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Books/ Authors: The Story of Philosophy by Will
Durant; What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky; The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand;
The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a
Nutshell by Stephen Hawking; The Republic by Plato; How do you Know it's True? by Hy Ruchlis; Atheism: The Case Against
God by George H. Smith; The Exception to the Rulers by Amy Goodman; The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (yes, I
actually bought it); The Complete History of Heavy Metal by Ian Christe; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (of
course); Blood and Gold, Vittorio the Vampire, Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice. (everyone should take at least
one literature class, very beneficial) William Blake, already said Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Caryl
Churchill, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats (I think this was most of the
ones from the romantic unit we read).
Movies: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars (original
trilogy), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Night of the Living Dead (both), Dawn of the Dead (both), Day of the Dead, Land
of the Dead, Zombi 2, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Casablanca, Seven Samurai,
The Manchurian Candidate (original), Life is Beautiful, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, The Weather Underground, The Corporation, Amelie,
Detroit Rock City, Interview with the Vampire, Ocean's Eleven, I (heart) Huckabees, anything written by Charlie Kaufman- Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; anything by Stanley Kubrick-
Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space
Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining (and I haven't seen Lolita, Barry Lyndon, or Spartacus yet), Pi, Requiem for a Dream,
Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Taxi Driver, We Were Soldiers, Mindwalk, A Brief History of
Time, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, Motel Hell, The Phantom of the Opera (the new one and Lon Chaney version), Toy
Story 1 and 2, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, the Pianist, Cabin Fever, Hostel, Dogdeball, the 40 Year
Old Virgin, The Edukators, and Cinderella Man
Music: OPETH, Slayer, Metallica (And Justice for
All... and before), Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus, Kreator, Sepultura, Dark Angel (thrash metal, of course), Black
Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Robert Johnson, Godsmack, Marilyn Manson (?), Shadows Fall, Slipknot, Motorhead, Judas Priest,
Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Theatre of Tragedy (w/Liv Kristine), Darkest Hour, Agalloch, Cradle of Filth, Bloodbath (w/ Mikael
Akerfeldt), Nile, The Mars Volta, Between the Buried and Me, Leaves' Eyes, Sigur Ros, Michael Jackson, Tool, A Perfect Circle,
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, In Flames, Meshuggah, Winter Solstice, All that Remains, Amon Amarth, Pink Floyd,
AC/DC, Disturbed, Green Day, Danzig, Godhead, Elvis Presley, Sum 41, Howard Shore, John Williams, Kiss, Rage Against the Machine,
3 Inches of Blood, Dimmu Borgir, Orgy, Krisiun, System of a Down, Strapping Young Lad, Alice In Chains, At the Drive In, As
I Lay Dying, Dead Can Dance, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Doors, King Crimson, Korn, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Pearl
Jam, Sonic Youth, Transmetal, Misfits, The Beatles, Skip James, finally, Arnold Schoenberg, Frederic Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, John Cage, Franz Schubert, Peter, Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebstian Bach,
Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Claudio Monteverdi, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Solaris (good
luck guys).
Visual Art: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rene
Magritte, Vincent Van Gogh, Jan van Eyck, Francisco de Goya, Georges Seurat, Rembrandt van Rijn, Sandro Botticelli, Jackson
Pollock, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, MC Escher, Claude Monet. (yeah, not as big as
the other lists, but I'm no artist
And Philosophers: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Immanuel
Kant, Bertrand Russel, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolo
Machiavelli, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine of Hippo, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, John Dewey, David Hume, John Stuart Mill,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcus Aurelius, Rene Descartes, Galileo was a philosopher?, and Newton? Hopefully
my name will be here in the future.
Of course, with all this that I just listed, I'm not a genius at every single thing. I just happen to know,admire,
or like him/her/it.
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