"As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust but poetry and songs. No one can remember an entire novel. No one can describe a film, a piece of sculpture, a painting, but so long as there are human beings, songs and poetry can continue." Jim Morrison.
Writers, poets and creative people engaged in positive expressions of self/identity/universe. And the not-so-serious, too.
"One good thing about music/when it hits/you feel no pain. So hit me with music." Bob Marley.Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Cyndi Lauper, Dido, Gary Jules, K-os, Feist, Lhasa, The Doors, John Lennon, Alicia Keys, Toronto Tabla Ensemble, Ani DiFranco, The Beatles, Mary J. Blige, Sade, Norah Jones, India.Arie, Joan Armatrading, Janis Joplin, Morcheeba, Bessie Smith, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Tina Turner, Joss Stone, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Joan Jett, Blondie. Calypso, Reggae, Steelband, Blues.
"Films have an illusion of timelessness fostered by their regular, indomitable appearance." Jim Morrison.My Life as a Dog; Fire, Earth, Water (Deepa Mehta's trilogy); Frida; Donnie Darko; The Fountain; Being John Malkovich; Raise the Red Lantern; Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte; Marie Antoinette; Leon, The Professional; Immortal Beloved; Salaam Bombay; Silences of the Palace; Girl Fight; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Elizabeth; Planet of the Apes; Logan's Run; The Doors; Gattaca; Letters from Brezhnev; The Hours; Pink Floyd's The Wall; Das Boot; Muriel's Wedding; Far From Heaven; Maryam; The Color Purple.
I like it!
"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you." Jim Morrison.Fiction: Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys; Smile, Please, Jean Rhys; Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys; A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul; Miguel Street, V.S. Naipaul; Dragon Can't Dance, Earl Lovelace; Jamacia Kincaid, A Small Place and Autobiography of My Mother; Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe; Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself, Harriet Jacobs; Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison; The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri; The Outsider, Albert Camus; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey; Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston; Brick Lane, Monica Ali; Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison; Passing, Nella Larsen; A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry.Poetry: Jim Morrison, Sylvia Plath, LeRoy Clarke, Evelyn Lau, Martin Carter, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, Pamela Mordecai, Olive Senior, Derek Walcott, Pablo Neruda.
Those who fought/fight for peace, justice, truth and freedom. Strong women, everywhere.