The Weird

I consider myself an exponent of the weird. These are just some of the signposts I have found along the way.

• Mysteries of the Unexplained, Time-Life book ordered from TV in the 80s about all sorts of weird phenomena
• One of those little Scholastic Book Club books from elementary school about people who went missing
• Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, and A Wind in the Door
• Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
• Roald Dahl
• Lewis Carol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass
• They Might Be Giants, Flood
• Weird Al Yankovich, Greatest Hits
• The Transformers: The Movie (animated movie from 80s with Weird Al and Orson Welles)
• The Weird
• Jorge Louis Borges, Ficciones
• King Missile, Happy Hour
• China Mieville, The City and the City
• Haruki Makooky
• R. Crumb
• Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
• Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, and...
• because I actually went there under peculiar circumstances... The Museum of Jurassic Technology
• Umberto Eco
• Italo Calvino
• Ray Bradbury
• Fight Club (movie)
• Dr. Who
• Naked Lunch (movie)
• William Burroughs, Nova Express, read in jail
• KRUI in the '90s (University of Iowa College Radio Station)
• The Beatles, Srgt Pepper's, and Magical Mystery Tour
• Bob Dylan
• Total Eclipse (movie about Rimbaud)
• Douglas Adams
• Akira
• The I Ching
• Pink Floyd
• Delicatessen (movie)
• Einsturzende Neubauten
• Monty Python
• Donnie Darko
• The X-Files
• 12 Monkeys
• 2046
• Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
• Henry Miller
• Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
• Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
• Salvador Dali
• Ursala K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
• Luis Bunuel
• Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him