finding a stapler that works.
readers, writers, music and art-makers of all kinds who are capable of gorgeous rage and occupy for always a position of defiance. peace.
Marianne Faithfull, Cesaria Evora, Randy Newman, The Clash, Jolie Holland, Van Morrison, The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, Nellie McKay, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Salif Keita, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, John Prine, The Cramps, The Beatles, Marian MacPartland, Johnny Cash, Franco, Serge Gainsbourg, Cassandra Wilson, Sam Phillips, Nancy Sinatra, The Slits, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Regina Spektor, White Stripes, The View, Martha Wainwright, Nellie MacKay, Joni Mitchell, Abdullah Ibrahim, Mwana Hela, Theoretical Girls, Angeline, always more or else.
Dirty Pretty Things, Rosemary's Baby, The Third Man, The Terrorist, The Conversation, Chung King Express, Riff-Raff, Kama Sutra, The Deer Hunter, The Secretary, Ratcatcher.
South Park, The Wire, Mystery!, Weeds, Rome, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Horatio Hornblower, Lonesome Dove, Foyle's War, Cadfael, POV.
Agatha Christie, Jean Genet, Graham Greene, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Zadie Smith, Angela Carter, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Moses Isegawa, Natsuo Kirino, John Banville, Damon Galgut, Zakes Mda, George Orwell, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Ali Smith, Riyu Murakami, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, Salman Rushdie, Tomoso Nonaka (get her translated please!), John Le Carre, Chimamanda Adichie, C.S. Forrester, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Janet Frame, Ngugi wa Thion'go. More. But not too many more.
None. Ever. But some people I like are: Dorothea Tanning, Elizabeth McGrath, Georgeanne Dean, Mira Nair, Joe Strummer, Ken Loach and Mike Leigh. A person I wonder about without honoring or demonizing is Winnie Mandela.