"Beauty is truth and truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know." ~John Keats
Protect me from what I want. The best work never was and never will be done for money. Action is the real measure of intelligence. There's No Other Place That I Would Rather Be. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on. Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. Love is for Everyone. It's not that they can't see the solution; they can't see the problem. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind. As we advanced in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Nirvana, the Left-Right, Jimmygirl, the Cunninghams, Jesus Headtrip, the Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles, Libertines, Eagles of Death Metal, ORBITAL, QUOTSA, Prince, Jellyfish, Satellite Party, Army of Anyone, Desert Sessions, Buckcherry, Mark Lanegan, the Waterboys, Bap Kennedy, Mudbone, Otis Redding, Charlie Parker, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Steve Earle, Cake, the Panic Channel, the Funk Brothers, Bob Dylan,Richard Ashcroft, the Verve, Pink Floyd, Chili Peppers, Ron Davies, Pulp, Plexi, Francis Albert Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Getz/Gilberto, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Fred Neil, Tim Buckley, Tim Hardin, Damien Rice, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Ennio Morricone, Mott the Hoople, Eric Carmen,Todd Rundgren, Brian Eno, Gram Parsons, Iggy, The Ventures, Snakehandlers, STP, NIN, Nino Rota, Miles Davis, the Killers, Foo Fighters, Mars Volta, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Guns n' Roses, Jeff Buckley, Patsy Cline, Kris Kristofferson, Sonny Boy Williamson, James Burton, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Albert King, B.B. King, Little Walter, Lonnie Mack, Jimmy Reed, Hubert Sumlin, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Bad Brains, Eddie Hazel, Wanda Jackson, Elvis Presley, Peggy Lee, Faith No More, the Beatles, Edith Piaf, Giorgio Moroder, Sabbath, Marvin Gaye, Pearl Jam, Blur, Scissor Sisters, Prodigy, Echobelly,the Black Angels, 8mm, Moving 2 France, Ringside, the Cesars, Razorlight, the Rakes, the Others, JETS OVERHEAD ....
Into the Wild, Reds, In the Valley of Elah,The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Gandhi, Babel, Crash, Fight Club, Shine, Braveheart, The Libertine, Stage Beauty, Miracle in Milan, Once Upon a Time in America, Juliet of the Spirits, The Good Earth, Sex and the Single Girl, Moulin Rouge, This Property is Condemned, A Place in the Sun, Suddenly Last Summer, Lonely are the Brave, Play it as it Lays, Looking for Mr.Goodbar, Pride and Prejudice(1940), The Fugitive Kind, Finding Neverland, Bitter Rice, Berlin Alexanderplatz, La Notte, Naked Kiss, Le Magnifique, Judgement at Nuremberg, Das Boot, L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, Women in Love, Basquiat, The Fire Within, Gilda, Belle Du Jour, Closer, Every Girl Should Marry, The Lady Eve, The Philadelphia Story, Repulsion, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Meet Joe Black, Shampoo, Frances, Being There, Cabaret, Valmont, Marat/Sade, The Devils, Two for the Road, Bad Timing, Breaking Glass, One Deadly Summer, La Cicala, Wifemistress, Turkish Delight, Madame X, Syriana, Traffic, Modesty Blaise, The Italian Job (original), Good Will Hunting, The Governess, Jules et Jim, Velvet Goldmine, Dead Poets Society, Phantom of the Paradise, The Bobo, Casino Royale, I Want to Live!, Capote, Junebug, anything that played on Z Channel and everything: Kubrick, Natalie Wood, Catherine Deneuve, Elia Kaza, Arthur Penn, Susan Hayward, Tuesday Weld, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Warren Oates, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman, Ida Lupino, Nicholas Roeg, Laura Antonelli, Barbara Stanwyck, Sam Peckinpah or Sergio Leone and of course--What the Bleep do we Know?, Bladerunner
Eddie Izzard, Margaret Cho
Summerhill, Less is More, A Hundred Years of Solitude, The Game of Life and How to Play It, Your Word is your Wand, The Secret of Light, The Mastery of Love, The Four Agreements, The Power of Now, The Book of Secrets, The Lion's Roar, The Fantasy Bond, Doing It for Money: The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
Dennis Kucinich, Seven Pearson, Billy Hayden, Jeff Scott, Anthony DeMello, Allen Berger, Florence Skovil Shinn, Billie Jean King, Maud Gonne, Virginia Woolf, Alice Paul, Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, Mary Shelley, Boudicca, Mary Queen of Scot, Pia Mellody, Stanley Kramer,Naomi Wolf, Gregory Peck, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Greer Garson, Tony Wilson, Raul Julia, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gerry Tolman, Maureen Dowd, Helen Mirren, Ninon de l'Enclos, Jessica Lange, Catherine Deneuve