Carnesky's Ghost Train, recording stuff, mixing stuff, languages, chess, listening very very hard. Ernst Degner, the famed East German Defector, who sold the secret of two stroke gas flow technique and exhaust design.
You, of course! Nothing would make me happier and I shan't settle for anything less.
Here are the last ten songs that I listened to today, as if you care. -1- Red Crayola - Transparent Radiatiom -2- Jimmie Strothers - Cripple Creek -3- Prolapse - Pull Thru' Barker -4- The Feelies - Moscow Nights -5- Dock Boggs' 'New Prisoner Song.' -6- Fred Vom Jupiter by Andreas Dorau and the Marinas -7- Genital Panic - Who'se In The Skies -8- Dock Boggs - Sammie Where You Been So Long -9- France Gall - Laissez Tomber Les Filles -10- Ottowan - D.I.S.C.O.
T*O*P T*E*N
(in no special order...)
*1* Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) and/or Gamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
*2* Love Streams (This is the best film in the world! John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands are in this!.'Love is a stream - It's Continous - It doesn't Stop' 'It does stop' says the psychiatrist'No, it does NOT stop' says Gena/Sarah.)
*3* The Others - She murdered them but they love her still! How touching.
*4* Gloria - Gena again, Cassavetes directs.
*5* The Bicycle Theif
*6* Le Corbeau - Clouzot!
*7* Les Enfants Du Paradis
*8* Le Rayon Vert - there are an awful lot of French films in this list but it can't be helped. This one is by Eric Rohmer.
*9* Popiol I Diament - Andrei W
*10* Zerkalo - Andrei T
*11* Orphee - John CocteauOr perhaps La Belle et La Bete. I just dunno. On the one hand I am very very sentimental, on the other I think that Maria Cassares is lovely, so I just don't know.
*11* To Kill a Mocking BirdI also like old John Ford films and, er, I can't think of any more right now. Oh yeah, all films by Kira Muratova. Her films are great.
NO NO this is all wrong. Here is the proper list
badlands
funny games
Gloria
Kaos ***
Love Streams
Midnight Cowboy
Ordet *****
welfare ***apple, the ***
atalante
billy liar
Christiane F
le corbeau OR
diaboliques OR
Les Espions
Il Fiore Delle Mille e Una Notte
Mamma Roma **********
The Loneliness of the Long Distance RunnerMy Dinner With Andre
Noti Di Cabiria, Le *****
Orphee ***
The Others
RashomonScenes From a Marriage ***
Strana Gluxi
A trick question? I can't be fooled so easily!
Willy the Kid annuals one, two and three, by Leo Baxendaleand Moscow Stations by Erofeev. And Pulkina's Grammar too in actual fact.
Eamon Holmes