Writing Music, Classical Guitar, Reading, S&m, Classical Music, Working Out
Primarily Modern and Romantic period classical music: Shostakovich, Bax, Tchaikovsky, Pettersson, Vaughan Williams, Bruckner, Bach, Sibelius, Mahler, Arnold, Beethoven, Part, Penderecki, Rorem, Elgar, Honegger, Lilburn, Nielsen, Schnittke, Rachmaninoff and occasionally my guilty pleasure of listening to Tool, but thats rare.
I generally like 5 types of movies: 1. Hitchcock - (Rebecca, Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Vertigo, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train) 2. Film Noir - (Touch of Evil, Double Indemnity, Citizen Kane, DOA, Detour, Pickup On South Street, Brute Force, Scarlet Street, Kiss Me Deadly, Laura, Nightmare Alley) 3. Movies with a Dark Atmosphere - (Requiem For A Dream, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Monster, Fearless, Murder of Innocence, Seven, Boys Dont Cry, The Hours) 4. Movies were people go insane - (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Whats the Matter with Helen?, The Tenant, Repulsion) 5. Horror/Suspense - (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, Halloween, Nosferatu (1922 & 1979), The Bad Seed, Arlington Road, etc). Its likely, although not a rule that the older a movie is, the more chance I will enjoy it.
I dont watch TV very much at all, it makes me depressed when I do. I cannot EVER watch TV without getting an unsettling, creeping sensation that I am being lied to, held back from seeing the full truth or perhaps just given a limited viewpoint of the potentialities of mankind. This is something you must feel when it's understood that every pixel of broadcast that reaches your eyes is first sent through the filters of capitalism, decency, American mythologies, just to name a few, which affects your assumptions about how the world should operate and what is logical independent of reality itself. There is nothing radical on television, it is a wasteland that helps to enable reality to become the same.
These days anything I read is on music theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Orchestration, etc. Another area I use to focus on was politics: One-Dimensional Man (Herbert Marcuse), Propaganda (Jaques Ellul), Killing Hope (William Blum), Noam Chomsky, Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler), Totalitarian Rule (Buchheim), 1984 (Eric Blair i.e. George Orwell), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), The True Believer (Eric Hoffer), When Corporations Rule The World (Michael Korten), Emma Goldman, Michael Bakunin, David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer and others.
I dont believe in heroes, dont take that as a bad thing, but an anti-authoritarian hope for the future.