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The albums I listen to the most are Harvest, Harvest Moon, Unplugged and Broken Arrow. This thread has reminded me that I've been wanting to get Tonight's the Night for a really long time now.

Someone put this on last night at work. It was so good I was having a really hard time concentrating on what I was doing. I think I'll have to pick this up very soon.

This is the first album that came to mind. I can't listen to it too often, but whenever I do I'm always amazed.

Just yesterday I was listening to a Fresh Air (re-broadcast) interview with Patti Smith. I had forgotton just how good Gone Again was - I enjoy it more than any of her earlier stuff. I haven't been impressed with her more recent stuff, but her new covers album looks like it might be good. I think her version of Wicked Messenger is the only Dylan cover that is better than the original.

Great book - it's where I got my username. Midnight's Children is also very good, maybe even better than Satanic Verses. Just started: About Yeats and his fascination with the occult. Really interesting so far.

I haven't tried playing it yet, but is this the song? Duet for Guitars 3

Ahhh - I think I found it. If anyone else is interested:

Since this thread has been brought back up... Yesterday I was trying to find the soundtrack for (or the music that was used in) White Diamond, all I remember is that there was a cello and some kind of throat singing. It's really beautiful and eerie and haunting. Does anyone know what this is? I looked through the Popul Vuh albums, thinking that since they had been involved with other Herzog films I would find it there, but no luck.

I've never read One Hundred Years, but I second the Love in the Time of Cholera recomendation. One of my favorite books of all time.

He's one of the best.

I'd probably start with his first one - The Big Sleep. That and The Long Goodbye are probably his best known. I think he's at his peak with The Lady in the Lake though - you really can't go wrong with any of the three.

I'm on a huge Raymond Chandler kick right now...

I use this website alot: World's Healthiest Foods Here's the list - it has nutritional info, health benefits and recipes for the 130 healthiest foods.

I'm on a Mac too. I can't imagine that only people on PC's would be able to watch, but according to the minimum system requirements: Computer running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, or Windows Vista Internet Explorer version 6 or higher Windows Media Player version 9 or higher An active broadband connection to the Internet 1.0 GHz processor 512 MB RAM 3 GB free hard disk drive space

I got this about 10 years ago when I was first discovered and fell in love with HST - but have never read it. Would you recommend this to someone who wasn't even alive at the time and has no particular interest in politics?

I also really enjoy Joe Henry's voice. And Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues, Shoreleave, Kommienezuspadt. And Nick Cave has recently (The Boatman's Call on) become a really great singer.

While he's not the first that comes to mind (others have pretty much listed everyone I've thought of), I listened to Return Of the Frog Queen this morning and Jeremy Enigk has a great set of pipes.

I'll have to check this out. I really enjoyed Clockers alot. I picked this up as an advanced reading copy about 5 years ago and am just now getting around to it. It's not great, but it's kept my interest so far. For some reason, I have three Philip Roth books, but have never read anything by him before.

Just wanted to say hey to a fellow Santa Cruzian.

I agree, "White Noise" is a great book. Currently, I'm stuck halfway through "Underworld" - I think it's a bit too ambitious. A writer like Tolstoy can pull off a book with such scope, but with "Underworld" I feel like the characters aren't developed enough to make me want to trudge through the remaining 600 pages.

Astral Weeks - unlike anything I've heard before or since. Simply gorgeous and perfect in every way.

Are you looking for light, quick reads or something that takes a little time to get through? Edit: I'll just list some of the ones that come to mind when I think "Great Books" Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse I've read this one about 15 times and each time I enjoy it as much as the first. Tin Drum - Gunter Grass How can you go wrong with a book whose first line is "Granted, I am an inmate of a mental hospital"? It takes "unreliable narrator" to a whole new level. Lolita or Pale Fire - Nabokov Nabokov is my favorite writer and Lolita is my favorite book of all time. Pale Fire is a book in two

Would you recommend it to a sometimes Almodovar fan? I loved Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Talk to Her, but nothing else I've seen by him.

Please!

Much better than I expected - Ray Winstone was great as the Captain. I hope Nick Cave gives up on this Grinderman band and starts writing more screenplays.