Haha, I loved this book! Thought it was totally hot. Just read the description if you don't believe me. ;)

This book is awesome. And it stands as my introduction to China. I had no idea that the ethnic make-up of that country was so diverse. The book is neatly split up into 33 sections, each section representing a province in China, and you trace photographer's Tom Carter's odyssey. As he explains in the book he traveled without money and lived among the people, traveling anyway he could, like a modern day Jack Kerouac. I really admire Tom Carter and I truly love this book. Great photographs that give you a true sense of time and place. This one is a keeper. A+

Evan Rachel Wood is a natural born actress, and watching her in this is proof. Just an amazing, natural, unselfconscious performance. I love Holly Hunter in it too, and feel for her helplessness. Great coming-of-age film. A+

This is a film I can watch over and over. I just find it very moving. And it underscores the importance of casting. I can't imagine anyone other than Mickey Rourke in the part. It almost seems to draw on his history of a once famous star turned down-and-out "has been." You really feel for him. Even his choice of Cassidy, the stripper, seems like a self-destructive move. Something that Mickey Rourke would probably do in real life. A+

Took me a while to get into, but once I did I couldn't stop reading this wild book. The story is a real blast, about two outcasts, Dolores and Serena, who want no real part of the American dream. Drug abuse seems to cloud their brains, and they enter fetish photography, the find themselves as "filmmakers" trying to make a movie, which leads from one disaster to another. The climax and "aftermath" is wonderful, and I ended up liking the main character, Dolores, even though I hated her in the beginning. Great story.