www.michaelmarkowsky.com
Visit my website to learn more about me, see my paintings, drawings and films. Play the video below to get a taste... (check out my website for a much higher quality version)
Laying in a field, chewing on a blade of grass and looking at the clouds. Sloths and Columbo. Making mistakes and learning from them. Taking my time. Laughing! Top Chef. Eating well, learning to cook.
People who live in gratitude.
John Coltrane ("love supreme" is my favorite album), Miles Davis ("bitches brew" is second), DAVID BOWIE, The Ramones, Beach Boys, The Beatles, Libertines, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Freddy Mercury, Pat Benetar, Patsy Cline, Rolling Stones, Zamfir ("master of the pan flute"), Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Glenn Gould, BRIAN ENO, The who ("boris the spider"), The Clash, chixdiggit, Air, Chemical Brothers, hayden, AC/DC, Jack Dejonette, Frank Zappa, De La Soul, Digital Underground, The Boy Least Likely To, Ratatat, pretty much anything of quality, whatever the genre. I love to make a cup of green tea with honey and lay in the dark listening to old time radio plays (OTR), especially "The Shadow".
BREAKING THE WAVES, The Notebook, Hunger (1966), Edvard Munch, The Peanut Butter Solution (1985), Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, BUBBLE (2006), Being There, Groundhog Day, The Invisible Man (1933), What About Bob?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Gerry, Elephant, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, eXistenZ, Fitzcarraldo, Little Deiter Needs to Fly, Don't Look Back (Pennebacker), Notre Musique, Freddy Got Fingered, On the Waterfront, Chinatown, The Shinning, Barry Lyndon, Rear Window, A Place in the Sun, The Trial, The Gold Rush (chaplin), The Great Dictator (Chaplin), Modern Times (Chaplin), Goodfellas, Unforgiven, Le Samurai (Melville, 1957), GlennGary GlenRoss, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Blade Runner, Double Indemnity, The Fly, Once Upon a Time in the West, King of Comedy, Asphalt Jungle, Metropolis, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Singing Detective (BBC, 1986), The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven, Taxi Driver, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Shawshank Redemption, Apocolypse Now, Andromeda Strain, Crash (Chronenberg), AlienS, Raging Bull, Reservoir Dogs, Amadeus, Batman, Batman Returns, Back to the Future 2, Platoon, Predator, Ed Wood, Stand By Me, Ghostbusters, Passion de Jeanne D'Arc (1928), Dog Day Afternoon, Hudsucker Proxy, This is Spinal Tap, Heat, Woman on the Verge of A nervous Breakdown, Miller's Crossing, Shadows, Dirty Harry, Scarface, Road Warrior, Waterworld, Big Lebowski, Animal House, Office Space, Slap Shot, Fletch, Limelight (Chaplin), Badlands, Manhattan, Edvard Munsch, Weekend, Altered States, Robocop, Sympathy for the Devil, Repo Man, Trouble in Paradise, Jules et Jim, Truman Show, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Bad Education (Almodovar), Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Shock Corridor, Bring me the head of Aurturo Garcia, Shivers, Naked City (1948), La Jetee, Pierrot Le Fou, Will Penny, Velvet Goldmine, Pink Panther, Down By Law, BeetleJuice, Akira (Animated), Alphaville, The Empire Strikes Back
Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Ernie Kovacs, Allan Partridge (BBC), Curb your Enthusiam, John Stewart, Sopranos, Conan O'Brien, Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, Spiderman (70's cartoon), He-man and Hercules (80's cartoons), Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, David Letterman (kill Leno), the CBC, CTV, olympic curling, Hockey Night in Canada, The Beachcombers, Degrassi Jr. High, Also; quite a while ago, my sister and I won the grand prize on a children's game show called 'KidStreet'.
What I'm reading right now; "You've got to read this bool! 55 people tell the story of the book that changed their lives" by Jack Canfield, "Iggy Pop: Open up and bleed" by Paul Trynka and "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun.
Among my favorite authors are Bukowski, John Fante, Dylan Thomas, Hemingway, Camus, Houllebecq, Poe, Cervantes, Cormac McCarthy, Jules Verne, Genet, Kerouac, Proust, Robert Graves, MARK TWAIN, Kafka, Balzac, Rushdie, W.O. Mitchell, Jan Potocki, F.S. Fitzgerald, Donald Barthelme, Lawrence Stern, Dickens, Rimbaud, Gore Vidal, James Joyce, Nicholson Baker, Artaud, and once again PAUL AUSTER.
My Grandfathers; one was a boxer in the Canadian Navy during WWII. The other was a star baseball player in the Canadian baseball leagues at the same time. Pierre Trudeau (ex-Canadian Prime Minister, dated Barbara Striesand, friends with John Lennon) was a very inspiring and ambitious person. I also admire Bobby Dylan, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Johnny Cash, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and Dean Martin. Also, David Bowie, Prince, Peter Paul Reubens and Jeff Goldblum, seriously.