100 Things to Check Out

100 things I recommend to everyone on earth.

  1. Book: The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

  2. Video: I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live at the Monterey Pop Festival) — Otis Redding

  3. Movie: Horsefeathers — The Marx Brothers

  4. Prints: Damn Everything But the Circus — Sister Corita Kent

  5. Album: Jackson C. Frank — Jackson C. Frank

  6. Book: The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

  7. Book: This is London by Miroslav Sasek

  8. Album: Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings — Nina Simone

  9. Book: The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction by Edward Corey

  10. Painting: The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse) by Albert Pinkham Ryder

  11. Play: Loot by Joe Orton

  12. Painting: Nourishment by Avery Palmer

  13. Movie: Possessor directed by Brandon Cronenberg

  14. TV Series: Monty Python's Flying Circus

  15. Book: I Am Almost Always Hungry by Cahan & Associates

  16. Album: What's Going On — Marvin Gaye

  17. Book: Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham

  18. Song: Runaway People by Dyke and the Blazers

  19. Book: Problem Solved by Michael Johnson

  20. Comic Book: Eightball by Daniel Clowes

  21. Album: Push Barman to Open Old Wounds — Belle and Sebastian

  22. Video: Hold On, I'm Coming (Live In Norway, 1967) — Sam and Dave

  23. Poet: Anne Sexton

  24. Short Story: One is a Wanderer by James Thurber

  25. Movie: The Black Cat directed by Edgar Ulmer

  26. Place: The Slieve League, Donegal, Republic of Ireland

  27. Book: Criterion Designs by The Criterion Collection

  28. Book: Triptychs: Buffalo's Lower West Side Revisited by Milton Rogovin and JoAnn Wipeyjewski

  29. Song: There's a Place by The Beatles

  30. Album: Greatest Hits — Leonard Cohen

  31. Movie: Seconds directed by John Frankenheimer

  32. Book: Hate Mail by Mr. Bingo

  33. Book: Diane Arbus, An Apeture Monograph

  34. Movie: Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick

  35. Album: Yerself is Steam — Mercury Rev

  36. Restaurant: The Student Prince, Springfield, MA

  37. Movie: The Omega Man directed by Boris Sagal

  38. Album: Strange Weather — Marianne Faithfull

  39. Book: Collected Stories by John Cheever

  40. Book: Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

  41. Movie: The Apartment directed by Billy Wilder

  42. Book: The Great British Dream Factory by Dominic Sandbrook

  43. Book: People by Blexbolex

  44. Movie: The Navigator directed by Buster Keaton

  45. Video: Free as a Bird — The Beatles, directed by Joe Pytka

  46. Album: Veedon Fleece — Van Morrison

  47. Bar: Bemelman's Bar, New York, NY

  48. Park: Acadia National Park, Maine

  49. Sea Creature: Giant Squid

  50. Movie: Vertigo directed by Alfred Hitchcock

  51. Beverage: Matcha

  52. Book: Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders

  53. Comic Strip: Krazy Kat by George Herman

  54. Comic Strip: Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor

  55. Book: Paul Rand: A Designer's Art by Paul Rand

  56. Graphic Novel: My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

  57. Restaurant: Momofuku Noodle Bar, Toronto, Ontario

  58. Pub: The Atlantic, Brixton, London

  59. Dog Breed: English Bulldog

  60. Artist: Paula Rego

  61. Album: The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society — The Kinks

  62. Actor: Jeanne Moreau

  63. Book: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

  64. Artist: Gary Taxali

  65. TV Series: The Knick directed by Steven Soderbergh

  66. Art Gallery: Albright–Knox Art Gallery

  67. Album: The Greatest — Cat Power

  68. Song: Cigarettes and Coffee — Otis Redding

  69. TV Series: Blue Planet

  70. Comic Strip: Ernie Pook's Comeek by Lynda Barry

  71. Condiment: Healthy Boy Mushroom Soy Sauce

  72. Song: It Never Entered My Mind by The Miles Davis Quintet

  73. Book: The Haunted Screen by Lotte Eisner

  74. Graphic Novel: Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

  75. Song: You are the Circus — C and the Shells

  76. Album: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady — Charles Mingus

  77. Movie: Magnolia directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

  78. Book: It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden

  79. Painting: The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch

  80. Book: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

  81. Album: Desire by Bob Dylan

  82. Album: Dummy by Portishead

  83. Movie: Little Murders directed by Alan Arkin

  84. Book: A Little Yes and a Big No by George Grosz

  85. Posters: Andrew Bird series by White Bicycle

  86. Poem: A Deep-Sworn Vow by William Butler Yeats

  87. Album: Live at the Curran Theater — Lenny Bruce

  88. Book: The Science Book edited by Peter Tallack

  89. Book: The Catalogue by Saul Steinberg

  90. Album: Liege and Lief — Fairport Convention

  91. TV Series: Mad Men

  92. Book: Ben Shahn/Graphic Art by James Thrall Soby

  93. Stained Glass Windows: Temple Beth Zion by Ben Shahn

  94. Book: The Small Stakes Music Posters

  95. Album: The Slider — T. Rex

  96. Movie: Of Time and the City directed by Terence Davies

  97. Movie: Life is Sweet directed by Mike Leigh

  98. Album: New Day Rising — Hüsker Dü

  99. Graphic Novel: From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

  100. Comic Strip: Underworld by Kaz