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Interesting people. Original thinkers. Fellow artists and musicians.
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I seem to have loved you
in numberless forms, numberless times,
In life after life, in age after age forever.
My spell-bound heart has made and re-made
the necklace of songs
that you take as a gift,
wear round your neck in your many forms
in life after life, in age after age forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love,
its age-old pain,
its ancient tale of being apart or together,
as I stare on and on into the past,
in the end you emerge
clad in the light of a pole-star
piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image
of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here
on the stream that brings from the fount
at the heart of time
love of one for another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers,
shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the same distressful tears of farewell -
Old love,
but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Muse, Lindsey Buckingham, Roberto Alagna, Coldplay, Great Northern, REM, Paloalto, Golden State, Ours, System of a Down, Earlimart, The Bravery, Elefant, Guster, Liquid Mind, Karunesh, Steven Halpern, Jonathan Goldman, Dead Can Dance, Sacred Spirit, Sheila Chandra, Lisa Gerrard, Kelly Howell, The Clint Boon Experience, Idlewild, The Dandy Warhols, The Myriad, Elliott Brood, Travis, Jane's Addiction, The Fratellis, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, Sigur Ros, Secret Garden, Govinda, Sinead O'Connor, The Ramones, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, The Doors, B.B. King, Eminem, Sweatshop Union, Gipsy Kings, classical (Chopin, Khachaturian, Bach, Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn), opera (Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, and Bellini), world music, blues, folk rock, bluegrass, electronic, trance, techno, ambient, meditation music
Mindwalk, Proof, The Last Samurai, The Fountain, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Across The Universe, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, The Shawshank Redemption, Everything Is Illuminated, Little Buddha, anything by Eric Rohmer, Great Expectations, Moulin Rouge, The Beat My Heart Skipped, Vitus, The Dark Knight, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Six Degrees of Seperation, A Scanner Darkly, Elizabeth, Husbands and Wives, Celebrity, Match Point, Catch Me If You Can, The Prestige, Smoke, Lost in Translation, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Road Home, Good Will Hunting, About A Boy, The Departed, L'Homme du Train, Merchant/Ivory films (Remains of the Day, Room With A View, Howard's End, Where Angels Fear To Tread, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, The White Countess), Shopgirl, Un Coeur En Hiver, Almost Famous, Donnie Brasco, Sidewalks of NY, Once, Stardust, Amadeus, Rain Man, The Fisher King, Dogfight, The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Sirens, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hot Fuzz, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Anniversary Party, The Usual Suspects, Holy Smoke, American Beauty, M. Night Shyamalan films (The Sixth Sense, Lady In The Water, The Village, Signs, Unbreakable), Robert Altman films (Gosford Park, Short Cuts, The Company, Prêt-à -Porter - a.k.a. Ready to Wear, The Player), Dangerous Liaisons, Brokeback Mountain, Minority Report, Get On The Bus, Impromptu, Children of Men, I Robot, The Rules of Attraction, Thank You For Smoking, Wicker Park, Derailed, Les Choristes, The Secret Garden, Velvet Goldmine, The Spanish Prisoner, Sense and Sensibility, Imaginary Heroes, Donnie Darko, Stealing Beauty, Little Children, Amelie, The Queen, Hideous Kinky, Enchanted April, The Ice Storm, The Pianist, Green Street Hooligans, The New Age, Le Maître de Musique (The Music Teacher), Wes Anderson films (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited), La Bûche, Pollock, Reign Over Me, Shall We Dance, House of Flying Daggers, Inside Man, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy (especially Red and Blue), Schindler's List, Big Night, La Belle Noiseuse, Closer, Gattaca, The Others, Strictly Ballroom, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Art School Confidential, Garden State, Down With Love, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Silence of the Lambs, Saving Private Ryan, Arizona Dream, Blood Diamond, Collateral, Rear Window, Babel, Jet Li's Fearless, Basquiat, Sleep With Me, The DaVinci Code, Lions For Lambs, Far And Away, Stranger Than Fiction, Raise the Red Lantern, The Dinner Game, Crash, Tape, Inventing the Abbotts, Training Day, Marie Antoinette, 2 Days in Paris, Sleuth (the remake with Michael Caine and Jude Law), Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, The Taste of Others, Paris je t'aime, Thumbsucker, Happy Endings, The Golden Compass, Mostly Martha, the Harry Potter movies, He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not, Swingers, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Little Voice, Le Placard (The Closet), Girl With a Pearl Earring, Dead Again, Jet Li's Hero, Read My Lips, Curse of the Golden Flower, Look At Me, Pride and Prejudice (the BBC mini-series), Emma, Washington Square, Dead Poets Society, Eat Drink Man Woman, Breaking and Entering, The Wedding Banquet, Le Château de ma mère (My Mother's Castle), La Gloire de mon père (My Father's Glory), Whit Stillman films (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days Of Disco)
Lost, The Simpsons, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, Six Feet Under, Spaced, The Office, Freaks and Geeks, Dead Zone, Green Wing, SNL, The Soup, Heroes, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The In-Betweeners, Big Love, Top Chef, Project Runway, Shear Genius, Top Design, Design Star, HGTV shows
Michael Newton, PhD: "Destiny of Souls" and "Journey of Souls"; Favorite fiction authors: J.D. Salinger, Marly Swick, Margaret Atwood, Dan Millman; non-fiction: books on metaphysics, philosophy, psychology, travel, science, art, photography, music, biographies, astrology, cooking, interior design, language, and history