The Onion    occasionally intelligent, often funny

landoverbaptist.org    Irreverent site - not for the easily offended

berlin-wall.org    Awesome site by a woman who claims to have married the Berlin Wall

Raising Arizona

Apocalypse Now

Dr. Strangelove

Down By Law

Desperate Living

American Beauty

Pulp Fiction

Peter Greenway’s "A Zed and two Naughts"

Jane Campion’s "Sweetie"

Annie Hall

Miller's Crossing

Being There

Mon Oncle

Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Satyricon

Delicatessen

Weekend

Tampopo

Akira

Malle’s "Murmur of the Heart"

Wings of Desire

The Tin Drum

The Name of the Rose

Young Frankenstein

Ken Russell's "The Devils of Luton"

Alexander Jodorowski’s "Alice"

Fresh

Apartment Zero

The Rules of the Game

Rashomon

Everybody’s Fine

Blood Simple

Trainspotting

To Die for

Greenway’s "Draughtsman’s Contract" and "Drowning by Numbers"

Fight Club

Superstar : The Karen Carpenter Story (done entirely with Ken and Barbie dolls)

The Matrix

Ghost World

Katherine Dunn’s "Geek Love"

Slaughterhouse Five

Crime and Punishment

Atlas Shrugged

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Candide

Huckleberry Finn

A Confederacy of Dunces

Children of the Arbat

Snow Crash

The Painted Bird

Gould’s "Bully for Brontosaurus"

Plato’s "The Republic"

Tolstoy’s "What is Art?"

St Augustine’s "Confessions"

Aristotle’s "Nicomachean Ethics"

Radiohead "OK Computer"

Clash "London Calling"

Pavement "Slanted and Enchanted"

Tom Waits "Rain Dogs"

Damned "Machine Gun Etiquette"

Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral"

PJ Harvey "Rid of Me"

Cure "Disintegration"

Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures"

Magnetic Fields "69 Love Songs"

Honorable mention - best albums

Tricky "Maxinquaye"

De La Soul "3ft high and rising"

Chemical Brothers "Dig your own hole"

Birthday Party "Junkyard"

Smiths "Hatful of Hollow"

My Bloody Valentine "Isn't Anything"

Tom Waits "Nighthawks at the Diner"

Dr. Octagon "Octagonacologist"

Devo "Q:Are we not Men? A: We are DEVO!"

Wilco "Summer Teeth"

Best Concerts

Tom Waits  Warner theatre, DC 87’

Queen at Olympiahalle, Munich 80’

Fugazi at Floodzone, Richmond  91’

Cure Cap Center, DC 89’

Einsturzende Neubauten  9:30 club 91’,DC 

Dead Can Dance at George Washington University 93’

Cramps and Butthole Surfers  Warner Theatre, DC , NYE 87-8’

Swans 9:30 club, DC 87'

Nine Inch Nails Arena, Baltimore 95'

My Bloody Valentine 9:30 Club, DC 91'

Mark Eitzel Black Cat, DC 93'

Pixies and Pere Ubu Shriver Hall, Baltimore 92'

Super Furry Animals  Otto Bar, Baltimore 02'