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Everybody loves a top 40 list. Every list provokes delight and anger and, if it is a good one, illumination and surprise. Paul Williams list mixes high art and pop culture, and is sure to leave no one who reads it unmoved. But a list only takes one pagethe rest of this book are Williams thoughts on how everyday people connect with art and performance, subjects on which Williams is brilliant, insightful, and entertaining. This is a serious book that is fun to readan entertaining, thought-provoking work on personal and subjective responses to art.

Introduction

9

(4)

``Things We Said Today''

13

(5)

The Beatles

``Sister Ray''

18

(8)

The Velvet Underground (1967)

Girl Before a Mirror

26

(5)

Pablo Picasso

The I Ching or Book of Changes

31

(9)

Richard Wilhelm

Ulysses

40

(3)

James Joyce

``God Bles the Child'' and ``I Cover the Waterfront''

43

(9)

Billie Holiday

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

52

(6)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Winnie-the-Pooh

58

(3)

A. A. Milne

Martian Time-Slip

61

(9)

Philip K. Dick

``Howl''

70

(14)

Allen Ginsberg

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys (1966)

75

(9)

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Budha

84

(7)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Dance

91

(11)

Henri Matisse

2001: A Space Odyssey

102

(11)

Stanley Kubrick

Concert Performance

113

(8)

Umm Kulthum

``The Bear'' and ``Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech''

121

(5)

William Faulkner

Renaldo & Clara

126

(8)

Bob Dylan

Gravity's Rainbow

134

(7)

Thomas Pynchon

Concert Performance

141

(9)

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The Anatomy of Dependence

150

(5)

Takeo Doi

On the Road

155

(10)

Jack Kerouac

For a Few Dollars More

165

(6)

Sergio Leone

``Mr. Costello, Hero'' and ``And Now the News...''

171

(7)

Theodore Sturgeon

Horses

178

(6)

Patti Smith

Two-Lane Blacktop

184

(7)

Monte Hellman

Concert Performance

191

(4)

The Grateful Dead (1969)

Krazy Kat Sunday page

195

(8)

George Herriman

``Smokestack Lightning''

203

(5)

Howlin' Wolf

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine

208

(6)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Impressions, side one

214

(7)

John Coltrane

Stranger in a Strange Land

221

(9)

Robert A. Heinlein

``The Lottery in Babylon'' and ``The Wall and the Books''

230

(4)

Jorge Luis Borges

The Little Prince

234

(4)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Gandhi

238

(6)

Richard Attenborough

Ben Kingsley

The Rolling Stones, Now!

244

(9)

The Rolling Stones (1965)

Dune

253

(5)

Frank Herbert

``Oh Happy Day''

258

(4)

The Edwin Hawkins Singers (1969)

Kundun

262

(7)

Martin Scorsese

A Private Correspondence

269

(4)

Lawrence Durrell

Henry Miller

``Lost Highway''

273

(6)

Hank Williams

Citations

279

(16)

Index

295

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