Music Picks for the Millennium:
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds; Paul Butterfield Blues Band, East-West; Pablo Cassals, et. al., Shubert Quintet in C Major (1950 Prado Festival); Coleman Hawkins, Body & Soul (1938); Woman's State Chorus of Bulgaria, dir. Philippe Koutev ("Mystoire Les Vox Bulgair"); Balinese Gamelon, Music From the Morning of the World (Nonesuch); The Beatles, Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields; Frank Sinatra, I've Got You've Under My Skin (1956 rec. on Capitol, Nelson, Riddle, arrg./cond.); Louis Armstrong Hot 5, Struttin' With Some Barbeque; Candide Original Cast Recording (1956, prod. Godard Leiberson); Ike & Tina Turner, River Deep/Mountain High (Phil Spector, prod.); Bob Dyland, Desolation Row.

Movie Picks:
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles; Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir; Chinatown, Roman Polanski; McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman; The Third Man, Carol Reed; La Femme Nikita; The Exterminating Angel, Louis Bunuel; Babe, Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein; ET, Stephen Spielberg.

Book Picks:
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, V. by Thomas Pynchon, Ulysses by James Joyce.

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
First successful test of atomic weapons.

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
Development of printing press.

Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
Asleep in bed.

Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
Consciousness as discoverable fact.