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RECENT FAVORITES: Intriguer – Crowded House (incredible songs, and the best-sounding thing I’ve ever heard from them, produced by heavy-hitter Jim Scott); Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s – Dan Epstein; live Cardinals broadcasts on KTRS (thanks to the MLB At Bat 2010 iPhone app!)

Favorite Albums of All-Time
Third/Sister Lovers – Big Star
The Band – The Band
London Calling – The Clash
This Year’s Model – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Revolver – The Beatles
Odessey & Oracle – The Zombies
Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
Underwater Moonlight – The Soft Boys
Marquee Moon – Television
Something Else – The Kinks
The Slider – T. Rex
Wildflowers – Tom Petty
American Recordings – Johnny Cash
Skylarking – XTC
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
Fear – John Cale
Key Lime Pie – Camper Van Beethoven
Desire – Bob Dylan
Here Come the Warm Jets – Brian Eno
It’s a Wonderful Life – Sparklehorse
XO – Elliott Smith
Ladies’ Love Oracle – Grant-Lee Phillips
Isolation Drills – Guided by Voices
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood – Neko Case
Is This Desire? – PJ Harvey
Destroyer’s Rubies – Destroyer
Tonight’s the Night – Neil Young
Cowboy in Sweden – Lee Hazlewood
When I Pretend to Fall – The Long Winters
The Great Destroyer – Low
Lodger – David Bowie
Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon
Wrecking Ball – Emmylou Harris
Easter Everywhere – Thirteen Floor Elevators
Misery is a Butterfly – Blonde Redhead
The Twilight Era – Sanford Arms
Band on the Run – Paul McCartney/Wings
Ladies and Gentlemen… – Spiritualized
Labour of Lust – Nick Lowe
Tres Hombres – ZZ Top
Repeat When Necessary – Dave Edmunds
Seconds of Pleasure – Rockpile
Fort Recovery – Centro-matic
Favorite Songs of All-Time
“Waltz #2 (xo)” – Elliott Smith
“Jesus, Etc.” – Wilco
“Strawberry Fields Forever” – The Beatles
“Take Care” – Big Star
“Waterloo Sunset” – The Kinks
“Ashes to Ashes” – David Bowie
“Killer Queen” – Queen
“It’s Different for Girls” – Joe Jackson
“Mockingbirds” – Grant-Lee Buffalo
“Good Vibrations” – The Beach Boys
“Care of Cell 44″ – The Zombies
“Sleep of the Just” – Elvis Costello
“Lately I’ve Let Things Slide” – Nick Lowe
“Tears of Rage” – The Band/Dylan
“Promises I’ve Made” – Emitt Rhodes
“No Surprises” – Radiohead
“Heliotrope” – Robyn Hitchcock
“Scared Straight” – The Long Winters
“Oh My Love” – John Lennon
“California” – Low
“New Year’s Day” – U2
“You Must Build a Fire” – Crooked Fingers
“Dress” – PJ Harvey
“Fearless” – Pink Floyd
“Racing Stripe Winter” – Red Heart the Ticker
“How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?” – Bee Gees/Al Green
“She’s a Mystery to Me” – Roy Orbison
“Night Nurse” – Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham
“If I Could Build My Whole World Around You” – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

Favorite Books of All-Time
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevksy
Nine Stories – J.D. Salinger
It Came From Memphis – Robert Gordon
Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse
More Pricks Than Kicks – Samuel Beckett
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Bell-Jar – Sylvia Plath
Bluebeard – Kurt Vonnegut
Barabbas – Pär Lagerkvist
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
Confederates in the Attic – Tony Horwitz
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Hellfire – Nick Tosches
The Fight – Norman Mailer
Shakey – Jimmy McDonough
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake


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