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Just about anyone passionate about creating art.
In no particular order: The Beatles, Neil Young, Nirvana, The Pixies, Radiohead, Wilco, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, Guns n' Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Jane's Addiction, Whiskeytown, Aimee Mann, R.E.M., Smashing Pumpkins, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Stone Roses, U2, The Verve, Alice and Chains, Cowboy Jumkies, Counting Crows, Cracker, Damien Rice, ELO, Don Henley, Jeff Buckley, Juliana Hatfield,
Anything in black and white. Any Noir I haven't come across yet. This really is a make it or break it category in my life. If you have bad taste in movies, I'm probably not gonna wanna hang out with you. I usually require all first dates to show up with a list. If "Hope Floats" or "While You were Sleeping" come up on their lists, I drop a twenty on the table and walk out. My current top ten list:1. Five Easy Pieces- Existential Examination at it's best. 2. Double Indemnity- The best of Noir. 3. The Shawshank Redemption- Best film of the 90's. 4. Bull Durham- It still makes me cry. 5. A Touch of Evil- Welles at the Height of his Powers. 6. The Lady From Shanghai- Hayworth's Best. 7. The Searchers- Drama in the Desert doesn't get any better then this. 8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest- A perfect film. 9. Some Like it Hot- Comedy Gold. 10. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- An acting class on celluloid.
Sopranos and Deadwood
Mostly Plays: Macbeth(My fav Bill Shakespeare), The Seagull, Three Sisters, A Dream Play, Streetcar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(My fav Ten W.), Desire Under the Elms, Waiting for Godot, Buried Child, True West, Cowboy Mouth, Mourning Becomes Electra, Long Days Journey into Night (The best play ever written hand down) Burn This, Glengary Glenross, Books: On the Road. Big Sur, The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Last Tycoon, Anything by Paul Auster, Anything by Elmore Leonard, Ironweed, Anything by David Sedaris.
Bill Hicks.... The rest: Glenn Ford, Sam Shepard, Sam Elliott, Gus Hansen, John Elway, Paul Newman, Charles Bukowski, Bill Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, Bogart, Alan Ladd, Ida Lupino, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, John Cassavettes, John Lennon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, David Mamet,