Some of My Favorite Things

Books
Movies
Theater
Television
Artists
Music
Places

Books

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire; The Monkey Wrench Gang
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked Through Time
Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Frank Herbert, Dune
Tony Hillerman (all)
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams; The Bean Trees; Pigs in Heaven; The Poisonwood Bible
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
John le Carre (all)
Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire
Larry McMurtry, Buffalo Girls
Marlo Morgan, Mutant Message Down Under
Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
Paul M. Sammon, The Making of Blade Runner
Richard Scarry, What Do People Do All Day?
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose; Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner
Daniel N. Stern, The Interpersonal World of the Infant
Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell
Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality

Movies

2001
Annie Hall
Blade Runner
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Easy Rider
Fantasia
Koyaanisqatsi
LA Confidential
Lawrence of Arabia
Moonstruck
On the Waterfront
Road Warriors
Sleepless in Seattle
Star Wars
The Third Man
The Usual Suspects
Tootsie
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Wings of Desire
Zorba the Greek

Theater

Amadeus
A Chorus Line
Michael Moschen
Threepenny Opera
Woman in Mind (Ayckbourne)
most of Tom Stoppard

Television

Ally McBeal
China Beach
Hill St. Blues
NYPD Blue
Upstairs, Downstairs
The Singing Detective
Brideshead Revisited

Artists

Edward Hopper
Joan Miro
Saul Steinberg
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Betty LaDuke
Australian Aborigines
Carl Milles
Vigelund
Erte

Music

Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez (favorite recording: Julian Bream Consort)
Christopher Parkening, The Great Recordings
Malaguena; Leyenda (Albeniz); Romance (Anon)
Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish Encores
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
Philip Glass, Soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi
Henryk Gorecki, Symphony No. 3
Max Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1; Scottish Fantasy
Bach, Toccata and Fugue
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons; Concerto in D
Paul Simon, Rhythm of the Saints; Graceland
Gabrielle Roth, Bones; Totem
Alice Gomez, Flute Dreams
Judy Collins, Wildflowers
Scott Joplin, The Red Back Book
Enya, Shepherd Moons; Watermark
Muriel Anderson, Hometown Live!
Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo a la Turk; Take Five
Erik Satie, Gymnopedie I
Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Anonymous 4, An English Ladymass
Keith Jarrett, The Koln Concert
Peggy Lee
Frank Sinatra
Rosemary Clooney
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
Willie Nelson
Sleepless in Seattle (soundtrack)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Places

Delicate Arch, Utah
Taj Mahal
Grand Canyon
American Wing, Metropolitan Museum, New York City
Sutro Baths, San Francisco
View of Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, from Marin Headlands
Hell Gate Bridge, Astoria, Queens, New York City
Millesgarden, Stockholm (Carl Milles sculpture park)
Frognesteren, Oslo (Vigelund sculpture park)
Haw Par Villa (was Tiger Balm Gardens), Singapore
San Francisquito Creek
Our back yard