movies (recently watched/rewatched)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Whisky (Uruguay)
Knives Out
Ratatouille
The Grifters
Up
The Player
tv series
Monk
The IT Crowd
Death in Paradise
bingeworthy cooking/baking shows or series
Samin Nosrat - authentic (Netflix)
Rick Bayless - genius (PBS)
The Great British Baking Show - a blast (PBS)
books/authors
Light in August - William Faulkner
Waiting - Ha Jin
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma - Naguib Mahfouz [sample: The darkness began to clear and streaks of light loomed on the horizon until it became tinged with a smiling redness, and the eyebrow of the sun emerged, unrolling light over a limitless desert.] (LM: Wow! Incredible, magical writing!)
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman (LM: Truly refreshing sensibility; authentic; a treat and an easy read!)
Together - Vivek H. Murthy
podcasts
Radiolab
The Moth
3 books
genius artists/bands - you may not agree and I'm showing my age! :)
Joan Armatrading 1
Chet Baker (jazz) 12
Clifford Brown
Guy Clark
Elvis Costello 1
Robert Cray
Miles Davis
Cesária Évora
Enanitos Verdes 12
Ibrahim Ferrer
Blaze Foley
Robert Johnson
Ibrahim Ferrer
Talking Heads
John Lee Hooker
Annie Lennox
Maná
Van Morrison
The Beatles
The Cure 1
The Police
The Pretenders
The War on Drugs
Tabu Ley Rochereau
The Smiths 12
Suma Paz
John Prine
Blue Rodeo
Mercedes Sosa
Cat Stevens 1
Otto Tolonen
Ali Farka Touré
Josh Turner Guitar, not the other 1 (what a cover!)
Atahualpa Yupanqui
more random links to times/places from the distant past ...
