 | Nashville
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.53 Quite simply the best movie I have ever seen in my life.
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 | I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama by Janis Joplin
Buy used from: $3.94 Proof that music can help you deal with emotions you can't deal with any other way
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 | Beautiful Thing
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $12.98 The first "gay" movie I ever had the courage to rent from a video store
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 | The Definitive Soul Collection by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $5.68 They don't call her "Lady Soul" for nothing!
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 | Thelma & Louise
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.55 Members of the Academy, watch this again and tell me why Susan didn't win the Oscar for this.
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 | Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.13 I can never read this book without laughing out loud. Florence King is a comic genius.
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 | Big Eden
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $6.15 I wish the town in this movie was real. A perfectly sweet romantic movie.
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 | When Fallen Angels Fly by Patty Loveless
Buy used from: $0.01 The album that got me through the final year of my grandmother's life.
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 | Raney by Clyde Edgerton
Buy used from: $0.01 A treasure. Thanks to my 11th grade Geometry teacher for introducing me to this beautiful little book
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 | Southern Ladies & Gentlemen by Florence King
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.35 My favorite book ever written about the South
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 | RCA Country Legends by Dolly Parton
Buy used from: $0.78 Since RCA hasn't seen fit to re-issue most of her albums on CD, I have to settle for this. A top-notch hits package with a couple of little-known album tracks thrown in for good measure.
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 | The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.71 If for no other reason than Cloris Leachman's extrordinary performance, this is a masterpiece.
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 | The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz
Buy new: $19.11 / Used from: $4.98 "Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, I am the Charlie Browniest"
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 | Sweet Old World by Lucinda Williams
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.90 My introduction to this remarkable singer-songwriter. The title song and "Something About What Happens When We Talk" are particularly strong cuts.
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 | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.27 I could watch this movie every day for the rest of my life and never get tired of it.
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 | Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town by Emmylou Harris
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.61 Almost any album by Emmylou Harris could fit here. Since this was my first exposure to her, I'll give it the honor.
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 | Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel by Steve Kluger
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 This book made me smile during a very difficult time in my life.
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![Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21WY55CF42L._SL75_.jpg) | Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.20 It's a crime that this isn't on DVD- Geraldine Page's best performance on film, and Paul Newman never looked hotter.
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 | All the Leaves Are Brown: The Golden Era Collection by The Mamas & the Papas
Buy used from: $29.95 2 disc set contains the group's first 4 albums. You can never have too much Mama Cass in your life.
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 | The Very Best of Dusty Springfield by Dusty Springfield
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $5.64 Happy or Sad, there is always something about her voice that touches my soul.
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 | Bless Your Heart, Tramp by Celia Rivenbark
Buy used from: $0.45 The funniest woman writing about southern life today.
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 | Sordid Lives
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.00 To some people, this movie may seem like a broad farce. To me it's like watching a family reunion without having to stand in line to fix a plate.
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 | Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.01 "Nightswimming", "Everybody Hurts", "Man on the Moon", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight"....'nuff said.
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 | Retrospect: The Best of Joe South by Joe South
Buy used from: $12.21 Underrated late 60's singer-songwriter. His music is as fresh today as it must have been then.
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 | Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast) by Jeff Marx
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.35 deceptively simple, yet full of brain and heart.
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