The Part-Time Buddhist Pop Culture Guru
5. Led Zeppelin II (Led Zeppelin, 1969)
The English poetic tradition is a long one, but in the vast annals of British verse – a lineage stemming...
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Uh … didn’t that year happen already? Are they going to update the movie so that it’s accurate? Seriously? You...
6. The Beatles (The Beatles, 1968)
What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid....
6. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
You know what I love about Italian movies? I love that I can watch them more than once. American movies?...
7. The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground/Nico, 1967)
Lou Reed, the lyricist, I like to compare to water flowing downhill: he takes the quickest, shortest path. It’s not...
7. Doctor Zhivago (Lean, 1965)
I’ve always wanted to hijack a hospital intercom, press the little button and go, “Paging Dr. Zhivago, paging Dr. Zhivago.”...