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Paul Fricke

Husband, Father, Artist, Entrepreneur, Musician & Songwriter


Hobbies and Interests

Reading (biographies, fiction, comics), music, movies, TV shows, baseball, tennis, marbles, politics, card and board games


Poppa Culture List

A few of Paul's favorites....

1. Citizen Kane (dir: Orson Welles)
2. Revolver - The Beatles
3. Alex Toth
4. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Will Eisner
6. Buster Keaton
7. Chuck Jones
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson
10. Duke Ellington
11. XTC
12. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton
13. Duck Soup - The Marx Brothers
14. Ella Fitzgerald
15. Freaks & Geeks
16. A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
17. Benjamin Franklin
18. George & Ira Gershwin
19. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
20. Bringing Up Baby (dir: Howard Hawks)
21. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. Sports Night
23. Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler
24. U2
25. Frank's Place
26. Rear Window (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
27. Krazy Kat - George Herriman
28. It's a Wonderful Life (dir: Frank Capra)
29. Everybody Loves Raymond
30. Abraham Lincoln
31. The Third Man (dir. Carol Reed)
32. Bentley & Egg - William Joyce
33. Star Wars: A New Hope (dir: George Lucas)
34. Vincent Van Gogh
35. Hayao Miyazaki
36. Singin' in the Rain (dir: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donan)
37. C.S. Lewis
38. Fawlty Towers
39. Louis Armstrong
40. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
41. Neil Finn & Crowded House
42. His Girl Friday (dir: Howard Hawks)
43. The Man on the Ceiling - Jules Feiffer
44. Cerebus: High Society - Dave Sim
45. Iron Giant (dir: Brad Bird)
46. Joshua Judges Ruth - Lyle Lovett
47. Harry Nilsson
48. Why I Hate Saturn - Kyle Baker
49. Psycho (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
50. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
51. The Sneetches and Other Stories - Dr. Suess
52. Dennis Miller
53. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir: Frank Capra)
54. Santa Calls - William Joyce
55. Mutts - Patrick McDonnell
56. Fargo - (dir: The Coen Bros.)
57. Benny Goodman Trio, Quartet and Septets
58. Gordon - Barenaked Ladies
59. Shadow of a Doubt (dir: Alfred Hitchock)
60. Kiko - Los Lobos
61. The Dick Van Dyke Show
62. Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains Of Wayne
63. Aimee Mann
64. The Sweetest Fig - Chris Van Allsburg
65. Sir Alec Guiness
66. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
67. Hannah & Her Sisters (dir: Woody Allen)
68. Raymond Chandler
69. Sail Away - Randy Newman
70. Harold & Maude (dir: Hal Ashby)
71. Carmel - Joe Sample
72. Bonnie Hunt
73. Johnny Bench & The Big Red Machine
74. Tales of the Beanworld - Larry Marder
75. The Adventures of Kavalier & Klay - Michael Chabon
76. Amadeus (dir: Milos Foreman)
77. The Courtship of Eddie's Father
78. Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello
79. In the Night Kitchen - Maurice Sendak
80. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
81. Swan Dive
82. The Man in the White Suit (dir: Alexander Mackendrick)
83. Red Moon - The Call
84. Gold Rush (dir: Charlie Chaplin)
85. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
86. Why Do Birds Sing? - Violent Femmes
87. Blossom Dearie
88. Blue Velvet - David Lynch
89. Spilt Milk - Jellyfish
90. Love & Rockets - Los Bros Hernandez
91. Leon Redbone
92. Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
93. Sunshine Saturday - Florapop
94. Christopher Guest
95. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
96. Bruce Cockburn
97. Avalon (dir: Barry Levinson)
98. Toot & Puddle - Holly Hobbie
99. John Singer Sargent
100. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
101. Simon & Garfunkel
102. Symphony #8 (Unfinished) - Franz Schubert
103. Bernie Krigstein
104. North by Northwest (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
105. St. Elsewhere
106. N.C. Wyeth
107. The Ladykillers (dir: Alexander Mackendrick)
108. So - Peter Gabriel
109. Ordinary People (dir: Robert Redford)
110. Peter Himmelman
111. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir: The Coen Bros.)
112. Bolero - Maurice Ravel
113. Cassandra Wilson
114. The Office
115. J.C. Leyendecker
116. Dangerous Liaisons (dir: Stephen Frears)
117. Switchfoot
118. Goya
119. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
120. Symphony #6 "Pastorale" - Ludwig Van Beethoven
121. Elmore Leonard
122. David Yazbek
123. The Incredibles (dir: Brad Bird)
124. Judith Owen
125. Supertramp
126. Captain Swing - Michelle Shocked
127. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
128. Stacey Kent
129. Martinis & Bikinis - Sam Phillips
130. Blankets - Craig Thompson
131. Edgar Alwin Payne
132. Penn & Teller
133. Soul Coughing
134. Deadwood (...and most other HBO shows)
135. Wallace & Gromit - Nick Park
136. Jack Davis
137. Buddy Holly
138. Bob Fosse
139. Arrested Development
140. Winslow Homer
141. The Honeydogs
142. An Army of Davids - Glenn Reynolds
143. Madeleine Peyroux
144. The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
145. Netflix
146. Sara Barielles
147. Esbjörn Svensson Trio (EST)

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