Music, dancing, drumming, theatre, dogs (mine especially), cats (my dogs's cats in particular), architecture, Red Sox, watching Nadal beat Federer, making people look gorgeous and, of course, all those lovely effects-- scars, bullet holes, beards, aging, bald, penetrating spear wounds, blisters...And why isn't there a place here for favorite artists? Mine--Dali, Magritte, Bonnard, Erte, Dufy, Chagall, Chagall, Chagall, Monet (not the irritating flowers--his Houses of Parliament is awesome but doesn't get attention), Gorey, Calder (LOTS of Calder), some of Kandinsky, Matisse's rose window in Union Church in Pocantico Hills...
Julie Taymor, Simon Rattle, Tom Twyker, Tommy Hayes, a whole bunch of other people...Music for the film "Pain and Sorrow" (the trailer below) composed and performed by Andre Danek
Andre Danek--a very sweet and sexy guy I love who has a stunningly beautiful voice, and is also a brilliant musician and an awesome producer; Arlo; Pete; Mozart--I wrote my thesis to Requiem...; Steve Reich; Kate Bush; Peter Gabriel; Louis; Ella; Duke; Dizzie; Bird; Thelonius; ..., JS Bach (especially WCW's); plainsong; Marvin Gaye; Altan; Silly Wizard; Joshua Nelson and the Kosher Gospel Singers; Mahaliah; Cat Stevens; Boriya; Ennio Morricone; Nino Rota; The Clash; David Broza; Paul Simon (with and without Ladysmith Black Mambazo); Mussorgsky; Verdi; Vivaldi; Holst; Chopin; niggunim; Chichester Psalms (Bernstein)...
Run Lola Run, Branagh's Henry V, Othello (Fishburne and Branagh), Au Revoir les Enfants, Wit, Dogma (THE funniest theological film--the ONLY pop theological film ever made), The Bourne Identity, Spy Game, Snatch, Harold and Maude, Kelly's Heroes, anything with Denzel (American Gangster is incredible), Michael Caine, Sean Connery (especially Robin and Marion), Mr and Mrs Smith, Ocean's 11-13...
Spooks, Law and Order (LOVE those UTS scenes!)
The Once and Future King, Yehudah Amichai's poetry, Abba Kovner's poetry, Gus Edwards' plays, August Wilson's plays, Bill Bryson, Douglas Adams, Philip Pullman, Thomas Merton, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Alice Thomas Ellis, Alice Hoffman, Sarah Caudwell, The Phantom Tollbooth, Dick Francis...
Bridget Noujaim, Maryam Namazie, Nelson Mandela, Delores Williams, Larry Rasmussen, Robin Scroggs (z"l), James Alverson, Gus Edwards, Magill (z"l), Ben Vereen, Dr King, Daniel Berrigan, Jan Baker, Molly Ivins (z"l), Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola (Pico), the karma army