| brian douglas skinner |
a few of my favorite things
- This American Life, by Ira Glass
- Alice's Restaurant, by Arlo Guthrie
- Free to be you and me, by Marlo Thomas and Friends
- Bloom County, by Berke Breathed
- Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson
- Sally Forth, by Greg Howard
- Dilbert, by Scott Adams
- Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau
- The Far Side, by Gary Larson
- Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The
- Alien & Aliens
- American Movie
- Beautiful Girls
- Big
- Blade Runner
- Blood Simple
- Brazil
- Buckaroo Banzai
- Chasing Amy
- City of Lost Children, The
- Contact
- Crumb
- Dark Star
- Dead Poets Society, The
- Dead Ringers
- Die Hard
- Don Juan DeMarco
- Fugitive, The
- Gandhi
- Grosse Pointe Blanke
- Groundhog Day
- Harold and Maude
- Heathers
- House of Games
- Hudsucker Proxy, The
- Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love, The
- Labyrinth
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Player, The
- Princess Bride, The
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Roger & Me
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Say Anything...
- Schindler's List
- sex, lies, and videotape
- Shallow Grave
- Shawshank Redemption, The
- Sick
- Sixth Sense
- Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back
- Stunt Man, The
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Time Bandits
- Wrong Trousers, The
- My So Called Life
- Hill Street Blues
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula LeGuin
- Maus and Maus II, by Art Spiegelman
- The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov (comments)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
- Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
- Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Ringworld Trilogy, by (Larry Niven?)
- Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein
- Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Spider Garden, by Michael Manning
- Melting Point, by Pat Califia
- The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy
- Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
- Genesis, by Poul Anderson
- The Beautiful and the Sublime, by Bruce Sterling
- The Last Article, by Harry Turtledove
- A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- England Underway, by Terry Bisson
- Tower of Babylon, by Ted Chiang
- Inertia, by Nancy Kress
- Protection, by Maureen F. McHugh
- The Last of the Winnebagoes, by Connie Willis
- Down and Out in the Year 2000, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dust, by Greg Egan
- The Spade of Reason, by Jim Cowan
- A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple, by Robert Silverberg
- Naming the Flowers, by Kate Wilhelm
- Think Like a Dinosaur, by James Patrick Kelly
- the garden behind the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
- Death Valley, California
- Ben Nevis -- Scotland
- the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
- my Grandmother's farm near Marysville, Kansas
- the Chapel at the Sea Ranch in California
- the 24-hour coin operated Church of Elvis in Portland, Oregon
- Victoria Station in London, England
- the foyer of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
- the tropical greenhouse in the park in the outskirts of Dundee, Scotland
- the Billy-Goat Trail near Great Falls on the Potomac River in Maryland
- the Yuri Gagarin memorial in Moscow, Russia
- almost any movie theater
- almost any airport
- any bridge leaving Manhattan, New York
- the "dish" behind Stanford University in California
- the Safeway in Menlo Park, California
- the subway in Washington, D.C.
- the troll under the bridge in Fremont, Washington