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My Top 10 Favorite Books (Fiction):
1. Complete Works by William Shakespeare
    Top Five Plays:

     The Tempest
     Twelfth Night (or What You Will)
     A Midsummer Night's Dream
     Hamlet
     Henry IV, Part One
 
2. The Brothers Karamazov 
   by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3. Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking 
   Glass) by Lewis Carroll

4. Gulliver's Travels 
   by Jonathan Swift

5. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

6. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories 
   by Nikolai Gogol

7. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

8. Five Plays by Oscar Wilde

9. The Complete Prose of Woody Allen 

10. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness 
    by Kenzaburo Oe


My Top 10 Favorite Nonfiction Books:
1. Shonen Knife Land by Shonen Knife

2. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies 
   by James Abbot McNeill Whistler
  
3. Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima

4. The Varieties of Religious Experience 
   by William James

5. The History by Herodotus

6. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

7. Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx

8. Popism: The Warhol Sixties 
   by Andy Warhol with Pat Hackett

9. England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, 
   Punk Rock and Beyond by Jon Savage

10. Just Williams by Kenneth Williams



My Top 10 Favorite Albums:
(Note: I allowed only one album per artist. 
Otherwise, the list would consist entirely 
of Shonen Knife records.)

1. Shonen Knife: (self-titled)

2. Angel'in Heavy Syrup: (self-titled)

3. Tiny Tim: God Bless Tiny Tim

4. Rolling Stones: Her Satanic Majesty's 
   Request 

5. Nina Hagen: NunSexMonkRock

6. David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy 
   Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

7. Monkees: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn 
   & Jones, Ltd.

8. Arthur Brown: The Crazy World of Arthur 
   Brown

9. Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her: 
   It's Brand New

10. Alice Cooper: From the Inside


My Top 10 All-Time Favorite Bands:
1. Shonen Knife

2. Angel'in Heavy Syrup

3. Monkees

4. Tiny Tim

5. Beatles

6. Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her

7. Nina Hagen

8. David Bowie

9. Black Sabbath

10. Sex Pistols


My Top 10 Favorite Current Bands:
1. Angel'in Heavy Syrup

2. Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her

3. Ghost

4. Blonde Redhead

5. Melt Banana

6. Soundhead

7. Little Fujiko

8. Dengue Fever

9. Groovie Ghoulies

10. Go Betty Go


My Top 10 Favorite Classical Works:
1. Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3

2. Beethoven: Symphony #5

3. Richard Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung

4. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2

5. J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue, in D minor

6. Darius Milhaud: The Bull on the Roof

7. Bela Bartok: String Quartets

8. Igor Stravinsky: Firebird

9. J.S. Bach: Cello Suites

10. Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt


My Top 10 Favorite TV Shows:
1. The Monkees

2. Perry Mason

3. Banana Splits

4. Green Acres

5. Bewitched

6. Dark Shadows

7. Scoobie Doo

8. I Love Lucy

9. The Prisoner

10. Dragnet


My Top 10 Favorite Movies:



1. Modesty Blaise

2. Yellow Submarine

3. Jabberwocky

4. The Cocoanuts

5. Sleeper

6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

7. Help

8. Horse Feathers

9. His Girl Friday

10. Chung King Express


My Top 10 Favorite Documentaries:
1. Blast Off!

2. Music for Psychological Liberation

3. Woodstock

4. The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle

5. Sympathy for the Devil

6. The Kids Are Alright

7. Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision

8. Monterey Pop

9. Message to Love: The Isle of Wight 
   Festival 1970

10. D.O.A.: A Right of Passage


My Top 10 Favorite Directors:
1. Woody Allen

2. Buster Keaton

3. Preston Sturges

4. Wong Kar Wai

5. Shinya Tsukamoto

6. Jean-Luc Godard

7. Jim Jarmusch

8. Itami Juzo

9. Luc Besson

10. Takeshi Kitano


My Top 10 Favorite Artists:
1. Leonardo da Vinci

2. James Abbot McNeill Whistler

3. Andy Warhol

4. Yayoi Kusama

5. Claes Oldenburg

6. Pieter Bruegel the Elder

7. Alphonse Mucha

8. Rene Magritte

9. Francisco de Goya

10. Edvard Munch

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