Notes

Movies

The Big Lebowski
Requiem for a Dream
Good Will Hunting
The Departed
American Beauty
American History X
Trainspotting
In the Name of the Father
Up In the Air
Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight (Before Sunset is the best)
The Straight Story
Days of Heaven
Frost/Nixon
Scarface
Jagten (Swedish for "The Hunt")
The Intouchables
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Once
The Godfather Part 2
A Serious Man
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Mud
Gravity
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Machete
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Bourne Identity and Ultimatum
The Kids Are All Right
A Seperation
Barry Lyndon
Grave of the Fireflies
Papillon
Festen (Swedish for "The Celebration")
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
It Happened One Night
Star Trek Into Darkness
Blue Valentine
The Place Beyond the Pines
Bridge on the River Kwai
The General
Dollars Trilogy (Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
Three Idiots
Like Stars on Earth
The Elephant Man
Pan's Labyrinth
Cinderella Man
High Fidelity
Goodfellas
Any Michael Moore film
Thank You for Smoking
Life of Pi
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Hot Fuzz
End of Watch
Wet Hot American Summer
The King's Speech
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Superbad
Wreck-It Ralph
Argo
Perks of Being A Wallflower (Great book too)
50/50
Boogie Nights
There Will Be Blood
Magnolia
Cabin in the Woods
The Hurt Locker
The Town
Casino Royale
Walk the Line
City of God
Chasing Amy
Clerks 1 and 2
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
Control
I Love You, Man
No Country for Old Men
Bottle Rocket
Falling Down
Moonrise Kingdom
The Royal Tenenbaums
Nixon
Wonder Boys
Adaptation
Natural Born Killers
Bridges of Madison County
The Deer Hunter
Sin City
The Avengers
Thor
Old School
A Clockwork Orange
IP Man
The Fighter
Almost Famous
In Bruges
A Walk to Remember
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Life of Brian
Aliens
Donnie Darko
Drive
The Shining
Platoon
Bean
Office Space
Crash
Horrible Bosses
School of Rock
Wedding Crashers
Big Fish
Cool Hand Luke
The Truman Show
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Downfall
Brokeback Mountain
City Lights
The Bucket List
This is Spinal Tap
Love, Actually
Stand By Me
Into the Wild
Terminator 1 and 2
Gladiator
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
Once Upon a Time in America
Unforgiven
Gran Torino
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark/Last Crusade
Star Wars Episodes 3, 4, and 5 (Not a big fan of the rest)

TV Shows


The Sopranos
Firefly
Breaking Bad
Entourage
Mad Men
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
Arrested Development
Deadwood
House of Cards
Homeland
Community
24

Albums


Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beck - Sea Change
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Clash - London Calling
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Dave Matthews Band - Crash, Under the Table and Dreaming
Dream Theater - Octavarium, Metropolis Part 2, Images and Words
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces (Just recently heard the album)
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape, Wasting Light
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Husker Du - New Day Rising (Awesome punk album I have just recently heard)
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden
All 3 Jimi Hendrix Experience albums
Love - Forever Changes
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Metallica - ...And Justice for All, Death Magnetic, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets
Mr. Bungle albums are cool, but very weird. They are an acquired taste.
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Neil Young - Decade (Best compilation album ever)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Pearl Jam - Ten, Backspacer
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, Atom Heart Mother, The Wall
Pixies - Doolittle
Portishead - Dummy
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf, ...Like Clockwork
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
U2 - Joshua Tree, No Line on the Horizon
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black


Songs


Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (My favorite song)
10CC - I'm Mandy Fly Me, I'm Not in Love
Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky (Awesome guitar solo)
Bad Religion - Sorrow
Badfinger - Baby Blue
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice, God Only Knows
The Beatles - Abbey Road Medley. While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Don't Let Me Down, I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime, The Golden Age
Bee Gees - More Than A Woman, To Love Somebody
The Beta Band - Dry the Rain
Billy Joel - Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
Blind Faith - Presence of the Lord
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
The Boxer Rebellion - Fragile
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland, 4th of July Ashbury Park, Thunder Road, Secret Garden
Buckethead - Nottingham Lace
Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
Camel - Lady Fantasy
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Cream - Badge, World of Pain, White Room, Those Were the Days
Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
The Cult - Fire Woman, Love Removal Machine
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up. We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
The Dandy Warhols - Godless, Sleep
Dave Matthews Band - Say Goodbye(Awesome beginning drum solo, also a very sad song), Lie in Our Graves
David Bowie - Space Oddity, Life on Mars?
Deep Purple - Child in Time, April, Highway Star, Space Truckin'
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love, Brothers in Arms, Sultans of Swing
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Dream Theater - Octavarium, The Enemy Inside, Metropolis Part 1
Dropkick Murphys - Shippin' Up to Boston
Eagles of Death Metal - Wannabe in LA
ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Elliott Smith - Miss Misery, Between the Bars, LA, Angel in the Snow
Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven, Wonderful Tonight
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Faith No More - Epic, Midlife Crisis, King For A Day, From Out of Nowhere
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1
Focus - Hocus Pocus (Instrumental)
Foo Fighters - Times Like These, Bridge Burning, Rope
Foxygen - San Francisco
Frank Zappa - Fifty-Fifty (Ignore the vocals, the improvised guitar solo is the best part of the song)
Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
Gov't Mule - Thorazine Shuffle (Awesome drum solo at the end)
Helmet - Unsung, In the Meantime
The Impressions - This is My Country
Jane's Addiction - Three Days, Superhero
Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended as Lovers, Beck's Bolero
Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Dharma for One (Great drum solo)
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
John Lennon - Mother, Oh Yoko!
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Lenny Kravitz - Believe
Leonard Cohen - So Long Marianne, Suzanne, Sisters of Mercy
The Mamas and Papas - Monday, Monday
Massive Attack - Teardrop, Unfinished Symphony, Protection
Metallica - One, The Unforgiven 1, 2, and 3, Orion, Nothing Else Matters, Fade to Black, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Outlaw Torn
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Mighty Mighty Boostones - The Impression That I Get
Minutemen - Corona, History Lesson Part 2
The Mission UK - Butterfly on a Wheel
Moby - Extreme Ways. Signs of Love, Porcelain
Motorhead - Overkill
Mr Bungle - Pink Cigarette, Retrovertigo
Mudhoney - Good Enough
Muse - Knights of Cydonia, Butterflies and Hurricanes (Beautiful piano solo in the middle)
Mutemath - Break the Same
My Morning Jacket - Gideon
Neil Young - Down by the River, Cortez the Killer, Broken Arrow, Like a Hurricane
New Order - Blue Monday
Nick Drake - Pink Moon, One of These Things First
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Nine Inch Nails - Came Back Haunted, We're in This Together, Every Day is Exactly the Same, the Hand that Feeds
Opeth - Burden
The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears, Mr Crowley
Pamtera - Cemetery Gates, Floods, Walk
Patti Smith - Land
Pearl Jam - Just Breathe, Alive, Yellow Ledbetter
A Perfect Circle - Passive, The Outsider, 3 Libras
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Dogs, anything by Pink Floyd
Pixies - Debaser, Where is My Mind?, Here Comes Your Man
The Police - Roxanne
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus, Arriving Somewhere But Not Here, Anesthesize, Trains, Glass Arm Shattering, The Start of Something Beautiful, Blackest Eyes
Portishead - Roads, It's a Fire
Primal Scream - Loaded, Come Together, Movin' On Up
Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think
Pulp - Mile End, Common People
Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow, 3's and 7's, ... Like Clockwork, First it Giveth
REM - Orange Crush
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire, Bombtrack, Know Your Enemy, Testify, Killing in the Name, Wake Up
Rainbow - Stargazer, Gates of Babylon
Ralph McTell - Streets of London
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock Me Down, Californication, Otherside
Richard Harris - Macarthur Park
Roy Buchanon - Sweet Dreams, Down by the River
Rush - 2112, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, The Camera Eye, Working Man
Santana - Soul Sacrifice
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You
Semisonic - Closing Time
Sigur Rios - Hoppipola (Only song I know by Sigur Rios)
Slayer - Raining Blood, Seasons in the Abyss
The Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA
Social Distortion - I was Wrong, Story of My Life
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing, Teenage Riot
Soundgarden - Spoonman, Burden in My Hand
Spiritualized - Stop Your Crying
The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection, She Bangs the Drums, Love Spreads, Made of Stone(Cool guitar effect towards end of song)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven, In Circles, Faces in Disguise
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger, The Logical Song
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams, Why Won't They Talk to Me?, Feels Like We're Only Going Backwards, Elephant, Nothing That has Happened so Far has Been Anything We Could Control
Television - Marquee Moon
Tenacious D - Rise of The Fenix, the whole Pick of Destiny movie/album
Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends, Gunman
Tool - Pushit, Anema
U2 - Miss Sarajevo, Where the Streets Have No Name, Moment of Surrender, Magnificent, With of Without You, Mysterious Ways, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Pride in the Name of Love
Van Halen - Dreams, Hot For Teacher, Eruption
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey, Into the Mystic, Madame George
Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane, Sunday Morning, Who Loves the Sun
The Who -- The Seeker, Love Reign O'er Me, Who Are You, Behind Blue Eyes, Won't Get Fooled Again
Yes - Starship Trooper (Amazing ending)
ZZ Top - La Grange