Art,in the most general sense.
Vladimir Nabokov.
How long is that piece of string you're holding?In no particular order...Manic Street Preachers('The Holy Bible' is my favourite piece of art),The Smashing Pumpkins,Joy Division,The Cure,At the Drive-in,Belle and Sebastian(up to and including 'If You're Feeling Sinister'),Billy Corgan(the third best show I've ever seen),onelinedrawing and New End Original(Jonah Matranga is a wonderful artist,again in the most general sense.),The Pixies(including the 'inflated' reunion),Kate Bush,Stereolab,Nina Simone,Marilyn Monroe,Marilyn Manson(the best show I've ever seen),Low,Nine Inch Nails(the second best show I've ever seen),The Deftones,Julia thirteen, Interpol,Martin Grech,The Moldy Peaches,The Clash,Arab Strap,Spiritualized,Mercury Rev,Sonic Youth,Jeff Buckley,The Smiths, Dashboard Confessional, Nirvana, OutKast, The Kills, Codeen, Stereo-total, Velvet Underground, Nada Surf, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Fischerspooner,Har Mar Superstar, McLusky, Shellac, System of a Down,The Blue Nile,Shearwater-the list goes on.
I must admit to a lack of knowledge in this category,but I am under close instruction;La Cage aux Folles,It's a Wonderful Life,Breakfast at Tiffany's,Roman Holiday,Ghost World,Julius Caesar(for the double action of the James Mason and the young Marlon Brando),Lolita(Kubrick's is best),Clockwork Orange(For the fact it disturbs me too much to watch it),Edward Scissorhands(glorious technigoth!),Vanilla Sky,Moulin Rouge,Batman Begins,American Beauty,Pirates of the Carribean I and II,Silence of the Lambs,Top Gun,To Kill a Mockingbird(probably the best adaption of book to film),Amelie,24 the movie(not out yet but it will be awesome!),Kalifornia,Splendour,The Wizard of Oz,A Beautiful Mind,A History of Violence,Ghost World,Walk the Line,Superman Returns,Napoleon Dynamite...to be continued,my movie education is ongoing.
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Novels and novellas:'Lolita','Laughter in the Dark' and 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov. 'Ulysses'and 'Finnegans Wake' by James Joyce. 'The Great Gatsby' by F.Scott Fitzgerald. 'Murphy' by Samuel Beckett. 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S.Thomson 'The Reader' by Bernhard Schlink. 'Ella Minnow Pea' and 'Ibid:A life' by Mark Dunn. 'Everything is Illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer 'Novel with Cocaine' by M.Ageyev. 'Intimacy' by Hanif Kureishi. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. 'Down and Out in Paris and London' by George Orwell 'Atomised' and 'Whatever' by Michel Houellebecq. 'The Age of Reason','Iron in the Soul' and 'The Reprieve' by Jean Paul Sartre. 'The Butcher Boy' by Patrick McCabe. 'Where it Stops,Nobody Knows' by Amy Ehrlich. 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' by Mark Haddon. 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl 'The Moviegoer' by Walker Percy 'Lanark' by Alasdair Gray(even if clumsily allegorical) 'U.S.A.' by John Dos PassosShort stories and short story collections:'Dubliners' by James Joyce,in particular 'A Painful Case' and,of course,'The Dead'. 'Goodbye Mother' by Hanif Kureishi. 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' by Jonathan Safran Foer. 'Flights of Love' by Bernhard Schlink.Plays:'Death of a Salesman','The Price','The Last Yankee' by Arthur Miller. 'Twelfth Night','King Lear','Hamlet','Macbeth','Richard II'...by William Shakespeare. 'The Pillowman' by Martin McDonagh. 'Not I', 'Waiting for Godot' and 'Krapp's Last Tape' by Samuel Beckett. 'Exiles' by James Joyce. 'The Beaux-Stratagem' by George Farquhar. 'The American Dream' by Edward Albee.Poems and poetry collections:'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. 'The Price of Everything' by Andrew Motion. 'Eve and Adam'and 'Carluke' by Edwin Morgan 'Don Juan' by Lord Byron 'Tulips' by Sylvia Plath 'Howl' and 'America' by Alan Ginsberg. 'The Second Coming' by W.B.Yeats 'On Cary Frazier' and 'On Mrs.Willis' by The Earl of Rochester.
Those I admire and whose work I find inspiration and hope in include Vladimir Nabokov,James Joyce,Roald Dahl,Edwin Morgan,Arthur Miller,Andy Warhol,Richey Edwards,Hanif Kureishi,Jonathan Safran Foer,Billy Corgan,Audrey Hepburn.