TAKING SHOWERS FOR SPORT. I remember it as vividly as if were yesterday. It was Spring, in the desert of Las Vegas, when first I encountered the shower known only as PUMP. It was a big one, with loud sprays and a harsh spout. With the twist of my trusty towel, Tallulah, and one hand stuck inside the door, I turned the crank and off it went. The floor was slippery, I thought I'd lost it for a second but back it came. Fighting desperately to lose what little advantage I'd acquired, the shower switched from comfortably warm to skin crawlingly frigid. I shuttered at the sensation, but grabbed my soap and conditioner and I showed that shower who was indeed paying the water bill. Eventually it succumbed but not after minutes of hair washing adventure and soapsuds in crevices too difficult to describe. YES, that was indeed my greatest shower and I hold the head upon my mantle for all to see. Thank you.
David Mamet, Leelee Sobieski, David E. Kelly, Steven Moffet, Gina Bellman, Richard Coyle, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, Twiggy, Ingmar Bergman, Christopher Lee, Michel LeGrande, David Lynch, Isabelle Huppert, Laetitia Casta (would like to meet again: Neil Simon, Roman Polanski, Ken Russell, Michel Gondry, Tim Burton)
Jazz, Broadway Musicals, Film Soundtracks, 70's Pop Country, Beatles, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Anita O'day, Sinatra, Mozart, Bach, Beethovan, Tchicovski (damn I can't spell), Spanky and Our Gang, Carpenters, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Hermann, Michel LeGrande, the bloody list goes on and on...
Citizen Kane, Umbrella's of Cherbourg, Finian's Rainbow, Star Wars, Bob Hope / Bing Crosby Road pictures, Nightmare Before Christmas, Absolute Beginners, The Ghost and Mrs. Muer, Fellini, David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Hammer Horror, Dario Argento, Lugio Fulci, Tim Burton (early films), Terry Gillium, Ken Russell, Alexandro Jodorowski, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Verrhoven (early films), Benny Hill, The Prisoner, Jim Henson Muppet Show, Sesame Street (early years), The Electric Company, Fernwood Tonight, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Dick Van Dyke show, Partridge Family, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis .......................................... AND 5000 more
British shows: Alan Partridge, Coupling, Not the Nine O'clock News, Doctor Who, Men Behaving Badly, Rock Follies Euro Trash, Press Gang, Monty Python, Blackadder, almost anything Chris Morris, Ben Elton etc ............................................................ .....................................................US: Ally McBeal, Family Guy, Mary Tyler Moore, X-files, Space 1999, Gerry Anderson Marionette shows, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Roger Ramjet, Looney Tunes, first season of 24, Buffy, Angel, that's about it really
Picasso, Miro, Dali, Matisse, HR Giger, Klimt, Hans Bellmer, Brian Froud, Pre Raphealite movement Dante Rosetti, Waterhouse
Floyd Huddleston, Johnny Mercer, Jesus (Christ), Sammy Davis