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Prog rock (classics)
Amazing Blondel - Englishe Musicke
English mostly acoustic group 1969-76. Middle-age renaissance guitar, organ and other instruments, multipart harmony vocals, etc., bordering on the prog movement in England at the time. Related to Gryphon
. The musicians had earlier played rock and thus the music cannot be termed classical either. The group was released on Island Records just as any other rock group at the time. Among lots of famous guest musicians can be named Boz Burrell, Jim Capaldi, Eddie Jobson, Steve Winwood and Mel Collins. All the material here is original - with lutes and crumhorns jumping headlong into massively complex arrangements brimming with joie de vivre. 
  Amon Düül II - Flawless
An incredible album from one of the most influential German bands in the history of progressive music. Mystifying, primal, shredding, groaning, cosmic, unearthly, complex - all at the same time. Amon Düül began in the late 60's as a commune, then split into two bands Amon Düül and Amon Düül II. They started off in the early seventies with some noisy German-electro-industrial kind of music, but later graduated to prog rock.
Their best output is from the early to mid 70's period, and includes the albums Yeti, Dance of the Lemmings, Wolf City, Vive La Trance, Hijack and Made in Germany. With the double album Dance of the Lemmings began their "classic" period: spacy intrumentals with prominent hard-rock guitar. It's similar in vein to Popol Vuh, which is no wonder as they have shared members. Flawless is one of their last... and best.

  Ash Ra Temple - Schwingungen / Seven Up
Ash Ra Tempel was the legendary German electronic group that spawned Klaus Schulze, though, at that time, guitarist Manuel Gottsching was the prime mover. Their music is very spacy and psychedelic, in the manner popularized by early Hawkwind and Amon Düül II .
Seven-Up features Timothy Leary, with his "altered-state" interludes. Half of Seven-Up is psych-blues weirdness interspersed with acidic, spacy freakouts, while the other half is more of the echo-guitar sounds we all know and love, only this time with extra layers of sound created by flute and keyboards, and featuring a guest spot by acid-guru Timothy Leary reading some prose underneath the sheets of sound.


Today's rock
           
A3 - Exhile on Coldharbour Lane Until recently, this album had been unjustly lost in the shuffle. A3 is made up of two guys from Scotland who love Americana - especially the Delta blues. The track "Woke Up This Morning" is the title song to the hit HBO series "The Sopranos," and it's helped gain A3 a much wider audience.


Best authors of the 20th Century

            MARTIN AMIS: London Fields

            PAUL AUSTER: Leviathan


Best books of the 20th Century

          William Boyd  Armadillo by William Boyd   

Revenge of The Nerd! Armadillo is hilarious and thought provoking. Boyd brings the reader so close to Lorimar Black, his main character, were it not for for his previous works you would scarcely believe the novel is not significantly autobiographical.

            Anthem by Ayn Rand

                               Anthony Burgess:

Abba Abba 

    Any Old Iron

       A CLOCKWORK ORANGE A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess                    

 audio.gif (334 bytes) A Clockwork Orange - Audio cassette


Music books

All You Need Is Love : ...and 99 Other Life Lessons from Classic Rock Songs Pete Fornatale, et al
 
A Dreamer of Pictures: Neil Young, the Man and His Music

Essays, Anthologies, Biographies   

           American's favorite poems Americans' Favorite Poems   Robert Pinsky (Editor)

          Caroline Alexander -Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

          The American Century by Harold Evans, et al.


Mystery & Thrillers

 
The Ax. A novel by Donald E. Westlake Donald E. Westlake - The Ax   

Donald E. Westlake, named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, has written everything from comic capers (the Dortmunder series) to the darker adventures of ace criminal Parker during his long career. But he's never come up with anything scarier or more timely than this story about a downsized executive who decides to kill off the competition. Burke Devore could be your neighbor: a laid-off paper company manager watching his life and family fall apart as he tries desperately to get a job. The plan he finally comes up with involves murdering seven men very much like himself, and Westlake's most impressive achievement is to make the serial killings understandable if in no way justified.

          Donald E. Westlake - Adios, Sheherazade


Bestsellers

            Assassins: Assignement--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist (Left Behind)
by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

This book will spark an interest in Bible prophecy. If you have ever wondered what will happen after the year 2000 read this book.
assassins.gif (10682 bytes)   Is it right to kill Satan's hit man? Would it help God's work? This installment in the Left Behind series picks up with Rayford Steele--"believer" and international fugitive--as he struggles with a plan to assassinate Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. Meanwhile, Carpathia has been busy rebuilding roads, airports, and a cellular/solar satellite phone system--all designed to help him become supreme ruler of the world--and even claim himself to be God. We also find ace reporter Buck Williams anonymously preaching to the masses of believers and converts through his cyberspace magazine The Truth.  
Lahaye and Jenkins have created an excellent tale. Assassins passed the one million mark in sales just a few weeks since its release.

         
Afterburn by Colin Harrison
 
The message? Crime pays if you are smart enough!
"Harrison's novel is a powerful thriller about the intersection of disparate lives and personalities. Charlie Ravich, a millionaire businessman, is a Vietnam vet who is haunted by his son's death, his daughter's infertility, and his wife's slow deterioration due to Alzheimer's. Charlie is looking to solidify his electronic company with a manufacturing plant in China and to guarantee his immortality by entering into a secret arrangement to find a surrogate mother. He crosses paths with Christina..." (From Booklist, Sept. 1999)

Movies

           The Andromeda Strain Andromeda Strain (SF, 1971)

Starring: James Olson, et al.
Director: Robert Wise
Edition Details: VHS
NTSC format (for use in US and Canada only)

The best-selling novel by Michael Crichton was faithfully adapted for this taut 1971 thriller, about a team of scientists racing against time to destroy a deadly alien virus that threatens to wipe out life on Earth. A realistic sci-fi movie! This movie makes the act of hunching over a computer doing some intense technical work exciting and profound.

                                         Oscar Winners


     

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