art: writing, film, photography, music, performance, traditional and contemporary. Soccer: both the ugly defensive style and the beautiful passing style. Politics: I see a 4-peat developing ... that's right I just may vote for Nader again (for the fourth time) in 08.
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Ahmad Jamal, Toshinori Kondo, Shirley Horn, Bill Frisell, Friction (as in Reck), Downtown Science (did they ever do a second album post-third base?), Hideo Yamaki, Bobby Darin, Jaques Loussier, Paquito D'Rivera, Toru Takemitsu, MC Solaar, Flora Purim, Jon Faddis, Dizzy Gillespie ("Swing Low Sweet Cadillac"), Philip Glass, Foday Musa Suso, Robert S. Kelley ... and of course Sam Hui (makes those Michael Hui movies even better).
High and Low, The Man Who Would Be King, The Music Box, Wings of Desire, Prodical Son, Treasures of the Sierra Madre, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pedicab Driver, Yojimbo, Johnny Stechino, Chicken and Duck Talk ...
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CURRENTLY: Ironically I am in purgatory when it comes to which book to pick up. I am excited by whatever book I do not have in my hands rigth now. The Irony, I'm in the middle of Dante's Divine Comedy (Purgatory) JUST READ: The Little Sister by P. Marlowe. The books that have "spoken to me" the most: Death Ship by B Traven. Fire on the Mountain, by Edward Abbey. Dante's Divine Comedy.
.. .. Comedy: Pierre Richard, Roberto Bengini, Michael Hui, Peter Sellers, Sid Cesar, Shimura Ken, Gene Wilder, Richard Prior