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Awesome Books and Movies

Books

Movies

Actors and Comedians

Actress Frances Farmer

Books Worth a Look

Author	Book	Description	Link
Ken Wilber	No Boundary	The best book I ever read. If you haven't read him it should change your life.
Isaac Asimov	Foundation Trilogy	The awesome potential of the mind.
Joe Haldeman	Mindbridge	Bridge your mind one and for all.
J.R.R. Tolkein	Lord of the Rings	Wow, a Whole Other World.
Arthur C. Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey	Read it (quick, before next year!), and before you see the movie so you know what the hell is going on.
Steve Moss, Ed.	The World's Shortest Stories	Results of an annual contest to write real stories of 55 words or less, run by the editor of New Times. This book will amaze and astonish you with what you can do in just that many words. Read the book and then try it yourself! Wait, I think we're almost at fifty-five...
John R. Tunis	World Series, Rookie Of The Year, The Kid From Tomkinsville, etc.	Great sport for kids of all ages.
Jim Kjelgaard	Big Red, Irish Red, Snow Dog, and many many more.	Wonderful books about animal nature for kids of all ages.
Richard Adams	Watership Down	Put your self in their feet.
Jean Auel	Clan of the Cave Bear	Incredible. Why we are the way we are.
Jack London	Call of the Wild	Wild and untamed. What being part of the animal kingdom is all about.
?	Red Fox (There is another one called "Volpes, the Red Fox")	I read this incredible book about life from the point of view of a wild fox when I was a kid. If anyone knows the author please let me know.
Jack Handey	Deep Thoughts series	When I was about ten years old, we set up a lemonade stand on the sidewalk in front of our house. But we didn't sell many glasses, and after a few hours, we took it down. I think that was the first time I realized that the world doesn't give a damn about you or anything you do. --Jack Handey
Arthur Gooden		This is my great-uncle, who wrote awesome Westerns. They're easy-to-read and you can't put 'em down. I'm so proud of him. :) Screw Louis L'Amour, man.
Richard Bolles	What Color is Your Parachute, The Three Boxes of Life	Can't figure out how to do for the rest of your life? Read these.
Donald S. Passman	All You Need To Know About the Music Business	The best way to beat the system is to know the system.
Warren Farrel	Why Men Are The Way They Are	Read it and be enlightened.
Frank Storaska	How to Say No To a Rapist and Live	Everyone should read this book.
F.J. Shark	How to be The Jerk Women Love	For first-degree martyrs of any sex who are tired of being heart beaten.
Madame L'Engle	A Wrinkle in Time series	Wrinkle your mind.
Frances Hodgson Burnette	The Secret Garden	So beautifully written you will cry. Screw the movie.
E. L. Konigsburg	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	File this under child and find it under adult.
Beverly Cleary	Runaway Ralph and others	Of mice and boys and girls.
Books about Theology and Spirituality are listed on the Force page

Flick Picks
For everything you wanted to know about any movie, see the Internet Move Database.
Also check out these cool Haiku Movie Reviews

Thriller/Mystery/Action
The Ninth Configuration	Two words: Awe-some.
Freeway	Keifer Sutherland, Brooke Sheilds, and the girl. Get on.
Jacob's Ladder	Try and climb this fucker.
Best Seller	Apt title.
Jagged Edge	This'll have you hanging on the edge of your jagged seat.
D.O.A.	This'll blow you O.A.
The Bad Lieutenant	With a capital BAD.
Reservoir Dogs	Killer.
Search and Destroy	Christopher Walken. Wonderfully off-beat, gruesome and freaky. Walken t'all.
The Usual Suspects	Even though the whole plan failed and the story doesn't really make any sense, this movie was incredible.
The Game	Play it.
Strange Days	The issue is not whether you are paranoid....the issue is whether you are paranoid enough.
Total Recall	I can't recall if this was really great or really, really, great.
True Lies	Fruit flies? No; just a truly great movie.
True Romance	Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper. Say no more. OK Christian Slater isn't that great, but I liked this.
The Gazebo	This is an older black and white film I saw when I was younger: incredible!
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie	Tom Sizemore, Sharon Stone. This won't put your dog to sleep. The neighbors, maybe...
Fight Club	The first rule is: don't talk about Fight Club. But watch it because it's about so much more.
Dramedy
The Paint Job	Will Patton; Bebe Newirth can paint my job any time. One of the coolest movies ever. Wonderfully quirky and endearing.
Chasing Amy	Make sure you catch this one.
Watch It	Watch it.
The Pompatous of Love	Not that great; not sure why I put it on this list.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	Oh, you, watch this with your kids.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory	Scrumpdillyicious
Comedy
Clueless	The Tao of Beverly Hills
The Opposite Sex and How to Live With Them	Or not. How true.
There's Something About Mary	's hair.
The Pink Panther series	Peter Sellers unparalleled. Especially "The Return of..." and "...Strikes Again"
The Life of Brian	Hilarious parody on the sheepishness of religion. Save your faith for reality.
Monty Python and the The Holy Grail	Bring a shrubbery and beware of innocent-looking rabbits.
Beetlejuice	Drink up!
Bambi Meets Godzilla	Best 15 seconds you'll ever spend.
Galaxy Quest	Suprisingly hilarious; worth seeing for a quite a few completely unique moments of comedic genius.
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut	A touching little story about heaven and hell, misguided political activism, and the tragic death of a kid named Kenny.
Drama
Frances	Check out this tragic story of real life actress Frances Farmer. Fuck hypocrisy.
Beaches	Prepare to cry you an ocean.
Immortal Beloved	Based on the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Fuck jealousy and lies.
Meet John Doe	Older black and white film; incredible.
The End of Violence	...as we know it.
The Verdict	Apt title
Ruby in Paradise	Slow and sad; kind of like life. You gotta love Ashley Judd.
Documentary
Crumb	And you thought your life was twisted. Also watch this if you think you need a lot of (hell, ANY) coping skills to become rich and successful.
Hoop Dreams	Score!
Science Fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey	Awesomely beautiful. But read the book first so you know what the hell is going on.
A Clockwork Orange	Look up ultra-violence and horrorshow in the dictionary and see this. But it has something guttiworks to say.
Star Wars	Skip Part I but may the force be with the rest. A most accurate concept of God.
Twisted Lives
Normal Life	Anything but. Abby someone?
Bliss	Anything but. Ignorance ain't it.
Henry: Portrat of a Serial Killer	Disturbing and quite realistic (I mean as far as I'd know).
Musical
Jesus Christ Superstar	Totally awesome - my all-time favorite. The soundtrack ROCKS. "The Show" on TV did a hilarious parody of this called "Jeepers Creepers."

Favorite Actors and Comedians

Actors	Actresses	Comedians
Tom Sizemore (Best character actor around today, maybe ever)	Carol Kane -- Will you marry me?	Adam Ferrara
Robert DeNiro	Sarah Jessica Parker -- If Carol says no and Matthew leaves, will you marry me?	Jake Johannsen
Will Patton	Ashley Judd -- Will you marry me too? Ay caramba!	Steven Wright
Dustin Hoffman	Julia Louis-Dreyfuss -- Loved you on the show.	Richard Pryor
Christopher Walken	Ally Walker (Dr. Sam Watters on Profiler, plus other movie and TV credits.) Wow.	Sam Kinison
Dennis Hopper	Goldie Hawn -- If Carol and Sarah say no and Kurt leaves, will you marry me?	Ellen DeGeneres
Harvey Kietel	Bebe Newirth -- If Carol says no, will you marry me and Sarah?	Rosanne Barr
Robin Williams	Laurie Metcalf (Rosanne's Sister on Rosanne, also in The Norm Show and other stuff)	George Lopez
James Woods Billy Bob Thornton	Lisa Wilhout (oldest daughter on the Tom [Arnold] Show - totally the cutest girl on TV at the time). If I was 15 years younger would you marry me?	Steve Martin Emo Phillips
Al Pacino Peter Falk John Goodman	Maura Tierney (Lisa Miller on NewsRadio). Just moved to the top of the list! Evidently she's on ER now but up until I found this out I never watched that show. I guess I'll have to watch it now!	Robin Williams
Denzel Washington	Rita Saver (Friday late nights)	Chris Rock
Vince Vaughan Mickey Rourke	Barbara Striesand -- As a rule I hate that type of music but you are an awesome actress. I don't care what they say, I liked what you said when you got your lifetime achievement award.	Jack Handey
Tom Cruise.....NOT! He SUCKS CRAP!	Los Angeles Area News Anchors: Linda Alvarez, KCBS 2 - Wow, I'm in love. I even started watching this news all the way through! (They should update her photo with her longer hair though :) Terry Anzur, KTLA 5 News anchor - so cute; ...hey, where did she go? KTTV Fox 11: They don't call it Fox for nothing! " :) -Jean Martirez - Lord, have mercy. The picture of cute. -Jillian Barberie - Beautiful but in that obnoxious, Shania Twain kind of way. -Christine Devine -Lisa Joyner - What a Fox! KCAL 9: Sandra Mitchell - OMG Mia Lee - Wheeeeeeee! She's gotta be the most awesome of all. Jennifer Bjorklund, KNBC Channel 4 - What a Babe Leslie Sykes, KABC Channel 7 - Wow	Ray Romano What a show!
	Oops I forgot Cheryl Ladd, the best babe of all. Where the hell is she? OK let's add Jennifer Love Hewitt and Selma Hayek And since I saw Halle Berry I forgot about all the others