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