![]() | Assassins (2004 Broadway Revival Cast) by Stephen Sondheim
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.87 My absolute favorite Stephen Sondheim musical. Tells the tales of those who have attempted to assassinate U.S. Presidents. The style of music is what gets at me; that, and learning about the assassins themselves. Best songs are "The Ballad of Booth", "Another National Anthem", and "Everybody's Got the Right (reprise)"
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![]() | My So-Called Life - The Complete Series (w/ Book)
Buy new: $38.49 / Used from: $29.99 I don't have the dvd, yet, but this series is BY FAR the best television depiction of adolescence available. A huge shame it was never picked up for more seasons, this show has a very loyal fanbase and changed my perceptions on what t.v. was capable of.
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![]() | Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy used from: $4.00 Ah, Dostoevsky. My foray into Russian Literature. This was actually the second piece of his I read. Crime and Punishment should be taught in every high school, every university, every preschool. Okay, maybe I'm just a purist. Anyway, the book deals with societal egotism, guilt, and religion at its most theoretical and most practical.
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![]() | The Jungle Book (Limited Issue)
Buy used from: $9.02 Gorgeous Disney movie. And I chose that word carefully. Yes, it is also a musical, and parts of it are fun and frolicsome, but it's most influential feature is its look. The backgrounds all seem to be moving oil paintings. The mood is dark and deep. You feel the jungle around the characters. Gorgeous.
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![]() | Notes from Underground by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy used from: $7.69 The first Russian work I read. Wracked my 8th grade mind. I was uncomfortable for weeks, having thought beforehand that I knew what literature was and how it made you feel. This piece of literature, narrated by a miserable, maudlin, genius (as I considered myself to be that year) made me question the writing style of everything I had ever read and/or written.
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![]() | Les Miserables (1987 Original Broadway Cast) by Alain Boublil
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $9.95 The first broadway musical I heard that made me cry. Almost everyone knows the story, the lucky have heard the musical. It is such a sorrowful yet uplifting experience, I rarely know what to do with myself after hearing it.
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![]() | Sicko (Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.69 An amazing film, Moore's best by far, that made me feel very ashamed, liberal as I am, to have fallen for the many tricks the media and governmental machine plays to keep national healthcare away from the public.
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![]() | Apple 30 GB iPod AAC/MP3 Video Player Black (5.5 Generation)
Buy new: $399.99 / Used from: $140.00 Do I really need to give an explanation? the ipod freed up my listening habits in so many ways: no longer do you have to carry 20 cds around just to keep occupied, no longer must you own an entire cd when you only want one or two songs, and finally, finally the public library is useful for more than books.
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![]() | Cabaret
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.99 What can I say? If you've seen it then you know, if you haven't seen it, what are you doing wasting your time reading lists when you could be watching it? Liza is a Goddess, Joel Gray is a God. Watch it. Love it. Live it.
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![]() | A Boy Named Charlie Brown: The Original Sound Track Recording Of The CBS Television Special by Vince Guaraldi
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.24 As American as Apple Pie, Baseball, and Cuban Cigars...okay, sorry. Anyway, if you don't know every song on here, you need to buy the cd right away, before your citizenship as an educated human being is revoked. Beautiful jazz numbers in their original album (it's easy to forget most of the Peanuts Classics came out all at once.) Brings back great memories. RIP Schultz. RIP Guaraldi.
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![]() | The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1936-1958
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.49 Warner Bros. fans rejoice! the ultimate collection of the music that was Warner Bros. Productions for decades. Takes you back to all those Saturday morning cartoons.
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