some of my favorite authors and their books/writing:

albert camus - most.
aldo leopold - a sand county almanac.
annie dillard - the living.
bill mckibben - all - esp enough.
bruce berger - the telling distance.
bruce chatwin - utz, the songlines, in patagonia
charles dickens - all
chuck palahniuk - the fight club, survivor.
cormac mccarthy - all the pretty horses, no country for old men.
dave hickey - air guitar, the invisible dragon.
david james duncan - the river why.
david mitchell - cloud atlas, number 9 dream.
david quammen - all
david rains wallace - the klamath knot.
david toop - haunted weather, ocean of sound
don delillo - white noise, mao II.
edmund o. wilson - the diversity of life.
edward abbey - all - esp the monkey wrench gang.
ernest callenbach - ecotopia, ecotopia revisited.
eugene zamiatin - we.
franz kafka - most.
geoff dyer - the ongoing moment
george orwell - all
graham greene - all.
gunter grass - the tin drum
gunther grass - all - esp the tin drum.
haruki murakami - esp the wind up bird chronicle.
heinrich boll - most.
henry thoreau - all.
herman hesse - all.
herman melville - all.
howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
j.g. ballard - all - esp crash and concrete island.
j.r.r. tolkein - all.
jack black - you can't win
jared diamond - guns, germs and steel, collapse.
jeremy rifkin - time wars, entropy
jerry mander - in the absence of the sacred, four arguments for the elimination of television.
jim thompson - all.
john kennedy toole - a confederacy of dunces
john mcphee - all - esp encounters with the arch druid.
john muir - all.
john steinbeck - all.
john wesley powell - the exploration of the colorado river and its canyons.
joseph conrad - all esp nostromo, heart of darkness, lord jim.
kazuo ishiguro - never let me go, artist of the floating world, when we were orphans
kirkpatrick sale - rebels against the future.
klaus mann - mephisto
kobo abe - the box man, woman in the dunes.
marc reisner - cadillac desert.
mickey spillane - all.
miguel de cervantes saavedra - don quixote
neal stephenson - cryptonimicon, snow crash
norman maclean - a river runs through it.
peter handke - on a dark night i left my silent house
peter matthiessen - at play in the fields of the lord
phillip k. dick - all.
ralph waldo emerson - all.
raymond carver - all.
redmond o'hanlon - all.
richard brautigan - all - especially trout fishing in america.
sally tisdale - stepping westward.
samuel butler - erewhon
steven saylor the gordianus the finder roman mysteries
susanna clarke - jonathan strange and mr. norrell.
tom robbins - another roadside attraction
tony hillerman - most.
vandan shiva - biopiracy, stolen harvest, water wars.
vladimir nabokov - all.
wallace stegner - beyond the hundredth meridian
william manchester - a world lit only by fire

all time top 20 ambient

1) brian eno - discrete music

2) brian eno - on land

3) stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline

4) loscil - first narrows

5) brian eno and harold budd - plateaux of mirror

6) loscil - submers

7) alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon

8) andrew chalk - time of hayfield

9) biosphere - dropsonde

10) brian eno, roger eno and daniel lanois - apollo (atmospheres and soundtracks)

11) brian eno and harold budd - the pearl

12) brian eno and jon hassell - fourth world (possible musics)

13) cliff martinez - solaris soundtrack

14) cluster (with brian eno) - grosses wasser

15) david sylvian - gone to earth

16) tim hecker - radio amor

17) loscil - plume

18) pan american - quiet city

19) vladislav delay - anima

20) stars of the lid - the tired sounds of stars of the lid

since 2000 top 20 ambient

1) stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline

2) loscil - first narrows

3) loscil - submers

4) alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon

5) andrew chalk - time of hayfield

6) biosphere - dropsonde

7) cliff martinez - solaris soundtrack

8) tim hecker - radio amor

9) loscil - plume

10) pan american - quiet city

11) vladislav delay - anima

12) stars of the lid - the tired sounds of stars of the lid

13) fennesz - endless summer

14) tim hecker - harmony in ultraviolet

15) pan american - the river made no sound

16) morgan packard - airships fill the sky

17) biosphere - shenzhou

18) murcof - remembranza

19) mono and world's end girlfriend - palmless prayer

20) william basinski - the disintegration loops I


top 5 all-time "beatless" ambient

1) brian eno - discrete music

2) brian eno - on land

3) stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline

4) brian eno and harold budd - plateaux of mirror

5) alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon


top 5 all time ambient with beats

1) loscil - first narrows

2) biosphere - dropsonde

3) loscil - plume

4) pan american - quiet city

5) vladislav delay - anima



top 5 "berlin-style" musicians

1) conny planck

2) moebius

3) kraftwerk

4) kriedler

5) neu!



top 5 labels

1) kranky
2) raster-noton
3) ecm
4) mille plateaux
5) 12k / line

top 5 reviewers/blogs/zines

1) tie: ubu.com, archive.org
2) tie: igloo mag, furthernoise
3) tie: the quiet american, classical drone,
4) tie: resident advisor, april winchell
5) tie: pitchfork, the milk factory

extra credit:

musician but don't release ambient

primarily listen in many ways

41-50 yo

from south end of Bainbridge Island, Washington USA

what i've been listening to lately

1) Fleet Foxes

2) Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band

3) The Sight Below - Glider

4) Portishead - Third

5) Miwon - From A To B

6) Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

7) Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park

8) Morgan Packard - When Airships Fill The Skies

9) Thom Yorke - The Eraser

10) Radiohead - In Rainbows

D E G A - aleksandra domanovic

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