Michael Solomonov's Zahav cookbook is the best restaurant cookbook I've ever owned; his onion marinade for kebabs blew me away with its simplicity and flavor.

A funny bit of in-joke casting: the guy who plays Hitler also played him in the movie Max, about the Jewish art dealer who becomes friends with the burgeoning Führer.

Can Freakazoid be far behind?

Zorya Polunochnaya's scene has such lovely echoes of Beverly Penn from Winter's Tale. It took seeing it to really make the connection.

Dave Malloy, who wrote the musical Natasha, Pietrre and the Great Comet of 1812, wrote this stunner of a chamber musical called Ghost Quartet. (http://davemalloy.com/ghost… Layered, cyclical, punk, mythic, part Poe and Gaiman, part Joyce, part performed in the dark, booze handed out halfway through. Seeing it was…

Zevon is a major one. I've had a few moments listening to him where I've thought, who would someone need anything other than this in their life?