music, cinema, literature, theatre, sports(swimming, swimming, always swimming, often jogging, sometimes tennis and skating), sea, Etna, concerts, sarcasm, ridiculous, mockery, yoga, meditation, medieval history, cooking, Sicily, paintings, drinking white russian, wine, caffeine addiction, taking pictures around, castles, travelling, history of art, foreign languages, satire, confusing cats, dark humour, talking nonsense, blowing bubbles, the 80s, I love grotesque and absurdities..
TOO MUCH!!AT THE MOMENT:DAVID LYNCH, MARC BLOCH, ROBERT SMITH, NICK DRAKE, MY GRANDPARENTS, GOETHE, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, MARLON BRANDO (as Vito Corleone or Kurz!!), STEVE BUSCEMI,OSCAR WILDE, KYLE MCLAGHLAN, THE MONTY PYTHON (all of them, especially Michael Palin e Terry Gilliam), INGMAR BERGMAN, THE KILLER RABBIT (from Monty Python and the Holy Grail), ENRICO IV, JOHN GOODMAN, CRISPIN GLOVER, G.GABER, MARTIN LUTERO, LOU REED, DYLAN THOMAS, SHREK, LIV ULMANN, HARRY DEAN STANTON, JENNIFER CONNELLY, ERIC BANA (ehm ehm), JEFF BRIDGES, ROBERT DOWNEY JR., JOHN MALKOVICH, MASSIMO TROISI, HOMER SIMPSON, GIAN MARIA VOLONTE', PAZIENZA, NANNI MORETTI, GENE WILDER, BERTINOTTI, JULEE CRUISE, TRENT REZNOR, ENRICO FIABESCHI (in PAZ!), MARK SANDMAN, JACK NANCE, KIM KI DUK, JIM CARREY, ROD STEWART (to kick his ass!), WALTER MATTHAU E JACK LEMMON (together), MARTY FELDMAN, MARIOTTIDE, M. BROOKS, A.BADALAMENTI, TINA PICA..CURRENT MOON lunar phases
THE CURE, AIR, NICK DRAKE, APHEX TWIN, RADIO DEPT.,
BLONDE REDHEAD, PIANO MAGIC, AU REVOIR SIMONE, DAVID BOWIE, MOGWAI, 65 DAYS OF STATIC, RACHEL'S, MASSIVE ATTACK, DAVID SYLVIAN, DEPECHE MODE, JULEE CRUISE, NINE INCH NAILS, BOARDS OF CANADA, EELS, COCTEAU TWINS, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, NICK CAVE, PIXIES, P.J.HARVEY, ENO, TINDESTICK, C.C.C.P., C.S.I., A SILVER MT ZION, ARCADE FIRE, JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY, TORI AMOS, EINSTUERZENDE NEUBAUTEN, RAMMSTEIN, PLACEBO, ARCHIVE, TOM WAITS, JOHNNY CASH, JONI MITCHELL, LOU REED, NICO, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, JOY DIVISION, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, KATE BUSH, FIONA APPLE, THE SMITHS, NOTWIST, DOVES, GRAIG ARMSTRONG, TWEAKER, BLACK LIPSTICK, YANN TIERSEN, A. BADALAMENTI, T. NEWMAN, W. MERTENS, L. EINAUDI, M. NYMAN, FRANK SINATRA, JOHN ZORN, J. BUCKLEY, ARAB STRAP, SNEAKER PIMPS, JOHN CALE, SUZANNE VEGA, KRISTIN HERSH, SPOON, PAVEMENT, SLINT, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, DINOSAUR JR., BOW WOW WOW, BECK, BRITISH SEA POWER, THE DEARS, GANG OF FOUR, RED SPAROWES, MERCURY REV, CALEXICO, ANGELS OF LIGHT, CAT POWER, GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR, SIGUR ROS, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, PSAPP, BARK PSYCHOSIS, ELBOW, DIRTY THREE, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, BLACK HEART PROCESSION, LISA GERMANO, BETH ORTON, ANI DIFRANCO, KRAFTWERK, 16 HORSEPOWER,INTERPOL, RADIOHEAD, DEBUSSY, BEETHOVEN, LIGETI, P.GLASS, E.SATIE, SCHUBERT, MAHLER, MOZART, LISZT, KEITH JARRET, CLINT MANSELL, MORRICONE, CIAIKOVSKIJ, RACHMANINOFF, PSYCHEDELIC FURS, JAPAN and others..www.lastfm.it/user/GGretchen
Hurt-NIN
I'm mad about: INGMAR BERGMAN, DAVID LYNCH, BUNUEL, KUBRICK, TIM BURTON, NANNI MORETTI, KIM KI DUK, HITCHCOCK, PETER GREENAWAY, WOODY ALLEN (i primi film), I MONTY PYTHON, TERRY GILLIAM, HAYAO MIYAZAKI, POLANSKI..Movies I love: The Big Lebowski, The Godfather( I-II-III..especially the first part), Fargo, Paz!, Indagine su un cittadino al sopra di ogni sospetto, Apocalipse now, Goodfellas - quei bravi ragazzi, Once Upon a Time in America (C'era una volta in America), Cul de Sac, Repulsion, The Tenant (l'inquilino del terzo piano), Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a dream, Night on earth (Taxisti di notte), Sunset Boulevard (viale del tramonto), Smoke, Blue in the face, Dead man, Bad Santa (Babbo bastardo), The wizard of Oz (Il mago di Oz), Alice in wordeland (Alice nel paese delle meraviglie), Dumbo, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(Biancaneve e i sette nani), Harold and Maude, Natural born killers, Ghost dog-il codice del samurai, La donna scimmia, Le Grande Bouffe (La grande abbuffata), La Cage Aux Folles (Il vizietto), La classe operaia va in paradiso, Deep End (La ragazza del bagno pubblico), Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The science of sleep(L'arte del sogno), Silent movie (Mel Brooks), Frankenstein Jr., The Twelve Chairs(Il mistero delle dodici sedie), The Producers (the old one 1968)-Per favore non toccate le vecchiette, Down by law (Daunbailò); The Deer hunter (Il cacciatore), Blade Runner, Escape from New York(Fuga da New York), Shrek, M (M-Il mostro di Dusseldorf), Metropolis, Mujeres Al Borde De Un Ataque De Nervios(Donne sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi),PI(Pigreco il teorema del delirio), L'atalante, Sono stato io (Lattuada), 8 e mezzo, Career Girls (Ragazze), Lost in translation, The Boondock Saints, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari (Il gabinetto del Dottor Caligari), Nosferatu (Herzog), Labyrinth, Il marchese del grillo, Ricomincio da tre, Scusate il ritardo, Non ci resta che piangere, Underground, The Usual Sospects (I soliti sospetti), Heat la sfida, NY stories, Man on the moon, Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain (Il favoloso mondo di Amelie), Delicatessen, Korkarlen(il carretto fantasma), Les Quatre Cents Coups (i quattrocento colpi), A Bout de Souffle (fino all'ultimo respiro), Jules e Jim, Tutti giù per terra, Tandem...and others I will keep adding..
I don't like tv.. yet, I'm a big fan of some past and present tv series: Twin Peaks, Friends, Lost, Ally McBeal, South Park, The Simpsons..David Lynch - Dumbland Episode 3
Coopers Dream. Twin Peaks
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Episode 5
Southpark Tribute to Monty Python
I begin with three books by David Foster Wallace on my desk at the moment: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (brevi interviste con uomini schifosi); A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (una cosa divertente che non farò mai più; The Girl with the Curious Hair (La ragazza dai capelli strani)...I love Shakespeare and all about him...some of my favourite books are: Waiting for Godot (Beckett), Ubu roi (Alfred Jarry); Hay Fever (Noel Coward); Betrayal; Mountain Language; The Caretaker; Party Time(Harold Pinter);Civil disobedience; Walden (Thoreau); News from Nowhere (William Morris); Confessions of a Crap Artist (Ricordi di un artista di merda); Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (P.K.Dick); Garbageland (Abreu); Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles(Cronache marziane), From The Dust Returned(Ritornati dalla polvere); Let's All Kill Constance (Costance contro tutti); Green Shadow, White Whale (Ray Bradbury); The School for Scandal (R.B.Sheridan); Chicken Soup with Barley; Roots (Wesker); Pygmalion (G.B.Shaw); The Portrait of Dorian Gray; An ideal husband; The importance of being Ernest; Aforismi; The Canterville Ghost; Il critico come artista; The Soul of Man under Socialism (L' anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo) (Oscar Wilde); The Beaux' Stratagem (George Farquhar); She stoops to conquer (O.Goldsmith)Absurd Person Singular (Alan Ayckbourn); The stranger (Camus); The girlhood of shakespeare's heroines (Mary Cowden Clarke); Il Gattopardo (Tomasi di Lampedusa); Faust I e l'Urfaust; Viaggio in Italia; Inni; Le affinità elettive; I dolori del giovane Werther; Il collezionista e la sua cerchia; La missione teatrale di Wilhelm Meister; Gli anni di apprendistato di Wilhelm Meister, Ifigenia in Tauride (Goethe); La Germania (Heine); Effi Briest (Fontane); Der Struwwelpeter (Dr. Heinrich Hoffman); Wide Sargasso Sea(Jean Rhys); L'avventuroso Simplicissimus; Vita della vagabonda e arcitruffatrice Coraggio(Grimmelshausen); Auto da fè (E. Canetti); Enrico di Ofterdingen (Novalis);I fisici (Durrenmatt); I fiori del male (Baudelaire); Sommario di decomposizione (E.Cioran); I Malavoglia, Le novelle (Verga); Enrico IV; Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, Il fu Mattia Pascal, le Novelle per un anno(Pirandello); Paradiso terrestre (S.Campailla); La coscienza di Zeno; L'assassinio di Via Belpoggio; Senilità ; Una vita (Svevo); Il codice di Perelà (Palazzeschi); Gli elisir del diavolo; Racconti (E.T.A.Hoffmann); Dracula (Bram Stoker); Frankenstein (Mary Shelley); Wuthering Heights; Poesie (Emily Bronte); Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte); The Castle of Otranto(Walpole); The three sisters; The three Bronte(May Sinclair); Night and day; To the lighthouse; Flush (W. Woolf); Ulysses; The Dubliners(James Joyce); Go down Moses (W.Faulkner); Ceremony (L.M.Silko); Jazz (Toni Morrison); The scarlet letter (Hawthorne); All tales(E.A.Poe); Lady Lazarus e altre poesie (Sylvia Plath); Alice in wonderland Lewis Carrol); La grande storia delle crociate (Jean Richard); La civiltà dell'Occidente medievale (J. Le Goff); Apologia della storia; I re taumaturghi; La società feudale; Souvenir di guerra; La strana disfatta (Marc Bloch) and many others..
preferisco gli antieroi o i supereroi...nanni moretti-rossi e neri tutti uguali
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Monty Python's Black Knight
Tim Burton - Vincent
He-Bowski
big lebowski fucking short version