I can’t seem to remedy it—I’m evangelistic about the stuff I love most. (Hence the Clan Murphy “Good Stuff” blog.) But for a quickie recap of some of my passions, the stuff I read/watch/listen to over and over and over, here goes (and in no particular order):
Favorite books: Shakespeare (and more Shakespeare), The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Clarke), Blood Meridian(McCarthy), The Brothers Karamazov and Demons (Dostoevsky), Bleak House (Dickens), Pride and Prejudice (Austen), Gaudy Night (Sayers), A Taste for Death (James), Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Newman), Heart of Darkness and Nostromo (Conrad), The Power and the Glory (Greene),Carry On, Jeeves (Wodehouse), A Good Man is Hard to Find (O’Connor), Mariette in Ecstacy (Hansen).
Favorite Mystery Authors: P.D. James, Dorothy L. Sayers, James Lee Burke, Tony Hillerman, Elizabeth George, Margaret Coel.
Favorite Films: Lawrence of Arabia, Indiana Jones trilogy, Black Narcissus, Chariots of Fire, Gladiator, The Fall, Enchanted April, Equilibrium, The Fugitive, the Bourne trilogy, Vertigo, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Jaws, City Lights, Modern Times, Babette’s Feast, Les Miserables (1998),3:10 to Yuma (2007), Schindler’s List, The Passion of the Christ, Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry V (1989),Hamlet (dir. by Peter Brook), Master and Commander, L.A. Confidential, The Usual Suspects.
Favorite TV Programs: LOST, The Prisoner, Nowhere Man, Frasier, Brideshead Revisited (BBC), Bleak House(BBC), Little Dorrit (BBC), Band of Brothers, Our Murual Friend (BBC), Sherlock (BBC).
Favorite Musical Works/Albums/Songs: Ave Verum and Pie Jesu (Jenkins), The Lark Ascending & Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis & Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan WIlliams), Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald & Song for a Winter’s Night (Lightfoot), DonGiovanni and Requiem (Mozart), Turandot andTosca (Puccini), Revolver and Rubber Soul (Beatles)
Favorite Movie Soundtracks: The Mission & Once Upon a Time in the West (Morricone), City Lights (Chaplin),Tous les Matins du Monde (Marais), Gladiator, Face/Off, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Williams), The Great Escape
