My world is Art, and not all art is beautiful, it is challenging at times, disturbing at others and can bring new meaning. I want to have a conversation with someone who will challenge my beliefs, someone who has morals which i find abhorent and with someone who has seen things i will not. I want to discover the truth and enjoy the journey.
Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Josophine Baker, Picasso, Marlene Dumas, Marchel DuChamp, Yoko Ono, Frida Kahlo, Stephen Hawkins, Hunter S. Thompson, anyone who has the balls to be differnet from the pack or try something new, Bohemits, artists,musicians, writers and anyone with a little intelligence and wit no matter their walk of life
Music should be more than background noise, it should make you feel euphoric, aggressive, calm and all the different ways you need. It is a soundtrack to your existence, and therefore the list is ever evolving and growing with many movements. What I listened to as a child will always stay with me but it has new meaning now, nostalgia will bring new associations and the music of my teenage years is not that of my later ones. I will always search out the music of inovaters, rebels and craftsmen from grand syphonies to jazz and punk through the ever changing face of modern music.
Cinema which widens your view and changes opinions, beautiful, operatic,dark, elusive and illuminating. Japanese, Mexican, French or even Hollywood produced so long as it has intelligence and soul. Baz Lurhman, Luc Besson, Guillermo Del Torro,Tim Burton, Sophia Coppola, Danny Boyle, Timor Bekmambetov,Just Jaeckin,Kinji Fukasaku, Kaige Chen, Billy Wilder
Anything which has a point of view and is not just a hamogenised product churned out to sedate the masses. Cultural and itelligent, witty and sarcastic, sexy and cheap so long as there is something beyond the cardboard blandness of soap operas and reality television.
Hunter S. Tompson, Jack Kerouac,Lewis Carol's Alice Through The looking Glass, Maya Angelou,Shakespeare, Chaucer, James Joyce, all literary giants.The Sexual Life of Catherine M., William S. Burroughs,The Motorcycle Diaries, Gauguin's Skirt(excellent look @ his colonialism in tahiti)Douglas Adams and biographies of the wierd, creative and interesting souls who have populated this world.
The Suffragets, Inventors, great scientists, Freedom fighters, communists and capitalists, peacemakers, generals, those who have had not only the ability but also the drive to try something new, fight for what they believed in and if not always succeeding, at the very least leaving their mark.
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