some of my favorite stories of all time.

This list is not the most intellectual or artsy. But I'll say this much, it's honest.




Preacher

One man's quest,quite literally, for God. Preacher leaves no taboo unbroken, no emotion untouched. Armed with a strong sense of right and wrong and the Word of God




Watchmen

A murder mystery wrapped in Cold War paranoia, Watchmen almost single handily forced super hero fiction to grow up. I read this for the first time when I was 11. It had a profound effect on me. It's one of the few books I reread every few years. Every time I do I pick up something I missed before.



The Stand

I have a soft spot for apocalyptic fiction and The Stand is the grand daddy of them all. One of the best good vs evil tales ever told.




Magnolia

Every time I read a book, put on a record or watch a film I am hoping for the same reaction I had when I saw Magnolia for the first time. I was euphoric. And the beauty of it is that I don't know why. It touched me and I can't say exactly how. Sometimes you just have to go with it. This is still my favorite film.



Reservoir Dogs

I remember seeing this for the first time with my friend Sarah during finals week the first semester of college. We watched it and automatically we rewound it and watched it again. Fuck studying. I can still hear the squeal of delight she gave when Mr. Blond gets his. I've been a QT fanatic ever since.




It

I read this when I was about the same age as the main characters and so much about the town of Derry was similar to the town I grew up in Ohio. Never have a devoured a novel so voraciously. To get me to stop reading it you'd have to literally rip the book form my hands.




Aliens

The one movie where I have lost count of how many times I have seen it. I can almost recite the whole movie verbatim from memory even today. "somebody wake up Hicks"




Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Never in the history of television has character development handled so well as on Buffy. Who cares if they were fighting cheesy looking demons. you CARED about these characters.




Bloom County

I miss this comic strip so much. Sure Berkeley Breathed has done other strips and well received children's books, but Bloom County will always be his masterpiece. One of the best satires of the 80's