• the end of poverty?
• why we fight
• paris 1919
• iraq in fragments
• ✔ goebbels experiment
• with god on our side
• the take
• ✔ trials of henry kissinger
• fidel the untold story
• ✔ aristide and the endless revolution
• the revolution will not be televised
• one bright shining moment - the forgotten summer of george mcgovern
• la sierra
• you can't be neutral on a moving train
• the war tapes
• up the yangtze
• science is fiction
• e2 transport
• addicted to plastic
• taking root

• THE BLIND ASSASSIN, by MARGARET ATWOOD
• THE LIFE OF PI, by YANN MARTELL
• HEY NOSTRADAMUS, by DOUGLAS COUPLAND
• NEVER CRY WOLF, by FARLEY MOWAT
• SOLOMON GURSKY WAS HERE, by MORDECAI RICHLER
• A FINE BALANCE, by ROHINTON MISTRY
• THE SENTIMENTALISTS, by JOHANNA SKIBSRUD
• FIFTH BUSINESS, by ROBERTSON DAVIES

• american civil war (lincoln, grant, lee, douglass, nathan forrest, mary chestnut)
• french revolution and napoleonic wars (louis xvi, marie antoinette, robespierre, danton, marat, taleyrand, josephine, napoleon's brother and son)
• restoration and napoleon III
• latin american colonialism and independence
• nixon's interviews
• american interference in Nicaragua, Chile, Laos, Cuba, Panama, Grenada, El Salvador, Yugoslavia.

Harold Pinter: "The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right-wind military dictatorship in the world after the end of the WWII. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and of course, Chile. The horror the US inflicted upon Chile in...

• CHILDHOOD BOYHOOD AND YOUTH, by LEO TOLSTOY
• THE CONFORMIST, by ALBERTO MORAVIA
• A PERSONAL MATTER, by KENZABURO OE
• ✔ THE CONSERVATIONIST, by NADINE GORDIMER
• GET A LIFE, by NADINE GORDIMER
• TELLING TALES, edited by NADINE GORDIMER
• JULY'S PEOPLE, by NADINE GORDIMER
• SONG OF SOLOMON, by TONI MORRISON
• THE CLOWN, by HEINRICH BOLL
• ✔ COMPLETE WORKS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• ✔ MOBY DICK, by HERMANN MELVILLE
• ✔ NAUSEA, by JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
• THE BORDER TRILOGY, by CORMAC MCCARTHY
• THE FILMS IN MY LIFE, by FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
• CONVERSATIONS WITH WILDER, by CAMERON CROWE
• COMPLETE PROSE, by WOODY ALLEN
• ✔ MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, by SALMAN RUSHDIE
• ✔ CORRECTIONS, by JONATHAN FRANZEN

• East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
• Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, by José Saramago
• The Fall (La Chute), by Albert Camus
• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
• Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre
• The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
• The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
• The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet
• Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
• 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Niels Lyhne, by Jens Peter Jacobsen

To cook/make:

• ✔ Quiche Lorraine
• ✔ Chinese stir fried chicken
• ✔ 4 cheese Tortellini
• ✔ Mediterranean chicken
• ✔ Gratin dauphinois
• ✔ Polenta fries and Baked polenta
• ✔ Lemon meringue pie
• ✔ Sirloin steaks w/ mashed potatoes and veloute sauce
• ✔ Whole wheat bread
• ✔ Yorkshire puddings
• ✔ Sole meuniere
• ✔ Aioli garlic bread
• ✔ Cottage pie
• Calzone
• ✔ Gnocchi
• ✔ Chicken milanese
• Roast
• Lasagna
• Spaghetti carbonara

• HERE ON EARTH, by TIM FLANNERY
• A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE, by ALISTAIR HORNE
• ECONOMIC HISTORY OF USSR
• THIRD REICH TRILOGY, RICHARD J. EVANS
• WALLERSTEIN

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference" Robert Frost "Greatness was not always cast in a mould of beauty" Jens Peter Jacobsen "Too long a sacrifice - Can make a stone of the heart" W.B. Yeats

• Le Havre, by Aki Kaurismaki
• A Dangerous Method, by David Cronenberg
• Melancholia, by Lars Von Trier
• Restless, by Gus Van Sant
• Délivrez-moi, by the Dardenne Brothers
• The Skin I Live In, by Pedro Almodovar
• La Folie Almayer, by Chantal Akerman
• The Adventures of Tintin, by Steven Spielberg
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Martin Scorsese
• On the Road, by Walter Salles
• The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, by David Fincher
• Twixt Now and Sunrise, by Francis Ford Coppola
• The Way Back, by Peter Weir
• Jane Eyre

in BC

• ✔ the Shelter, in Tofino
• ✔ wharfside seafood and grill, in Victoria.
• ✔ pizzeria prima strada, in Victoria (Cook St)
• ✔ burgoo, in North Vancouver
• ✔ pagliacci's, in Victoria.
• symposio greek taverna, in North Vancouver
• campagnolo, in Vancouver (Main St)
• red card, in Vancouver (Seymour St)
• vij's, in Vancouver (11th Ave)
• the boathouse, in Vancouver (English Bay)

in a perfect world in which i'm a millionaire

• the fat duck
• le bernadin, in NYC
• restaurant gordon ramsay, in London

• The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed
• Autumn Sonata, directed by Ingmar Bergman
• Network, directed by Sidney Lumet
• All About Eve, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg
• Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder
• Red, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
• The 400 Blows, directed by François Truffaut
• There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Once Upon a Time in the West, directed by Sergio Leone
• Touch of Evil, directed by Orson Welles
• North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Hustler, directed by Robert Rossen

• André Kertész
• Tom Ang
• Annie Leibovitz
• Robert Doisneau
• Eugene Atget
• Bourke-White
• Steve McCurry
• Dorothea Lange
• Janine Niepce
• Izis
• René-Jacques
• Marcel Bovis
• Sabine Weiss
• Philippe Gautrand (rue neuve-de-la-garome)
• Jean-Claude Gautrand
• Séeberger
• Burt Glinn
• Stan Douglas

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2014

• Henderson the Rain King, by Saul Bellow
• Runaway, by Alice Munro
• Le Monde Diplo
• Maniere de Vue
• Gastronomica
• The Rebel, by Albert Camus
• The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
• Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
• Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
• Not Quite the Classics, by Colin Mochrie
• Del amor y otros demonios, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, by G. G. Marquez
• A history of Civilizations, by Fernand Braudel
• Money, by Martin Amis

2013

• guitar strap
• electric guitar & amp
• harmonica in E
• Big pot !

BOOKS!

• ✔ On food and cooking, by Harold McGee
• ✔ The Fate of Africa, by Martin Meredith
• ✔ The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
• The Rebel, by Albert Camus
• OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA, by EDUARDO GALEANO
• LEGACY OF ASHES, THE HISTORY OF THE CIA, by TIM WEINER
• Propaganda, by Edward Bernays

• ✔ Ayoub's Dried Fruits and Nuts (Lonsdale)
• ✔ Grandville Island Market
• ✔ Zulu Records (W 4th) Awesome! Lots of CDs and LPs)
• ✔ Whole Market Foods (Park Royal Village) - Best market in Vancouver
• ✔ Casa del Caffe (E 14th St) - Best coffee shop?
• ✔ Les Amis du Fromage (W 2nd Ave) - Not impressed
• ✔ Puccini's Deli (Lonsdale)
• ✔ La Grotta del Fromaggio (Commercial Drive)
• ✔ Ambleside Book Barn - Awesome!
• ✔ Ethical Kitchen - Went in but didn't eat.
• indian fusion (Lonsdale)
• sweet art bakery
• vera's burguer shack
• east side mario's
• ✔ mcleod's books (pender and richards)

• heimat
• phantom india
• malcolm x
• bergman's hour of the wolf
• china's syndrome
• hereafter
• wall street 2
• das boot

Favourite Records

• I’m unable to pick just one record by Bob Dylan.
• Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, by Wilco
• My Aim is True, by Elvis Costello
• Exile on Main St, by the Rolling Stones
• Moondance, by Van Morrison
• Howling Wind, by Graham Parker
• American Beauty, by Grateful Dead
• Rain Dogs, by Tom Waits
• Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels, by Gram Parsons
• Nervous on the Road, by Brinsley Schwarz
• Sweet Temptation, by Merle Travis
• Honky Tonk Heroes, by Waylon Jennings
• Odelay, by Beck
• Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, by Pavement
• Tim/Let it Be, by the Replacements
• I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, by Yo La Tengo
• Isn’t Anything, by My Bloody Valentine