anything artistic and creative and difficult to succeed at, my parents regret teaching me to always choose the road less travelled! of course i'm into music and hiking and walking on the beach with my dogs, movies on a rainy day... you know the shhpill
tarantino... and some cool people too i guess...
i'm pretty much open to anything as long as it's good. if i start the list i'll be up all night and then i'll have to call people in the middle of the night asking for the name of that obscure band who's song i love so much... but here's a few: Frankie, Aretha, Stones, Beatles, Zeppeling, Janis, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Benetar, Blondie, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Louis Armstrong, Al Green, Cure, Jane's Addiction, U2, Radiohead, Bjork, Morphine, Massive Attack, Morchiba, Portishead, Lazy Dog, Deep Dish, Dig Weed, Outkast, Erykah Badu, Finley Quaye, Fela Kuti, The Fugees, Jamiroquai, Buena Vista Social Club.... so much more though! guilty pleasure: old school Duran Duran!
here's another one i can't really face right now... i'll just mention my favorite movie of all time, any category, overall: "breakfast at tiffany's", possibly followed by "a streetcar..." -see here i go- i don't know, i'm still pondering about second place... ok, here's a short list, 2 for each cathegory: horror: "shining", "texas chainsaw" (of course the original!)- musical: "southpark", "chicago"- animation: "the incredibles", "team america" (i guess you can call that animation!)- comedy: "zoolander", "airplane!" (maybe because i just saw it, but even 20 years later it's still funny!)- drama, all time: "a streetcar named desire", "on the waterfront", "casablanca".... (hard to keep this list short!)- drama, present: "ray", "crash" (not a perfect movie though), "million $$ baby"- romantic comedy: "when harry met sally", "breakfast at tiffany's" (also the most perfect movie EVER made, my over all ..1)- tear jerker: "elephant man", "eternal sunshine" (a very perfect movie)- fantasy: "harry potter" (i just loove the books!, the 3rd movie is the best so far), "labirint"- action: "kill bill" the first especially, "la femme nikita" (the french one)- foreign: "mediterraneo", "il piccolo diavolo" (benigni at his best), "8 1/2", "il postino", "amelie" (one of the best movies ever made), "city of lost children"... (so many more!)- great movies that are hard to watch: "clockwork orange", "dancer in the dark"- movies that inspire me to be in the movie making business: all mentined, but above all "pulpfiction" the most innovative movie of all times followed by "irreversable" (talking about revolutionazing the way movies are shot!, too bad i have no desire to ever see this movie again...EVER!, anyone should experience the ride once, just do it on an empty stomach), any tarantino's product, any coen brothers' film, "far from heaven", "chinasindrome", kaufman writing, "sophie's choice", "donnie darko", "goodfellas", "taxy driver", "the professional", "crouching tiger", "american beauty", "fight club" and so many more.....
also a big one for me, but i'll mention a few recent reads: "will there really be morning", frances farmer autobiography. i was reading it just to do some research for a play i'm in, but i have to admit, it's a really intense read, the writing takes you through a sometimes devastating emotional ride in a very fluid manner and i always love a book that makes me sob at the end. "harry potter", on my 4th. harry has been in my life for quite sometime, but i took breaks, love reading it when i walk my dogs. "the curious accident of the dog and the night", or "in the night"... anyway, i highly recommend it if you love corkiness and british humor, i think that makes sense. "perfume", not finished. it's rare that i don't read a book 'till the end even if i can't wait to get to it... "this body", chicks flick. a sublime guilty pleasure... no, it's not romance! "le belle jar", self-indulgent, but the writing is just beautiful. "the center of everything", quick and enjoyable. some kafka, not what you read under a tree or before you fall asleep. "the alchemist", got to do it at least biannually. "the book of laughter and forgetting", kundera proved me wrong with this one. "beloved", i love tony morrison and this book will not let you walk away or fall asleep! a few more favorites: "papillon", "jazz" (morrison again), "neverwhere", "the van", "orlando" (got to have some virginia woolf), "bridges of medison county", " trinity fields", "a conspiracy of hope", "memoires of a geisha", "even cowgirls get the blues", "the mole people".... and of course most shakespeare ( i'm not the biggest fan of his political/war plays) and the best book ever written, EVER: "inferno" from the "divine comedy" by dante alighieri, if you haven't read it you're missing out on the most clever piece of literature.
my mother