TEN BOOKS
- Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
- Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut
- Realism, Linda Nochlin
- White Trash, Nancy Isenberg
- Digital Stockholm Syndrome, Mark Jarzombek
- The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- Illuminations Selected Works of Walter Benjamin, Walter Benjamin
Ten Movies
- The Big Lebowski, Cohen Brothers
- 2001 a Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
- Chinatown, Roman Polanski
- Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone
- Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog
- Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa
- Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo
- Alien, Ridley Scott
- Clerks, Kevin Smith
- Rocky, Sylvester Stallone/ /John G.Avildsen
Ten Albums
- The White Album, The Beatles
- Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
- Drukqs, Aphex Twin
- Pieces of a Man, Gil Scott Heron
- Doolittle, Pixies
- The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks
- A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Black Sheep
- Tago Mago, Can
- Meat Puppets II, the Meat Puppets
- Who is William Onyeabor?, William Onyeabor
Top Ten Chicago Things
- The Worlds Fair of 1893
- Fire
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- The Empty Bottle
- Jeppsen’s Malort
- The 1997 Chicago Bulls
- Steve Albini
- Encased Meats
- Lake Michigan Water Front
- Wilco
Top Ten Artists
- Ed Ruscha
- Theaster Gates
- David Hammonds
- Vija Celmins
- Gustav Courbet
- Gerhard Richter
- Frank Stella
- Malcolm Morley
- Jack Goldstien
- Walter Robinson
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