Siamese Cats, Japanese prime minister, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, looking forward to reading David Kowalski's new book "The Company of the Dead"
Tyrone Townsend
Pink Floyd, Jeff Buckley, Queen, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Don McLean, Kenny Rankin, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Madonna; World (Brazilian): Vinicius Cantuaria, Sergio Mendez (Cuban): Buena Vista social club and offspring, Gloria Estefan, The Cat Empire; (Latino): Inti Illimani, Ricky Martin (I can't help myself); Contempory: george (I'm obsessed), Lior (another obsession), Basement Jaxx, Grove Armarda, Crowded House and all things brothers Finn Classical: Bartok, Stravinsky (love those early 20th century Nationalists), Debussy (gorgeous piano music, lovely to play as well), Lizst (most difficult to play), Beethoven, Satie, Mozart, Bach (most mathematical of all), Phillip Glass, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong Opera: the greatest of all time - Porgy and Bess by George and Ira Gershwin. Classic story of perseverance triumphing over hardship with many deeper and subtle themes. Extraordinary musicianship and masterful orchestration.
Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Silence of the Lambs, Matrix, Lost in Translation, James Bond 007
Scrubs, America and Australias' Next Top Model, The news, The Simpsons, Futurama, M*A*S*H, Bodies
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatjie, One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks, The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood, Cat's eye - Margaret Atwood, The first stone - Helen Garner, Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sacks, White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty - Zadie Smith, The Grass Dancer - Susan Power, Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco, An Anthropologist on Mars, Migraine, Seeing Voices, A Leg to Stand on - Oliver Sacks, The House of God and Mount Misery - Samual Shem, Louis de Benieres (the senor vivo trio is wonderful), Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath
Oliver Sacks, Vinicius Cantuaria, Helen Garner, Bill Clinton, Alan Alda