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Dan Reines
Editorial Assistant, Tripod

Top Ten lists suck, but these are a few of my favorite things (in no particular order). And just to complete the list, I also like the color brown, the number eight, and the name "Otis." And John was my favorite Beatle. Anything else?

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Pen Warmed-Up in Hell by Mark Twain
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley
Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Candide by Voltaire
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Godfather, I & II (1972, 1974)
Network (1976)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Player (1992)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Color Purple (1985)
Airplane! (1980)
Dog Day Afternoon (1974)
Do the Right Thing (1989)

Abbey Road, The Beatles
Let It Be, The Beatles
Fight For Your Mind, Ben Harper
Bulk, Jack Logan
Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits
The River, Ali Farka Toure
Just Another Band From East L.A., Los Lobos
Paul's Boutique, Beastie Boys
Ella and Louis, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Mike Watt, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

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