lately reading rotation






some films
Spring/Summer '08

BERGMAN Hour of the Wolf

Saraband
The Silence
BRESSON Au Hasard Balthazar
CASSAVETES Faces
CHAPLIN Modern Times

DE SICA Umberto D

DREYER The Passion of Joan of Arc

FELLINI La Strada
KUROSAWA Rashomon

MARKER La Jette

PASOLINI Oedipus Rex
SOKUROV Russian Ark




some recent listening
June '08








ROBERT GARFIAS recordings

www.cylinders.library.ucsb.edu








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favorite books
updated April 25, 2008

literature

Woody Allen The Complete Prose
Without Feathers
Samuel Beckett Three Novels
Waiting for Godot
Krapp’s Last Tape
The Complete Short Prose
Saul Bellow Herzog
Ingmar Bergman Face to Face
Jorge Luis Borges The Collected Fictions and Non-Fictions
7 Nights
The Norton Lectures
Andre Breton Nadja
Italo Calvino If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Giorgio de Chirico Hebdomeros
John Collier The Best of John Collier
Julio Cortazar Cronopios and Famas
Hopscotch
Blow-up and Other Short Stories
Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Prose and Poetry
John Fante Ask the Dust
William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury
Kahlil Gibran Spirits Rebellious
The Prophet
Andre Gide The Counterfeiters
Frank Herbert Dune
Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game
Siddhartha
Journey to the East
Klingsor's Last Summer
Steppenwolf
Demian
Wandering
Pictor’s Metamorphosis
The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Peter Camenzind
LeRoi Jones Tales
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Franz Kafka The Complete Short Stories
The Castle
Yasunari Kawabata The Master of Go
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Joseph Mitchell Up In The Old Hotel
Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin
Pale Fire
Lolita
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya – The Nabokov-Wilson Letters
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
Marquis de Sade The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
Miguel Serrano C.G. Jung and Herman Hesse
Dylan Thomas The Collected Stories

art

BANKSY Wall and Piece
Yann Arthus-Bertrand Earth From Above – 365 Days
John Berger Selected Essays
Stan Brakhage Essential Brakhage
Herschel Chipp Theories of Modern Art
Robert Crumb Sketchbooks
Crumb Family Comics
Salvador Dali 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
Diary of a Genius
Robert Descharnes DALÍ
David Douglas Duncan Picasso’s Picassos
Jorge Enciso Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico
Max Ernst Une Semaine De Bonté
M.C. Escher Exploring the Infinite – Escher on Escher
Five Hundred Self-Portraits [Phaidon]
Vincent van Gogh Dear Theo
Werner Herzog Herzog on Herzog
Wassily Kandinsky Complete Writings on Art
Paul Klee The Diaries of Paul Klee
Steve McCurry Portraits
Edward Quinn Max Ernst
Odilon Redon To Myself
Gerhard Richter Writings 1962–1993
Shel Silverstein Different Dances
Gertrude Stein On Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks
Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Wim Wenders Once


music

Derek Bailey Improvisation
Bela Bartok Rumanian Folk Music, Vols. I and II
Milton Babbitt The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
Pierre Boulez Orientations
The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
Elliott Carter In Conversation with Enzo Restagno
Morton Feldman Give My Regards to Eighth Street
Glenn Gould The Glenn Gould Reader
Olivier Messiaen Music and Color – Conversations with Claude Samuel
Peter Ostwald Glenn Gould – The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius
Rebecca Rischin For the End of Time - The Story of the Messiaen Quartet
Erik Satie A Mammal's Notebook
Arnold Schoenberg Style and Idea
Karlheinz Stockhausen Stockhausen on Music
Igor Stravinsky Poetics of Music
Toru Takemitsu Confronting Silence
Iannis Xenakis Conversations


poetry

John Ashbery Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Girls on the Run
Flow Chart
Charles Bukowski Play the Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed A Bit
Love is a Dog From Hell
Mocking Bird Wish Me Luck

Paul Celan Breathturn
Robert Creeley For Love
Allen Ginsberg Howl
Robert Lowell Imitations
Frank O’hara The Collected Poems
Charles Olsen Selected Poems
The Maximus Poems
Yoko Ono Grapefruit
Wilfred Owen The Collected Poems
Ezra Pound Selected Poems
The Cantos
Rainer Maria Rilke The Complete French Poems
Duino Elegies
Selected Poems
Arthur Rimbaud A Season in Hell
The Drunken Boat
Dylan Thomas Collected Poems
Wim Wenders Once
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
William Carlos Williams Pictures From Brueghel

science

Freeman Dyson Infinite In All Directions
G.H. Hardy A Mathematician’s Apology
Richard Feynman The Character of Physical Law
Larry Gerstein Introduction to Mathematical Structures and Proofs
Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
Universe in a Nutshell
Douglas Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach
Edward Kasner, James Newman Mathematics and the Imagination
Benoit Mandelbrot The Fractal Geometry of Nature
F. Schuyler Mathews Fieldbook of Wild Birds and Their Music
Philip and Phylis Morrison Powers of Ten
Roger Penrose The Emperor’s New Mind
Carl Sagan Cosmos Billions and Billions
Giles Sparrow Cosmos
Edward Wilson The Diversity of Life

life - philosophy - religion

Louis Althusser The Future Lasts Forever
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Roland Barthes Mythologies
Black Elk Black Elk Speaks
J. Bronowski Science and Human Values
The Ascent of Man
Richard Maurice Bucke Cosmic Consciousness
Carlos Casteneda Teachings of Don Juan [all volumes]
The Art of Dreaming
Buckminster Fuller Ideas and Integrities
Mahatma Gandhi/Thomas Merton Gandhi on Non-Violence
Robert Hand Horoscope Symbols
Abraham Joshua Heschel The Wisdom of Heschel
God In Search of Man
Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception
Heaven and Hell
Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
C.G. Jung Memories Dreams Reflections
Man and His Symbols
Speaking – Interviews and Encounters
Hazrat Inayat Khan Sound in Mysticism of Music
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Toward the One
The Message In Our Time - the life and teaching of the Sufi Master Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan
Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyyat
J. Krishnamurti The Awakening of Intelligence
Notebooks
Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body
Claude Levi-Strauss The Raw and The Cooked
Max Lüscher The Lüscher Color Test
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings
Robert Nozick An Examined Life
Kakuzo Okakura The Book of Tea
Osho The Book of Secrets
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Only One Sky
Menachem Mendel Schneerson Toward a Meaningful Life - The Wisdom of the Rebbe
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Wisdom for the New Millennium
Paul Stoller In Sorcery’s Shadow
Chogyam Trungpa Meditation in Action
The Sacred Path of the Warrior
Orderly Chaos
The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Morihei Ueshiba Training with the Master
Alan Watts The Way of Zen
Nature, Man and Woman
Richard Wilhelm [translator] The Secret of the Golden Flower
The I-Ching
Understanding the I-Ching
Frank Lloyd Wright A Testament
Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi
Man’s Eternal Quest






chess




David Bronstein
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
Irving Chernev
1) The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played
2) Logical Chess Move by Move
Gary Kasparov
My Great Predecessors Vols. 1-5
Aron Nimzowitsch
My System
László Polgár
5,334 Problems, Combinations and Games
Jeremy Silman
1) The Amateur’s Mind
2) The Reassess Your Chess Workbook
Mikhail Tal
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal






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