Here you may find a list of essential things in this world that I could not live without. Okay, I suppose I could tough it out for a little while, and I suppose only food, water, sleep and shelter are essential, but if you're gonna live the beautiful life, you need beautiful things, right?

Please note this is a work in progress. After all, what is essential changes, doesn't it? For example, right now I'm obsessed with Madonna's Ray of Light. I never thought I'd like a Madonna album. But things change, people change, right?

Music - Voices of God

R.E.M., everything.
The Pixies, Surfer Rosa.
Nirvana, Nevermind.
Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom.
Belle & Sebastian, The Boy With The Arab Strap.
Moby, Ambient and Everything is Wrong.
For Squirrels, Example.
Cornershop, Woman's Gotta Have It and When I Was Born for the Seventh Time.
Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
Samuel Barber, Adaigo for Strings.
Ludwig van Beethoven, 9th Symphony.

Film

Persona
Citizen Kane
2001
Star Wars Trilogy
The Godfather
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Blue
Red
Repo Man

Books

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Rev. Ivan Stang, The Book of the Subgenius
Anything by Shakespeare, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, or Byron
James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover
Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Phil Brucato, et al, Mage: The Ascension