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A sampling of items that have had the greatest effect on me                     

Color coded based on type - do you know what they are?                          

Tom Waits Caspar David Friedrich

Venezia

chianti

Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef UTAH National Parks

Vail, CO

Duino Elegies

U2 War

Ford's Theater

Bjork

Star Trek

Tour de France

Napoleon and the French Revolution

Julie Delpy stars in Before Sunrise, a film set in Vienna

Tommy rock opera

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik  Mozart

Louis XIV,  Versailles

The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1779

Bernstein, Beethoven, Berlin, and the 9th 12/25/1989

Miles Davis

Heinrich Boell

The English Patient

    Klaus Schulze    German composer

 

Monet

Otto Dix

Rage Against the Machine

Neil Young

 

Jacque Brel

The Cure

Sinatra

Jim Morrison

Peter Handke

Brandenburg Concertos

Edgar Allen Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher

Koyanitskatsi

a film and music by

Phillip Glass

"Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me
written by an Italian poet from the 13th   century" and words by Bob Dylan
Death Valley, Pt. Reyes, Catalina Island, San Francisco, Sequoia and Big Sur, CA The New German Cinema of Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Volker Schoendorff and  Rainer Maria Fassbinder

Badlands National Park South Dakota

Marco Polo

The Venerable Bede

Steve Martin

Old South Meeting House, Boston, MA

Oliver Sacks

radio

Zoo TV

His Name is Alive: a band from Michigan

Baron von Richthofen

rococo

Harvard Square

Loire

Psychedelic Furs

Talking Heads

Monmarte

Star Wars

Georgio Armani

Buchenwald

Joy Division The Smiths
Cosmos, Carl Sagan

The Mall Washington DC

Johanna Drucker

Larry King

Penguins

OmahaBeach

Egyptian pyramids

Miami Vice

Christoph Meckel: The Figure on the Boundary Line, Sauere Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain and others by Thomas Mann

Dr. Milton Rosenberg

Metropolis Carl Orff

Pink Floyd The Wall

Vladimir Vysotksy

Ted Williams

M Ayn Rand

Art Bell

Soviet poet and singer

Auguste Rodin

Alexander Nevsky

James Bond

Georg:Heym & Trakl
Ferdinand Magellan Edvard Muench

Chartres

The Hoover Dam

Tori Amos

Rome Italy

Albert Camus

Pompeii

Franz Kafka

1984

David Letterman

Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caeser, The Tempest, King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream
Thai food

I believe John Barth and Kurt Vonnegut are our finest American authors

 tennis

Amadeus

van Gogh

Faust

Heiner Mueller

The National Geographic Society

Chopin

Mt. St. Helens

Edvard Munch

Orvieto

golf

Nazca

Austin Powers

 

The Berlin Wall

A Confederacy of Dunces, my favorite American book Photography
Newgrange, The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland Is Beckett's Waiting for Godot  or Brecht's Mother Courage the seminal drama of our time?

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Igor Stravinksy

BB King

e e cummings

Frank Llyod Wright

Luebeck, Germany

  The Rites of Spring

Pearl Jam

poetry by Margaret Atwood

Bruce Springsteen

Cabaret Balkan is a Serbian film about war

Mont St. Michel

Jose Luis Borges

 
Hans Kueng

PBS

This is Spinal Tap Malkovich, Fiennes Beyond Good and Evil Francis Bacon

Anasazi

The Niebelungen

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, High Plains Drifter, For a Few Dollars More, Dirty Harry, Dead Pool, Unforgiven

history

languages

astronomy

Computers

POLY SCI

POETRY