Art and Music, films, webisodes - especially jamiesway.com, some trips to the race track to bet the jockeys at Pimlico, Portrait and Figure Painting, I've enjoyed painting musicians and belly dancers.
I'd like to meet:
Lucien Freud, Odds Nerdrum (again), Joe Giordano, Churchill Davenport, Michael Economos, the owner of Little Shop of Hardware, mandolin players, Mike Witmer, Garrison Keeler, Gilian Welch, Iris Dement, David Grisman, Katherine Keener, Laura Dern, Art Collectors, portrait painters who are into the perceptual process, Rosie Napravnik (jockey), King of Yang on Jamies Way,
Music:
roots music, country acoustic, Woody Guthrie, and old Italian folk music, Italian Opera, pop music of the 40's, especially the standards that work so well in jazz, Jango Reinhardt, Gillian Welch and Iris Dement, Roy Orbison, Dave Brubeck, Cannonball Adderly, Jerry Garcia
Movies:
Prairie Home Companion, The Squid and the Whale, Memoirs of a Geisha, Balzac and the Little Seamstress, Lord of the Ring series, Narnia, last Harry Potter, Frieda (enjoyable and colorful movie about Frieda Kahlo with Selma Hyatt), How Green was my Valley, the first King Kong, Disney's Snow White, Coal Minor's Daughter
Television:
The Wire, Boston Legal, Gray's Anatomy, Orioles baseball, Ravens Football, Six Feet Under,E, Comedy Channel, Ted Turner Classics, Maryland Public Television, Soundstage
Books:
James Joyce, Portrait of a Young Artist, Ulysses, Bob Dylan's Autobiography, Magic Mountain, and all other novels by Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, Nania series, Tolkean Lord of the Rings etc, Felix Salton, Vincent Van Gogh's letters to Theo, Hans Hoffman, "The Search for the Real", Marcel Proust, "Remembrance of ... Past"
Heroes:
Joe Di Maggio, Thomas Merton, Al Franken; Mary Cassatt, Alice Neel, Sidney Delevante, Nicolas Marscicano (painters), Garrison Keeler, Lucien Freud, Willem De Kooning, Mike Witmer, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Churchill Davenport, Salvatore Moscatt
