My Playlist (Part One) 5/2010

[I am back working through my pretrial detention journal. It is out of order. Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. The date in the title is the date it was written. I hope this is not confusing. You can find everything from my pretrial detention journal that is published under the “Pretrial Detention” link under topics on the right hand of your screen.

This particular journal entry has three problems: 1) I cannot find the last page, which is where I put the date it was written; 2) it is therefore incomplete, and 3) it is rather long. It reads as if I wrote it before I gave up the idea of suicide altogether; it is a sort of intellectual history written as an elegy. It follows a piece dated to 5/10/2010. So, sometime in early May 2010 seems right.

As for length, I am doing as I do with all my very long piece, breaking up over several posts.

The links are, of course, now. No internet access while in pretrial detention.

What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars. sch 11/12/2025.]

I tried giving this to an ex-girlfriend. She never took an interest in what I wrote. The list was shorter then . The only one who took this seriously was TJ. She even tried reading The Rebel. But she was that kind of person.

Words and music. I guess you say that is what this is. I am trying to write this from early to late. My memory declines and I have distractions as I write this. If I had not chosen to ignore what I knew, had not turned my face against saving myself, I would not be prison bound.

I always wanted to know things. Now I have seen more than I can stomach. Knowledge is the first step towards wisdom, but not the only step. Do with this list as you will. I hope you will know more about me by this list.

• The Bible
• The Little Train That Could
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Batman (TV)
• Errol Flynn movies
• Gary Cooper movies
• Bambi
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Superman (TV)
• The Prisoner (TV)
• Poems of James Whitcomb Riley
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Annabelle Lee
• The short stories of Edgar Allan Poe
• James Cagney movies
• Keep on Smiling, Wet Willie
• Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding
• The Magnificent Seven
• I, Claudius
• Combat (When I was 7)
• Of Human Bondage
• The Three Musketeers (the Michael York movie and then the Dumas novels)
• Birth of Tragedy
• A History of the English-Speaking People
• British Philosophy from Bacon to Mill
• On Liberty, Mill
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
• The Clash, The Clash
• Desperado, The Eagles
• Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits
• Muddy Waters Live
• Letters from Earth, Mark Twain
• Another Side of Bob Dylan
• Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse -Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Maltese Falcon, Hammett
• The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
• A Family Affair, Rex Stout
• Some Buried Caesar, Rex Stout
• Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Stranger, Camus
• Hamlet (that was read when I was about 15)
• Alice Adams, Booth Tarkington
• Burr, Gore Vidal
• 1876, Gore Vidal
• The James Bond novels
• The Ipcress Files, Len Deighton
• The James Bond movies
• Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
• The New York Dolls
• John Lee Hooker
• Bo Diddley's A Twister

[And that is where I will break off for now. Putting in the links has taken time that needs put to more practical matters. To be continued in My Playlist (Part One) 5/2010. sch 11/12/2025]