An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order):

• “The Angel Esmerelda”, “The Runner”, “The Starveling”—Don DeLillo

• “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut”, “De-Daumier Smith’s Blue Period”, “Teddy”—JD Salinger

• “Araby”, “A Little Cloud”, “Eveline”, “An Encounter”, “Two Gallants”, “The Dead”—James Joyce

• “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU”—Carmen Maria Machado

• “The Babysitter”, “Going for a Beer”—Robert Coover

• “I Like Your Shoes”—Kevin Brockmeier

• “A Good Man is Hard to Find”—Flannery O’Conner

• “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”—Ursula K Le Guin

• “The Enigma of Amigara Fault” and “Marionette Mansion” by Junji Ito.

• “Jon”, “Winky”, “Sea Oak”, “I Can Speak!(TM)” “Sticks”, “Pastoralia”, “The Semplica Girl Diaries”—George Saunders

• “Good Old Neon”—David Foster Wallace

• “East Wind”—Julian Barnes

• “On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning”—Haruki Murakami

• “The Witch”, “Nightmare”, “The Summer People”—Shirley Jackson

• “A Little Joke”, “Agafya”, “Anguish”—Anton Chekov

• “Candle Cove”—Kris Straub

• “The Yellow Wallpaper”—Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

• “The Circular Ruins”—Jorge Luis Borges

• “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

• “Right and Wrong”—Lydia Davis

• “Haskel, Arkansas (Highway 70)”, “Classic Embrace”, “Aline, Texas (Highway 90)”, “Elko, Nevada (Thunderbird Hotel)”, “Saving Fats”, “Bossier City, Louisiana (Highway 220)”, “Livingston, Montana”, “June Bugs”, “Gardening in the Dark”, “Horse”, “Untitled” (page 243), “Untitled” (page 249), “Circling”, “Holyoke”, “Indigo, California”—Sam Shepard (from Day out of Days)

• “How I Love Her”—Michael Gira

• “Roy Spivey”—Miranda July

• “Aheago”—Tony Tulathimutte

• “An Eye in the Throat”—Samanta Schweblin

• “Thin Air”—Aria Beth Sloss

• “Love and Honour and Pride and Pity and Compassion and Sacrifice”—Nam Le

• “Phantom Pain”, “A Manual for Cleaning Women”—Lucia Berlin

• "“The Size of Sally”, "Hazy Days of Summer”—Limmy

Honourable Mentions:

• “Mister Squishy”—David Foster Wallace

• “The Forbidden”, “Sex, Death, and Starshine”—Clive Barker

• “The Long Dream”—Junji Ito

• “Goodbye to Goodbye”—Stephen Dixon

• “The Caregiver”, “You”, “Empathy”, “A Contract”—Michael Gira

• “Five Minutes”—John Morrisey

• "The Bite", "The Ball", "Claustrophobia", "Luxury Apartment", "Dancing", "Jinxed”, “The Fake", "The Break-In", "The Jacket", "The Tight Laces”, “The Globe", "One Man Hunt", "Crap Films", and "Me Again”—Limmy

An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order):

• “The Snow Man”, “Gubbinal”, “Man Carrying Thing”, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”,  “Delightful Evening”, “Tattoo”, “The Irish Cliffs of Moher”,  “Adult Epigram”, “The Plain Sense of Things”, “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”, “Valley Candle”, “Theory”, “Nomad Exquisite”,“Anecdote of Canna”, “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch”, “The Search for Sound Free from Motion”—Wallace Stevens

• “Suicide Off Egg Rock”, “Morning Song”, “Sheep in Fog”, “Mad Girl’s Love Song”, “Poem for a Birthday”, “Mirror”, “The Hanging Man”, “The Couriers”, “The Colossus”, “Metamorphosis”, “Full Fathom Five”, “Lady Lazarus”, “The Eye-Mote”, “Sow”, “Faun”, “Aftermath”, “The Thin People”, “The Major Garden”, “Two Views of a Cadaver Room”, “Night Shift” “Metaphors”, “The Beekeeper’s Daughter”—Sylvia Plath

• “Lessons from a Mirror”, “One for All the Newborns”, "Thoughts on the Caribou’s Velvet”, “The Culture of Near Miss”, “To Eliminate Vagueness”, “Passover Poem”, “Good Amnesia”, “The Seamtress”, “The Apostle’s Wife”, “Fisher Street”—Thylias Moss

• “Medusa”, “Galah’s Skull”, “Tropic Rain”, “Botany”, “My Father as a Giant Koi”, “The Gift”, “Parachute”, “Brazil”, “Terminal Lucidity”,,“In the Mauerpark”, “The Hazards”, “Quetzalcoatl”, “Kneeling Figure”, “The Odds”, “The Grip”, “Neurostimulator”, “Vital Signs”—Sarah Holland-Batt

• “Sight”, “Wish”, “To the Long Table”, “Separation”, “Witness”, “Here Together”, “The Wings of Daylight”, “Twilight”, “Black Cherries”, “West Wall”—WS Merwin

• “High Windows”, “Afternoons”, “This Be the Verse”—Philip Larkin

• “Elegy”—Chidiock Tichborn”

• “The Red Wheelbarrow”—William Carlos Williams

• “The Second Coming”, “Leda and the Swan”, “A Coat”, “Spilt Milk”, “An Irish Airman foresees his Death”, “Easter, 1916”—WB Yeats

• “a love like Dorothea’s”—Alison Whittaker

• “Lana Turner Has Collapsed”, “Having a Coke with You”, “To the Harbormaster”—Frank O’Hara

• “Love Poem”, “Glow”, “The Line”, and “Pumpkin” (All from Paterson, all splendid.)—Ron Padgett

• “Rire (Laughter)”,,“The Solar Anus”—Georges Bataille

• “Alms for the Beekeeper”, “The Task”—John Ashbery

• “In Spite of Everything”, “My Mind Is”, “(i carry your heart with me (i carry it in))” by EE Cummings

• “Autumn”, “For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen”, “A Cottony Fate”—Jane Hirshfield

• “La Mer”—Oscar Wilde

• “Misery and Splendour”—Robert Hass

• “Archaic Torso of Apollo”, “I Live My Life in Widening Circles”, “The Beauty of You”, “The Siblings”, “(Untitled), When I feed on your face this way”, “Night of the Spring Equinox”, and “(Untitled) Earlier, how often, we stayed, star in star”—Rainer Maria Rilke

• “Poem” (“Every morning I forget how it is”)—Charles Simic

• “Fucking in Cornwall”—Ella Frears

• “Ascension”—Samuel Beckett

• “Mango”—Ellen van Neerven

• “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, “Safe in their Alabaster”, “My life has stood”, “I Saw a Fly When I Died”, “There’s a Certain Slant”, “Tell all the Truth”, “Faith is fine Invention”—Emily Dickinson

• “Drunk as Drunk”, “Poetry”—Pablo Neruda

• “Ah! Sun-flower”, “The Tyger”, “Auguries of Innocence”—William Blake

• “Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle”, “In Tennessee I Found a Firefly”—Mary Szybist

• “Portfolio”—Wahn Yoon

• “Naked Girl and Mirror”, “Woman to Man”, “Train Journey”—Judith Wright

• “To the Invisible Animal”—Wendell Berry

• “Tom’s Diner”—Suzanne Vega

• “She Knew”—David Lynch

• “In a Station of the Metro”—Ezra Pound

• “Sloan Kettering Ode”—Sharon Olds

• “Introduction to Poetry”, “Irish Spider”—Billy Collins

• “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”—Walt Whitman

• “Strange Meeting”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”—Wilfred Owen

• “Morning, Think of Empire”—Raymond Carver

• “Another Room”—Phillis Levin

• “There”, “Luck”—Langston Hughes

• “Winter Solstice”—Alex Dimitrov

• “From Blossoms”—Li-Young Lee

• Sonnets: 1, 5, 20, 53, 73, 126, 129, 130, 138, 144, 146—William Shakespeare

• “Double”—Rae Armantrout

• “Birds of Riverside Park” by Laurence Alexander

• “Ohio Dove” by Mark Rubin

• “On Hedonism”, “Short Talk on Le Bonheur d'etre bien aimee” by Anne Carson

• “Girl on a Roof” by Jack Anderson

• Bluebird—Charles Bukowski

• “A Hermit” by Karen Solie

• Motto—Brecht

• "Ars Poetica," by Mag Gabbert

• “New Bridge Strategies” by Michael Robbins

• “Drought Diary”—Julia Bouwsma

• “When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows” by Paige Lewis

• “Birds small enough...” by Donald Revell

• “Ithaka” by CP Cavafy

• “The Rebirth of Traffic”, “Amnesia”—Terence Winch

• “Leaves” by Ursula K. Le Guin

• “Cellar Stairs” by Thomas Lux

• “These Anemones, Their Song Is Made Up As They Float Along” by Laurance Wieder

• “Aubade for One Dismayed” by Ron Offen

• Sonnets: 34, 51, 89, 132, 13, 189—Petrarch

• “The Road Not Taken”—Robert Frost

• “Daily” by Robert Davis

• “Night” by Robert Creeley

• “How to Live” by Todd Dillard

• “A Song and the Sultan” by Mahmoud Darwish

• Mid-Term Break—Seamus Heaney

• “In Passing”—Lisa Mueller

• “Untitled” (2013, Rattle) by Twixt

• Moral Inventory by Ruth Awad

• The Stranger Song—Leonard Cohen

• Mahler in New York, Love—Joseph Fasano

• “Year Six” by Todd Robinson

• “Ohio Dove” by Mark Rubin

• “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (I lock you in an American sonnet)”—Terrance Hayes

• “The Denial of Death” and “Primavera” by Louise Glück (brilliant poems).

• “Hello, I Must Be Going” by Krista Klanderman

• “To the Dead” by Frank Bidart (one of my favourite closing lines of all time).

• Script for Child Services: A Floor Plan—Fatimah Asghar

• The Sacred”—Steven Dunn

• And this I dreamt, and this I dream—Arseny Tarkovsky

• “Gauge” by Peter Schjeldahl

• “Buried at Springs” by James Schuyler

• “The Swallow’s Testicle” by Hans Arp

• The Quiet World—Jeff McDaniel

• “Going to Chicago” by Lewis Myers

• “As Vanitas”, “As Persephone”, “As Galatea”—Annie Wenstrup

• “To Be Alive” by Gregory Orr  

• “Musée Dex Beaus Arts” by WH Auden

• “Untitled (‘Should he head North’)” by Sam Shepard (Day Out of Days)

• “Blue Lonely Dreams” by Marc Cohen

• “Grass” by James Merrill

• “Vision and Prayer”, “Fern Hill”—Dylan Thomas

• “A Song for Autumn” by Mary Oliver

• “What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade” by Brad Aaron Modlin

• “It’s Not Me Shouting at No One” by Lawrence Joseph

• “After Suicide (A Hole is Nothing)” by Matt Rasmussen

• “Legend” by Jean Sénac

• “Musée des Beaux Art” by WH Auden.

• “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell

• “Broken Sonnets with Apology for Simile” by Sophie Kaiser

• “Things”, “The Suicide”, “On His Blindness”—Jorge Luis Borges

• “At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border”, “Found in a Storm”—William E. Stafford

• “The Night has a Thousand Eyes”—Francis William Bourdillon

Honourable Mentions:

• “Rain”—Raymond Carver

•  “Point Shirley”—Sylvia Plath

• “Affidavit”—Sarah Holland-Batt

• “The Owl in Daytime”, “The Undertaker’s Daughter Makes Bread”, and “The Undertaker’s Daughter Feels Neglect”. “Doubts During Catastrophe”—Thylias Moss

• “Cracks”—Terence Winch

• “Marijuana Notation” by Aram Saroyan

• “Here’s Where the Story Ends”—The Sundays

• “Catechism for November” by Tony Hoagland

• “Documentary” by Claribel Alegrí

• ““o(rounD)moon,how”—EE Cummings

• “(you fit into me)” by Margaret Atwood

• “Early Cutting” by Roland Flint

• “My Trip” by Donald Revell

• Megamouth Shark—John Kinsella

• Traveling Salesman, Scythe,Curtains—Stuart Dybek

• “The Weight” by Gaetan Sgro

• “Dream #3” by Elizabeth Alexander

• “To Boredom”—Charles Simic

• “Standing on the Street Corner” by Edwin Denby

• “Going Up and Down” by Jim Daniels

• “Far Away from Birth” by Kyle Brown

• “Final Curve”—Langston Hughes

• “After the threesome, they both take you home”—Sue Hyon Bae

An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order):

• To Be Kind, Soundtracks for the Blind, The Glowing Man, The Great Annihilator, Children of God—Swans

• Repetition, Challenge for a Civilised Society, Leaves Turn Inside You—Unwound

• Virgins, Radio Amor—Tim Hecker

• Quiet Signs, On Your Own Love Again—Jessica Pratt

• Beaucoup Fish, A Hundred Days Off, “Barbara, Barbara, We Face Shining Future”, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Second Toughest of the Infants—Underworld

• Dots and Loops, Sound Dust, Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night—Stereolab

• Bottomless Pit, The Money Store, No Love Deep Web, N on the Moon—Death Grips

• Eli and the Thirteenth Confession—Laura Nyro

• Hejira, Blue, The Hissing of Summer Lawns—Joni Mitchell

• Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, 16 Lovers Lane, Oceans Apart—The Go-Betweens

• Bish Bosch, The Drift, Tilt, Scott 4, Climate of Hunter—Scott Walker

• Split Personalities—12 Rods

• Remain in Light, Speaking in Tongues—Talking Heads

• In the Court of the Crimson King, Larks Tongues in Aspic—King Crimson

• Jordan: The Comeback, Steve McQueen, Swoon—Prefab Sprout

• Relatives in Descent—Protomartyr

• Skeleton Tree—Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

• Little Dark Age—MGMT

• Destination… Out!—Jackie McClean

• Arthur Verocai—Arthur Verocai

• Unknown Pleasures—Joy Division

• Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles—Herbie Hancock

• Long Season—Fishmans

• Soul Mining, Mind Bomb—The The

• 94 Diskont—Oval

• My Favourite Things—John Coltrane

• Monoliths and Dimensions—Sun O)))

• Get to Heaven—Everything Everything

• Thembi, Harvest Time—Pharaoh Sanders

• Dusk Stab / Buster & Glen, Meet the Residents, The Ghost of Hope, The Commercial Album, “Metal, Meat and Bone: The Songs of Dyin Dog”—The Residents

• Bath—Maudlin of the Well

• Vespertine—Björk

• Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery—The Comet Is Coming

• Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street, Listening to Pictures—Jon Hassell

• Rain Tree Crow—Rain Tree Crow

• Hex, Codename: Dustsucker—Bark Psychosis

• Laughing Stock, The Colour of Spring—Talk Talk

• Textstar—Farben

• What’s Your Pleasure?—Jessie Ware

• Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches—Happy Mondays

• Downward Spiral—Danny Brown

• Spirited Away OST—Joe Hisaishi

• Bad As Me—Tom Waits

• Solid Air—John Martyn

• Secrets of the Beehive, Blemish, Dead Bees on a Cake—David Sylvian

• Blackstar—David Bowie

• Mindset, Chemist, Silverwater, Body, Hanging Gardens, “Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab”—The Necks

• Overpowered, Roisin Machine—Roisin Murphy

• “Paper Mâché Dream Balloon”—King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

• Pet Sounds—The Beach Boys

• Blonde—Frank Ocean

• La Bella Vista, The Pavilion of Dreams—Harold Budd

• Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks—Brian Eno

• A Moon Shaped Pool, Kid A, OK Computer—Radiohead

• The Argument—Fugazi

• The Red Thread—Arab Strap

• Malibu—Anderson .Paak

• Innervisions—Stevie Wonder

• Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)—Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

• “Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!”–Godspeed You! Black Emperor

• We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service—A Tribe Called Quest

• Pop—Gas

• To Pimp a Butterfly—Kendrick Lamar

• Animals—Pink Floyd

• Winks and Kisses: Melted—Ariel

• Silent Hill 2 OST—Akira Yamoaka

• Skyrim OST—Jeremy Soule

• Oui—The Sea and Cake

• Plastic Beach—Gorillas

• Bitches Brew—Miles Davis

• Deadwing—Porcupine Tree

• So the Flies Don’t Come—Milo

• Love Songs—Mike Westbrook

• Watermusic II, Melancholia, The Disintegration Loops, El Camino Real, Cascade—William Basinski

• Async, Playing the Orchestra (2013)—Ryuichi Sakamoto

• Skylarking, Nonsuch, Mummer, English Settlement—XTC

• Emergency & I, Change—The Dismemberment Plan

• Y—The Pop Group

• “Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records”—Jan Jelinek

• Astral Weeks—Van Morrison

• Currents, Innerspeaker—Tame Impala

• King Krule—Live on the Moon

• Odyssey and Oracle—The Zombies

• Riddles—Ed Schrader’s Music Beat

• Visions of the Country—Robbie Basho

• What’s Going On—Marvin Gaye

• Aja, Countdown to Ecstasy—Steely Dan

• You’re Dead!—Flying Lotus

• “Velocity:Design:Comfort”, “You Will Never Know Why”—Sweet Trip

• Minecraft Alpha/Minecraft Beta OST—C418

• 1+3+1—Triosk+Jan Jelinek

• Telluric—Matt Corby

• World of Echo—Arthur Russel

• Benji—Sun Kil Moon

• Deceit—This Heat

• Out to Lunch—Eric Dolphy

• Chance of Rain, Raw Silk Uncut Wood, Dust—Laurel Halo

• Dataplex—Ryoji Ikeda

• 777—Tonetta

• Selected Ambient Works 85–92, Syro, Aphex Twin

• “Embryonic”—The Flaming Lips

• Sonic Nurse—Sonic Youth

• Suzanne Vega—Suzanne Vega

• You Think You Really Know Me—Gary Wilson

• “When the Pawn...”—Fiona Apple

• The Anatomy of Addiction—God

• This Old Dog—Mac Demarco

• Fleet Foxes—Fleet Foxes

• Stella, The Eye—Yello

• Attack on Memory—Cloud Nothings

• Replica, Returnal—Oneohtrix Point Never

• Hounds of Love—Kate Bush

• A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material—John Maus

• Flare Up—Harry Beckett

• At the Deer Head Inn, The Köln Concert—Keith Jarrett

• Dynamite—Stina Nordenstam

• Schlagenheim—Black Midi

• You Can Fly on my Aeroplane—Wee

• Spiderland—Splint

• Loveless—My Bloody Valentine

• The Smiths—Hatful of Hollow

• The Something Rain, Tindersticks II—Tindersticks

• WIXIW—Liars

• The Fragile, Bad Witch—Nine Inch Nails

• No Kill No Beep Beep—Q and Not U

• Perpetual: A Somnium Continuum—Robert Rich

• Spooky—Lush

Honourable Mentions:

• Drums and Wires—XTC

• White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, The Seer—Swans

• Cosmogramma—Flying Lotus

• Margarine Eclipse—Stereolab

• Dusk, NakedSelf—The The

• Penthouse—Luna

• Demons Dance Alone—The Residents

• Everybody Loves the Sunshine—Roy Ayers Ubiquity

• Rain Dogs—Tom Waits

• Arc, A Fever Dream—Everything Everything

• Bummed—Happy Mondays

• The Downward Spiral—Nine Inch Nails

• “A Wizard, A True Star”—Todd Rundgren

• Mark Hollis—Mark Hollis

• Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles—The Beatles

• Hats—The Blue Nile

• Heaven to a Tortured Mind—Yves Tumour

• Selected Ambient Works II—Aphex Twin

• Settle—Disclosure

• No Treasure But Hope—Tindersticks

• Felt Mountain—Goldfrapp

• In the Evening Air—Future Islands

• Here in the Pitch—Jessica Pratt

• Sacrificial Cake—Jarboe

• Ruby Blue, Hairless Toys—Roisin Murphy

• Trout Mask Replica—Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

• Split—Lush

• Abbey Road—The Beatles

• Dark Side of the Moon—Pink Floyd

• Low Life, Music Complete, “Power, Corruption, and Lies”—New Order

• Stupid Dream, In Absentia—Porcupine Tree

• Unknown Pleasures—Joy Division

• Forever Changes—Love

• Lost Time—12 Rods

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• Francis Bacon

• Andrew Wyeth

• Tetsuya Ishida

• Tracey Moffatt

• Arthur Boyd

• Frank Auerbach

• Gerhard Richter

• René Magritte

• Edward Hopper

• Tala Madani

• Ryoji Ikeda

• David Lynch

• Do Ho Suh

• Olivier de Sagazan

• Salvador Dalí

• Vilhelm Hammershøi

• Andres Serrano

• Henri Matisse

• Rosemary Laing

• Walker Evans

• Zdzislaw Beksinski

• Saul Leiter

• Lee Ufan

• Brett Whiteley

• James Turrell

• Jordan Wolfson

• Rachael Whiteread

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Tadao Ando

• Tehching Hsieh

• Mike Parr

• William Kentridge

• Johannes Vermeer

• Gordon Parks

• Weegee

• George Cooley

• Keith Haring

• Issey Miyake

• Susanna Majuri

Honourable Mentions (either artists or favourite individual paintings):

• Morning of the Holy Day, Val d’Aosta (1905)—Cesare Maggi

• Wassily Kandinsky

• Jeffery Smart

• The Third of May 1808 (1814), Courtyard with Lunatics, The Disasters of War (1810—1820), Witches’ Sabbath (The Great He-Goat), Witches’ Flight (1797–1798), The Dog—Francisco Goya

• Wheelbarrow—Gene Davis

• Anselm Kiefer

• Nude in Rocking Chair—Pablo Picasso

• Mokuy spirits (2015)—Nawurapu Wunuŋmurra

• Grace Cossington-Smith

• Alphonse Mucha

• Sidney Nolan

• Hilma af Klint

• The English Channel—Michael Parekōwhai

• Not not a mother, I was a light across an ocean—Holly Anderson

• Pol Taburet

• Lake Shore Drive, The Chicago Skyline, Wells, Wentworth 51st (McDonald’s), Area Skyline of Chicago—Wesley Willis

• Tasman Bridge Disaster 2—Rodney Pople

• Cymon and Iphigenia (1884)—Frederic Leighton

• Peasant Child’s Funeral (1882)—Roussoff

• Diptych Portrait of Alexis Wright—Amos Gebhardt

• Woman Seated in the Underground 1941—Henry Moore

• Country Road—Stephen Lack

• Once Again… (Statues Never Die)—Isaac Julien

• Helen Garner Speaks French—Katherine Hattam

• Newtown, The House of Death—William Blake

• Helmut Newton

• Portrait of a Young Girl—William Bouguereau

• Robert Mapplethorpe

• Richard Wawro

• Hiroshi Sugimoto

• bit.fall—Julius Popp

• Beaumaris Foreshore—Clarice Beckett

• Hope—Ron Francis (seems a little like a nightmare Jeffrey Smart)

• Al Rio/To the River. 2016–21—Zoe Leonard

• Zeitgeist—HEGO

• My Bed—Tracey Emin

• Diana through threads—Madeleine Kelly

• I won’t wish, I will—Yolande Gray

• Machine-assisted memory of Harewood Farm, Meadows—Sam Leach

• control room—Farhad Moshiri

• Digitalis—Natasha Bieniek

• Kryptos—Brigita Ozolins

• Self-portrait with two cats—Yvette Coppersmith

• Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene)—Julie Fragar

• The acquired Arcadia—Danie Mellor

• Eora—Nicholas Harding

• Judo house part 6 (the white bird)—Nigel Milsom

• Moby Dickens—Blak Douglas

• Gronk’s grace—Brodie Cullen

• After the end of the world—Danie Mellor

• Ngayuku ngura (My Country)—Betty Chimney

• Our Country (mother and daughter)— Betty Chimney and Raylene Waltinna

• Frank River Valley—Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler

• the spectacle—Sophie Victoria

• Country with Acacia Wattle—Nellie Coulthard

• Blaming me is blaming god (acrylic on velvet)—Leslie rice

• You we’re my biggest regret—Joan Ross

• Persimmon—Robert Rauschenberg

• Hirsute Self-portrait—Robert Hannaford

• Yirung Bila (Sky, Heaven, River)—Nicole Foreshew

An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order):

• The Plains

• Blood Meridian

• The Stranger

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

• The Trial

• Slaughterhouse-Five

• No Country for Old Men

• The Turning (Winton)

Honourable Mentions:

• Citizen: An American Lyric

• Distant Star

Some great Booktubers who actually provide analysis and insight and who all boast the rare quality of being ego-free, being driven by a genuine passion for the written word and discipline of reading (list in no particular order):

• Paper Bird

• Bibliosophie

• Leaf by Leaf

• Scott Bradfield

• Marc Nash

• Read a Day Club

• Rambling Raconteur

• Travel Through Stories

• Dsco King

I really have no idea about classical music, but here’s a list anyway! (In no particular order):

• “Rothko Chapel”, “For Samuel Beckett”, “Only”, “Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety”, “Samoa”—Morton Feldman

• “La Valse”, “Alborada del gracioso”, “Le Tombeau de Couperin”, “Miroirs”, “Bolero”, “Introduction et allegro pour harpe, flûte, clarinette et quatuor à cordes”—Maurice Ravel

• Skyrim OST—Jeremy Soule

• “Electric Counterpoint”, “Different Trains”, “2×5”, “Variations for Winds, Strings, Keyboards”, “Six Pianos”, “Six Marimbas”—Steve Reich

• “Gymnopédie No. 1”, “Je Te Veux”—Erik Satie

• “Clair de Lune”, “Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp”—Claude Debussy

• “The Lark Ascending”, “Pastoral Symphony”—Vaughan Williams

• “Sonatas and Interludes”, “4’33””, “In a Landscape”—John Cage

• “I Am Sitting in a Room”—Alvin Lucier

• “DA-MA-SHI-E”, “Water Traveller”—Joe Hisaishi

• “Nights in the Garden of Spain”—Manuel de Falla

• “The Chairman Dances”, “Hallelujah Junction”—John Adams

• “Symphony No. 3”—Gustav Mahler

• “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima”—Krzysztof Penderecki

• “Symphony No. 5”—Dmitri Shostakovich

(In no particular order):

1. Cape Feare

2. Itchy and Scratchy Land

3. Sideshow Bob Roberts

4. A Star is Burns

5. Radioactive Man

6. Homer Badman

7. Homer the Great

8. Homer Goes to College

9. Treehouse of Horror VI

10. Treehouse of Horror IV

11. A Fish Called Selma

12. Bart Gets an Elephant

13. Rosebud

14. Homie the Clown

15. Fear of Flying

16. Who Shot Mr Burns (both parts)

17. Deep Space Homer

18. 22 Short Films About Springfield

19. Mr Plow

20. The Joy of Sect

21. Homer at the Bat

22. Lisa on Ice

23. The Cartridge Family

24. A Millhouse Divided

25. 25. The Springfield Files

(In no particular order):

1. The Gum

2. The Merv Griffin Show

3. The Cigar Store Indian

4. The Couch

5. The Bizarro Jerry

6. The Little Kicks

7. The Chicken Roaster

8. The Contest

9. The Comeback

10. The Nap

11. The Muffin Tops

12. The Voice

13. The Wizard

14. The Fusilli Jerry

15. The Sniffing Accountant

16. The Bookstore

17. The Fire

18. The Marine Biologist

19. The Outing

20. The Pothole

21. The Visa

22. The Postponement

23. The Switch

24. The Yada Yada

25. The Wink

(Honourable mentions)

1. The Limo

2. The Foundation

3. The Butter Shave

An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order):

• Jeopardy

• Twin Peaks

• Letters and Numbers

• Sex House (The Onion)

• Porkin’ Across America (The Onion)

• Breaking Bad

• Arrested Development (seasons 1–4)

• The Simpsons (seasons 3–9)

• Mr Show/With Bob and David

• Review with Myles Barlow

• The Chaser’s War on Everything

• Seinfeld (seasons 3–9)

• Antiques Roadshow

• Planet America

• Fleabag

• Frasier

• I’m Alan Partridge (season 1)

• Fargo (seasons 1–3)

• The Gruen Transfer

• Key & Peele

• Spongebob Squarepants (seasons 1–3)

• Inside No. 9

• Back Roads (ABC)

• Flight of the Concords

An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order):

• Skyrim

• Civ V

• Cities: Skylines

• Batman: Arkham Asylum

• Batman: Arkham City

• Alan Wake

• Portal 2

• Minecraft

• Red Dead Redemption 2

• Wii Sports

• The Sims 3

• Battlefield 3

• Battlefield 1

• The Halo Trilogy

• Tropico 4

• Prison Architect

• Game Dev Tycoon

• The Witness

• Fallout 3

• The Uncharted Tetralogy

An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order):

• Hamlet

• No Exit

• Not I

• Eh, Joe?

• Breath (Beckett)

• Happy Days

• Macbeth

• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Kip Williams adaptation)

• I Hate People; or Timon of Athens

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Much Ado About Nothing

• Julius Caesar (Kip Williams adaptation)

• Madama Butterfly

• Life Is a Dream (Claudia Osborne/Solomon Thomas adaptation)

• Waiting for Godot

• A View from the Bridge (Ivo van Hove production)

• The Crucible

• Glengarry Glen Ross

• La Traviata

https://letterboxd.com/brightongrace/list/scariest-movies-ive-seen/

(In particular order):

https://letterboxd.com/brightongrace/list/cronenberg-ranked/

An ongoing and incomplete list (in no particular order). Note that “favourite” doesn’t mean I like these characters, but I find them fascinating and extremely well realised:

• Carlos Wieder and Abel Romero (and also the spectral narrator) in Distant Star

• Delphine (The Green Ray)

• Tracy Flick and Mr McAllister (Election)

• All of the main characters in Gomorrah (2008)

• Betty/Diane (Mulholland Drive)

• Holly Martins/Harry Lime (The Third Man)

• Monsieur Hulot (Mon Oncle/Playtime)

• Valentine (Three Colours: Red)

• Karol Karol (Three Colours: White)

• Osborne Cox/Linda Litzke (Burn After Reading)

• Marge Gunderson/Jerry Lundegaard (Fargo)

• Nikki Swango/V.M. Varga/Lester Nygaard (Fargo)

• Hamlet

• Nikolai Luzhin/Kirill (Eastern Promises)

• Andrew (The Plains by David Easteal)

• The narrator (The Plains by Gerald Murnane)

• Miklós Gyuricza (The Fifth Seal)

• All of the main characters in Paris, Texas

• David (The Lobster)

• Craig Schwartz/Maxine Lund (Being John Malkovich)

• Charlie and Donald Kaufman (Adaptation)

• Caden Cotard (Synecdoche, New York)

• George Bailey and Mary Hatch (It’s a Wonderful Life)

• Muriel, Rhonda, and Muriel’s Mother and Father (Muriel’s Wedding)

• Agent Dale Cooper/Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks)

• Dorian Gray/Henry Wotton (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

• Holden Caulfied (The Catcher in the Rye)

• Neal (“Good Old Neon”)

• Sister Edgar (“The Angel Esmerelda”)

• Erika and Walter (The Piano Teacher, film version)

• Thomas (Blow-Up)

• All of the main characters in The Night of the Hunter

• Ryuhei and Megumi (Tokyo Sonata)

• Megan (But I’m a Cheerleader)

• Jean Harrington (The Lady Eve)

• Master Gunnery Sergeant Robert John Scott (Spartan)

• Beverly and Elliot Mantle (Dead Ringers)

• Sgt/Adjutant Galoup (Beau Travail)

• Tom Stall/Joey Cusack and Richie Cusack (A History of Violence)

• Edward Jessup (Altered States)

• Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kawolski (A Streetcar Named Desire)

• Jasmine (Blue Jasmine)

• Professor Parkins (“Whistle and I’ll Come to You”)

• Pretty much everyone in Seinfeld

• All of the main characters in Frasier

• Reverend Paris (The Crucible)

• Hildy Johnson (His Girl Friday)

• Seymour Glass

• Judge Holden/The Kid (Blood Meridian)

• Ed Tom Bell/Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)

• Rupert Cadell (Rope)

• Walter White

• Every character in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• Reynolds Woodcock/Alma/Cyril Woodcock (Phantom Thread)

• Mamiya/Detective Takabe (Cure)

• John McCabe (McCabe and Mrs Miller)

• Baxter and Ms Kubelik (The Apartment)

• Catherine Trammel (Basic Instinct)

• Patrick Bateman (film version, not the book one)

• Edmond Burke (Edmond)

• Justine (Raw)

• Anne and Georges (Armour)

• Anne and Georges (Caché)

• Clarice Starling, Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

• Arthur Hamilton/Tony Wilson (Seconds)

• Joe and Louise Cross (Eddington)

• Julian (American Gigolo)

• William Tell and Gordo (The Card Counter)

• Gal/Don Logan/Deedee/Teddy Bass (Sexy Beast)

• Ansa/Holoppa (Fallen Leaves)

• Paterson (Paterson)

• Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard)

• Jack Torrance (The Shining, film version)

• Reverend Toller (First Reformed)

• Griffin Mill (The Player)

• Josef K. (The Trial)

A definitive, objective list of the greatest numbers in existence:

1. 7

2. 24

3. 0

4. 50807

5. 421

6. 3

7. 1.5

8. 33

9. 9

10. π