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People with passion. Upon meeting anyone new, Franz Schubert would ask "What do you do that's fantastic?"
LOVE it -- it's what I do. Obviously as a classical musician my collection is rich with classical music of all periods and genres, but it's also peppered with jazz, blues, motown, good rock 'n roll, various electronic, and gems from the 80s. Broad sampling: Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, Bird Parker, Miles Davis, T Monk, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald (yikes -- LOTS from the early years of the Blue Note label!), Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Donovan, David Bowie, Stones, Smiths, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Portishead, Fila Brazillia, 13 and God. Oh yeah, and Eazy-E.
Huge list. I seem to have acquired a soft spot for weird, sexy and/or tragic foreign films. Some faves: Illuminata, Tout les matins du monde, The Harmonists, Les Triplettes de Belleville, The Princess and the Warrior, Fight Club, His Girl Friday, The Big Lebowski, The Professional (anything with Gary Oldman, actually); Japanese Anime; directors: Hawkes, Scorsese, Tarantino, Allen, Bergman, Fellini, Lynch...
It's not television. It's HBO.
I read a lot -- usually two or three titles at a time. True to my geeky nature I love reading biographies of my favorite composers/performers. Otherwise pretty eclectic: Welsh, Palaniuk, Auster, Kerouac, Nabakov, Robbins, Robert Anton Wilson, Shakespeare, Poe, Bronte, Hugo, Hemingway...I really REALLY loved A Confederacy of Dunces, Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, On the Road and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Frida Kahlo, Marian Anderson, Eleanora Duse, Bruce Lee, Tony Clark, John and Reve Walsh,