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Interests

Adaptation
Animism
Anthropology
Apple/Macintosh Computers
Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
Attachment Parenting (AP)
Attachment Theory
Autopoeisis
Biology
Biomimicry
Bioregionalism
Business
Chaos Theory
Child Development
Civilization
Co-opetition
Coevolution
Communitarianism
Community Building
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
Complexity Science
Cooperation Theory
Cultural Creatives
Cultural Evolution
Daniel Quinn
Ecological Design — Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
Ecological Economics
Ecology
Economics
Education
Emergence
Emergent Properties
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Empowerment
Endosymbiosis
Ergonomics
Ethnopediatrics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology (EP)
Excellence
Film
Flow
Fractals
Gaia Theory
Game Theory
Gardening
General Systems Theory
Genetics
Hierarchy
History
Holons
Human Ecology
Human Systems Dynamics (HSD)
Humanistic Psychology
Hunter-Gatherers
Imago Relationship Therapy
Indigenous Cultures
Industrial Ecology
Interdisciplinarity
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Jungian Psychology
Learning Organizations
Memes
Memetics
Movies
Multiple Intelligences
Music
Musical Theatre
Mythology
Natural Parenting
Natural Step
Network Science
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Non-Linear Dynamic Systems
Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
Organizational Development
Organizational Learning
Pantheism
Paradigm Shifts
Permaculture
Personality Types
Philosophy
Playwriting
Political Evolution
Population Ecology
Positive Change
Positive Psychology
Psychology
Science
Screenwriting
Self-Esteem
Self-Expression
Self-Leadership
Self-Organization
Self-Organizing Systems
Self-Parenting
Self-Similarity
Self-Sufficiency
Social Ecology
Social Evolution
Socially Responsible Business (SRB)
Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
Sociology
Solution Focus
Songwriting
Steady-State Economics
Strengths Theory
Sustainability
Symbiogenesis
Systems Dynamics (SD)
Systems Thinking (ST)
Taoism
Televison
Theatre
Tipping Point
Tribalism
Triple Bottom Line
Unconditional Parenting (UP)
Universal Darwinism
Unschooling
Video
Voluntary Simplicity
Win-Win

Activities

“Lost” Scholarship
Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
Attachment Parenting (AP)
Blogging
Business Consulting
Composing
Creativity Coaching
Custom Instrumentals
Custom Songs
Custom Works
Custom Writing
Directing
Dramatic Writing
Entrepreneurship/Self-Employment
Gardening
Health and Fitness
Lyric Writing
MarkSMeritt.com
Music
Music Workshops
Musical Arrangements and Production
Personal Development
Piano/Keyboard Performance
Potluck (potluck.com)
Potluck Creative Arts (potluckcreativearts.com)
Potluck Creative Arts’ YouTube Channel (youtube.com/potluckcreativearts)
Reading
Simply Music
Singalong Workshops
Social Networking
Songwriting
Songwriting Workshops
Sophie’s World (sophiaquinnmeritt.com)
Teaching Piano/Music Lessons
Unconditional Parenting (UP)
Website Design
WordPress
Writing

Books

1984 — George Orwell
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture — Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides & John Tooby, Editors
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic — John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor
After Dachau — Daniel Quinn
Amelia Bedelia — Peggy Parish, illustrated by Fritz Siebel
American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 — Russell Thornton
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking — Gerald M. Weinberg
Animal Farm — George Orwell
Anno’s Magic Seeds — Mitsumasa Anno
The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook — David L. Cooperrider, Diana L. Whitney, and Jacqueline M. Stavros
Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination — Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr
Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Theory of Positive Change — David L. Cooperrider, Jr. Sorensen Peter F., Diana Whitney, and Therese F Yaeger, editors
Arnie, the Doughnut — Laurie Keller
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity — Stuart Kauffman
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child — Katie Allison Granju & Betsy Kennedy, R.N., M.S.N.
Being Is Enough: Collective Self-Help for a Sustainable World — Doug Brown
Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure — Daniel Quinn
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development — Herman E. Daly
Billibonk and the Big Itch — Phil Ramsey
Billibonk and the Thorn Patch — Phil Ramsey
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium — Carl Sagan
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature — Janice M. Benyus
The Birth of a New Physics — Bernard Cohen
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Malcolm Gladwell
The Book of the Damned — Daniel Quinn
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky — Chief Seattle, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
The Butter Battle Book — Dr. Seuss
Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures — Marvin Harris
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back — Dr. Seuss
Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
Civilization and Its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
Co-Opetition: A Revolutionary Mindset That Combines Competition and Cooperation: The Game Theory Strategy That’s Changing the Game of Business — Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff
Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity — William H. Durham
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations — Norman Yoffee & George L. Cowgill, Editors
The Collapse of Complex Societies — Joseph A. Tainter
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration — Robert Axelrod
Complexity: The Emerging Science on the Edge of Order and Chaos — M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost — Jean Liedloff
Cows, Pigs, War and Witches: The Riddles of Culture — Marvin Harris
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things — William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Crucible — Arthur Miller
The Culture of Make Believe — Derrick Jensen
The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez — Alexander Wilson
The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West — Frieda Knobloch
Dancing with Mosquitoes: To Liberate the Mind from Humanism: A Way To Green the Mind — Theo Grutter
Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics As a Science — Robert Aunger, Editor
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — Carl Sagan
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change — Victor Papanek
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency — Douglas Adams
Dominion — Niles Eldredge
Doodle Flute — Daniel Pinkwater
The Dot — Peter H. Reynolds
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit — Al Gore
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth — Lester R. Brown
Ecological Design — Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability — Paul Hawken
The Ecology of Eden: An Inquiry Into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature — Evan Eisenberg
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy — Murray Bookchin
Ecology: The Link Between the Natural and Social Sciences — Eugene P. Odum
The Economy of Nature: Rethinking the Connections Between Ecology and Economics — William Ashworth
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ — Daniel Goleman
The Evolution of Cooperation — Robert Axelrod
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind — David M. Buss
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization — Peter M. Senge, Editor
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization — Peter M. Senge
First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy — Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill & Rebecca R. Merrill
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions — Edwin A. Abbott
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Foolish Tortoise — Richard Buckley, illustrated by Eric Carle
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography — Roger Shattuck
Foucault’s Pendulum — Umberto Eco
The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand
Franny and Zooey — J.D. Salinger
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin — Stephen Jay Gould
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth — James Lovelock
Galápagos — Kurt Vonnegut
Galileo — Bertolt Brecht
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World — Alan Weisman
General Systems Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples — Harville Hendrix
Getting to the Source: Readings on Sustainable Values — William Ross McCluney
The Gift of Nothing — Patrick McDonnell
The Giving Tree — Shel Silverstein
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age — Michael H. Shuman
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest — Lynne Cherry
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less — Guy Claxton
The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell
The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability — Fritjof Capra
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity — John Holland
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science — Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
The Holy — Daniel Quinn
Horton Hears a Who! — Dr. Seuss
How Children Fail — John Holt
How Children Learn — John Holt
How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity — Brian Goodwin
Human Ecology: The Story of Our Place in Nature from Prehistory to the Present — Bernard Campbell
Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect — Paul Ehrlich
Humanity’s Environmental Future: Making Sense in a Troubled World — William Ross McCluney
Humankind — Peter Farb
The Iceman Cometh — Eugene O’Neill
The Idiot’s Guide to Simple Living — Georgene Lockwood
If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways — Daniel Quinn
If You Give a Moose a Muffin — Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie — Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
If You Give a Pig a Pancake — Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
Industrial Dynamics — Jay Forrester
Inherit the Wind — Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Insatiable Is Not Sustainable — Doug Brown
Internal Family Systems Therapy — Richard C. Schwartz
Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer
Introduction to Permaculture — Bill Mollison
Inventing the Child: Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood — Joseph Zornado
Ishmael — Daniel Quinn
It is So! (If You Think So) — Luigi Pirandello
Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East — Gita Mehta
The King’s Stilts — Dr. Seuss
The Knight and the Dragon — Tomie dePaola
A Language Older Than Words — Derrick Jensen
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush — Tomie dePaola
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong — James W. Loewen
Life, the Universe and Everything — Douglas Adams
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment — John Gowdy, Editor
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life — Albert-László Barabási
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos — Garrett Hardin
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations — Dietrich Dörner
Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul — Douglas Adams
The Lorax — Dr. Seuss
Lord of the Flies — William Golding
The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds — John Bowlby
Making the World — Douglas Wood, illustrations by Yoshi
The Man Who Grew Young — Daniel Quinn, illustrated by Tim Eldred
Man’s Rise to Civilization (As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State) — Peter Farb
The Meme Machine — Susan Blackmore
Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind — Tyler Volk
Mid-Course Correction: Towards a Sustainable Enterprise: The INTERFACE Model — Ray C. Anderson
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World — David Marbury-Lewis
The Mixed-Up Chameleon — Eric Carle
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology — Vandana Shiva
Mother Night — Kurt Vonnegut
My Ishmael — Daniel Quinn
The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America — Jack Weatherford
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution — Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins
Natural Family Living: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting — Peggy O’Mara
The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation — Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare
The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy — Masanobu Fukuoka
The Nature of Economies — Jane Jacobs
Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas — Donald Worster
The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education — W. Edwards Deming
The New Renaissance — Daniel Quinn
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Now, Discover Your Strengths — Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton
The Old Ladies Who Liked Cats — Carol Greene
Old Turtle — Douglas Wood, illustrations by Cheng-Khee Chee
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth — Douglas Wood, illustrations by Jon J. Muth
On the Day You Were Born — Debra Frasier
Once A Mouse: A Fable Cut in Wood — Marcia Brown
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale — Demi
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming — Masanobu Fukuoka
The Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent — Meredith F. Small
Out of the Crisis — W. Edwards Deming
People of the Deer — Farley Mowat
The Permaculture Garden — Graham Bell
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual — Bill Mollison
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability — David Holmgren
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong — Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull
Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People — Roy A. Rappaport
Player Piano — Kurt Vonnegut
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change — Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom
The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
A Primer of Ecology — Nicholas Gotelli
The Princess Bride — William Goldman
Principle-Centered Leadership — Stephen R. Covey
Principles of Systems — Jay Forrester
Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest — Daniel Quinn
Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-Child Relationships from Reaction and Struggle to Freedom, Power and Joy — Naomi Aldort
Re-Zoom — Istvan Banyai
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Douglas Adams
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History — Lynne Cherry
The Road To Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity — Michael Maren
The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich A. Hayek
Scaredy Squirrel — Melanie Watt
Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained — Jonathon Porritt
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed — James C. Scott
The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village — Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
Seven Blind Mice — Ed Young
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are — Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All — Brian Czech
Silent Spring — Rachel Carson
Six Characters in Search of an Author — Luigi Pirandello
The Skin of Our Teeth — Thornton Wilder
Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More! — Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, or the Children’s Crusade — Kurt Vonnegut
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered — E.F. Schumacher
The Sneetches and Other Stories — Dr. Seuss
So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped By Surroundings and Events — Rene Dubos
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — Douglas Adams
The Solitaire Mystery: A Novel about Family and Destiny — Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy — Jostein Gaarder
Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups — Daniel Greenberg and Mimsy Sadofsky
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology — Gregory Bateson
Stolen Continents: The Americas Through Indian Eyes Since 1492 — Ronald Wright
Stone Age Economics — Marshall D. Sahlins
Stone Soup — Marcia Brown
The Story of B — Daniel Quinn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas S. Kuhm
The Sudbury Valley School Experience — Daniel Greenberg
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion — Edward J. Larson
A Survey of Ecological Economics — Rajaram Krishnan, Jonathan M. Harris, Neva R. Goodwin, Editors
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution — Lynn Margulis
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities — Dennis Meadows & Linda Booth Sweeney
The Tales of Adam — Daniel Quinn
The Tao of Physics — Fritjof Capra
The Tao of Pooh — Benjamin Hoff
Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
The Te of Piglet — Benjamin Hoff
The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry — Sue Annis Hammond
Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of Memes — Aaron Lynch
Three Native American Learning Stories: Who Speaks for Wolf, Winter White and Summer Gold, Many Circles — Paula Underwood
The Three-Legged Cat — Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Jonathan Allen
The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact — Colin Tudge
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Malcolm Gladwell
Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab — Barbara Bash
The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament — Robert M. Sapolsky
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture — Fritjof Capra
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason — Alfie Kohn
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom — Mary Griffith
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich — Duane Elgin
Waffle — Chris Raschka
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods — Henry David Thoreau
The Water Hole — Graeme Base
We Have Never Been Modern — Bruno Latour
We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love — Robert A. Johnson
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems — Fritjof Capra
What Else Could It Be? — Mario Gomboli
What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better — Dan Brown
When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories — Linda Booth Sweeney
Who Do You Think You Are? — Dr. Nick Isbister and Dr. Martin Robinson
Whose Garden Is It? — Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Jane Dyer
Why Can’t I Fly? — Rita Golden Gelman, illustrated by Jack Kent
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences — Edward Tenner
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — Gregory Maguire
The Wisdom of the Crows and Other Buddhist Tales — Sherab Chodzin anf Alexandra Kohn, illustrated by Marie Cameron
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories — Dr. Seuss
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work… and Why They’re More Common Than Ever — James Walsh
Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence — Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin
Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design — Laurence G. Boldt
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values — Robert M. Pirsig
Zoom — Istvan Banyai

Music

10cc
ABBA
Lynn Ahrens
Tori Amos
Benny Andersson
Fiona Apple
Howard Ashman
Burt Bacharach
Barenaked Ladies
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Beck
The Bee Gees
Ludwig van Beethoven
Elmer Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Bjork
Blur
David Bowie
Leslie Bricusse
Mel Brooks
Wendy Carlos
Harry Chapin
Chicago
Eric Clapton
Alf Clausen
Joe Cocker
Coldplay
Phil Collins
Harry Connick, Jr.
Elvis Costello
Sheryl Crow
Jamie Cullum
Neil Diamond
Donovan
Bob Dorough
The Dream Academy
Duran Duran
Electric Light Orchestra
Eurhythmics
William Finn
Flaming Lips
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds
Franz Ferdinand
Peter Gabriel
Garbage
Genesis
George Gershwin
Gnarls Barkley
Godlely and Creme
Jerry Goldsmith
Hall and Oates
Marvin Hamlisch
George Harrison
Indigo Girls
Jethro Tull
Billy Joel
Elton John
Tom Jones
Scott Joplin
The Killers
The Kinks
Lenny Kravitz
k.d. lang
Led Zeppelin
John Legend
John Lennon
Annie Lennox
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jeff Lynne
Henry Mancini
Aimee Mann
George Martin
Paul McCartney
Nellie McKay
Alan Menken
George Michael
Glenn Miller
Monty Python
Alanis Morissette
Morphine
Alison Moyet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
N.E.R.D.
Anthony Newley
Randy Newman
Harry Nilsson
Michael Nyman
Oasis
Outkast
Trey Parker
Pearl Jam
Michael Penn
Pet Shop Boys
Pink Floyd
The Police
Cole Porter
Queen
Radiohead
The Rembrandts
Tim Rice
Lionel Richie
Linda Ronstadt
Seal
Marc Shaiman
Richard B. Sherman
Robert M. Sherman
Simon and Garfunkel
Paul Simon
Jill Sobule
Stephen Sondheim
Squeeze
Carl Stalling
Ringo Starr
Steely Dan
Jim Steinman
Sufjan Stevens
Sting
Johann Strauss
Jule Styne
Supertramp
Matthew Sweet
Talking Heads
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tears for Fears
They Might Be Giants
Pete Townshend
Travis
True Margrit
U2
Bjorn Ulvaeus
Suzanne Vega
Rufus Wainwright
Jimmy Webb
The Who
John Williams
Brian Wilson
Wings
Stevie Wonder
The Wondermints
XTC

Movies

12 Monkeys
9 to 5
A.I. – Artificial Intelligence — Written by Steven Spielberg; Screen Story by Ian Watson; Based on the short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss; Directed by Steven Spielberg
Adaptation
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic — John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor
Airplane!
Apocalypto — Written by Mel Gibson & Farhad Safinia; Directed by Mel Gibson
The Aristocrats
Austin Power: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Awakenings
Babe — Written by George Miller and Chris Noonan; Based on the Novel The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith; Directed by Chris Noonan
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Beauty and the Beast
Being John Malkovich
Best in Show
Big
Billy Elliot — Written by Lee Hall; Directed by Stephen Daldry
The Blues Brothers
Boogie Nights
Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation Kazakhstan
Bowfinger
Bowling for Columbine
A Bug’s Life
Capturing the Friedmans
Cast Away — Written by William Broyles, Jr.; Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Chicken Run
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
Citizen Kane — Written by Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles; Directed by Orson Welles
Citizen Ruth — Written by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor; Directed by Alexander Payne
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Comedian
Contact
The Corporation — Written by Joel Bakan; Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
Crash
Dances with Wolves — Written by Michael Blake, based on his novel; Directed by Kevin Costner
Die Hard
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) — Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George; Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George; Directed by Stanley Kubrick
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex…
Excalibur
Fahrenheit 9/11
Falling Down — Written by Ebbe Roe Smith; Directed by Joel Schumacher
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Fight Club — Written by Jim Uhls; Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk; Directed by David Fincher
Finding Nemo
Fly Away Home — Written by Robert Rodat & Vince McKewin; Based on the autobiography by Bill Lishman; Directed by Carroll Ballard
Forrest Gump
The Full Monty
Galaxy Quest
The Game
Gattaca
Ghostbusters
The Gods Must Be Crazy — Written and Directed by Jamie Uys
Good Fellas
Grizzly Man — Written and Directed by Werner Herzog
A Hard Day’s Night
Harold and Maude
Help!
Hero
Hot Shots!
House of Games
I Love You to Death
The Ice Storm — Written by James Schamus; Based on the novel by Rick Moody: Directed by Ang Lee
The Illusionist
Imagine: John Lennon
An Inconvenient Truth — Directed by Davis Guggenheim
The Incredibles — Written and Directed by Brad Bird
Independence Day — Written by Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich; Directed by Roland Emmerich
The Indian in the Cupboard — Written by Melissa Mathison; Based on the novel by Lynne Reid Banks; Directed by Frank Oz
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Inherit the Wind — Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
It’s a Wonderful Life — Written by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett and Frank Capra; Based on the short story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern; Directed by Frank Capra
Jaws
The Jerk
Jerry Maguire
JFK — Written by Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar; Based on the books Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs and On the Trail of the Assasins by Jim Garrison; Directed by Oliver Stone
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — Directed by Seth Gordon
Kinsey
Lars and the Real Girl — Written by Nancy Oliver; Directed by Craig Gillespie
The Last Supper — Written by Dan Rosen; Directed by Stacy Title
Life is Beautiful
Lord of the Flies — William Golding
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Magnolia
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Manchurian Candidate
Mary Poppins — Written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi; Based on the novels by P.L. Travers; Directed by Robert Stevenson
The Matrix — Written and Directed by Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski
Memento
Microcosmos
Mindwalk — Written by Fritjof Capra & Floyd Byars; Story by Bernt Capra; Directed by Bernt Capra
Monsters, Inc. — Written by Andrew Stanton & Dan Gerson; Directed by Pete Docter
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Mr. Holland’s Opus — Written by Patrick Sheane Duncan; Directed by Stephen Herek
Murderball — Directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
North by Northwest
Once Were Warriors — Written by Riwia Brown; Based on the novel by Alan Duff; Directed by Lee Tamahori
The People vs. Larry Flynt
The Planet of the Apes
Pleasantville — Written and Directed by Gary Ross
Poltergeist
The Presitge
The Princess Bride — William Goldman
The Producers
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
The Queen
Quills
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Rocky — Written by Sylvester Stallone; Directed by John G. Avildsen
The Rutles: All You Need is Cash
School of Rock — Written by Mike White; Directed by Richard Linklater
Seven
The Sixth Sense
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
The Spanish Prisoner
Spellbound
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
The Sting
Strictly Ballroom — Written by Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce and Andrew Bovell; Based on the play by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce; Directed by Baz Luhrmann
The Stunt Man
Sunday in the Park with George
Super Size Me
Sweeney Todd
Team America: World Police
The Terminal
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Terminator
This is Spinal Tap
Three Kings
Time After Time
Time Bandits
Titanic — Written and Directed by James Cameron
Top Secret
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Tron
The Truman Show — Written by Andrew Niccol; Directed by Peter Weir
Twice Upon a Time
Unbreakable — Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
The Usual Suspects
V for Vendetta — Written by The Wachowski Brothers; Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, illustrated by David Lloyd; Directed by James McTiegue
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
Wall-E
WarGames
The Way Things Go — Written and Directed by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Wayne’s World
West Side Story
When Harry Met Sally…
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Winged Migration
The Wizard of Oz
Wordplay
Young Frankenstein
Zelig
Zoolander

Television

30 Days
30 Rock
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
The Animaniacs
Arrested Development
Beavis and Butthead
Boston Legal
The Brak Show
Cartoon Planet
Cheers
The Colbert Report
The Critic
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Da Ali G Show
The Daily Show
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Emeril Live
The Ernie Kovacs Show
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Good Eats
House
Iron Chef
It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
The Kids in the Hall
King of the Hill
The Larry Sanders Show
Late Night with Conan O’Brien
The Late Show with David Letterman
Looney Tunes
Lost
Mad About You
Malcolm in the Middle
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Moral Orel
Mr. Show
My Name is Earl
Northern Exposure
The Office (BBC)
The Office (NBC)
Pinky and the Brain
Police Squad!
Reno 911
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
Schoolhouse Rock
Sealab 2021
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
South Park
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
Sports Night
The Tick (Animated)
Tiny Toon Adventures
The Tracey Ullman Show
TV Funhouse
TV Nation
Viva Variety
The West Wing
The X-Files

Some Other People and Things I Like

Woody Allen
Paul Thomas Anderson
Dan Aykroyd
Alton Brown
Lenny Bruce
Giordana Bruno
James Burke
George Carlin
Chuck Close
Sacha Baron Cohen
Stephen Colbert
Leonard Da Vinci
Larry David
Walt Disney
M.C. Escher
Jodie Foster
R. Buckminster Fuller
Galileo Galilei
Matt Groening
Bill Hicks
Harry Houdini
Howard Hughes
Chuck Jones
Mike Judge
Charlie Kauffman
Ernie Kovacs
John Lasseter
David Letterman
George Lucas
Bill Maher
Demetri Martin
Steve Martin
Freddy Mercury
Michael Moore
Michael Moshen
Penn & Teller
Jerry Seinfeld
Garry Shandling
Aaron Sorkin
Steve Jobs
Jon Stewart
Matt Stone
Mark Twain
Tracey Ullman
Robin Williams
The Yes Men
Bloom County — Berkeley Breathed
Calvin and Hobbes — Bill Watterson
Dilbert — Scott Adams
The Far Side — Gary Larson

Mark S. Meritt

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