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Books: Blood Meridian by McCarthy
Women by Bukowski
American Psycho by Ellis

Movies: Night of The Living Dead
Two Lane Blacktop
28 Days Later

Websites: www.triumphrat.net
www.somethingawful.com
www.chuckpalahniuk.net

I cant say my books are the same as Chads... That maybe why he does not like any of the books I recomend..
anyway.
Books:
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Middlesex
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Movies:
Cool Hand Luke
You Can Count on Me.
We Dont Live Here Anymore

i cant think of websites.. maybe later.

ok, it seems i'm getting a lot of ridicule about the mud run, so here's my response:

right now the #1 priority for my free time is my band/music. Things are starting to pick up and we have a 5 day tour in Feb and hopefully will start to hit the road regularly this spring/summer. So I really don't want to commit to something that I would have to back out of because of my band. That wouldn't be fair to you or them. Plus, even if I don't have a direct conflict at the time of the mud run, I'm not sure I'll be able to take off work for yet another "extra-cirricular activity." Sorry, this may sound lame to you, but I didn't cut back to 30 hours a week at work to play music for nothing. It really is the most important thing right now. But, crossfit is a close 2nd. So now you can make fun of me.

oh, here's my favorite stuff:

Books: The Big Sleep
Motherless Brooklyn
See no Evil

Any graphic novel/comic by Alex Ross
The 3 Batman graphic novels by Tim Sale and Jeph Lobe
(living around the corner from an awesome comic shop has turned me into a total nerd)

Movies: The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
The Bourne Identity/Supremecy...
Batman Begins
Ghostbusters...
too many to list, I can't pick a favorite 3

Websites:
www.myspace.com/myotonia (shameless self promotion)
www.lambgoat.com
www.nytimes.com

What about 3 favorite bands?

Meshuggah
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
the Dillinger Escape Plan
...there are more, but i've already posted too much.

Books:
Kite Runner
Time Traveler's Wife
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Alchemist
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
The Wisdom of Crowds
Influence
Nutrient Timing
(Sorry, there was no way I could've picked only 3)

Movies:
Shawshank Redemption
Irreversible
American Beauty

Websites:
google
postsecret
my friends' blogs

Jonathan: I read Motherless Brooklyn a few weeks ago. Way cool. Have you read anything else by Lethem?

Annie: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was a great read. You might like Phantoms in the Brain if you haven't read that already.

Mike: Where's your list??

books:
Poison Wood Bible
Song of Exile
White Teeth
Tatoo the Wicked Cross
I know this much to be true

websites:
Wooster Collective
MKZDK
CrossFit

I am extremely bad at choosing favorites. I am too swayed by what I am currently reading/watching to pay attention to anything else. In the spirit of liking what I am reading - my favorite book is "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. I also really enjoyed "A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genious" by Dave Eggers. Maybe I don't read enough:)

Movies - I got nothing again but I just saw Dream Girls and it was fabulous.

My mud run committment is complicated. I may have rugby all star championships (ITTs) the same weekend. I will let you know for sure momentarily.

It's always difficult for me to choose favorites, and I'm sure that I'm forgetting some, but here's what I came up with:

Books:
Bitchfest, Middlesex, Pride & Prejudice

Movies:
Sense & Sensibility, The Motorcycle Diaries, Good Bye Lenin, When Harry Met Sally

Trainers: Nicole, Max & Mike (in no particular order)
:)

Books:

A Man in Full
War and Peace
Crime & Punishment
Bonfire of the Vanities
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Death in Grand Canyon

Movies:

Braveheart
Unforgiven
Full Metal Jacket
Freeway
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Websites:

Google
Wiki
Fark
Above Top Secret

OK, I'll play....

(Leo, The Wisdom of Crowds and Influence are a couple of my favorite books, too).

Books:

The Selfish Gene by Dawkins
Brave New World by Huxley
Mastery by Leonard
The Inner Game of Tennis by Gallwey
The Red Queen by Ridley
Fight Club by Palahniuk
The Sun Also Rises by Hemmingway
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein

(I gotta stop or I'll keep going forever)

Movies:

Citizen Kane
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Unforgiven
Out of the Past
Godfather Part 1
Godfather Part 2
The Night of the Hunter
Cape Fear (Original and Remake)
Adaptation

(Again, I've exceeded the limit and could keep going for quite a while)

Websites:

http://arthurdevany.com/
http://beyondveg.com/
http://www.westonaprice.org/index.html
http://news.google.com/ (or anything Google)
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
http://youtube.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/

(Over the limit; must stop now)

Leo, I also read Amnesia Moon by Letham. It was very strange. Not as good. It was a weird post-apocalyptic look at California, and they call Vacaville "Fuckaduck", which was funny. He has a lot out there, though, so I may try another one. I just love mystery novels, and his take on it was so good.

you may also want to read "the curious incident of the dog in the night time." it's about a 15 year old autistic kid who trys to figure out who killed his neighbor's dog. very good.

theonion.com is also a jonathan heuer favorite...

First three that come immediately to mind:

Books
The Essential Rum by Coleman Barks (for comtemplation)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (for fun)
Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie (for work)

Bonus: "Reciprocity" by Daniel Yankalovich:
http://www.danyankelovich.com/reciprocitydgbank.pdf

Movies
All The President's Men
The Hudsucker Proxy
Full Metal Jacket (Dispatches is a great book, too.)

Websites
NYT.com (for my biased liberal media)
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ (for work)
Pandora.com (for music)

I'll add another category:

Albums
Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The New Standard by Herbie Hancock
Prose Combat by MC Solaar

Tim, the new standard is an amazing album. That band is ridiculous. I'm a jazz guitar nerd and anything scofield does is good in my book. some good jazz albums i've gotten lately are:

Suadades by the Trio Beyond (John Scofield, Larry Goldings, Jack DeJohnette)
Energie by Jim Payne
John Zorn's Electric Masada 50th birthday celebration.

I can talk music for hours, don't get me started.

Jonathan,

I am way behind on what's going on in jazz, but I'll check out what you listed.

For me, almost everything Hancock has done is brilliant...even Rockit. "Headhunters" is one of the funkiest albums of all time.

I've seen him do fusion and straight jazz live. Both were fantastic.

Books:
the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
All Souls Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind
I also just finished reading The Places in Between by Rory Stewart, which was amazing
many more

Movies:
The Seven Samurai
Miller's Crossing
Blazing Saddles

Websites:
the Onion & the AV Club
Poe News
Overheard in New York

Do we need another person for the Mud Run?

I've got a buddy from Vermont who wants to fly out and run with us. He's a CF vet, too.

Tim,

I think it's pretty likely that we'll need your friend but let Nicole and me confirm our headcount and get back to you tomorrow morning.

We'll post a yea or nay to the Comments section of Nicole's post (the one named 2007).

I also read "The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime". Recommended.