Sean's Picks

These are a few of my favorite things:
John Gorka's "Temporary Road": John Gorka is a sensational folk
songwriter. His version of folk is infused with rock and powered his
deep, mellow voice. And this album is the kind where every song is a
single.
Herman Hesse's "Narcissus and Goldmund": Whenever you mention Hesse,
most educated people will start talking about "Siddartha," a novel set
in India dealing with Asian philosophy. But Hesse's masterpiece, by a
country mile, is "Narcissus and Goldmund," a work of such stunning
brilliance and variety that I would be presumptous to try and describe
it. It is a literary odyssey and deserves to stand alongside such
immortals as "Hamlet" and Moby Dick."
Green Day "Kerplunk": This was the album before Green Day made it big
and, in my opinion, is by far their best album. This is the bread and
butter of punk with rebel love songs like "2,000 miles away" but also
real hard punk. On the same theme, Offspring's early album "Ignition"
is by far the height of their artistic career. I'm not generally wild
about "The Offspring"; they have so much musical talent but they lack a
talented song-writer.
Allright, let's get to movies: "Bugsy" is excellent if you have
repressed anger. "Wagner" is also worth seeing but is for a more
serious mood. The "Siddartha" movie is excellent; very mellow. "The
Doors" by Oliver Stone is phenomenal. "Hamlet," by Kenneth Branaugh is
possibly my favorite movie. The acting is great and the cinematography
is even better. The screenplay is also very good; it was done by a lad
named Will Shakespeare.(lol) For something a little trippy, The
Beatle's "Yellow Submarine" is very good, though it just leaves me
hungering for greater brilliance, brilliance our society has not yet
produced.