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The Man's Guide to Style (King Prout's Press, freebie)

TEN WARDROBE MUST-HAVES*

Boxer-shorts - cotton, white
An indefinite number of well-worn T-shirts
An indefinite number of beat-up blue-jeans
One dark suit - one does attend interviews, weddings, and funerals, after all
One leather bomber or motorcycle jacket
Two or more gray sweatshirts
Two pairs of khaki, straightleg trousers
Three well-cut, white or pinstriped button-down shirts - to go with that dark suit
Expendable sunglasses
One Timex wristwatch
Honest Scars of a hard-lived life
Honest Callouses of hard work - not "hard work-outs"
One functional lighter
One good, well-used, sharp folding knife (pocket or belt)
At least one pistol and appropriate holster

THE CONFIDENT MAN ALWAYS* . . .

Does what he thinks is right, whether that puts others at ease or not
Takes responsibility for his actions
Accepts his sexuality with a largely indifferent attitude
Considers spending effort on "looking his best" for casual encounters to be a trivial and effete affectation
Flirts politely
Accepts earned praise
Makes plans and sticks to them
Never loses control... except when it is time to do so
Tells the truth
Is able to laugh at himself
Is able to laugh at others

15 BOOKS YOU SHOULD* READ

Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling
The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
Enemies Foreign and Domestic - Travis McGee
(a book on the impact of the screw on tech and culture, title and author not remembered - I'll get back to this later)
Structures, or Why Buildings Don't Fall Down - ???
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
Sin City: That Yellow Bastard - Frank Miller
The Art of War - Sun Tsu
The Odyssey - Homer
The Glass Key and Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
At The Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
The Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbons
The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy (NOT the "revised" movie)
The Stand - Steven King

15 ALBUMS YOU SHOULD* OWN

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack — Various
Metallica - Metallica
Led Zeppelin 4 - Led Zeppelin
Moving Pictures - Rush
Best of the Doors - The Doors
Amadeus soundtrack - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
anything by Ray Charles or BB King
anything by Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters
anything by Louis Prima
Anything by Jimi Hendrix
In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up Live - Ministry
Best of JS Bach — Johann Sebastian Bach
that new stuff by Evanescence - that lady has cojones
Dirt - Alice in Chains
anything by the Rollins band

15 FILMS YOU SHOULD* SEE

8-1/2 — Federico Fellini
Fargo — The Coen brothers
Eraserhead — David Lynch
Kagemusha - Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa
A Clockwork Orange — Stanley Kubrick
Seven -
Sixth Sense - Shayamalan(sp?)
Unbreakable - Shayamalan(sp)
Blazing Saddles -
Meaning of Life - Monty Python
Office Space -
Falling Down -
Abbot and Costello meet Dracula (?) -
We were Soldiers -

* of course, men don't pay any heed to advice like this - they don't need outside opinions in order to live their own lives their own ways.