Diana

I'd like to meet:

People with passion.

Music:

Mozart, Marcus Miller, Weather Report, Stevie Wonder, Keith Jarrett, Laurent de Wilde, Mark Turner, Manuel Agujetas, Carlos Gardel, Jimmy Smith, BB King, JL Hooker, Bukka White, Willie Dixon, Stanley Behrens, Luther Allison, Cephas and Wiggins, Robert Cray, Howling Wolf, Tom Waits, The Cream, Kula Shaker, Ofra Haza, James Brown, Pharrell/N.E.R.D, TT D'arby, Seal, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, The Prodigy, Bjork, Billy Idol, Imbeciles and The Poison Umbrella, Beck, Orbital, Clock DVA, Fluke, Yello, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Van Der Graaf Generator, Blue Oyster Cult, Judas Priest, Rob Halford, Nine Inch Nails, Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Metal Church 85/86, Manowar, Slayer, Death, Arch Enemy, Nihilist, Moonspell, Rotting Christ, Behemoth, Aeternus, Enslaved, Satyricon, Unleashed, Suffocation, Martyr...the list goes on and on.

Movies:

My hero - Polanski, as a director as well as an actor. Woody Allen. English cinema: from Hitchcock and David Lean to Mike Leigh. I love directors Joseph Losey and Jack Clayton. Favourite actors are Basil Rathbone, George Sanders, Jeremy Brett, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Laurence, Sir J.Gielgud, Sir P.Ustinov, Brenda Blethyn, Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent, David Thewlis, Alan Howard; you could fill in the list with so many great British names. Films: The list of some of my fave British films, in no specific order: The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, Notorious, Suspision, Psycho, Brief Encounter, Pygmalion, The Picture of Dorian Gray '45, Children of the Damned, Village of the Damned, Sons and Lovers, Lord of the Flies, The Servant, The Go-Between, Don Giovanni, Kes, Family Life, To Sir With Love, The Innocents, Room at the Top, A Hard Day's Night, Mary Poppins, Hot Millions, If..., The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Becket, A Kind of Loving, The Night Digger, The Boys from Brazil, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Repulsion, Accident, The Medusa Touch, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, Gandhi, The Elephant Man, A Room With a View, Howard's End, Maurice, Remains of the Day (my number one!), Shadowlands, Waterland, Hamlet '48 and '96, Othello'95, The Winslow Boy '48 & '99, Wuthering Heights '39 & '92, Sense & Sensibility, Emma (Paltrow), Life Is Sweet, Secrets & Lies, Little Voice, Night Train, The Crying Game, Gods and Monsters, Billy Elliot, My House In Umbria, Wit, Felicia's Journey, Walter and June, Dangerous Liasons, The Queen, The Roman Spring of Mrs.Stone (Mirren), The Wicker Man, Frightmare (Sheila Keith), Witchfinder General, House of the Long Shadows, Asylum (Amicus), Murder on the Orient Express, Margaret Rutherford as Marple, Joan Hickson as Marple, Sir Peter Ustinov as Poirot, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, anything Hammer, everything Monty Python. Directors Giuseppe Tornatore (New cinema Paradiso, Una Pura Formalita, etc.), Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher, The Seventh Continent, etc.). French cinema; actors Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Johnny Hallyday. Horror and anything weird and perverted: The Tenant, Repulsion, Psycho, La Pianiste, Mysterious Skin, Lies, Tras El Cristal, Secretary, Matador, La Ley del Deseo, M.Butterfly, A Snake of June, Taboo, Singapore Sling, Love me, Oldboy, Three Extremes. Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price; The Wicker Man, The Omen. Mystery, suspence, sci-fi: Invasion of the Body Snatchers 56 and 78, M, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Rosemary's Baby. Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang. The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, Dracula, Nosferatu. Top films ever: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (1922), Follow The Fleet (1936), Rebecca (1940), Brief Encounter (1945), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Servant (1963), A Patch of Blue (1965), Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), Belle de jour (1967), Planet of the Apes (1968), La Grande bouffe (1973), The Tenant (1976), Don Giovanni (1979), Hair (1979), Stalker (1979), Repentance (1984), Amadeus (1984), Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988), Life Is Sweet (1990), Wuthering Heights (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), Secrets and Lies (1996), Mysterious Skin (2004), Broken Flowers (2005), Match Point (2005)...and more.

Television:

The Avengers, Monty Python, Nevermind the Buzzcocks, One Foot in the Grave, Murder Most Horrid, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Midsomer Murders, Twin Peaks, On the Air. Very big on The Twilight Zone and anything Rod Serling. Babylon 5, The Outer Limits.

Books:

Charles Bukowski. Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian with a supple and strange body, a snake-like and fiery body with eyes to go with it. Cass was fluid moving fire. She was like a spirit stuck into a form that would not hold her. Her hair was black and long and silken and whirled about as did her body. Her spirit was either very high or very low. There was no in between for Cass. Some said she was crazy. The dull ones said that. The dull ones would never understand Cass. To the men she was simply a sex machine and they didn't care whether she was crazy or not. And Cass danced and flirted, kissed the men, but except for an instance or two, when it came time to make it with Cass, Cass had somehow slipped away, eluded the men. Her sisters accused her of misusing her beauty, of not using her mind enough, but Cass had mind and spirit; she painted, she danced, she sang, she made things of clay, and when people were hurt either in the spirit or the flesh, Cass felt a deep grieving for them. Her mind was simply different; her mind was simply not practical. Her sisters were jealous of her because she attracted their men, and they were angry because they felt she didn't make the best use of them. She had a habit of being kind to the uglier ones; the so-called handsome men revolted her- "No guts," she said, "no zap. They are riding on their perfect little earlobes and well- shaped nostrils...all surface and no insides..." She had a temper that came close to insanity, she had a temper that some call insanity.