maria

I'd like to meet:

i'm not playing with you, i clean forgot how to play/but you can still come around, in fact I invite you down/maybe together we can wipe that smile off your face/cause what a difference, what a difference, what a difference a little difference would make--fugazi

animals we are/disposable, collapsable and raw--coldplay

my very own brad wood or david rawlings

tom waits, gary oldman, henry rollins, anthony bourdain, fabio cannavaro, mark gardener, parker posey, and ron perlman (preferably in full-blown hellboy attire)

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Music:

Aislers Set, AmAnSet, Arcade Fire, Archie Bronson Outfit, Atmosphere, Federico Aubele, Beatles, Black Eyed Snakes, Black Heart Procession, Black Angels, BRMC, BJM, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Buckley, Calla, Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Clinic, Coldplay, Common, Cowboy Junkies, CCR, Dead Kennedys, Dead Meadow, DJ Cam, Doves, Nick Drake, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Fugazi, Galaxy 500, Gang of Four, Mark Gardener, Gear Daddies, Astrud Gilberto, Al Green, GBV, Hall&Oates, PJ Harvey, John Hartford, Billie Holiday, Jolie Holland, Interpol, Jamiroquai, the Jam, Jawbox, Jayhawks, JAMC, Jonathan Fire*Eater, Joy Divison, Juneof‘44, Kills, Kinks, Kinski, LCD Soundsystem, Sondre Lerche, Les Savy Fav, Le Tigre, Liars, Low, Luna, Loretta Lynn, Dean Martin, Massive Attack, Cass McCombs, Steve Miller (pre1974), Morcheeba, Morphine, MosDef, MBV, Opal, Carl Orff, Beth Orton, Charlie Parr, Liz Phair, Pink Floyd, Pogues, Portishead, Cat Power, Prince, Radio4, Radiohead, Recoys, Reindeer Section, Replacements, Ride, Rolling Stones, Gustavo Santolalla, Secret Machines, Kevin Shields, Sinatra, Slowdive, Keely Smith, Snowden, Snow Patrol, Spacemen3, Spoon, Dusty Springfield, Stooges, Sufjan Stevens, Supergrass, 13th floor elevators, 311, TRex, Mel Torme, Tricky, Turin Breaks, VU, Verve, TomWaits, Walkmen, Warlocks, Gillian Welch, Paul Westerberg, Wilco, Amy Winehouse, Zero7, and...

opera/classical: Beethoven, Bizet, Debussy, Donizetti, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Monteverdi, Orff, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi,...

Movies:

newest faves:
"LARS AND THE REAL GIRL"
"BROKEN ENGLISH" by zoe cassavettes STANDARD FAVORITES: All About My Mother, Amelie, Amores Perros, Apocalypse Now, l'Avventura, Bottle Rocket, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Chocolat, a Clockwork Orange, Cristo si e Fermato a Eboli, Daytrippers, Dazed and Confused, il Deserto rosso, the English Patient, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, la Femme Nikita, Facing Windows, una Giornata Particolare, Gladiator, Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Goodnight and Good Luck, le Grand Bleu, High Heels, In July, Johnny Stecchino, L.A.Confidential, Ladri di Biciclette, Last Temptation of Christ, the Limey, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lost In Translation, March of the Penguins, Memento, Moonstruck, il Mostro, Next Stop Wonderland, PartyGirl, Planet of the Apes(1968),Primo Amore, the Princess and the Warrior, the Professional, Roma Citta' Aperta, Reservoir Dogs, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, the Shining, Sliding Doors, Science of Sleep, South Pacific(1958), StarWars trilogy, Talk to Her, Tie Me Up!Tie Me Down!, Trainspotting, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, la vita e bella, West Side Story, Zabriskie Point; italian neorealism

Television:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Big Love, Bobby's World, Carnivale, da Ali G Show, EastEnders, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, Growing Up: Penguin, Harvey Birdman, Law & Order, Mad About You, Nature, Nova, the Office, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Project Runway, Rescue Me, Scientific American Frontiers, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, the Venture Bros. Weeds; any BBC/CBC/PBS reality show (e.g., 1800s House, Manor House, Frontier House, Quest for the Bay, Colonial House)

Books:

currently reading:
'FARGO ROCK CITY: A HEAVY METAL ODYSSEY IN RURAL NORTH DAKOTA'-Klosterman 'FEAR AND LOATHING: THE STRANGE AND TERRIBLE SAGA OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON'-Perry my to-be-read stack:
'CHUCK KLOSTERMAN IV: A Decade of Curious People & Dangerous Ideas'-Klosterman 'DRESS YOUR CHILDREN IN CORDUROY & DENIM'-Sedaris'WERE YOU ALWAYS AN ITALIAN?: Ancestors & Other Icons of Italian America'-Laurino 'THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST: ESSAYS'-Lethem ‘ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior' -Grandin ‘NEVER CRY WOLF’-Mowat 'RED-TAILS IN LOVE: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park'-Winn 'A WING IN THE DOOR: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk’ -Phillips McQuay ‘THE CLICK THAT DOES THE TRICK’-Deutsch ‘INDECISION'-Kunkel STANDARD FAVORITES: dictionaries, philosophy, Dante Alighieri, Aristotle, Boccaccio, Bukowski, Gaius Julius Caesar, Camus, Chomsky, Joseph Conrad, De Martino, Gramsci, Bell Hooks, Kafka, Kerouac, Chuck Klosterman, Nietzsche, Paglia, Chuck Palahniuk, Plato, Sartre, David Sedaris, Hunter S. Thompson, Unamuno, Virgil, Naomi Wolf; ‘Dog Heaven’-Rylant, ‘Jane Eyre’- C.Bronte, [Little] Miss Spider/Little Biddle Books- Kirk, ‘Le Petit Prince’- St. Exupery, ‘Pinocchio’- Collodi, 'The Parrots of Telegraph Hill'-Bittner, 'Penguin Planet'-Schaffer; Hellboy, Spiderman, & Firestar comics; all books written about Nick Drake in Italian

Heroes:

giulia
not quite heroes, but admired/highly respected:
people who follow their heart in spite of logic,

the virgin mary, dr. irene maxine pepperberg & alex the african grey; Hamilton Leithauser, britt daniel, and j. robbins--as am thoroughly impressed by their give-it-my-all on-stage performance, as well as beyond gorgeous voices and lyrical adeptness; bill barbot, nick drake, beth orton, liz phair, p.j. harvey, amy linton, gillian welch, leonard cohen, and carl orff--godfather of modern percussion.(see who i'd like to meet section)