art, film, music, literature, the woods, Big Sur, red wine on the beach, hiking, going insane every once in a while, etc.
...cool people who do not take life for granted. Readers, music listeners, and individuals who have an unusual appreciation for unusual art. Artists I appreciate:Five, Ema Sintamarian, Amanda Smith, Mark Grotjahn, Inka Essenhigh, Tom Friedman, Fra Angelico, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Giotto, Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Kara Walker, Neo Rauch, Jane South, Luc Tuymans, Sigmar Polke, Julie Mehretu, Terry Winters, Brice Marden, Shazia Siklander, Cy Twombly, Massacio, Sarah Sze, John Graham, Mathew Ritchie, Kevin Appel, Daniel Richter, Lari Pittman, Andrew Schultz, Phillip Guston, Cindy Sherman, Henry Darger, Carter Potter, Margaret Killagen, etc.....
Neil Young (with and without Crazy Horse), Yo La Tengo, Thelonious Monk, DJ Shadow, The White Stripes, Wilco, The Books, Throbbing Gristle, Slint, Bach (mesmerizing Glenn Gould in particular), Husker Du, The Fall, Mahler, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Duke Ellington, Ladytron,The Replacements, Tom Waits, High on Fire, Eric Dolphy, Flipper, Fiona Apple, Broken Social Scene, Pergolesi, The Band, Beck, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr, Albert Ayler, belle and Sebastian, Will Oldham, Beta Band, Rachmaninoff, Sonic Youth, Charles Mingus, Butthole Surfers, My Bloody Valentine, Gram Parsons, Echo and the Bunnymen, Beethoven, Massive Attack, Old Stones, X, Sonny Rollins, Blonde Redhead, Husker Du, Os Mutantes, Miles Davis, Beck, Leonard Cohen, The Flaming Lips, Rachels, Brahms, Arcade Fire, Aphex Twin, Mozart, Pavement, Ghost World Sountrack, The Clash, Guided by Voices, Radiohead, Silver Jews, Talking Heads, Rachmaninoff, Led Zepplin, Gastr del sol, Art Blakey, The Minutemen, DJ Krush, Velvet Underground, Ella Fitzgerald, Built to Spill, Liliput/Kleenex/ The Melvins, Sonny Rollins, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Chopin, The Jam, My Morning Jacket, Nick Drake, Flaming Lips,Patti Smith, Prokofiev, Minor Threat, Bob Dylan, etc
Fanny and Alexander, La Jetee'/Sans Soleil,Kenneth Anger,Inland Empire, Code Unknown, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Children of Paradise, Taxi Driver, Head-On, The Lost Weekend,Borat, Black Narcissus,Election,Kiss Me Deadly,Paris,Texas, Satyajit Ray films...all of them, Blade Runner, Johnny Guitar, Salo,The Godfathers (1 and 2),Grey Gardens,Eraserhead, MASH, Come and See, Badlands, La Notte, There Will Be Blood, Peeping Tom,Aquirre Wrath of God,This is Spinal Tap, Wong Kar Wai, Rushmore, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Jules and Jim, Lolita (Kubrick version), The Godfather, Spirit of the Beehive, Raging Bull, Three Women, High and Low, Band of Outsiders, Carrie, Crumb, 2001, Mean Streets, Singin in the Rain, Lovers on the Bridge, Drugstore Cowboy, Office Space,Notorious, Manhattan,Shame,Sullivans Travels, McCabe and Mrs Miller, The Lady Eve, Blue Velvet, Not On Golden Pond, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Jaws,Stroyzeck, Reds, Paranoia Agent, The Road Warrior, The Shining, Local Hero, A Woman Under the Influence, Rosemary's Baby, Wings of Desire,Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Nashville, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Waiting for Guffman, Together, The Player, Melvin and Howard, Small Change, The Elephant Man, Paradise Lost,Bottle Rocket, Vertigo, Murmur of the Heart, Tokyo Story, Chungking Express, Barry Lyndon, Saraband,etc....too many to name
The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Deadwood.........basically HBO, and of course Project Runway. But I don't watch TV anymore, so Netflix.
Saturday, The Invisible Dragon, The Road, Elizabeth Costello, Election,The New York Trilogy, Slow Man, Gravity's Rainbow, Ask the Dust, The Sheltering Sky Revolutionary Road, Barthes, Big Sur and the Oranges of Heironymous Bosch, Borges, A Confederacy of Dunces, Disgrace, Suttree, Nightwood, Atonement, Derrida, Crime and Punishment, The Crying of Lot 49, Wiseblood, All Sedaris, The Blood Oranges, The Sportswriter, Ravishing of Lol Stein, White Noise, The Last Gentleman, Laura Mulvey, Lolita, Butterfield 8, Angle of Repose, The Corrections, Independent People, As I Lay Dying, Mansfield Park, James Elkins, Waiting for the End of the World, A Scanner Darkly, Affinity, Stoner, Georges Bataille, Joy of Man's Desiring,Cities of the Red Night, White Noise, An American Trajedy, etc...
anyone who hates Bush and Cheney as much as I do, Neil Young, Robert Altman, Scorsese, Jane Austen, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Laura Mulvey, Giotto, Fra Angelico, Jonathan Kozol ..........more later