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Playing music (although I can't imagine I'll ever be as blissfully happy as he, the pictured. Sonny Greer)...
...and listenting to music.
Excellent wine.
Brilliant exhibitions of art.
The Gentlemans' Tailor of Buckingham - Dennis.
Hanging out with Michel Gutty and drinking his wine in his cave beneath Chateau Gaillard in Villie-Morgon, France, Europe
Oslo
Austin, TX
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (but he is sadly dead), Bill Evans (passed on also), Thelonious Monk (RIP), Egon Schiele (deadified), Juan Miro (ditto), Leonard Bernstein (him too), Brian Blade, Wayne Shorter, J.G. Ballard, Jon Christensen, Thomas Quasthoff, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, and these lovely, lovely chefs: Richard Corrigan, Rick Stein, Keith Floyd, and Jeremy Lee (luckily they are ALL alive!!!).
Oh yes and I'd like to meet Bernard Doove, the man who creates this sort of thing:
I'd imagine the encounter would be very brief, but I'd just like to see what he wears and hear his talking voice. Is that too much to ask?
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations [Gould '55 & '81 recordings]
Iain Ballamy - All Men Amen
Kenny Barron - Other Places
Beethoven - Violin Concerto [Zehetmair/Bruggen recordings]
Beethoven - 4th Piano Concertos [Kempff/Leitner/BPO recordings]
Beethoven - Complete Symphonies [Gardiner]
Sir John Betjeman & Jim Parker - Banana Blush
Harrison Birtwistle - Punch & Judy
Johannes Brahms - German Requiem [Gardiner]
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Deaf School - 2nd Honeymoon
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Bill Frisell - Ghost Town
Sir John Eliot Gardiner - Pilgrimage To Santiago
Stephane Grappelli - Flamingo
The La's - The La's
Mahler - 2nd Symphony [Abbado recording]
Mahler - 5th Symphony [Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker]
Nils Petter Molvaer - Khmer
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk - Alone In San Francisco
Thelonious Monk - Big Band & Quartet In Concert
Paul Motian - Sound Of Love
Prokofiev - October Cantata [Gergiev/LSO]
Ike Quebec - Blue & Sentimental
Ravel/Rachmaninov Piano concerto in G major/Piano concerto no.4 [Michelangeli recordings]
Django Reinhardt - Swing/HMV Sessions
Max Roach - Freedom Now Suite
Schubert - Winterresie [Staier/Pregardien recording]
John Scofield - What We Do
Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer
Wayne Shorter - At Barbican Hall, 10th November 2006
Bobo Stenson - War Orphans
June Tabor - At The Woods Heart
Michael Tippett - A Child Of Our Time [Hickox/Haymon/Clarey/Evans/White recording]
Clark Tracey - We've Been Expecting You
Stan Tracey - Under Milk Wood
Edgard Varese - Complete Works [Chailly]
Dan Weiss - Tintaal Drumset Solo
A bout de souffle [Jean-Luc Godard]
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud [Louis Malle]
Barry Lyndon [Stanley Kubrick]
Belleville Rendez-Vous [Sylvain Chomet]
Brothers of the Head [Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe]
Casablanca [Michael Curtiz]
The Cow [Dariush Mehrjui]
Cul-de-Sac [Roman Polanski]
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas [Terry Gilliam]
Le Feu Follet [Louis Malle]
Gattaca [Andrew Niccol]
It Happened Here [Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo]
Laura [Otto Preminger]
The Madness Of King George [Nicholas Hytner]
Planet Of The Apes [Franklin J. Schaffner]
Plaza Suite [Arthur Hiller]
The Return [Andrei Zvyagintsev]
Stepford Wives [Bryan Forbes]
Straight No Chaser [Christian Blackwood]
Tales From The Far Side [Marv Newland]
Twelve Angry Men [Sidney Lumet]
Vera Drake [Mike Leigh]
Withnail & I [Bruce Robinson]
Ever Decreasing Circles
Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Channel 4 News (especially Jon Snow)
Twin Peaks
Family Guy (I know someone who ALWAYS! calls it 'Family Man'!!! How murderously funny!!!)
Question Time
Primeminister's Questions (I like big old rooms replete with teered seating housing a great army of suited and booted people, many of them nearing their twilight years, jeering at one another and waving paper in the air. "Rrraaaaa!")
Katie Derham from ITV news (you can read about her here: http://www.itv.com/news/presenters_658341.html)
Documentaries about people with exceptional maladies
Anything that has been touched by the hand of God - Armando Iannucci
Chris Morris' 'Jam'
Peep Show
Jeeves & Wooster
Anything that involves Keith Floyd, Rick Stein, or Richard Corrigan.
Martin Amis - Money
J.G. Ballard - The Kindness Of Women
Paul Bowles - Let It Come Down
Italo Calvino - Our Ancestors
Albert Camus - The Outsider
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass
Anton Chekhov - Early Stories
Gabriel Chevallier - Clochemerle
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
Armando Iannucci - Facts & Fancies
Guy de Maupassant - Selected Short Stories
Sherwin B Nuland - How We Die
Alan Paton - Cry, The Beloved Country
Nat Shapiro & Nat Hentoff - Here Me Talkin To Ya
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jon Christensen
Bill Evans
Philly Joe Jones
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Thelonious Monk
Egon Schiele
Wayne Shorter
Clark Tracey
Leonard Bernstein