Art hisotry, music, travel, films, reading, good food with friends, a nice wine, DARK CHOCHOLATE, classics, vampires, antiquity, and sex. Not necessarily in that order ;)
I love ALL types! Ok, where to start... Early 90's Italian dance scene: Vae Victus,Ethos Mama, Coco Rico, etc. I'M STILL TRYING TO RECOVER!! Eric satie: The Three Gymnopedies-Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No. 5 Carl Orff: Carmina Burana-Antonio, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons- Max Bruch: Violin Conceto No. 1 in G minor-Igor Stravinsky: Firebird & The Rite of Spring-Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major-Memiors of a Geisha: Itzak Pearlman on violin-Micheal Nyman: Soundtrack to the Piano- Bauhaus: Bella Lagosi's Dead-Violent femmes:Add it Up-Sex Pistols: Nevermind the Bollocks-Joy Division-Souxsie and the Banshees-The Smiths-The New York Dolls- David Bowie: Wild is the Wind, Heros, Ziggy Stardust-Brian Enno-T Rex- Peter Gabrielle: Passion, Music for the last Temptation-Yellow-Art of Noise- Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill-Monsoon: Ever so lonely-Warm Leatherette:The Normal-Early 80's London rockabilly and psychobilly scene- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-Tom Waits-Patti Smith-Front 242- Roy Ayers:Everybody Loves the Sunshine-Chet Baker- Miles Davis-Ella Fitzgerald-John Clotrane:A Love Supreme- Morgana King: A Taste of Honey-Enio Morricone-Johnny Cash-Led Zeppelin- Prodogy-Underworld:Beaucoup Fish-Alice in Chains-Soundgarden-Smashing Pumpkins-Green Velvet-Miss Kitten-Rage Against the Machine-Desert Blues:Ambiances du Sahara-The Buddha Experience: Zen Trance-of course ACL...
1900: Bernardo Bertolucci- La Dolce Vita: Federico Fellini- The Shinning:Stanley Kubrick- La Strada: Federico Fellini- Trainspotting: Danny Boyle- The Bad Lieutenant: Abel ferrara- Brazil: Terry Gilliam- Raging Bull: Martin Scorsese- Taxi Driver: Martin Scorsese- The Madness of King George: Nicholas Hytner- Blade Runner: Ridley Scott- Clockwork Orange: Stanley Kubrick- The Night Porter: Liliana Cavani- Blue Velvet: David Lynch- Apocalypse Now: Francis Coppola- Young Frankenstein: Mel Brooks-
I don't watch TV so I don't really know what's on but I do watch ROME!!!
The Story of Art: E H Gombrich- Little Hisotry of the World: E H Gombrich-Against Love, a polemic: Laura Kipnis- Why There have Been No Great Women Artists: Linda Knocklin- Realism: Linda Knocklin- The Collector: John Fowles- Meditations: Marcus Aurelius- The Decameron: Giovanni Boccaccio- Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neal Hurston- Flow: Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi- The Shortness of Life, Life is Long if You Know How to Live it: Seneca- The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde-Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte-The Scarlet Letter:Nathaniel Hawthorne-Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov-Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert-In Cold Blood: Truman Capote- 1984: George Orwell- Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury- Studies in Iconology: Erwin Panofsky To Kill A Mocking Bird: Harper Lee- I Claudius: Robert Graves- Mythology: Edith Hamilton- VAlley of the Dolls: Jacqueline Susann- Hisotry of Food: Toussaint-Samat- The Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck- The Day of The Locust: Nathanael West- Factotum: Charles Bukowski- The Awakening: Kate Chopin- The Road to Wellville: T. Coraghessen Boyle- Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse- Perfume: Patrick Suskind- A Spy in the House of Love: Anais Nin- The Age of Reason: Jean Paul Sarte- Nana: Emile Zola- Tom Wolfe:Electric Acid Koolaid Test- Etc. Etc. Etc.
I'm my own hero