Chad Taylor

Thank you notes #2: General consumption

  1. Marion Cotillard.
  2. James Ellroy, Blood's A Rover.
  3. Editions Christian Bourgois.
  4. Lady Gaga.
  5. Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words.
  6. Michael Mann, Public Enemies. (Based on the book by Bryan Burrough.)
  7. Adam Zamoyski, Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna.
  8. Bob Woodward's, Plan of Attack, Bush At War and The War Within.
  9. Bradley Graham, By His Own Rules.
  10. David Bowie, Aladdin Sane.
  11. Alan Watts, The Way of Zen.
  12. Neu! 75
  13. Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So. "When you do something, you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."
  14. PBS podcast: Shields & Brooks.
  15. Garrison Keillor and The Writers Almanac.
  16. The Royal Academy of Arts for Kuniyoshi (21 March - 7 June 2009).
  17. John & China, Los Angeles, CA.
  18. David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and The Birth of Modern Warfare.
  19. The International Herald Tribune. Special Merit Dept: Nick Shortz.
  20. Jane for tickets to the lectures by Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave. I mean, wtf. Really. Jane. Rlly?
  21. Californication, season 2 on a very legal DVD from Shanghai. Thanks: HH.
  22. Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost.
  23. David Howarth, A Brief History of British Sea Power.
  24. Wilshire Plaza Hotel, CA.
  25. La Fusée, Paris.
  26. Monty's, London.
  27. iTunes for "stocking" The Velvet Underground & Nico. (Phew.)
  28. Muji, for the notebooks.
  29. Lapsang souchong, Houjicha, Rioja.
  30. Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans.