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ART, PHOTO., TRAVEL, FILM/TV
I'd like to meet:
People who like to travel and who especially love Antarctica, Turkey and South America.
Those who love a good number of the films I've listed, and especially if you like the depressing ones and/or the ones based on historical incidents.
Strangler fans.
Cat lovers.
I'm tired of smart asses.
Music:
MIDNIGHT SUMMER'S DREAM by the Stranglers-(Lyrics close enough):
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Woke up on a good day
And the world was wonderful
A midnight summer dream had me in its spellI dreamt about an old man
Sat and watched the rain all night
He couldn't sleep a wink as all the drops fellHe told me of the beauty
Hidden in our foreheads
And he told me of the ugliness
We show insteadAnd when we put a foot wrong
Do we learn from all the pain?
A midnight summer dream as we watched the rainThen at midnight, he poured another drink
And bent my ear
After midnight we sat up half the night
Or maybe more
And he began to tell me what it was all forI woke up in an armchair
He had gone I don't know where
Left me there to sit and look at the rainDon't remember much at all
But his words were echoing
A midnight summer dream and then awake againMaybe I'll never find him
Maybe he's gone forever
Maybe I'll have to sit here
Watching the weatherOne thing's pretty certain
He helped me make it in the night
And showed me somewhere else between wrong and rightSo at midnight, if you can't sleep
Then I will bend your ear
And after midnight we'll sit up half the night,
Or maybe more
And I'll begin to tell you what it's all for...
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I also really like Rolling Stones (the earlier the better)Pink Floyd in day of Syd Barrett, and film soundtracks like that of Velvet Goldmine, lately, also to Salaam Bombay, to Mishima, to Midnight Express, etc.; some Nirvana, some Moby, --Whiter Shade of Pale--______________________________________________________
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Movies:
all the good ones:
*Affliction
*Alfie
*Altered States
*American Gigolo
*Angel Heart
*Angels and Insects
*Anne of the 1000 Days
*Apocalypse Now
*At Play In the Fields of the Lord
*Barry Lyndon
*Best Intentions
*Blood On Satan's Claw
*Blow Up
*Body Heat
*Bridget Jones' Diary
*Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
*Cal
*Career Girls
*Clockwork Orange
*The Collector
*The Comfort of Strangers
*Cotton Mary
*Crucible of Horror
*Dance With A Stranger
*Dark Obsession
*Darling
*Das Boot
*Days of Heaven
*Death In Venice
*Death Watch
*The Deep End
*The Deer Hunter
*Deliverance
*The Devils
*Don't Look Now
*The Dresser
*El mar adentro (The Sea Inside)
*Elizabeth
*The Emigrants
*Europa-Europa
*The Exorcist
*Exorcist II
*The Falcon and the Snowman
*Fanny and Alexander
*Far From the Madding Crowd
*The Field
*Forty Carats
*Frances
*From Here to Eternity
*The Full Monty
*Funny Games
*Galipoli
*Gideon's Daughter
*The Go-Between
*Goodbye Mr. Chips
*The Good- The Bad--and The Ugly
*The Governess
*Gregory's Girl
*Heat
*High Hopes
*The Hours
*House of Sand and Fog
*If
*Imagining Argentina
*Insomnia (original one)
*Judgment At Nuremburg
*The Keep
*The Killing Fields
*The Last Wave
*Lawrence of Arabia
*A Lion In Winter
*Local Hero
*Look Back In Anger
*The Lovers (La Buenanoche)
*Lovers of the Arctic Circle
*Ludwig
*Ma Vie En Rose
*A Man for All Seasons
*Mary Queen of Scots
*Midnight Express
*Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
*Mind Walk
*The Misfits
*Mishima
*Missing
*Mr. Klein
*Mrs. Brown
*Night of the Iguana
*Oh Lucky Man
*The Omen
*Orlando
*The Parole Officer
*A Passage to India
*Peeping Tom
*Petulia
*The Piano
*Psychomania
*The Rapture
*Ripley's Game
*The Ruling Class
*Ryan's Daughter
*Salaam Bombay
*The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
*Salvador
*Saturday Night Fever
*Saving Private Ryan
*The Servant
*Sexy Beast
*Shampoo
*The Sheltering Sky
*Siesta
*Smilla's Sense of Snow
*The Sound of Music
*The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
*Straw Dogs
*Sunday-Bloody-Sunday
*The Talented Mr. Ripley
*Tess
*This Sporting Life
*The Tin Drum
*Turtle Diary
*The Unbearable Lightness of Being
*Under the Volcano
*Velvet Goldmine
*Vincent and Theo
*White Mischief
*Whore
*Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
*The Wickerman (original)
*The Wings of a Dove
*Withnail and I
*Witness
*The Year of Living Dangerously
*Yol
ACTORS:
Miranda Richardson/
Chrissie Boy Walken/
Jon Voight/
Andre Braugher/
Zoe Wanamaker/
Helen Mirren/
Richard Burton/
Michael Caine (Maurice Mickelwhite)/
John Casale/
John Savage/
John Hurt/
Rupert Everett/
Paul Scofiel/
Julie Christie/
Joseph Fiennes/
Kristen Scott Thomas/
Christian Bale/
Patrick McGoohan/
Leo McKern/
Yaphet Kotto/
Ellen Burstyn/
John Cassavettes/
Gregory Peck/
Lee Remick/
Max Von Sydow/
Daniel Day Lewis/
Peter Gough/
Vincent Price/
Tom Bell/
Albert Finney/
Diane Keaton/
Genevieve Bujold/
Jeremy Irons/
James Wilby/
Woody Allen/
Emily Watson/
Richard E. Grant/
Malcolm McDowell/
Paul McGann/
Ewan McGregor/
Robert Carlisle/
Robbie Coltrane/
John Thaw/
Peter O'Toole/
Holly Hunter/
Vanessa Redgrave/
Richard Harris/
Gabriel Byrne/
Nastassia Kinski/
Ben Gazzarra/
Ben Kingsley/
Anthony Andrews/
Claire Bloom/
Dirk Bogarde/
Alan Bates/
Michael Redgrave/
Renee Zellwegger/
DIRECTORS:
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Stanley Kubrick/
Lindsay Anderson/
Tony Richardson/
Bruce Robinson/
MichelAngelo Antonioni/
Ingmar Bergman/
Bille August/
Roman Polanski/
Paul Schrader/
Michael Mann/
John Schlesinger/
Peter Weir/
Patrick McGoohan/
Merchant Ivory Productions
Television:
anything good.
Cracker, Waking the Dead, Providence, Judging Amy, Law and Order (the early ones with "Spud" are preferred), Cold Case, Homicide: Life on the Streets, most of BBC America, except those reality shows.
Discovery Times channel for good documentaries. Sleuth channel not bad. Da Ali G Show, of course. Peep Show.
The Prisoner, The Sopranos, ER, Yes, of course, Little Britain!
Yes, you'd better get multi-tiered digital cable or satellite--or you'll be sorely missing out, and wallowing in ignorance.
Books:
nonfiction more, but really good British psychological suspense novels that seethe with dysfunction and murderous rage, by Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, and J. Wallis Martin; some of Minette Walters like: "The Sculptress" (catchy title, as well as content).
Heroes:
Myself and my cat
