The ICF HOTLIST of ALL THINGS

Don't dismiss these words, friends. You've stumbled on to the magic recipie, the secret sauce. Learn these simple things and you'll unlock your mind. The list is new and will expand forever. As in all things, there is an order, but we leave it for you to divine.

Books

On The Road, The Dharma Bums, J. Kerouac
Heart of Darkness, J. Conrad
Howl, Kaddish, America, A. Ginsberg
Naked Lunch, W. Burroughs
Soul on Ice, E. Cleaver
Illuminatus Trilogy, Shroedinger's Cat Trilogy, Masks of Illuminatus, R.A. Wilson
Focault's Pendulum, U. Eco
Siddhartha
Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
Neuromancer, W. Gibson
Dune, W. Herbert
Al-Qur'an
A Season of Migration to the North, Salih
Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, T. Pynchon
Giles Goat Boy, The End of The Road, J. Barth
Duino Elegies, The Panther, R.M. Rilke
100 Years of Solitude, G.G. Marquez
The Wasteland, The Rock, T.S. Eliot
The Republic, Symposium, Plato
60 Stories, Barthelme
A Room of One's Own, To The Lighthouse, V. Woolf
The Trial, F. Kafka
Ulysses, Portrait Of The Artist as a Young Man, J. Joyce
The Things They Carried, T. O'brien
Greek Mythology, Daulaire's
Relativity, A. Einstein
The Sneeches, Dr. Seuss
The New York Trilogy, P. Auster
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Tolkien
The Bible
Bomb The Suburbs, W. Wimsatt
The Dark Knight Returns
Ragged Dick, H. Algier
The Godfather, The Sicilian, M. Puzo
Walden, H.D. Thoreau
Manchild in the Promised Land, C. Brown
The Crowd, G. LeBon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, H. Thomson
This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatspy, F.S. Fitzgerald
Hamlet, The Tempest, W. Shakespeare
Catcher in The Rye, Raise High the Roofbeams..., J.D. Salinger
The Odyssey, The Iliad, Homer
The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
Trainspotting
Where the Wild Things Are, M. Sendak
Childhood's End, A.C. Clarke
Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, K. Vonnegut
The Electric KoolAid Acid Test, T. Wolfe Candide, Voltaire
A Streetcar Named Desire, T. Williams
Waiting for Godot, S. Beckett
Still Life With Woodpecker, T. Robbins
The World at the End of Time, F. Pohl
The Illustrated Man, Bradbury
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, P.K. Dick
Catch-22, J. Heller
The World According to Garp, John Irving
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, M. Kundera
The Razor's Edge, R.S. Maugham

Motion Pictures

Taxi Driver
Godfather, Godfather Part II
A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
Escape From New York
Reservoir Dogs
Brazil
Style Wars
Putney Swope
Raging Bull
Deliverance
Wild Style
The Shining
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Cool Hand Luke
The Usual Suspects
Turk 182
The Bad Lieutanent
Smoke, Blue in the Face
Goodfellas
True Romance (uncut)
Annie Hall
2001
Akira
Slacker
Dreams
Kids
Superfly
The Warriors
A Bronx Tale
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Altered States
The Untouchables
Some Like It Hot
The Sting
Beat Street
Scarface
M*A*S*H
Trainspotting, Shallow Grave
The Unforgiven
Roadside Prophets
Natural Born Killers (uncut)
The Breakfast Club
Shaft
Dr. Strangelove
Star Wars
Lolita
Until the End of the World
Better Off Dead
Where The Day Takes You
Platoon
Enter the Dragon
Rebel Without a Cause
Death of a Salesman
Vertigo
The Third Man
Touch of Evil
Fear of a Black Hat
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
It's a Wonderful Life
My Own Private Idaho
Man Bites Dog
Heat
The Professional
Menace II Society
RepoMan
Blade Runner (uncut) Seven Samurai
Hang 'Em High

People And Lives

Keith Haring
Andy Warhol
Jack Kerouac
Taki 183
Henry Chalfant
The Widow's Son
Kool Herc
King Arthur
Lenny Bruce
Akhnaten
Socrates
The Templars
Aleister Crowley
Homer
Magritte
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
Futura 2000
James K. Polk
Cain and Abel
Balthus
Job
Shadrach, Adrach, Abednego
Jacque De Molay
Michelangelo
The Black Panthers
Mohammed
Picasso
Dave Sim
Marquis De Sade
Phase 2
Dali
The Scottsboro Boys
James Joyce
Simon Moon
Nina Simone
Sappho
Napoleon
The Young Lords
Your Father
Galileo
Lestat De Lionheart
Wynton Marsalis
Virginia Woolf
J. Keats
Alex of Macedon
Orpheus
Dutch Schultz
Alfred Hitchcock
Typhoid Mary
Evita Peron
Pat Garrett
Flannery O'connor
Jeanne D'arc
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Lennon
Batman
Jesus Christ
John Shaft
Magellan
Fidel Castro
William Garrison
Bugsy Segal
Elvis Aron Presly
Leonard Cohen
Jim Jones
Casey Jones
Raoul Duke
James Dean
Nico
Mike Corelone
Malcolm X
W. Bill Hickock
Lou Reed
Henry David Thoreau
Peter Stuyvesant
Boss Tweed
The Buddha (Butter Boy)
Al Capone
Bob Dylan
Rasputin
John F. Kennedy
Fred Astaire
Ghandi
James Spader
Mary Magdalene
Eleanor Roosevelt
Trotsky
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Cagney
Mr. T
Ernest Hemmingway
Ted Kennedy
Walt Whitman
Buster Keaton
Vlad Dracula
Frida Kahlo
Hughie Newton
Hannibal Smith
Peter Pan
Oscar Wilde
John Dillinger

Big Music

EPMD
The Beatles
Public Enemy
Jimi Hendrix
Black Moon
The Pixies
Boogie Down Productions
Portishead
Ultramagnetic MCs
The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed
Run-DMC
Miles Davis
The Beastie Boys
The Fat Boys
John Coltraine
They Might Be Giants
Nas
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Slick Rick
Bob Dylan
Common Sense
Chet Baker
Faith No More
Eric B. and Rakim
R.E.M.
Gang Starr
Woody Guthrie
Redman
Buddy Holly
Robert Johnson
Jeru The Damaja
Robert Fripp
Artifacs
Tom Waits
King Crimson
Newcleus
Barry White
Talking Heads
Sugar Hill Gang
Elvis Costello
Devo
A Tribe Called Quest
Paul Simon
The Jungle Brothers
David Bowie
De La Soul
Bob Marley
SteelPulse
Dizzy Gilespie
Louis Armstrong
Handel
Aaron Copeland
The Pogues
The Ramones
The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Dead Kennedys
The Dead Milkmen
Big Daddy Kane
3rd Bass
Curtis Mayfield
The Rolling Stones

Places That Matter

Park Slope, Brooklyn The Bells and Carillon of Riverside Church
North Beach, San Francisco
Mario's Old Bohemian Cigar Shop, Columbus St., S.F.
Elevated Tracks on the F Line (4th St & Smith/9th) The Caroll Street Bridge, Over the Gowanus Canal
Tom's Restaurant
The Grecian Corner
The Waverly
Greenwood Cemetery
Summer in Berkeley, California
The Green Line, DC/MD Metro
Alice in Wonderland Sculpture, Central Park
The Monterey Aquarium
Jenkins BBQ, Jacksonvile Florida
The Golden Gate Bridge
Selma, Alabama
Boston in General
Brooklyn Baseball Diamonds At Night
Howe Caverns
Strawberry Fields
The Cliffs At Martha's Vineyard
The Lake At Vassar College
Jake and Earl's BBQ, Boston
Roof of Butler Library, Columbia University
Lake George In The Fall
The Wasteland Along The NY-DC Amtrack Tracks
Coney Island at Sunset
Japanese Tea Garden, S.F., California
H. Beecher Stowe's Church on Orange Street
Mulberry Street in the Spring
Harlem Mews
The West Village in the Rain
Cafe Reggio
Chinatown
The Temple of Dendur
Hudson River Park at Sunset
South Street On A Cold Winter Night
Monument Hill, Prospect Park
The Presideo
Riverside Park, On a Clearing Day
The Candle Alcoves in St. Patrick's Cathedral
The Church on Nob Hill
Alcatraz in Fog
Ozzie's
Concordia College, Montreal
The Bohemian Grove, in Muir Woods
Cleopatra's Needle
The Plains of Abraham, Above Quebec City
New Orleans
The Esplanade/Promenade
Empire State Park
Woodstock, NY
The Dakota
Summer Everywhere East Of East Hampton
The Hills Around Sausalito, California
Northampton, Mass.
The Brooklyn Bridge At Dawn
Prospect Park on New Year's Eve
Union Square, NY, SF
Washington Square, NY, SF
Times Square
Tompkin's Square
19th Street Pool Hall
The Catskill Mountains
The Empty Operahouse At The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Golden Gate Park
Grant's Tomb
The Ghost Station underneath Bergen St.
The Cloisters
The Longest Municipal Pier in California, Near Santa Cruz
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Quogue
The Ed. Pettus Bridge
91 St. Station on The 1/9
Gorgebeds in Ithaka, NY
Niagra Falls
Brouge, Belgium
Totem Polls in The Brooklyn Museum
Dome of The Rock, Old Jerusalem
Frieght Yards, New Jerusalem
Lilacs in Bloom, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Loch Ness in Fall
Ghost Stop on the 4 Line
Sculture Garden at Musee Rodin, Paris
Top of Mt. St. Helen's
Milkbottle outside Boston Children's Museum
Inside the Rhone Glacier
Sammy's Romanian Restaurant, Lower East Side
Sun Lok Kee, 13 Mott Street, NYC
The Mercury Lounge
Rooftops

Things That Matter

The Plan
Railroads, Subways, Metros
Chelsea Graffiti
AirMail Letters
Old Stacks in Libraries
Shopping on 125th Street, East of Amsterdam
Getting Arrested in Disneyland
Love
Orgasm
Stickers
Learning What You Think Is Cool
Finding What You Think Is Cool
Holding On To What You Think Is Cool
Midnight Cabs in Binghamton, NY
Cliches
The Ocean, How Long Since You've Seen It
Midnight Cabs in Binghamton, NY
Dreaming of Europe
Fronting
Beef
Words
The Past
Permenence
Blowing Lines in the Men's Room of the Pine Lounge
Cheap Bars In Quebec
Billiards
Belief
Connections, Schemes
Cruise Ships
Head Trips
Forgetting and Remembering
Walking
Immortality
Thrift Stores
Depression
Raging Keggers
Not Grinding
Dripping Marker Tags
Exploring, Alone
A Few Piercings
Gargoyles
Finding Pens, God
Losing Pens, God
Some Tattoos
Mysteries, Paranoia, The Occult
Forgiveness

One night while walking down Broadway, i heard someone whisper "in order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding- in time, in space, in culture. For one cannot even really see one's own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can be seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space, and because they are others." Do you understand?

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