History, music, movies, poetry, travelling.
Many of them aren't among us anymore. And I had so much to ask them about.
Monteverdi, Purcell, Paganini, Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Alban Berg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Robert Johnson, Beatles, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Laura Nyro, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen.
Repulsion, Death in Venice, Who's afraid of the Virginia Wolf, The American Friend (the Wim Wenders version), 2001, Five Easy Pieces, A Clockwork Orange, The Conversation, One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Taking Off, Dr. Zhivago, Freaks, M, Requiem for a Dream, Cries and Whispers, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Dr. Strangelove, Amarcord, A Woman under the Influence, 8.5, Sunset Boulevard, Gilda, Nosferatu (the Murnau version), 21 Grains, Happiness, Blow-Up, Ivan Rubljov, Grizzly Man, The Blue Angel, The Battle of Algiers.
Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Life on Mars, Tell me you love me
Poetry by John Donne, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Allen Ginsberg. Prose by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, August Strindberg, Anatole France, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Truman Capote, Orhan Pamuk. Plays by Euripides, Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Racine, Schiller, Ibsen, Strindberg, Beckett, O'Neill, Williams, Albee.
Have now at last realized that if there are any heroes, it is those who dare to defend "weaker" people, even if they risk their life and freedom. But don't forget Charlie Brown, David Copperfield, Aljosha Karamazow, Svejk and Mr Chips.