The best minds of my generation before they are destroyed by madness...
It is more about song then genre for me. Anything and everything if it strikes the right chord. But speaking as a visual artist, if I had synesthesia, I think I might hear my paintings as Joanna Newsom songs, particularly her newer stuff.
RUSHMORE "These are OR Scrubs"..."O. R. they?"NAPOLEON DYNAMITE "Build her a cake or something"THE THIN RED LINE "Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one power but two?"APOCALYPSE NOW "We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES "In the past, politicians promised to create a better world... their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered to their people. Those dreams failed. And today, people have lost faith in ideologies. Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life. But now, they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us from nightmares. They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand... But much of this threat is a fantasy, which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It’s a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services, and the international media...
The Office, The Daily Show, Colbert, Carnivale, LOST, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Arested Development, Homicide: Life on the Street
Charles Bowden's "Blues for Cannibals" Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"Not for the faint of heart but truly a profound read. Neither long nor difficult, it lends itself to being read in one sitting if you can set aside a day off sometime to experience it.Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" and "All the Pretty Horses" (I'm sure I'll love his other books too. I just haven't got my hands on them yet.) Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"