The ICF HOTLIST of ALL THINGS COOL

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
The End of The Road, Giles Goat Boy, J. Barth
Heart of Darkness, J. Conrad
Howl, Kaddish, America, A. Ginsberg
Tales of Power, The Art of Dreaming, C. Casteneda
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
The Cabala
Siddhartha
Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Dancing Wuli Masters
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
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, Orlando, 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
Paradise Lost, Milton
Tales of the City, A. Maupin
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, Immortality, Slowness, M. Kundera
The Razor's Edge, R.S. Maugham
All Quiet on the Western Front
Sickness unto Death, Kierkaggard
The Once And Future King
The Song Of Solomon, T. Morrison

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
Kids
Superfly
The Warriors
A Bronx Tale
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Altered States
The Untouchables
Some Like It Hot
The Sting
Beat Street
Scarface
Barton Fink
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
Jacob's Ladder
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
Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
Heat
The Professional
Menace II Society
RepoMan
Blade Runner (uncut)
Seven Samurai
Hang 'Em High
Dog Day Afternoon
The Lost Boys
Animal House
Full Metal Jacket
Mean Streets
The Deerhunter
King of New York
The King of Comedy

People And Lives

Keith Haring
Andy Warhol
Jack Kerouac
Taki 183
Henry Chalfant
The Widow's Son
Kool Herc
King Arthur
Lenny Bruce
Akhnaten
Jim Morrison
Socrates
The Templars
Aleister Crowley
Homer
Magritte
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
Futura 2000
James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump
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
Larry Flint
Alex of Macedon
Orpheus
Dutch Schultz
Alfred Hitchcock
Typhoid Mary
Pat Garrett
Flannery O'connor
Jeanne D'arc
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Lennon
Brando
Batman
Jesus Christ
John Shaft
Magellan
Fidel Castro
Lester Bangs
William Garrison
Bugsy Segal
Elvis Aron Presly
Leonard Cohen
Jim Jones
Casey Jones
Adam
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
The Workers
Ernest Hemmingway
Ted Kennedy
Jack Daniels
Walt Whitman
Buster Keaton
Vlad Dracula
Frida Kahlo
Inbred Crackers
Hughie Newton
Hannibal Smith
Peter Pan
Oscar Wilde
John Dillinger
The Sleeping King
Eve
Evita Peron
Polythene Pam
The Nose
Frank Sinatra
Lyle Tuttle
John Donne
Omar Khayam
The Old Man of the Mountain
Alcibiades
The Prince of Darkness
The Devil
Mr. Grieves
Suzanne
Hugh Hefner
Marilyn Monroe
Mickey Rourke
Martha Cooper
Asian Chicks
American Girls
Tim Leary
Rod Sterling
Chris Carter
Sid and Nancy (At The Chelsea Hotel)
The Men and Women of Murder, INC.
Mr. Kite
Eleanor Rigby
Cynical Romantics
Seasick Sailors

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
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
Leonard Cohen
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
Digable Planets
Louis Armstrong
The Cela Dwellas
Handel
Masta Ace
Lord Digga
Aaron Copeland
Non Phixion
MOP
The Pogues
Main Source
Mic Geronimo
The Ramones
The Beatnuts
Craig G
The Clash
Supernatural
Gemini The Gifted One
The Sex Pistols
KRS One
Showbiz and AG
The Dead Kennedys
Black Sheep
Kool G Rap
The Dead Milkmen
Big Daddy Kane
3rd Bass
The Greatful Dead
Big Daddy Kane
Biz Markie
Curtis Mayfield
The Rolling Stones
The Bird
The Birds
Doug E Fresh
The Meatpuppets
Slick Rick
Pulp
Ultramagnetic MCs
Tom Petty
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Roy Orbison
KMD
Donovan
Das EFX
Billy Preston
The Roots
The Who
Bahamadia
Jethro Tull
Souls of Mischief
The Doors
The Pharcyde
Cibo Mato
Tha Alkaholiks
Butter 08
Special Ed
Nick Cave, The Bad Seeds
The Gravediggaz
The Lightening Seeds
Mad Skillz
John Cale
Saafir
Radiohead
Brand Nubian
Urge Overkill
O.C.
The Beach Boys
Funkdoobiest
Chuck Berry
Hurricane G
The Replacements

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.
The Bergen St. G line Ghost Station
The Caroll Street Bridge, Over the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn
Tom's Restaurant
The Grecian Corner
The Waverly
Greenwood Cemetery
Jenkins BBQ, Jacksonville Florida
Summer in Berkeley, California
DC's Green Line
Chelsea Cinemas 23rd St.
Alice in Wonderland Sculpture, Central Park
The Monterey Aquarium
The Golden Gate Bridge
Selma, Alabama
Boston in General
Brooklyn Baseball Diamonds At Night
Howe Caverns
Camp Quinebarge
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
Every Inch of Amtrack line between Boston and DC
Coney Island Of The Mind, 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
Cafe Gigi
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
The French Quarter, New Orleans
Where It All Began
The Esplanade/Promenade
Countless Amtrack Snack Cars & Smoking Lounges
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 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
The High Street Station
Sun Lok Kee, 13 Mott Street, NYC
The Mercury Lounge
The Sewers of Paris
The 23rd Precinct
Belvedere Tower
Cavalry
The Beach at Malibu
White Castle
The Nile
The Chelsea Hotel
The Appalachian Trail
Great Babylon
21 Jump Street
The Factory
The Apollo Theater

IntraCurricular Activities

Keeping it Real
Fronting
Shopping on 125th, East of Amsterdam
Getting Arrested in Disneyland
Learning What You Think Is Cool
Finding What You Think Is Cool
Holding On To What You Think Is Cool
Dreaming of Europe
California Dreaming
Blowing Lines in the Men's Room of the Pine Lounge
Still Being So Arrogant When The Police Arrive
Forgetting
Remembering
Freefalling
Falling Together
Walking
Not Grinding
Exploring, Alone
Finding God
Losing God
Waiting For the Man
Frieght Hopping
Being the Hammer
Ghettoblasting
Disintegrating
Facing Truths
Bumming Across the East
Learning To Fly, Without Wings
Holding the Door
Being Remembered
Giving up a Train Seat
Writing, writing
Not Opening Your Mouth
Responding with Silence
Realing It In
Chasing the Dragon
Not Liking Everyone
Not Liking No-one
Bringing a Legion
Wrestling with Angels
Busting on Everyone Else's Gear
Shooting Up
Getting Up
Throwing Up
Waking Up
Cracking Up
Breaking Up
Getting Sent Up
Playing it Cool
Not Knowing What You Got Till It's Gone
Exacting Revenge
Counting the Waves
Deserving Your Fate
Knowing What Time It Is
Gardening at Night
Nightswimming
Bloodletting
Feeling Fine
Turning Your Back On The Crowd
Laughing To The End
Letting it All Ride
Having Nothing Left
Riding Around in the Breeze
Living the Life You Please
Doing the Best You Can
Lending a Hand
Being Satisfied
Not Letting Them Get Away With It
Understanding His Orphans With Your Gun
Crying Like a Fire in the Sun
Pissing in the Wind
Whistling in the Dark
Swinging
Taking What You've Gathered from Coincidence
Knowing When to Hold Them
Knowing When to Fold Them
Knowing When to Walk Away
Knowing When to Run
Defining Your World To Death
Surfing To Work
Getting in Free
Going Back
Not Being Fooled
Not Being Robbed, or Ridiculed
Going to Meetings
Being Overexposed, Commercialized
Respecting the Things You Don't Understand
Understanding the Things You Don't Respect
Taking What Is Yours
Talking Your Way out of it
Rolling with Your Fingers Crossed
Fixing the Fight
Being Faithful, Give or Take A Night or Two
Standing Your Ground
Not Backing Down
Being Young and Pretty
Living With Common People
Doing the Things Common People Do
Singing Along With the Common People
Getting Through
Seeing the Rain
Moving Fast
Letting It Be
Running Down a Dream
Running From It
Running For It
Skipping Stones
Fronting When Revelation Comes
Pissing on the Third Rail
Going Down To The River
Walking on the Water
Writing Sermons that No-one Will Hear
Watching
Wondering
Traveling With Him
Self-Medicating
Pulling an Odysseus
Letting God Sort Them Out
Keeping Your Money in a Mattress
Joining a Circus
Making Death Cheap
Making Life Cheap
Being a Prophet of Mistakes
Knowing What You Know
Knowing What You Don't
Breaking Hearts
Stealing Crowns
Making Exceptions
Not Giving Advice
Testifying
Sticking Around
Speaking in Tongues
Knowing What Its Like To Be Dead
Putting Things in Your Head
Going Under
Swinging Madly Across the Sun
Chasing Shadows
Being Wounded in Love
Being Wounded in Hatred
Standing on the Ocean
Starting to Sink
Keeping Your Class
Not Doing the Things You Do
Fighting in the Streets

Things That Last

The Plan
Loyalty
Charm
Human Decency
Railroads, Metros
Chelsea Graffiti
AirMail Letters
Love
Hunger
Passion
Hope
Stickers
Stencils
Silver Fat Tipped Markers
Cliches
Profit
The Stacks
The Ocean, How Long Since You've Seen It
Midnight Cabs in Binghamton, NY
Beef
Words
The Past
All Those Promises You Said You'd Keep
Permenence
Weather-Altered Moods
Cheap Bars In Quebec
Billiards
Belief
Connections, Schemes
Cruise Ships
Head Trips
Immortality
Thrift Stores
Depression
The Downward Spiral
Broken Noses
Spin-Off Crews
Darkness
Grooviness
The Show
Kids on the Coast
The Way Suicides Don't Leave Notes
Pills
Verse
Verve
The Way Life At Times Could Get Worse
Spills, Chills
Wine
The Story
The Second Coming
Soul Food
A Smack in the Mouth
Lucky Numbers
Enough Money to Drag You Under
Drooges
The Future, Much Touted
Nothing Much to Shout About
Veils Before My Eyes
Conscience
Coca-Cola
Raging Keggers
Turban Keggers
Vomit Keggers
Chelsea Keggers
Dripping Marker Tags
A Few Piercings
Gargoyles
Some Tattoos
Mysteries, The Occult
Forgiveness
Use and Disuse
The Watchmaker
Ebola
Escape Routes, Fallbacks
Spencer Being Dead
The Fall
The Fall From Grace, Amazing
Height, Heights
Yiddish Hip Hop Scene/Stee-lo
Revolution #9
Sky Of Blue
Sea of Green
Exhaustion
Intuition
Ascention
Intention
Addiction
The Concord to Paris out of NYC, 12:35am January 1st, 2000, $20,000
The Last Train to the Coast
Explanations
Common Descent
Fronts
The Troubles
The Wild Side
The West Side
Industrial Districts
Paradox
Poses, Posies
The Dissolution Solution
The Dance
Old People
Kwanza
Color
Secret Positions
Dust
Chevy Impalas
The Smell of NYC Rain
Hypocrisy
Need
The Words of The Prophets
Subway Walls
Tenement Halls
The Good Old Days
The Days When Cain Was Just a Man
The Easy Way Out
Magnetism
Bad Attitude
Manic Highs
Tragic Lows
A Ticket To Ride
Duplicity
Catholic Intensity
The Power of Words
Blurry Lights in Winter
Paranoia
Madness
Betrayal
War
Dirges
Irresponsibility
The Grim Reaper Pez Dispenser
Egotism
Youth
Doubt
Toys, How We Were All There Once
The Ever Increasing Pile of Expensive Clothes with Paint Stains
Your Lover, Who Has Just Walked Through The Door
Music on Clinton Street, All Through the Evening
Disgrace
Conceit
Will
Sensitivity
Creativity
Sideshows
Sidekicks
SideArms
Sidecars
The Evolution of Regret
The Blues, the blues
Enemies
Vampires on Ventura Blvd. Tonight, This Minute, Now
Here, There, Everywhere
The Best Thing I Ever Found
The Philosopher's Stone
The Rosy Cross
The Golden Dawn
Daybreak
Wrath
Rage
Electrical Tin Openers
Three Piece Leisure Suits
Mind-numbing, Spirit-crushing Games Shows
Loaded Dice
A Bad Moon, Rising
The Back Door
This Sacred Hall
Shining Artifacts of the Past
The Words on the Printed Page
The King of the Line
Earthquakes
Birds and Snakes
Aeroplanes
Fury
Heartbeats
Tournaments of Lies
Tree Museums
Swinging Hotspots
Desperate Times
Drastic Measures
Paradise
Parking Lots
The Seasons, Going Round and Round
The Carousel of Time
The Circle Game
Cartwheels
Car Wheels, Rolling
Seven Wonders
Seven Women
Seven Signs
Basements
The Medicine
Pavement
Alleyways
11 Dollar Bills
Phonetaps
Early May
Orders From The D.A.
Weathermen
Inkwells
Bail
Romance
Success
Ancient, Empty Streets
Toes Too Numb To Step
Vague Traces of Skipping Reels of Rhyme
12 Misty Mountains
6 Crooked Highways
7 Sad Forests
A Dozen Dead Oceans
10,000 Miles in The Mouth of a Graveyard
10,000 Talkers Who's Tongues Were All Broken
10,000 Whispering, Nobody Listening
The Roar of a Wave That Could Drown The Whole World
A Highway of Diamonds
Summer in Siam
Mental Traffic
Every Truth
Half A Million Lies
Beautiful Days
The Great Big World
Treasure Maps
Blueprints
The Party
Laurel Leaves
Sympathy For The Devil
One for You, Nineteen For Me
The 5% Nation
Another Road
The End
The Beginning

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? Or: now that the singer is gone, who will sing the song?

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