"guernica"... pablo picasso
books - both collecting and reading...
healthy cooking when i'm not sabotaging myself...
armchair travel (always tied up at work and money too tight for too much of the real deal)
humanist, scientific, and social causes; and liberal politics as the necessary evil to help achieve these goals...
learning about the origins of life and why humanity craves religion...
fine art, natural history and general learning, learning....
i'm also a compulsive do-gooder, which doesn't always do as much good as i'd like; and am checking into both the finer instincts AND the arrogance that lead me there......
i've been very fortunate in having met, and come to know, some of the people i had hoped to meet and know......two in particular being a most unique and astonishingly talented man and his bright and courageous sister...
original artwork, robert downey jr.
others i'd have liked to have met are some of the usual suspects of genius or unique vision in the pantheon of culture, science and history: maybe wolfgang mozart, baruch spinoza, charles darwin, sigmund freud, mohandas gandhi, leonardo da vinci, charlie chaplin, erich fromm, isaac asimov, bertrand russell, galileo, karl marx, mark twain, nikola tesla, stanley kubrick, ingmar bergman, elie weisel, jared diamond, sam harris, richard dawkins, marie curie, emma goldman, margaret sanger, diane arbus, gertrude stein, and most especially mr. albert einstein. there are others.
(that fewer women grace my choices says to me most about the suppression of woman-genius throughout history...)
lynne stewart, radical lawyer for the oppressed, teacher, loving grandmother. prosecuted by john ashcroft and the bush administration in an obscene use of their unconstitutional "patriot act". at 68 years old, battling breast cancer, she will be imprisoned.
"untitled(ernok)"...jean-michel basquiat
"discovery"...rene magritte
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"caligula's horse"...salvador dali
"dancer's reward"... salome and the head of st. john the baptist
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"la danse"...marc chagall
"companion"...ray caesar
"madonna in particles"...salvador dali
"prologue to troy"...romare bearden
my "niece", leeta, and her chipmunk toy...big bad pitbull??
"blue flower"...georgia o'keeffe
"nude disteso"...amedeo modigliani
"ballerina in a death's-head"...salvador dali
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classical; especially baroque, mozart, schubert, mendelssohn, brahms.
my favorite piece of music in the world is johann sebastian bach's "brandenburg concerto #3". play it loud on a fine system in comfortable surroundings, eyes closed; and you could almost think there was a god...
reggae from the 70's and 80's, and world music - such as zouk, compas, african, soca, klezmer, zydeco ...
those soulful women: billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, joan armatrading, laura nyro, nina simone...
the beatles, stones, early bob dylan, the who, pink floyd, harry nilsson, david bowie, the band, the grateful dead, yes, et al, were friggin' brilliant though i don't listen to them regularly anymore
moogy, your talent is awesome...
guilty pleasures: fusion jazz and andrea bocelli...
the body of work of filmmaker woody allen...
the body of work of actor robert downey jr...
the body of work of filmmakers akira kurosawa, alfred hitchcock, charlie chaplin, and ingmar bergman...
the 70's jamaican indie film "the harder they come"...
stanley kubrick's "a clockwork orange", "dr. strangelove", and "the shining"...
coppola's "the conversation" w/ gene hackman...
milos forman's "amadeus"...
david cronenberg's "dead ringers" w/ jeremy irons...
darren aronofsky's and hubert selby jr's "requiem for a dream"...
julian schnabel's "before night falls"...
martin scorsese's "goodfellas"...
paul thomas anderson's "boogie nights"...
terrence malick's "badlands"...
spike lee's "do the right thing"...
the european film "farinelli" for the love of classical music, excess, and androgynous men!
also, les diaboliques, damage, brazil, the kiss of the spiderwoman, capturing the friedmans, pulp fiction, carnal knowledge, house of games, the garden of the finzi-continis, twin falls idaho, the crying game, rain man, schindler's list, basquiat, all about eve, o lucky man, blue velvet, five easy pieces, midnight cowboy, the honeymoon killers, john huston's moulin rouge (1952), sexy beast, my own private idaho, laurel canyon, dog day afternoon, the princess bride, costa-gavras' Z, the birdcage, stage beauty, a fish called wanda, the grifters, half nelson, cape fear (both versions), taxi driver, shakespeare in love, secretary, fargo, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and so many more...(special mention: against the tide, i hated, hated, hated titanic and the shawshank redemption)
i want to die laughing in bed watching reruns of "fawlty towers", "absolutely fabulous", "da ali g show", "taxi", "the honeymooners", "curb your enthusiasm".....
pbs mysteries like "inspector morse"...
the brilliant "sopranos", of course...
"nip/tuck"...
nature and discovery documentaries...
currently, a "top chef" junkie...
gabriel garcia marquez' "one hundred years of solitude"...the greatest work of fiction i ever read
dorothy dunnett's "the lymond chronicles"...
jared diamond's "guns, germs, and steel"...
patrick o'brian's aubrey-maturin series...
lewis carroll's "alice in wonderland" and "through the looking glass"...
william goldman's "the princess bride"...also, i've been told i'd love neil gaiman but i have yet to make his acquaintance...
classics of fyodor dostoevsky, charles dickens, jane austen...
t. h. white's "the once and future king"...
steven pinker's "how the mind works"...
the works of erich fromm...
richard dawkins' "the selfish gene", "the blind watchmaker, "the god delusion"...
toni morrison's "song of solomon"...
the works of isaac bashevis singer...
the works of philip roth...
the works of bernard malamud...
william styron's "sophie's choice" and "the confessions of nat turner"...
william burrough's "naked lunch"...
matthew kneale's "english passengers"...
rose tremain's "restoration"...
joyce carol oates' "the wonderland quartet"...
george orwell's "1984"...
alexandre dumas' "the count of monte cristo"...
truman capote's "in cold blood"...
margaret atwood's "the handmaid's tale"...
henry roth's "call it sleep"...
addicted to british mysteries and police procedurals, especially the works of ian rankin, denise mina, peter robinson, ruth rendell, reginald hill, dorothy l. sayers, colin dexter...
this is not even the tip of the iceberg in my love affair with books...
"the dream"...henri rousseau
"self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird"
frida kahlo
"la nuit"...joan miro
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"where do we come from?"...paul gauguin
"reptiles"...m c escher
"woman in black tie"...amedeo modigliani