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LIST OF RC's INFLUENCES & FAVORITES
Ever since I was a kid I have enjoyed making lists of stuff I like. I sometimes do this to promote conversation and debate. What are your favorite movies, books and TV shows? So this collection of favorites list will serve a dual purpose; to start conversations and to list the influences on my writing.
Favorite Books
Catch-22 * Catcher in the Rye * Cuba Libre (in fact, anything and everything by Elmore Leonard) *
Lucky You (Anything and everything by Carl Hiaasen) * To Have and Have Not * The Ninth Wave * The Dreadful Lemon Sky * Life Its Ownself (Anything by Dan Jenkins) * Trout Fishing in America * Killing Patton * Fail Safe * Killing Patton, Killing Reagan * Watership Down * Sand River * Raylan Goes to Detroit * Starship Troopers *
Harpo Speaks * The Bible * The Choirboys * Life Its Ownself * Tarzan of the Apes * V * Sexus *
Movies
The Wild Bunch
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Sorcerer
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Night Crawler
The Godfather series (of course)
Beat the Devil
Wages of Fear
Dr. Strangelove
Clockwork Orange
Tombstone
Silverado
Forest Gump
True Romance
Caddyshack
Animal House
Joe (with Nicholas Cage)
Shotgun Stories
King Kong (The Original)
Goodfellas
Casino
God's Pocket
Hell or High Water
52 Pickup
TV series
Sons of Anarchy
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
The Americans
Veep
House of Cards
Better Call Saul
The Bridge
Modern Family
Hill Street Blues
Silicon Valley
Orange is the New Black
Wings
Madam Secretary
Dobie Gillis
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Justified
Leave it to Beaver
Frasier
Cheers
Barney Miller
NYPD Blue
Last Man Standing
Homeland
Blue Bloods
Early SNL
The Five
Billions
Better Call Saul
Black Spot
Snowpiercer
That 70's Show
The Ranch
Homeland
Caliphate
24
New Adventures of Old Christine
Seinfeld
To be continued…..
These are a few of my favorite things...
The Art of Don Martin
Blood Rare Steaks
If yer gonna eat chili, eat chili
Pho. And be sure you pronounce it right, round eye
Fender Stratocasters
The Wild Bunch 1969
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