The Second Circle: (slight artistic cracks, maybe a few or some confusing spots, or dull, or irritating, that wear on multiple experiences, or perhaps it's lacking a little bit of humor, or pathos, but ultimately just as enchanting in total effect as the first circle)
Steven Spielberg: ET (movie, 1982)
Charles Ives: Symphony no. 4 (classical music, 1916)
Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (painting, 1942)
Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (blues, 1937-39)
Robert Altman: Nashville (movie, 1975)
Louis Armstrong All-Stars: 1947 Town Hall Concert (big band jazz)
Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not To Be (movie, 1942)
Kara Walker: D*rk*town Rebellion (art wall installation, 2001)
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (classical/jazz hybrid, 1924)
Nathaniel West: Miss Lonelyhearts (novel, 1933)
Charlie Smalls &.William F. Brown: The Wiz (musical, 1974)
George Lucas: American Graffiti (movie, 1973)
Shel Silverstein: The Giving Tree (children's book/poem/illustrations, 1964)
Jacob Lawrence: The Great Migration (paintings, 1940-41)
August Wilson: The Piano Lesson (play, 1987)
Cole Porter: Songbook (jazz/musical hybrid, 1928-58)
Judd Apatow & Paul Feig: Freaks and Geeks (TV show, 1999-2000)
Walt Disney: Bambi (animated movie, 1945)
Howlin' Wolf: His Best (blues, 1951-75)
Chuck Berry: The Definitive Collection (rock, 1955-1972?)
Casi Lemmons: Eve's Bayou (movie, 1997)
Edward Hopper: Automat (painting, 1927)
Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not To Be (movie, 1942)
Henry Cowell: Symphony no. 11 "The Seven Rituals of Music" (classical orchestra, 1954)
The Carter Family: Can The Circle Be Unbroken (country/roots, 1927-56)
Duke Ellington: Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (big band jazz, 1956)
The Best of the Staples Singers (soul/gospel, 1952-2000?)
Robert Altman: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (movie, 1971)
Maya Lin: Vietnam Memorial Wall (architecture, 1982)
Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie, 1975)
Henry James: A Portrait of a Lady (novel, 1881)
Ray Charles: A 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to Ray Charles (soul, 1946-71)
Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas (movie, 1990)
Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List (movie, 1993)
Philip Roth: The Human Stain (novel, 1999)
Shel Silverstein - Where the Sidewalk Ends (children's book of poems, 1974)
Robert Penn Warren: All the King's Men (novel, 1946)
Honorable Mention: Best of Sesame Street (don't know if there's any collection for the adult stuff...)
The First Circle (Perfect, artistic miracles, not a wasted moment, moving, socially relevant, funny, showing both the darkness of human nature and the goodness in humans too, and both with compassion and contempt):
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (movie, 1941)
Matt Groening & Company: Simpsons Seasons 1-8 (animated TV, 1989-97)
Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins: West Side Story (musical, 1957)
Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Seven (1920s jazz)
Stephen Sondheim: Into the Woods (musical, 1986)
Walt Disney: Pinocchio (animated movie, 1941)
Jim Henson & Company: The Muppet Show (1970s TV)
Gershwin Songbook (1920s/30s classical/jazz hybrid)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (novel, 1925)
Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing (movie, 1989)
Henry James: Washington Square (novel, 1880)
Bill Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes (newspaper comic, 1985-1995)
Kara Walker: Gone (wall art installation, 1994)
Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio (short stories, 1919)
Thornton Wilder: Our Town (play, 1938)
The Very Best of Otis Redding (1961-67)
Maurice Sendak: Where the WIld Things Are (children's book, 1963)
Scott Joplin: Rags (1900's/10s ragtime)
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question (classical music, 1908)
Matthew Weiner: Mad Men (TV Show, 2007-2015)
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun (play, 1961)
FW Murnau: Sunrise (silent movie, 1927)
Stephen Sondheim: Company (musical, 1970)
Victor Fleming, Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer: The Wizard of Oz (movie musical, 1939)
WC Handy - Complete Recordings (big band blues, 1917-1939)
Stephen Sondheim and Jules Stein: Gypsy (musical, 1959)
Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima (novel, 1972)
Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday (movie, 1940)
Frederick Law Olmstead: Central Park, New York (architecture, 1858)
The Essential Jimmie Rodgers (country music, 1927-33)
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo (big band jazz, 1935)
Charles Schultz: Peanuts - the 50's and 60's years (newspaper comic)
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (jazz combo, 1965)
Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise (movie, 1932)
Willa Cather: My Antonia (novel, 1918)
Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1950-85)
EB White: Charlotte's Web (young adult novel, 1952)
Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show (movie, 1971)
Henry Roth: Call It Sleep (novel, 1934)
Richard Linklater: Dazed and Confused (movie, 1993)
Henry Cowell: Solo Piano Music (solo classical, 1912-1965)
Charles Ives: Three Places in New England (orchestral classical, 1911-14)
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces (novel, 1980)
JD Salinger: Catcher in the Rye (novel, 1951)
Grant Wood: American Gothic (painting, 1930)
Ernie Barnes: The Sugar Shack (painting, 1976)
Charles Ives: Central Park in the Dark (classical orchestral, 1906)
Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met (comedy, 1988)
Woody Allen: Radio Days (movie, 1987) (sorry...)
Walt Disney Studios: Beauty and the Beast (animated movie, 1991)
Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston (poetry collections, 1913 and 1914)
Alison Bechdel: Funhome (graphic novel, 2006)
John Frankenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate (movie, 1962)
Tenessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (play, 1944)
Pixar: WALL-E (animated movie, 2008)
Alan Lomax and Harry Smith: Anthology of American Folk Music (1952)
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner: West Side Story (movie, 2021)
George Balanchine: The Nutcracker (choreography, 1954)
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