I like trying new things.
Music for every mood - Marvin Gaye and Aretha, Hank Williams, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Dylan, Cohen, Cash, Coltrane, Chet, Holiday, Simone, Miles, Coleman, The Fall, Joy Division, Early Bowie, Gun Club, Cave, Patti Smith, Television, film scores, Bach when I'm feeling spooky. No Wave when I want to feel nostalgic or tragic or just indulge a headache. Old punk and rap for similar reasons. Whatever new band a friend has burned for me.
Bonnie and Clyde, Network, Chinatown, Godfather, Valley of the Dolls, Lenny, Misfits, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, Harold and Maude, Ghost Dog, Dead Man, summer of sam, Bamboozled, Atlantic City, Pawnbroker, Panic in Needle Park, Cruising, Deer Hunter, Night of the Iguana, Suddenly Last Summer, Butterfield 8, Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Elmer Gantry, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, All About Eve, noir, anything with Joanne Woodward, early Almodovar (labyrinth of passion, dark habits), early Woody Allen (up to Interiors), On the Waterfront, Exorcist, The Innocents, Gypsy, documentaries, Stendal's Syndrome, Girl on a Bridge, Fosse films, Little Girl who lives down the lane, They shoot horses don't they? bad seed, paris texas, wings of desire, videodrome, barbarian invasion, contempt, two or three things I know about her, sunset blvd, klute, pasolini, fellini, 5 easy pieces, easy rider, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, midnight cowboy, blue velvet, lost highway, carnal knowledge, bob and ted and carol and alice, last tango in paris, the getaway, before night falls, pixote, peter sellers (anything), you can count on me, crash (both), harold and maude, Igby goes down, capote, history of violence, piano teacher, the jerk, blues brothers, happiness, palindrome, anniversary party, angel heart, outsiders, my own private idaho, apocalypse now, drugstore cowboy, rumblefish, help - I can't stop this list!
the drug turn on movie of 1972 was a made for TV movie called Go Ask Alice - unavailable on DVD or video but you can find in 3 parts on You Tube. watch it!
authors in general with a few titles that stand out - flaubert, beckett, debeauvoir, flannery oconnor, atwood, alice sebold, capote, palanick, hubert selby!, budd schulberg, baldwin!, KNOCKOUT ARTIST by crews, zora hurston, iceberg slim, maya angelou, gore vidal, some kerouac, martin amis, marquis, faulkner, styron, hamsun, dorothy alison, ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST, AMERICAN PSYCHO, WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN,, john CITY OF NIGHT (Rechy), delillo, essays by sontag, carol oats and didion (esp. THE WHITE ALBUM), YOU CAN'T WIN (Jack Black) damn - i read a few books a week and this list could out do the film list. baldwins' another country/go tell it on the mountain, salambo, last exit to bkln ANNA KERENINA.