The future. The arts, reading, writing and arithmetic, sports, especially soccer, films, socializing, philosophy, music including performing, debating, enhancing the community, love and intimacy, sensibility and sensuality, anthropology, dreams, poetry, humor, craziness, passion.....
I'd like to meet:
Everybody, for at least an opening exchange.
Music:
Experimental and avant-garde - Hermann Nitsch, Schwitters, Conrad, Stockhausen, Glass, Boulez, Xenakis, Glass, Cage, Steve Reich, De Monte Young, Terry Riley. Derek Bailey, Albert Ayler, John Wall, etc. ECM artists: Garbarek, Jarrett, Ketil Bjornstad, David Darling Terje Rypdal, Abercombe, Peter Brotzman, Nels Cline, Ken Ishi, William Parker, Evan Parker, Vainio, Walcott, Arto Lindsey, etc. Early and progressive jazz. Original blues (no white boy). Zorn, Laswell...
John Adams, Gavin Bryers, Mahler, Bruckner, Scarlatti, Branca, then all my nostagia artists, The Cure, Bowie, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, The Swans, Diamanda Galas, Tindersticks, The Clash, Bryan Ferry, Lisa Gerrard, Marc Almond, Depeche Mode, The The, loads of goth and punk. Years of Glastonbury and Reading, Pukkel Pop, and 80s and early 90s indie etc. DJ Spooky, Shadow, DJ Low, Scanner, Krush, Boom Bip, Mimetic, Cut Chemist, Sigur Ros, Hip Hop and 90s techno and D&B. Chart stuff and some of the new stuff like Ami Winehouse, Andrew Bird, Clap Your Hands, Thievery Corp, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective andf of course my daughter's band, Intimate Stranger. Then Azra, Bijelo Dugme, Bregovic, Balasevic, Severina, Madredeus, Llasa, Maria Rita...Numerous spoken work artists and whatever fits my mood at the time...
Movies:
French New Wave, Polanski, Takashi Miike, Hartley, Roeg, Cronenberg, Russell, Polansky, Antonini, Amaldovar, Noe, Inarritu, Tarrantino, Linklater, Python... Anything recommended by my film critic friend Marc Savlov. We just seem to be on the same frequency.
Television:
Soccer Channel, Current TV, National Geographic, BBC, CNN, CSI, MTV, Dicovery, HBO, but other than the first two and the news, it acts more as a monitor for PS2.
Books:
There have been so many that just thinking about it sends me into a remix of emotions. I read constantly and usually I have at least three books on the go at any given time. Currently, I am reading Osmi povjernik by Renato Baretic (Croatian); The Other Campaign by Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas; The Evolution of Future Consciousness by Thomas Lombardo; The Last Byzantine Renaissance by Steven Runciman; In China's Shadow by Reed Hundt. I have just finished Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge; Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, Djeca Patrasa by Zoran Feric; Ne zaljublaj se u strance (both Croatian), Fateless by Imre Kertesz (excellent Hungarian writer), The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Helping Verbs of the Heart by Peter Esterhazy (another Hungarian) and Ghosts which my daughter Tessie gave me for my birthday. The most influential book of last year that I read was Fantastic Voyage by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman. It really changed my eating regime. Of course, the best book of the year has been Future Frequencies by Derek Woodgate with Wayne Pethrick. It actually made me some money.
Heroes:
I was once asked in an interview, which six people (dead or alive) would I like to sit next to on a plane. Of course, I forgot to mention my partner at the time and took shit for it. So let's try again: My Dad, Tito, Richard Branson, Nick Cave, Umberto Eco, Michaelangelo. It would be extra cool, if Puskas, Mahler, Derrida and Ray Kurzweil were the stewards. Unfortunately, my kids were off traveling somewhere else, so they were not available.
