Movie and Reading Lists for the New Millenium
August 2nd, 2006 by shrimppop
Today’s question: will the electric power grid go down with the heatwave hitting the East Coast? Yesterday, when I got home it was 89° F inside my house.
So what do you need to know to cope in this new world? Well, here’s a proposed movie list:
- Bridge on the River Kwai- “Madness! Madness!!”
- Gallipoli
- I (heart) Huckabees
- Brazil- “Triplets? How time flies!”
- Shawshank Redemption
- Die Hard
- Clockwork Orange
- Total Recall
- Syriana
- Waking Life
- Stalker- Tarkovsky
- Fitzcaraldo
- Office Space- “ahh, yeah.”
- Limbo
… and books
- Vineland, Crying of Lot 49- Thomas Pynchon
- The Trial- Franz Kafka
- Earthly Powers- Anthony Burgess
- Moby Dick- Herman Melville
- Naked Lunch- William S. Burroughs
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
- Catch-22- Joseph Heller
- Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
- Lanark- Alistair Gray
- Lord of the Flies- William Golding
- Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut