Films:

"The Battle of Algiers" by Gilo Pontecorvo about the takeover of the Casbah by the French and the successful resistance of the Algerian people. Fascinating in the context of the current situation in Iraq.

"The Holy Mountain" and "El Topo" by Alejandro Jodorowsky, wild experimental surreal films from the early 70's with great insight on the nature of man.

"Viridiana" by Luis Buñuel, 1961, excellent piss on organized religion. Worth a viewing.

"Il Decameron" by Pier Paolo Pasolini, another piss on organized religion, quite pleasing.

"Machuca" by Andre Wood, film from child's perspective living through the 1973 coup and military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. How one of many young child's lives and innocence were destroyed.

Books:

"Something like an Autobiography" by Akira Kurosawa

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff

"The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield

"Siddharta" by Herman Hesse

"Steppenwolf" by Herman Hesse

"Freedom from the Known" by J. Krishnamurti

"Brave New World" and "Brave New World Revisited" by Aldous Huxley (1932/1958)

"My Last Breath" by Luis Buñuel

"Open Veins of Latin America" by Eduardo Galleano

"The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho

"1984" by George Orwell

"Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell

Music:

Jeff Buckley "Grace"

Wara "Maya Paya"

Miles Davis "Sketches of Spain"

Elliott Smith "XO" and "Roman Candle"

The Catherine Wheel "Adam and Eve"

Tom Waits "Small Change" 1976

Silvio Rodriguez

Charles Mingus

The Breeders "Pod"

Prokofiev

Suzanne Vega

Rachmaninoff

Fela Kuti "Zombie"