| The Author's faves
The Author's favorite books by his favorite authors:
- The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
- The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
- Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
- Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
Top Tunes. When writing, The Author listens to Bomba Estereo, Dengue Fever, Pretenders, Coltrane, Nirvana, Julieta Venegas, Ramones, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Doors, Iggy, Rosie Ledet, blues, zydeco, riot grrl, mariachi.
20 Flicks The Author can't see too many times:
- Apocalypse Now
- Key Largo
- The Hustler
- The Milagro Beanfield War
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Field of Dreams
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Shining
- Do The Right Thing
- Dr. Strangelove
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Candidate
- The Right Stuff
- City of Hope (or anything by Sayles)
- The Fugitive
- The Last Hurrah
- Cool Hand Luke
- Mean Streets, Taxi Driver & Goodfellas
The Author's Guilty Pleasures:
- The Warriors (Come out and Plaa-yay!)
- The Joy Luck Club
- Almost Famous
- Escape from New York
- The Fast and the Furious
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- The Commitments
- The Firm
- The Blues Brothers
- My Cousin Vinny
- Mad Max
- The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three
- Selena
- The School of Rock
The Author's Must-See TV:
- The Simpsons
- The Sopranos
- Shameless
- The Big C
- Friday Night Lights
- Mad Men
- Breaking Bad
- Prison Break
- Cubs games on WGN-TV
- Mexico: One Plate at a Time
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- The West Wing
- The Wire
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