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I love People, knowledge, the world, women who quote Bruno, anything that gives me butterflies.
I'd like to meet Me; I'd like to see if I'm the person I hope I am, or am trying to be. Miles Davis, Gandhi, Lenny Bruce, Salma Hayek, Don Miguel Ruiz, Eckhart Tolle, James Dean, JFK. My mom again. My high school art teacher again.
Miles Davis - all eras, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Mike Stern, Kazumi Watanabe, John Scofield, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Ryuichi Sakamoto(!), Astor Piazzolla, YoYo Ma, David Bowie, Sweetback, EW&F, Isley Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Iggy Pop, Rainbow, Charlie Sexton, Rodney Crowell, Maria McKee, Emmylou Harris, Don Henley, Doyle Bramhall II, Storyville, The Arc Angels, SRV, Disturbed, Korn, Alice in Chains & Sevendust. Bob Holroyd (see video here) plus a whole lotta stuff you've never heard of. Indigenous music and it's history. Tango music kicks ass. Switching gears here: Luis Miguel, Thalia, Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz, Alejandro Fernandez, Luis Fonsi, Sin Bandera, Mana, Jaguares, Pedro Infante, Robi Draco Rosa, Arturo Sandoval, Los Lobos. (I 'splain later ese...)
Favorite Movies: Blade Runner - all 7 versions the version without narration is my favorite), Excalibur - John Boorman as director, Kikujiro, Chungking Express, Une Femme Mariée, Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, JuDou, Gonin, Dolls, Forces of Nature - if you're curious about that selection just ask knowing it's a loaded question without a short answer.
Favorite Directors: Zhang Yimou, Peter Greenaway, Chen Kaige, Atom Egoyan, Beat Takeshi, Robert Altman (RIP), Milos Forman, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar (!), Kryzstof Kieslowski (RIP), Ridley Scott, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Jarmusch, Akira Kurosawa, John Cassavetes, David Lynch & Claude Lelouch. Oh, animated films should not be considered for Oscar nominations; maybe based on technical merit or achievement. By rewarding animation we disrespect those who toil endlessly practicing and preserving the art of theatrical acting.
Like television, I pick the films I see by the directors, writers and subject. One more thing, the medium of film has been denigrated by product placement. If I want to watch commercials, I'll watch network television. Paying to watch commericials disguised as plot elements is the same as wearing brand logos.
TV sucks for the most part. As with filmmaking and music, I generally find myself gravitating towards the more esoteric, subtle forms of media. I don't need explosions, guns and spaceships to keep my attention. "Homicide" was great; but was a little off the scope for most TV viewers. The first season of the X-files was interesting. Austin City Limits, bless them, was awesome. I watch mostly international news broadcasts and lots of foreign channels. I thoroughly enjoy Charlie Rose; I'd like to be a guest on his show someday for whatever reason. If you're a fan of public television; try to support it.
Any book we read is good. Although, "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle and any book by Don Miguel Ruiz is always close at hand - even though I've read them all many times over. A few of my favorite writers: Haruki Murakami, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn (kidding), Salman Rushdie. Don't ask me to quote anything; it was enough of a challenge to complete them out of personal, percieved literary rite of passage. I'm not a huge fiction fan; I like history, rhetorical reading, technical reading (I must be a closet dork) and art history.
Current nightstand book: "Austerlitz" by W.G. Sebald
Anyone who makes their dream come true without leaving love behind.....