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Reading and writing (the two activities are really inseparable); history, politics, and activism, esp. in the areas of queer rights, poverty vs. plutocracy, separation of church and state, racism, sexism, militarism, commercialism, and opposition to consolidation of the media in fewer and fewer hands; skating (all kinds, but also watching women's roller derby); anything related to autumn; my niece and nephew; dancing, dancing, dancing; being something of a hermit half the time; ice cream/frozen yogurt; book stores (new and used, but esp. used!); long walks; good and respectful conversation/debate/artistic criticism; ultimately leaving things better than when found.BUTOH (This is the 3rd part of 3 of a Japanese performance. The 1st two parts can be found on YouTube.) Be sure to turn up the volume so you can hear the music.'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,' Says General
In the Know: The Widening Gap Between America's Rich And Super-Rich
... anyone with a brain and a heart. That means a WORKING brain and heart!... progressives (esp. LGBTQ folks and their allies).... so-called weirdos and freaks and aliens.... my expectations.... anyone associated with Byng High School in Ada, Oklahoma, esp. if LGBTQ.... writers and artists of all media, genres, etc.... Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp. Bill Viola, Jacques Ranciere, Vandana Shiva, Thom Yorke, Laurie Anderson, Rem Koolhaas, David Lynch, Yoko Ono, Derrick Bell, P. J. Harvey, Tsubaki Noboru, Terry Winters, Amartya Sen, Ron Silliman, Roberto Calasso, Salman Rushdie, Dave Chapelle, Frank Black, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bruce La Bruce, John Yoo (so I could give him a major piece of my mind), Keith Hamilton Cobb, Larry Kramer, Leos Carax, Dick Gregory....SYLVIE GUILLEM IN "WET WOMAN":TOM WAITS:BJORK THE INESTIMABLE:THE B-52'S:CODY CRITCHELOE AND FRIENDS:DANIIL SIMKIN (in one of the two performances that earned him the gold medal in his division):
White Stripes, Pixies/Frank Black/Breeders, Chopin, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Nina Simone, Madonna, Sonic Youth, Pavement/Stephen Malkmus, Poulenc, Schubert (esp. lieder), Patti Smith, Television, Marc McBarron Kessler, Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee, P. J. Harvey, Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Williams Sr., Modern Lovers/Johnathan Richman, Broadcast, Low, Depeche Mode, Son Volt, Beethoven, Satie, Jimmy Driftwood, Tom Waits, B-52's, U2, XTC, Coldplay, Adam and the Ants/Adam Ant, Bootsy Collins, Puccini (esp. Turandot), Woody Guthrie, Straitjacket Fits, Gang of Four, Mozart, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Talking Heads, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Mahler, Sugarcubes/Bjork, Weezers/Rentals, Sebadoh/Folk Implosion, Magnetic Fields/FBH/etc., Messiaen, Incubus, Imperial Teen, Captain Beefheart, Roxy Music/Brian Eno/Brian Ferry, Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, Bee Gees, Beatles, Stooges/Iggy Pop, ABBA, Beatnik Filmstars, Johnny Cash, Ronnie Milsap, Kronos Quartet, Jimi Hendrix, Dolly Parton, Basement Jaxx, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat/Communards, Coldplay, CocoRosie, Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices, Dixie Chicks, Steve Reich, EBTG, TMBG, TSOOL, Joanna Newsom, Outkast (at least Andre 3000!), Phillip Glass, Neil Young, Brahms, Peter Gabriel, Panic!, Simon and Garfunkel, Weavers/Pete Seeger, Odetta, Eurhythmics/Annie Lennox, Tori Amos, Morcheeba, Queen, David Bowie, Cornelius, Ulfuls, Christina Aguilera....
I don't really watch too many movies any more, so many of these listings (I have only the directors semi-completed) might be different were I to catch up on the past ten years or so of film. Favorite directors (not necessarily in this order): David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, Leos Carax, Terry Gilliam, Theo Angelopoulos, Alain Resnais, Bruce La Bruce, Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz, Joseph Losey, Nic Roeg, the Brothers Quay, Gillo Pontecorvo, Bernardo Bertolucci, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Luis Bunuel, Jerzy Skolomowski, Jane Campion, John Ford, Abbas Kiarostomi, Claude Chabrol, Peter Greenaway, Francois Ozon, Stan Brakhage, Ross McElwee, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Altman, Frederick Wiseman, Kurosawa Akira, Imamura Shohei, Wong Kar-wai....
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Favorite/best movies (the top 10 are pretty much set in terms of order):
1. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
2. Sans Soleil (Marker)
3. Performance (Cammell/Roeg)
4. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
5. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
6. Touch of Evil (Welles)
7. Blow-Up (Antonioni)
8. Persona (Bergman)
9. La Truite (Losey)
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
11. Beautiful Thing (MacDonald)
12. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
13. My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant)
14. 3 Women (Altman)
15. Heathers (Lehmann)
16. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
17. Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder)
18. Duck Soup (McCarey)
19. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais)
20. Mauvais Sang (Carax)
21. Raspberry Reich (LaBruce)
22. Suture (McGehee/Siegel)
23. Accident (Losey)
24. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
25. Citizen Kane (Welles)
26. The Belly of an Architect (Greenaway)
27. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
28. L'Age D'Or/Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)
29. Husbands (Cassavetes)
30a. Crime Wave a.k.a. The Big Crime Wave (Paizs)
30b. Forbidden Planet (F. M. Wilcox)
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich)
Sleeper (Allen)
La Ley del Deseo (Almodovar)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
Nashville (Altman)
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
L'Eclisse (Antonioni)
Nowhere (Araki)
Pixote (Babenco)
But I'm a Cheerleader (Babbit)
Reds (Beatty)
Several films, mostly shorts (Brakhage)
Works (Brothers Quay)
El (Bunuel)
Ensayo de un Crimen (Bunuel)
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)
Los Olvidados (Bunuel)
Nazarin (Bunuel)
The Piano (Campion)
Short Films (Campion)
Sweetie (Campion)
Shadows (Cassavetes)
Together Alone (Castellaneta)
La Rupture (Chabrol)
The Big Lebowski (Coen)
Repo Man (Cox)
The Brood (Cronenberg)
eXistenZ (Cronenberg)
Auntie Mame (M. DaCosta)
Point of Order (De Antonio)--uncut version
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Unforgiven (Eastwood)
The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
Ivan the Terrible I and II (Eisenstein)
Que Viva Mexico (Eisenstein)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (S. Elliott)
Katzelmacher (Fassbinder)
Satan's Brew (Fassbinder) 8 1/2 (Fellini)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
The Searchers (Ford)
7 Days in May (Frankenheimer)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, Frankenheimer)
Seconds (Frankenheimer)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, Garnett)
Brazil (Gilliam)
12 Monkeys (Gilliam)
Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Vivre sa vie (Godard)
Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway)
Short Films (Greenaway)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Hallstrom)
Daratt (Haroun)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
Far from Heaven (Haynes)
Safe (Haynes)
Velvet Goldmine (Haynes)
The Birds (Hitchcock)
River's Edge (T. Hunter)
Dead Alive (P. Jackson) a.k.a. Brain Dead
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Where Is the Friend's House? (Kiarostami)
Blue (Kieslowski)
Wonderful Life (Koreeda) a.k.a. After Life OR Beautiful Life
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
Super 8 1/2 (LaBruce)
Brokeback Mountain (A. Lee)
Bamboozled (S. Lee)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy)
A Hard Day's Night (Lester)
12 Angry Men (Lumet)
Network (Lumet)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Short Films (Lynch)
La Jetee (Marker)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (J. C. Mitchell)
Okoge (Nakajima)
Cube (Natali)
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
Alice's Restaurant (Penn)
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)
Chinatown (Polanski)
Cul-de-sac (Polanski)
Repulsion (Polanski)
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski)
The Tenant (Polanski)
Works (Brothers Quay)
2 Daughters (S. Ray)
The Third Man (Reed)
Hud (Ritt)
Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (Roeg)
Eureka (Roeg)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg)
Flatliners (Schumacher)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)
Blade Runner (R. Scott)--studio version!
Boyz N the Hood (Singleton)
Different for Girls (R. Spence)
In the White City (Tanner)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Wild Reeds (Techine)
Gilda (C. Vidor)
Hairspray (Waters)--not the musical
The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
Wings of Desire (Wenders)
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Below is the 1st part of 3 of LA JETEE by Chris Marker, the inspiration for the movie 12 MONKEYS. The rest can be found on YouTube:
Regularly (but often online): Lost, Frontline/Frontline World, Bill Moyers' Journal, Democracy Now, Mosaic, SNL, Family Guy. Occasionally: The Simpsons, POV, Independent Lens, In the Life, Great Performances, American Dad, How I Met Your Mother. Also RADIO: independent, local, broadcast via Internet, student, progressive. Also INDEPENDENT MEDIA outlets of various kinds, such as www.commondreams.org, and magazines like New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Harper's, Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Black Issues Book Review, etc.
Favorite authors: Herman Melville, Laurence Sterne, Virginia Woolf, Peter Sloterdijk, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Heine, Robert Musil, Robert Walser, Hermann Broch, Tom Robbins, Julio Cortazar, Thylias Moss, Oliver Sacks, Derrick Bell, Hafiz, Rumi, Johnathan Crary, Richard Sennett, Thomas Frank, John Dewey, George Santayana, Fazil Husnu Daglarca, Avraham Sutzkever, Carson McCullers, Jim Grimsley, George Chauncey, Thomas Paine, Richard Rorty, Susan Griffin, Mike Davis, Dick Gregory, John Gage, Richard Hofstadter, Barbara Tuchman, Nicholas Lemann, Hakim Bey, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Mark Levine, James Wagner, Nizar Qabbani, Michael Eric Dyson, Tomas Transtromer, Paavo Haavikko, Edith Sodergran, Denise Levertov, Melvin Tolson, Etheridge Knight, Howard Zinn, Adrienne Rich, Barbara Guest, E. A. Poe, R. W. Emerson, Marshall McLuhan, Patrick White, Elfriede Jelinek, Arthur Schnitzler, Andre Gide, Honore de Balzac, Marguerite Yourcenar, Soseki Natsume, Tu Fu, Kawabata Yasunari, Oe Kenzaburo, Mishima Yukio, Walt Whitman, W. C. Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Woody Guthrie, Vasko Popa, Albert Camus, Frank O'Hara, Martial, Plato, Ovid, Albert Goldbarth, David Sedaris, Kenneth Rexroth, Margaret Atwood, Cesar Vallejo, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, B. Traven, Friedrich Nietzsche, Manuel de Landa, Harold Pinter, T. W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Martin Jay, Max Horkheimer, Camille Paglia, Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Isaiah Berlin, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Nozick, Lautreamont, Charles Maturin, Paul Hawken, Witold Gombrowicz, Eugenio Montale, John Ralston Saul, Cesare Pavese, W. S. Merwin, Alice Fulton, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Salter, Robert W. McChesney, Edward Said, Dilip Hiro, Noam Chomsky, David Cay Johnston, John Dean, William Greider, Paul Ormerod, David Lakoff, Lilian Faderman, Carl Schorske, Malcolm X, MLK, Nikolai Gogol, Marina Tsvetaeva, Stephen J. Gould, Richard Lewontin, Anthony Heilbut, Langston Hughes, Greil Marcus, Richard Wright, Helene Johnston, Avital Ronell, Lawrence Rickels, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Thomas Karr Richards, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, John Varley, Bruce Sterling, J. G. Ballard, Romain Gary, Mary Gaitskill, Madison Smartt Bell, Alice Munro, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Naomi Klein, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Edwin Denby, E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Paul Buhle, Rita Felski, Adam Phillips, D. W. Winnicott, Deleuze and Guattari, Susan Faludi, Naomi Wolf, Robert Creeley, Nancy Mairs, Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Taguchi Inuo, Stephen Crane, Bertrand Russell, Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Charles Darwin, Dominique Lecourt, Dominique Laporte, Bruce Chatwin, Aime Cesaire, Albion Tourgee, Edmund Wilson, Fanny Howe, Henri Michaux, Chalmers Johnson, Charles Brockden Brown, E. M. Forster, Eleni Sikelianos, Ron Silliman, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Roberto Calasso, Donald Barthelme, Nathaniel Hawthorne.... Just because I read them doesn't mean I agree with them all, part, or even a bit of the time. And just because I have them listed here doesn't mean I've read absolutely everything by them---yet!
Heroes? Not sure. But here are some people I admire: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Margaret Sanger, Malcolm X, MLK, Medgar Evers, Peter Kropotkin, Magnus Hirschfeld, Harvey Milk, Harry Hay, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Albion Tourgee, József Attila, Joseph Cornell, Terry Winters, Nina Simone, Herman Melville, Gabriela Mistral, Groucho Marx (and the rest of the Marx Bros.), John Howard Griffin, Amy Sedaris, Vaclav Havel, Robert Owen, Clarence Darrow, Bayard Rustin, Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, Frank Kameny, Cesar Chavez, Billie Holiday, Leonardo, Galileo, Tu Fu, Martial, Billy Strayhorn, E. F. Schumacher, Francis Moore Lappe, Helen Caldicott, Helen Keller, Renee Richards, Thomas Paine, Virginia Woolf, Gandhi, Alan Turing, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Will Rogers, B. Traven, Frank Black/Black Francis, Oscar Wilde, Dick Gregory, Andre Gide, Bill Moyers, Edward R. Murrow, Kusama Yayoi, Max Ernst, Rosalind Franklin, Welborn Hope, Johnathan Kozol, Howard Zinn, Thomas Mann, Daniel Ellsberg, Bertrand Russell, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Schiller, James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eugene Debs, Upton Sinclair, John Lennon and Yoko Ono (separate or together), Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR, Eleanor Wight, Kenneth Rexroth, Woody Guthrie, Karen Silkwood, Emma Goldman, Primo Levi, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Angela Davis, Paul Wellstone, J. William Fulbright, Russ Feingold, Gaylord Nelson, Dorothy Day, Patrice Lumumba, Sir Roger Casement, Subcomandante Marcos, Nelson Mandela, Stephen Biko, Ken Saro-Wiwa.NO, I'M NOT HIV+, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WOULDN'T DATE YOU IF YOU WERE!