Music, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology (in particular study of the mind, study of human behavior, study of mental and emotional processes, study of creative process and mental illness), Photography, Fine Arts, Alchemy, Reading, Painting, Writing, Travelling, Oriental Culture...
John Frusciante's Magic
I love Good Music. I like Blues, Rock'n'Roll, Rock '70, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze, Electronic, Punk, Garage, Ska, Reggae, Celtic Music, Folk, Antifolk, Patchanka, Sperimental Music, Soul, Funk... Some of my favourite musicians are: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Frusciante, R.H.C.P., Beach Boys, Vincent Gallo, Jeffrey Lewis, The Germs, The Doors, After Tea, Ant Trip Ceremony, Aorta, Arzachel, The Apemen, Siouxie & The Banshees, The Essex, Kyuss, The Easybeats, Pussy Plays, Q65, The Hollies, The Fuzztones, The Equals, Arthur Brown, Brain Police, Social Distortion, The Cramps, Albert King, Vashti Bunyan, The Bubble Puppy, Bobby Callender, The Cyrcle, Blues Magoos, The Sacred Mushroom, The Sonics, Caravan, Demian, Soft Machine, Count Five, The Trip, Great Lakes Myth Society, The Action, Detroit Cobras, Creation, Ultimate Spinach, Them, Eire Apparent, The Shadows of Knight, Pretty Things, The Moving Sidewalks, The Electric Banana, The Music Machine, The Chesterfield Kings, Kaleidoscope, The Factory, The Box Tops, Fairfield Parlour (ex Kaleidoscope UK), The Charlatans, The Cowsills, Love, Gandalf, Human Instinct, Mad River, Blondie, Dragonfly, Mighty Baby, Silver Apples, Incredible String Band, July, Spirit, The Black Keys, Flaming Sdeburns, The Meteors, The Rapture, Tangerine Dream, Danko Jones, Velvet Underground, Les Fleur DeLys, Nick Drake, The Electric Prunes, Robert Johnson, Lazy Smoke, Television, Ghinzu, Dressy Bessy, M. Ward, The Music Machine, Pavement, Anthony & the Johnsons, Bright Eyes, The Charlatans UK, Move, The Dresden Dolls, Pretty Things, Nazz, The Nomads, The Monks, Le Orme, The Shadows Of Knight, Black Moses, Les Reveres, The Plastic Cloud, The Vacation, Sonic Youth, Kaleidoscope, Serge Gainsbourg, The Far Cries, The Specials, Troy Von Balthazar, Pussy Plays, The Ugly's, Zakary Thaks, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Rippers, David Bowie, Sagittarius, Marc Bolan & T-Rex, Stooges, Jeff Buckley, The Libertines, The Hives, The Datsuns, The Smoke, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Elliott Smith, Plastic Penny, Pesky Gee, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Afterhours, Marlene Kuntz, Bandabardò, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Mando Diao, Rainbow Ffolly, Aerosmith, Joseph Arthur, Mojave3, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Foghat, Turbonegro, Relatively Clean Rivers, Pink Floyd, Mott the Hoople, The Small Faces, The Stranglers, Cristina Donà , Syd Matters, Explosions In The Sky, Yann Tiersen, Iron & Wine, John Mayall, Emiliana Torrini, The Muse, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, System of a Down, Neil Young, Belle and Sebastian, Keren Ann, Sigur Ròs, CocoRosie, The Chocolate Watch Band, John Doe, The Mars Volta, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Mountain Goats, Nina Simone, B.B. King, The Clash, Jefferson Airplane, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 13th Floor Elevators, Mc5, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Vini Reilly, Goran Bregovic, Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, Interpol, Moby Grape, Madness, Low, Lou Barlow & Folk Implosion, Le Tigre, Kevin Ayers, Junior Senior, June Carter Cash, Jimmy Rogers, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval, Otis Redding, James Brown, Hawkind, Three Dog Night, The Outsiders, Ryan Adams, U2, Pearl Jam, Erykah Badu, Herman Dune, Counting Crows, Rickie Lee Jones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Alanis Morrissette, The Lilys, The Embrooks, The Church, The Adolescents, Bush, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Air, Blonde Redhead, Smashing Pumpkins, The Darkness, The Deviants, Frijid Pink, Alexi Murdoch, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Captain Beefheart, Clannad, The Pixies, Sex Pistols, The Smiths, Paolo Conte, Radiohead, Jane's Addiction, Joy Division, Claude Debussy, Van Morrison, Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Hanoi Rocks, Howlin' Wolf, Marvin Gaye, Mamas & Papas, Blondie, Kool & The Gang, Leadbelly, Pulp, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Secret Affair, Ed Harcourt, Dave Edmunds, American Music Club, Carl Perkins, The Only Ones, The Zutons, The Zombies, The Trashmen, The Tyde, The Telescopes, Julian Cope, Jens Lekman, Hank williams Sr., The Rakes, Charlie Parker, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Chemical Brothers, The Undertones, Supergrass, Stiff Little Finger, Stars of the Lid, Opal, Movietone, Country Joe McDonald, Tindersticks, Buddy Guy, P.J. Harvey, Nick Cave, Peter Hammill, Ani Di Franco , Patti Smith, The Kinks , Syd Barrett , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Morphine, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Violent Femmes, Allman Brothers, Traffic, Joni Mitchell, New York Dolls, Jesus & Mary Chain, Little Richard, Tom Waits, The Shins, Primal Scream, Julie Doiron, Shannon Wright, Hefner, Reader's wives, Robotnik, Phoenix, J.Tillman, Digitalism, Red House Painters, Seabear, Radiochimica, Wire, Calexico , Vinicio Capossela ..and I could go on and on and on!
"Harold and Maude", All Fellini's films, "Alice in Wonderland", all Kusturica's films, "Everything is illuminated", "Joe Strummer: the future is unwritten", "Ferro 3 - La casa vuota", Vincent Gallo's films, Wim Wenders films, "La meglio gioventù","Waking Life", "La vita è bella", "My name is Sam", "The Big Lebowski", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Ingmar Bergman films... Anyway, my favourite one remains:
TRASH YOUR TELEVISION, TUNE YOUR MIND. " I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book."! °Groucho Marx°
" Jonathan Livingstone" (R. Bach), "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"( Kundera), "The Little Prince" (Antoine de Saint Exupéry). I love Baudelaire, Verlaine, Hemingway, Galeano, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Blake, Borroughs, D'annunzio, Coelho, Woolf, Bronte's sisters, Neruda, Kerouac, Tagore, De Sade, De Quincey, Orwell, Dickinson, Proust, Pasternak, Prevert, Joyce, Hesse, Tagore, Dostoevskij, Gibran, Wilde, Masters, Hikmet, Flaubert, Plath, Merini, Freud, Nietzsche... ..and Mr.Lester Bangs!
I don't believe in "heroes", I believe in people who try to realize their inner humanity, in people who communicate something simple and deep, in people who live like an acrobat that tries to stay in balance on life's crest, I believe in people who are mad..mad for life!