
Robert Silverberg ed. - Dark Stars
Beryl Markham - West With the Night
Antoine de St Exupéry - Airman's Odyssey
T E Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Czeslaw Milosz - The Captive Mind
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of  Preception
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Howard Zinn - People's History of the United States
John Hersey - Hiroshima
Jerry Mander - In the Absence of the Sacred
Evan S Connell - The White Lantern
Barbara Tuchman - A Distant Mirror
Edward Leslie - Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
Edward Rice - Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Redmond O'Hanlon - In Trouble Again
Jan Joors - The Gypsies
Karen Armstrong - A History of God
Fritz Winckel - Music, Sound and Sensation
Harley-Davidson Inc. - XLH Service Manual
&
the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Theodore Roethke, Robinson Jeffers,
Anna Akhmatova, Federico García Lorca, Bashō and David Memmott (I know there's a picture of Lawrence Ferlinghetti on my 'evolution' page, but I don't really like his work - he just was the first to make me realize there were no rules in literature)

Blade Runner(director's cut) - Ridley Scott 1982
Brazil - Terry Gilliam 1985
Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch 1996
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders 1987
Breakfast of Champions - Alan Rudolph 1999
Orpheus - Jean Cocteau 1949
The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman 1958
Baraka - Ron Fricke 1992
Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki  2001
The Last Battle - Luc Besson 1983
White Dawn - Philip Kaufman 1975
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Robert Weine 1920
Raising Arizona - Joel & Ethan Coen 1987
Pi - Darren Aronofsky 1998
Once Upon A Time in the West - Sergio Leone 1969
Children of Men - Alfonson Cuaron 2006
You Can't Take It With You - Frank Capra 1938
Un Chien d'Andalou - Luis Bunuel/Salvidor Dali 1929
Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen 1981
Apocalypse Now Redux- Francis Ford Coppola 1979
Ran - Akira Kurosawa 1985
Videodrome - David Cronenberg 1983
Eric the Viking - Terry Jones 1989
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese 1976
Farenheit 451 - Francois Truffaut 1966
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg 1981
The Matrix - Andy & Larry Wachowski 1999
Moby Dick - John Huston 1956 (screenplay by Ray Bradbury)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan 1962
Lonely Are the Brave - David Miller 1962
Dr Stranglove - Stanley Kubrick 1964
Valis - Eric Lampton 1977
Metropolis - Fritz Lang 1927
Fantasia - Walt Disney 1940
Plan 9 From Outer Space - Ed Wood 1959
Ed Wood - Tim Burton 1994
THX 1138 - George Lucas 1971
The Emerald Forest - John Boorman 1985
Eraserhead - David Lynch 1977
The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson 2001
The City of Lost Children - Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1995
Midnight Run - Martin Brest 1988
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel 1956
Little Big Man - Arthur Penn 1970
Memento - Christopher Nolan 2000
Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog 1982
Kamikazi 89 - Wolf Gremm 1982 (starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Forbidden Planet - Fred Wilcox 1956 (soundtrack by Louis & Bebe Barron)


Well there's already quite a few links to good music scattered around these pages (and links on those links). There's not enough room here for a list. I would need to include everything from David Sylvian, Marta Sebestyen, James Brown, Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, and Arvo Part to Coroner, Krzysztof Penderecki, Hank Williams, John Cage and recordings from Voyager I, etc, etc, etc. Plus the fact that I like listening to my own work. So go cruise the links and you're bound to find something good. "Que la musique sonne."

Anyway, probably no big surprises here, but if you're not familiar with something - give it a shot. I just don't think you can go wrong with anything mentioned on this page.