Artists-
Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Unica Zurn, JMW Turner, Hans Bellmer, Odilon Redon, Takato Yamamoto, Jean Tinguely, Joseph Cornell, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Kurt Schwitters, Alexander Calder, Karath=Razar, Katan Amano, Hermann Nitsch, Ryo Yoshida, Joseph Beuys, Pieter Bruegel the Older, Diego Velázquez, Giorgio Morandi, Gustav Klimt, Robert Smithson, Otto Dix, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Ruth Asawa...
Eikoh Hosoe, Nobuyoshi Araki,
Sweet, uncompromising creative people.
Mercurial folk who get away with many interesting things
Cats and birds of all kinds
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John Zorn, Alban Berg, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono, Toru Takemitsu, Joji Yuasa, Eric Dolphy, Olivier Messiaen,, Art Bears, G.I. Gurdjieff, Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Alexander Scriabin, Baden Powell, Terry Riley, Painkiller, Mahmoud Ahmed, Teiji Ito, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Beach Boys, Byrds, Beatles, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen (Momente is my favourite), Toshiro Mayuzumi, Kurt Weill, Anton Webern, Pandit Pran Nath, Jerry Goldsmith, Eyvind Kang, Luciano Berio, Alice & John Coltrane, Yuji Takahashi, Tsuruta Kinshi, Evan Parker, Ennio Morricone, Harry Partch, Sam Rivers, Derek Bailey
And a lot of others.
Hiroshi Teshigahara,
Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Kon Ichikawa & Natto Wada, Jack Smith, Harry Smith, Alexander Hammid, G.W. Pabst, Stan Brakhage, Jean Renoir, Carl T. Dreyer, Jean Cocteau, Kim Ki-Duk, F.W. Murnau, Josef von Sternberg, Kaneto Shindo, Louis Malle, Kenneth Anger, Kenji Mizoguchi, Maya Deren, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergio Leone, Nagisa Oshima, Seijun Suzuki, Chris Marker, Shohei Imamura, Ira Cohen, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Emir Kusturica, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Jodorowsky..
Get Smart, Twin Peaks, The Naked City, Scenes From A Marriage, Black Books, Spaced, anything with/narrated by David Attenborough
Steinbeck, Brecht, Kobo Abe, J. Genet, M. Proust, Delmore Schwartz, Shusaku Endo, Fanon, Julio Cortázar, Foucault, de Nerval, Mallarme, Raymond Chandler, Octave Mirbeau, Alistair Horne, Marguerite Duras, Antonin Artaud, Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Blake, Edward Said, Alberto Moravia, Alfred Jarry...
friends, loved ones
Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ub Iwerks, Louise Brooks, Lotte Reiniger... many.