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Come to me in your innocence and I'll show you back to the garden.Du bist so wild nach meinem Erdbeermund.
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Also: Marlene Dietrich , Sinéad O'Connor , Siouxsie , Bob Dylan , Billie Holiday , Laurie Anderson , Shirley Bassey , various electronica and rock and new wave and chanson , Kraftwerk , Malediva , Lena Horne , Marianne Faithfull , Billy Idol , Pat Benatar , Blondie , Liza Minnelli , Emmylou Harris , Dolly Parton , Loretta Lynn , Mahalia Jackson , Ike & Tina , Sonny & Cher , Concrete Blonde , Dionne Warwick , Lou Reed / Velvet Underground , David Bowie , Christian Death , Carol Channing , Pizzicato Five , Vitalic , Fischerspooner , Ellen Allien , Ella Fitzgerald , Etta James , Hildegard Knef , Stevie Nicks , Tom Petty , Meryn Cadell , Nico , Duke Ellington , Annie Lennox , Northern Lite , The Motels , Berlin , The B-52s , Tori Amos , Björk , Odetta , Peter Murphy , The Presets , Peter Gabriel , Harry Belafonte , Rilke Projekt , Morrissey , Squirrel Nut Zippers , Suzanne Vega , This Mortal Coil , Dead Can Dance , Leonard Cohen , Yaz , 2ManyDJs , Frankie Bones , happy hardcore , and even old Pete Tong essential mixes...
I watch and have watched a relatively obscene amount of movies. I love all kinds of movies but I tend to avoid movies about children, animals, sports, or flatulence. I guess I like movies that are smart, or humanistic, or graceful , or bitchy, or weird , or what have you . If you haven't seen it, you should watch Hiroshima mon amour; it just popped into my head as an example of what film can aspire to. Let me know if you want to be my friend on Netflix.
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Currently Reading
Hermann Hesse- Der Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse- Beneath the Wheel
Robert Musil- Five Women
My favorite book is probably The Brothers Karamazov.
The Most Recent Books I've Read, Starting with the Most Recent
Charles Dickens- A Tale of Two Cities
Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha—Eine indische Dichtung
Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five
Henrik Ibsen- A Doll's House
Robert O. Friedel- Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD
Eric Berne- Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
Karel Capek- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
Cormac McCarthy- The Road
Joan Didion- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Vladimir Nabokov- Laughter in the Dark
Edward Albee- The Zoo Story/The American Dream
Barry Heermann- Noble Purpose
Gregory Maguire- Wicked
Joan Didion- The Year of Magical Thinking
Horace McCoy- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Tennessee Williams- Suddenly, Last Summer
Edward Albee- Tiny Alice
Feodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
Erik Larson- The Devil in the White City
Gore Vidal- The City and the Pillar (Revised)
Gore Vidal- Myra Breckinridge
Abraham Maslow- Toward a Psychology of Being
Erich Fromm- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Erich Fromm- The Art of Loving
Fyodor Dostoyevsky- The Brothers Karamazov
Thomas Mann- Death in Venice and Tonio Kroeger
Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita
Gore Vidal- Kalki
Joseph Heller- Catch-22
Neil Gaiman- American Gods
Gore Vidal, Catherine Deneuve, and Tania.