I love my job too much. Work is my life! But work consists of watching films; traveling to different festivals; and meeting fascinating artists/filmmakers/musicians. So it's not that bad.
Musicians. They are the poets of today and they really turn me on!
Kathy Compton, Issa Light, Jane Siberry, Kirsty MacColl, Mark Nevin, Eddi Reader, Josh Rouse, Julia Fordham, Roddy Frame, Alison Moyet, Perry Blake, Anneli Drecker, Gavin Friday, Claudia Brucken, Damien Rice, Erin McKeown, Feist, Seal, Bjork, Bic Runga, Bel Canto, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Everything but the Girl, Frou Frou, Prefab Sprout, Panda Transport, The Sundays.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and other Tim Burton movies); Lord of the Rings (and other Peter Jackson movies); The Cook the thief his wife and her lover (and other Peter Greenaway movies); Palindromes (and other Todd Solondz movies); The Hanging Garden (and other Thom Fitzgerald movies); Exotica (and other Atom Egoyan movies); Double Indemnity; Some Like It Hot (all Billy Wilder movies); Mulholland Drive (and other David Lynch movies); Human Error; The Savages; In Memory of My Father; Angels and Insects; Death Becomes Her; Little Children; Election; Heathers; Persepolis;
The Simpsons, Nip/Tuck, Absolutely Fabulous, Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Dream On, Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Moonlighting, 24 (only the first season, then it got too unbelieveably stupid), So You Thing You Can Dance and American Idol (I watch these to observe the fine art of giving criticism and to hone my talent scouting skills). I despise Six Feet Under, the most over-rated show which has managed to pull the wool over so many people's eyes while ripping off and repackaging cliche soap opera storylines that were explored so much better in Knots Landing.
The complete works of Roald Dahl, The fabulous cultural/political/travel books of Melissa Rossi; the ingenius satire of Tom Sharpe, the brilliant sociological critiques of Malcolm Gladwell; The Phantom Tollbooth (by Justin Norton); Corrections (by Jonathan Franzen); Corelli's Mandolin (by Louis de Bernieres); Memoirs of a Geisha (by Arthur Golden); House of the Spirits (by Isabel Allende); Stones From the River (by Ursula Hegi); The Westing Game (by Ellen Raskin)
Melissa Rossi, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, George Clooney, Barbara Streisand, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Sondheim, Glenda Jackson, Gregory Peck, Elijah Wood, Thom Fitzgerald, Bill Condon, Bono