My Husband and Children, The Moon, The Earth, Trees, Wolves, Crystals, Languages, The Imagination, Butterflies, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Stars, Mysteries, Rennes le Chateau
I'd like to meet:
Goethe, Hafiz, Rumi, Hector Berlioz, Carl Jung, Beethoven, Eugene Delacroix, Michael Palin, Picasso, Matisse, Charles Darwin, Oliver Sacks, Richard Feynman, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, TS Eliot, ee cummings, Nick Cave, Wim Wenders and Donata Wenders, Tori Amos, David Byrne, O Henry, George Bernard Shaw, Jimmy Stewart
I would also love to hear from other parents about their child's first words.
Music:
Nick Cave, The White Stripes, Tori Amos, Gary Numan, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Interpol, The Editors, The Capes, Bjork, Eva Cassidy, Harry Chapin, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Loreena McKennitt, Damien Rice, Eric Burdon and the Animals, The Sisters of Mercy, The Damned, Green Day, Bloc Party, Counting Crows, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, The Velvet Underground, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Goldfrapp, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Quakes, Doombuggy, Chris Cornell, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, The Cure, Nat King Cole, Jacques Brel, Louise Attaque, Louis Armstrong, Queen, Brahms, Berlioz, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, Shubert, Smetana
Movies:
Wings of Desire, Rouge, Cinema Paradiso, Memento, The Others, Strange Cargo, Il Postino, Sophie's Choice, To Kill a Mockingbird, The World the Flesh and the Devil, Gaslight, Spellbound, Rebecca, The Madness of King George, Withnail and I, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Etre et Avoir, Tussenland, The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky, The Straight Story,
Television:
The Mighty Boosh; Seinfeld; Dead Like Me; South Park (yes, they do go too far sometimes, but they are imaginative and very funny), SCTVWe don't let the girls watch much television but we do let them see Noddy and we all love Jane and the Dragon. Lately, they have also been watching Titch, and they have been utterly rapt by this little boy. They like the piano music on Titch as well.
Books:
Faust by Goethe; Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann; The History of Love by Nicole Krauss; The Moon - Myth and Image, by Jules Cashford; Bogg by Andrew Attias; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke; The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave; Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail by Christopher Dawes; Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes; Made in America by Bill Bryson; The Myth of the Goddess by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford; The Margaret Days by Elizabeth Avery; Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilisation by Graham Hancock and Santha Faiia; The Furnished Room and Other Short Stories by O Henry; The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz; The Journal of Eugene Delacroix; Piece by Piece by Tori Amos and Ann Powers
Children's Books: The Magic Horse by Sally Scott; The Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle, Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson; Fairy Tales by ee cummings; Moonbird by Jane Ray; Sophie's Masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli and Jane Dyer; Jane and the Dragon by Martin Baynton
Heroes:
Goethe, Rilke, TS Eliot, Carl Jung, Jules Cashford, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Hector Berlioz, Beethoven, Hafiz, Rumi, Richard Feynman, John Waterhouse, Eugene Delacroix
