This is my chance to offer up suggestions for your expanding cultural savvy.
These are my, somewhat overlapping, highlights from 2007.
Film: While very different, these two top my list this year for story telling, each in their own way.
ONCE
Into the Wild
Music:
Swell Season (and music from the movie ONCE)
Jose Gonzales, In our Nature
Mike Doughty, Golden Delicious
Fiest, The Reminder
Block Ice and Propane, cello music by photographer Lee Freidlander's son, Erik
The Project, Winter in June (video of a Mingus tune!)
Turkish clarinetist, Selim Sesler, from the German movie Crossing the Bridge. Watch him play!
Iron and Wine, The Shepherds Dog
Influential writers:
Orhan Pamuk
Diane Ackerman, her new book The Zoo Keepers Wife
Michael Pollan
Richard Louv, check out the Children and Nature Network
