![]() | Home Land: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.90 An old buddy of mine gave me this book on New Year's Eve. He said "You need to read this," and he was right.
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![]() | A Scanner Darkly
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.99 I've been putting off watching this for a few months... It was pretty good though. Linklater didn't screw it up. Downey was brilliant. Keanu was good. I felt like Woody totally missed the target, though. All in all definitely worth watching. You're doing yourself a serious disservice if you watch it before reading the book, though.
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![]() | Checkpoint: A Novel by Nicholson Baker
Buy used from: $0.01 I read this in one day -- a quick read, more of a play than a novel, all in the form of a conversation between a guy who wants to assassinate Bush and his friend who's trying to talk him out of it.
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![]() | Prison Break - Season One
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $17.00 One of my co-workers (an aspiring actress) was in 4 episodes of Prison Break, so of course I had to watch the episodes she was in. What can I say, I got hooked.
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![]() | Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $3.74 This is the second time I've tried to read this book. I got past page 100 and drifted into another book... Bukowski said of Miller, "He was good when he was good, and vice versa."
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![]() | Quarantine by Greg Egan
Buy used from: $2.73 Quantum nano-noir. Egan's one of the best sci-fi writers out there.
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![]() | The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $12.14 I saw this last night at Alamo Drafthouse. Very bizarre movie wherein the cloned finger of George W. Bush does naughty things to a horny tutor who became a savant after getting shot in the head. Beware: this is a Japanese soft core porn movie, so there is the obligatory rape scene. If you are a fan of B movies or trippy political satire or really hot Japanese girls, check it out.
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![]() | Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.50 Been keeping this in the bathroom... "Abomunists vote against everyone by not voting for anyone."
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![]() | Impostor (Director's Cut)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.48 Based on a Philip Dick story. There's a 40 minute short film version on the DVD if you don't want to invest an hour & a half of your time. We ended up renting this because we got to the movie theatre too late to see Children of Men.
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![]() | Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $0.04 "Understand" by Ted Chiang & "Halfjack" by Roger Zelazny...
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![]() | Clerks II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $1.99 Better than the first movie... I'm not a huge Kevin Smith fan, but this is probably the best movie of his that I've seen so far -- even better than Mall Rats.
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![]() | Heechee Rendezvous
Buy used from: $2.19 Gateway got me hooked on the Heechee series. Can't say I enjoyed this one as much as the first two, though. Probably won't read anymore Heechee books.
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![]() | American Tabloid: A Novel by James Ellroy
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.85 This book kicked my *ss. Great blend of hardboiled noir, mafia drama, political conspiracy and scandalous gossip -- it's got Howard Hughes, J Edgar Hoover, JFK, RFK, the mafia, FBI, CIA, Bay of Pigs, culminating in JFK getting whacked.
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![]() | Digital Underground - Raw Uncut
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $4.88 As a fan of digital underground since their first album way back in 1990, I just had to watch this.
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![]() | So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
Buy used from: $17.99 It's been about 10 years since the first time I read this... So the wind won't blow it all away... Dust... American... Dust...
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![]() | Live on the Sunset Strip
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.79 Talks about his trip to Africa where he decided to stop saying n****, his freebase addiction, getting all burned up (accident or suicide attempt?), and an amusing bit about working for some Mafia guys when he was 19 years old. If you dig Richard Pryor, check out "Live & Smokin," a show recorded in 1971 -- raw early Pryor before he got famous.
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![]() | The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel by James Ellroy
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.67 Man, I am hooked on this $hlt... This one starts off where 'American Tabloid' ended, and continues on through the 60s -- LBJ, MLK, civil rights, Vietnam... Can't wait for the third book to come out later this year.
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![]() | Idiocracy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.48 It made some amusing points about our society, but it could have been funnier.
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![]() | The Departed (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.66 When I saw this in the theater last fall I thought, "That should win the Oscar." I'm glad it did. One of the best movies I've ever seen. It stands up to a second viewing, too. Great story, great dialogue, incredible cast.
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![]() | Infernal Affairs (Wu jian dao)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.75 Take The Departed, shave off about an hour, remove all of the interesting dialogue and humor, replace the amazing ensemble of actors with a forgettable cast, replace all the kick-#$$ music with what sounds like a Disney soundtrack, and make it all happen in Hong Kong so you have to read subtitles... and now you've got Infernal Affairs.
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![]() | The Island
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $0.94 We heard this sucked, and we watched it anyways. The first 20 minutes were interesting. The action sequences were ridiculously over the top -- even though stuff was blowing up, it was boring. It was really amusing seeing a Ewan McGregor with a Scottish accent talking to a Ewan McGregor with no accent. Buscemi was cool too. It needed more weird sci-fi / less action crap.
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![]() | Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.11 Not bad at all. Two of my favorite actors.
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![]() | Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Buy used from: $10.88 Considered one of the great hard science fiction novels, it's about a ship that can't decelerate & so approaches the speed of light, traveling forward in time due to relativistic time dilation. It puts the 'opera' in 'space opera' -- complete with people cheating on each other, breaking up, & fist fights. It starts off slow. I wish Id read the shorter, original version, 'To Outlive Eternity.'
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![]() | Jackass Number Two (Unrated)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $0.01 I don't want to like this stuff, but I can't help it. This was one hell of an entertaining movie. Not for the squeamish.
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![]() | The 300 Spartans
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.93 Just saw '300' in the theater today, my buddy wanted me to go see it... not bad.
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![]() | Stranger Than Fiction
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.75 Pretty good movie... Will Ferrell's 'Truman Show.'
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![]() | The Last Don by Mario Puzo
Buy used from: $0.01 I didn't think this would be as good as The Godfather or The Sicilian, but I never should have worried. Puzo can do no wrong. One hell of a storyteller.
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![]() | Grindhouse Classics
I drank 5 beers while watching Grindhouse (Rodriguez/Tarantino) at Alamo Drafthouse... Best movie I've seen since The Departed... Hell yeah.
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![]() | Image of the Beast by Philip Jose Farmer
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $9.95 Smoggy gothic porno noir... A private eye investigates his partner's gruesome murder, running into vampires, werewolves, and ghosts along the way...
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![]() | Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $8.95 I read "Imposter," "Minority Report," "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale," & "Days of Perky Pat."
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![]() | Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 (Widescreen Special Editions)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $7.99 Some friends of mine dragged me to go see Spiderman 3. When Maryjane kissed the other guy, some dude in the audience yelled "The bitch!" That was the best part of the movie.
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![]() | Introducing Mind & Brain (Introducing...) by Angus Gellatly
Buy used from: $0.37 Finally finished this book...
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![]() | Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
Buy used from: $1.49 Sheckley influenced Douglas Adams, and you can see why in this book -- it reads like a proto-Hitchhikers Guide. An entertaining quick read.
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![]() | Introducing Evolutionary Psychology, 2nd Edition by Dylan Evans
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $7.51 |
![]() | A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.38 |
![]() | Yes Yes Y'All: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop's First Decade
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $11.00 Learn about the origin & early history of hip hop from the people who were there. Lots of great pictures & flyers.
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![]() | The Science of Sleep
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $6.44 Lots of beautiful visuals, but it's difficult watching this guy cause he's so damn awkward and crazy.
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![]() | Joe Rogan Live
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.99 Dude's hilarious. If you dig Bill Hicks, check out Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope.
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![]() | Little Miss Sunshine
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.50 Great movie.
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![]() | Bill Hicks - Sane Man
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.93 My favorite standup performance of all time.
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