Reading, music, cooking, writing, and films.
I'd like to meet:
Jesus!!!, George Orwell !!, Noam Chomsky!, Thomas Paine!, Karl Marx!, Soren Kierkegaard!, Dietrich Boenhoeffer, Leon Trotsky, Gore Vidal, Charles Darwin, C.S. Lewis, Paul Tillich, Che Guevara, Slavoj Zizek, Norman Mailer, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Willy Wonka, Christopher Hitchens, Eric Alterman, Franz Kafka, John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, David Hume, Edmund Wilson, Adam Smith, Thom Yorke, Jean-Benoit Dunckel, Nicholas Godin, Andre Gide, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Jan Van Eyck, Hieronymous Bosch, Michelangelo, Julius Caesar, Andre Malroux, Ellen Glasgow, Kate Chopin, Tom Wolfe, Bhuddha, Herodotus, Socrates, Thales of Miletus...
Music:
Miles Davis, Ravi Shankar, Johann Bach, Frederich Chopin, John Coltrane, Elbow, Samuel Barber, Radiohead, Air, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips, Beta Band (though one-dimensional), Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley, Dj Shadow, Wilco, Dismemberment Plan, Bjork (for her temerity) Sonic Youth, Loose Fur, The Beatles, Beck, Pink Floyd, Damien Rice, The Cure, Mellow, Andres Segovia, Weather Report, Charles Mingus, Keith Jarrett, Frog Eyes, Damien Rice, Kings of Convenience......
Movies:
Anything by Charlie Chaplin (Almost), Anything by Akira Kurosawa, Anything by Luis Bunuel, Anything by Henri-Georges Cluozot, Anything by Ingmar Bergman, Anything by Alfred Hitchkock, Anything by Federico Fellini (FeFe), Bruce Lee movies, Jen Godard as director (the French new wave is a little over-hyped), American Psycho, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Lolita, Kung Pow!, The Dreamers, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Piano, The Piano Teacher, The Pianist, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and... Spring, Diary of a Country Priest, The Marriage of Maria Braun, I will name more and more in time...
Television:
The Simpsons, Portrait of a Marriage (which is not American, it is from director Ingmar Bergman- Netflix DVD), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
Books:
Das Kapital by Karl Marx, The Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky, 1984 and Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek, Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Works of love and Purity of HEart is to Will One Thing by Soren Kierkegaard, The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Gullivers Travels by Johnathan Swift, Paradise Lost and Areopygytyca by John Milton, The Trials of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens, The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and others...
Heroes:
Jesus, George Orwell, Voltaire, Diderot, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Franz Kafka, Martin Heidegger, Georges Santayana, and many, many more...
