gibson guitars, buddhism, stand-up comedy, people with tics, eccentrics, academics, neuroscience, leisure, personal grooming kits, the face serene and expressionless in thought, the phonetic alphabet, ECM, rabbi's running for a bus, old slightly browned shin pads and sunday league football - no corner flags or goal nets, 9 versus 12, hilly pitch bracing wind and a dismal referee...
I'd like to meet:
Of famous/heroic people, the following i would assembe at my table:Bellow (Saul), Brando (Marlon), Bruce (Lenny) Buddha (Siddartha), Crick (Francis), diFranco (Ani), Edison (Thomas), Einstein (Albert), Ginsberg (Allen), Guevara (Ernesto), Horkheimer (Max), Jolie (Angelina), Marx (Karl), Mitchell (Joni) Mourinho (Jose), Kaku (Michio), Kaka, Kerouac (Jack), Onassis (Aristotle). Simon (Paul), Wolfe (Thomas)Zidane (Zinedine)BUT ALSO anyone creating something beautiful, sharp, original - particularly writers and also musicians in the blues, jazz, electronica area. Overall i have an enourmous itch to communicate, to make amends, to re-mould the world slightly. Orbit. In circles of swervedom off-set slightly the unfortunate laws of nature such as entropy, labour and the slow winding down of love. Er, who else? Oh yes, girls of great tender melancholy beauty and foxiness of soul. Almost forgot!
Music:
dave brubeck (jumpy), chet baker (shy), miles davis, cinematic orchestra, paul simon, ray la montagne, fiona apple, charles mingus, K'Naan, amon tobin, gideon conn, elvis, leadbelly, muddy waters, lightning hopkins, ani difranco, LTJ Bukhem, Stefano Bollani, Eldar Djanirov, Glen Miller (glen miller is a god of cosmic proportions. His melodies are part of the structure of the universe. The Glen Miller band performed some of the most charismatic and spirited music of our time), Jeff Buckley, slip, ray charles, funky porcini, jamie lidell (the best thing to happen to my ears last year), nina simone, the bass player from bela fleck and the flecktones....also of course my own beloved band blue swerver www.myspace.com/blueswerver.
Movies:
woody allen, fight club, woody allen, fight club, also the occasional war movie like platoon. also early marlon brando pictures and Humphrey Bogarde pictures like the Big Sleep (scripts were gorgous in those days), East of Eden and Rebel, kung-fu hustle and city of God are BEAUTIFUL, i heart huckerby's and the late night bravo classic Ernie Cocksure and the Submissive Librarians...
Television:
i am addicted to 'speed archeology' programs on the Discovery channel.
Books:
saul bellow - herzog
aldous huxley - island
tom robbins - jitterbug perfume
cormac mccarthy - all the pretty horses
allen ginsberg - anything
Borges - anything
Barea - the forging of a rebel (jesus H christ its a book to read)
jack kerouac - anything
ayn rand - the fountainhead
herman hesse - narcissus and goldmund
thomas pynchon - v
thomas wolfe - of time and the river (expand your capacity to feel), look homeward angel
tom wolfe - electric kool aid acid test
saul bellow - the adventures of augie march
george steiner - anything
ludwig Wittgenstein - investigations
Carlo Levi - Christ stopped at eboli
Cesare Pavese - The Moon and the Bonfires
I HATE MARCEL PROUST I HATE MARCEL PROUST I HATE MARCEL PROUST
Heroes:
Lao Tzu - for justifying laziness on a philosophical level.
