How much time do we have? Books, Music, Art, Architecture, History, Travel, Irish Whiskey, Scotch Whisky, Clutter, Movies, Theater, Comics, Most ball-oriented sports, Eating out, Thoughtful conversation. ------Turn-Offs: Willful ignorance, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, Nascar.
Classical, Jazz, Rock 'n Roll, Samba, Tango, R&B, Soul. Sinatra, Miles, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Beatles, Sam Cooke, Stones, Elvis, Dylan, Bruce, Beach Boys, Clash, Rutles, Bud Powell, Bird, Trane, Satchmo, The Duke, The Count, Bennett, Torme, Ella, Billie, Bill Evans, The Hawk, Pres, Django, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Flowers, Jobim, Regina, Gilberto, Gardel, Piazzola (to be continued...)------
Classic Hollywood and Beyond - Silents, Screwballs, Westerns, Noir. Hawks, Huston, Hitchcock, Sturges, Welles, Chaplin, Garbo, Brooks, Astaire, Grant, Bogart, Cagney, Tracy, Hepburn(s), Kelly, Newman, Woody, Wes, Scorsese, et al. Fellini, Kurosawa, Ozu, Renoir, Melville, etc., etc. I dig many things - spanning all genres, budgets, and cultures.
Currently working my way through the following boxed sets: Get Smart, The Saint, The Green Hornet, Extras, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hawaii Five-O, Larry Sanders, The Untouchables, The Odd Couple
All time favorites include: Samuel Johnson, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Saul Bellow, James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse, Rex Stout, Will Eisner, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, F.Scott Fitzgerald, WB Yeats, David Hume, William Carlos Williams, Anna Akhmatova, and plenty of living people. Favorite provocateurs: Bernard-Henri Levy, Chris Hitchens------------------Currently on the reading table: Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw, Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson, House of Meetings by Martin Amis, The Savage Detective by Roberto Bolano, Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray, Two-Way Split by Allan Guthrie, After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Henry Aaron, Nero Wolfe, JS Bach, Samuel Beckett, Keith Richards, Daffy Duck