Books
- The Secret Life of Salvador Dali – Dali
- Artemis Fowl – Colfer
- The Stranger – Camus
- The Metamorphosis – Kafka
- The Prophecies of Nostradamus
- The Seat of the Soul – Zukav
- Still Life with Woodpecker – Robbins
- Interpreter of Maladies – Lahiri
- Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak
- The Wheel of Time – Robert Jordan
Movies
- Lost in Translation
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Secret of Nimh
- The Orphanage
- Talladega Nights
- A.I.
- The Goonies, or Super 8
- The Host (2006, Korean)
Albums
- All Eyes On Me – Tupac
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye
- Attack and Release – Black Keys
- Instant Vintage – Raphael Saadiq
- The Infamous – Mobb Deep
- ….
- Speakerboxx/The Love Below – Outkast
- Purple Rain – Prince
- kin – iamwhoiamwhoami
- UnDun – Roots
Chicago
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Cultural Center
- Lakefront (Any: bike, grill, a sport – even badminton will do)
- (Any high building allowing for unparalleled view of city and something reasonably priced to eat – for the people types, to and fro.)
- Red to 95th – or – Green to Harlem
- Architecture boat tour (with or without earplugs)
- Wait in line, or, smoke a cigarette in the winter outside a club/bar
- Attempt to take too much stuff, including alcohol, to outdoor summer freebie
- Dine in at any $ amount restaurant on west Devon
- ….