Lists: my top 15.

12:29 pm - Sat, Sep 24, 2011: 11 notes

Lists: my top 15.

I want you to do this, too; post your top ten lists, and we’ll get a sort of round robin thing going. So, in the spirit of transparency, here are my top 15s. Maybe they’ll help explain my influences for the comics I do.

Oh, and these aren’t in order.

FILMS:

Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1965)
Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1974)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Les Quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959)
Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)
Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
Black Caesar (Larry Cohen, 1973)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)
Cremaster 2 (Matthew Barney, 1999)
For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
High to Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1953)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Chia-Liang Liu, 1983)

(The Incredibles almost got in, as did something by Woody Allen, but I couldn’t narrow it down.)

ALBUMS:

Tago Mago - Can
David Axelrod - David Axelrod
Kid A - Radiohead
Passages - Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar
Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
Histoire de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Vespertine - Bjork
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - Yo La Tengo
Heroes - David Bowie
Roxy and Elsewhere - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Discord - Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
Solaris - Cliff Martinez
No 1 In Heaven - Sparks
Seachange - Beck

BOOKS:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Island - Aldous Huxley
Shock Value - John Waters
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
The Shock of the New - Robert Hughes
The Real Frank Zappa Book - Frank Zappa
Lynch on Lynch
Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book - Dr. Seuss
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Men, Women and Chainsaws - Carol Clover

As far as comics go, my favourites are anything Batman related, Green Arrow, Fables, Sandman, and so forth.

So there you go. I’ve shared now.