KURT VONNEGUT 1922-2007 R.I.P.All of the below...
I'd like to meet:
Kurt Vonnegut, Andrew Eldritch, Dorothy Parker, Ida Lupino, Steve Lillywhite (just to watch him get those sounds...)Alexander King, Dawn Powell, Norman Thomas, Mina Loy......this is a tough one because a lot of the people I'd like to meet are already dead:(
Music:
OK here we go...Without regard to division by genre, here they are as they occur to me:
Ultravox! (The original John Foxx version, not the watered down dance pop version), The Only Ones, Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill, Holly Beth Vincent, Johnny Thunders/Dolls, Eric Burdon, Leon Russell, Roxy Music,
John Cale, Chris Spedding, Pink Floyd/David Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, The Strawbs, UFO (The Schenker version(s)), Willie Alexander, Dramarama, Supersister, The Angels/Angel City, Kate Bush, Bert Jansch, Joni Mitchell, CSN & Y, Chet Baker, Michael Nesmith, Gram Parsons, Golden Earring, Rostropovich, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Debussy, Stories/Ian Lloyd, Les Paul, The Dream Syndicate ("Medicine Show" in particular), Laura Nyro, Mott The Hoople/Ian Hunter, Alice Cooper (especially "Killer" and "Love It To Death"), Ravi Shankar, Be Bop Deluxe, Joy Division, The Chameleons (UK), The Mission (UK), The Sisters Of Mercy, Leonard Cohen, The Cult, Jim Carroll, Psychedelic Furs, U2, Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green version), John Mayall (especially w/Mick Taylor), Robin Trower, John Waite/Babys (the original English version), Fanny,Lucifer's Friend (especially "Where The Groupies Killed The Blues"), Quiet Sun, too many more to mention...I'll get to'em, I promise :)
Movies:
Casablanca, The Big Sleep, La Dolce VitaLast year At Marienbad,
Hiroshima Mon Amour, Lost In Translation, Wings Of Desire, The Third Man, L' Avventura, The Maltese Falcon, The Hustler, The Man With The Golden Arm, The Bridge Over The River Kwai, The Horses Mouth, Kind Hearts And Coronets, Vertigo, Rear Window, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, King Creole, Stardust Memories, The Nasty Girl, Three Days Of the Condor, Klute, In The Heat Of The Night, The Naked City, The Taking Of Pelham 123, Drugstore Cowboy, Apocalypse Now, Easy Rider, The Glass Key, Five Easy Pieces, Head, Breathless, The Cruel Story Of Youth, Roadhouse, Mr. Death, Dr. Strangelove, The Swimmer, Detour, Paris Texas, Rumblefish, The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape, Performance, Walkabout, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Key Largo, Dark Passage, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, The Getaway, Don't Look Now, M.A.S.H., Laura, All About Eve, Diabolique, The Big Chill, Double Indemnity, Body Heat, Coming Home, The King Of Marvin Gardens...more to come....
Television:
A vast wasteland, with the noted exceptions of Star Trek, Next Generation, The Twilight Zone, Monty Python/Fawlty Towers, Seinfeld, Barney Miller, Law And Order, and that's already way too many...
Books:
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, Immortality, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Milan Kundera), Mother Night, The Sirens Of Titan, Bluebeard (Kurt Vonnegut), The White Album, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion), The Heart Of the Matter, Doctor Fischer Of Geneva, The Captain And The Enemy, Our Man In Havana, Yours Etc. (Graham Greene), Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), Why I Am Not A Christian, Unpopular Essays (Bertrand Russell), Anti-Semite And Jew, The Age Of Reason (Jean-Paul Sartre), Twisted Kicks (Tom Carson)Scoundrel Time, An Unfinished Woman (Lillian Hellman), The Locusts Have No King (Dawn Powell), Mine Enemy Grows Older, I Should Have Kissed Her More (Alexander King), I Etc. (Susan Sontag), I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol (Glen Matlock), The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely (Raymond Chandler), Saturday Night At San Marcos (William Packard), A Far Cry From Kensington (Murial Spark), Dead Babies (Martin Amis), A Saucerful Of Secrets-The Pink Floyd Odyssey (Nicholas Schaffner), Nico-The End (James Young), The Stones (Philip Norman), The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones (Stanley Booth), Walking Through Clear Water In A Pool Painted Black (Cookie Mueller), The Story Of Junk (Linda Yablonsky), The Basketball Diaries, Forced Entries (Jim Carroll), Art And Lies (Jeanette Winterson), Call Me Bandicoot (William Pene DuBois), The Fall, The Plague, The Stranger (Albert Camus), Music For Chameleons (Truman Capote), Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), Tough Guys Don't Dance, Barbary Shore (Norman Mailer), Greenwich Killing Time (Kinky Friedman), and more to come....
Heroes:
Patti Rothberg, Johnny Thunders, Bertrand Russell, Keith Richards, Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Humphrey Bogart, Steve McQueen, Ida Lupino, Chris Spedding, David Gilmour, Mick Taylor, Mick Ronson, Peter Perrett, Joan Didion, Lillian Hellman, Alexander King, Holly Beth Vincent, John Cale, Laura Nyro, Kinky Friedman, Jim Carroll, more to come as the inspiration strikes.,
