Cultural revolution
I'd like to meet:
Frankenstein
Music:
Classical: Poulanc, Satie, Leonard Bernstein , Puccini , Wagner , Brahms , Rachmaninoff , Prokofiev, Dvorak , Mahler , Bruckner , Vaughan Williams , Holst , Janacek, Khatchaturian, Faure , Elgar , Debussy , Chopin , Tchaikovsky , Copland , Beethoven , Philip Glass , John Adams, early Schoenberg, Richard Strauss , Sibelius , Sir Arthur Bliss, Samuel Barber , Steve Reich
Rock: Sparks ,
Morrissey , The Thrills , Brian Wilson , Godspeed You Black Emperor , Tom Waits , High Llamas , Microdisney , Prefab Sprout , Belle and Sebastian , Stereolab , Carl Perkins , Elvis ,
The Beatles , Apples in Stereo , Muse ,
Bowie , George Clinton , Elvis Costello , Beck , Guided by Voices , Cocteau Twins , Crash Test Dummies , The Dickies , Dylan , The Flaming Lips , Ben Folds , Al Green ,
Meat Puppets , Mercury Rev , Roy Orbison , Johnny Cash ,
Scritti Politti , The Smiths , Steely Dan , They Might Be Giants , Tipsy , XTC , The White Stripes , The B-52s , Jerry Lee Lewis , Kate Bush , Captain Beefheart , The Four Seasons , The Go! Team , Richard Harris
Jazz: David Drazin , Louis Armstrong , Johnny Dodds, Benny Goodman , Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington , Fletcher Henderson , Earl Hines, Billy Holiday ,
Ornette Coleman , Louis Jordan, Gene Krupa, Lester Young, Chick Webb, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton,
Cab Calloway , Lee Wiley, Stephane Grappelli, Fats Waller, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Bobby Sherwood, Dizzy Gillespie , Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker , Charlie Christian, Art Tatum, Dave Brubeck , Dexter Gordon, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins , Miles Davis , John Coltrane , McCoy Tyner , Chet Baker , Ella Fitzgerald
Musical Theatre: Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter , Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin , Kurt Weill , Noel Coward , Stephen Sondheim
Movies:
Some faves: Jacque Tati's Playtime, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Double Indemnity, The Pianist, Kiss Me Deadly, The Apartment, Signs, Walt Disney's Pinnochio, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love , D. W. Griffith's Way Down East, The Women, The Crowd, Nixon, A Sunday in the Country, Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Wild Strawberries, Good Night and Good Luck, The Spanish Prisoner, House of Games, Things Change, Seven Chances, Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Movies directed by Hitchcock , Tod Browning , Ingmar Bergman , Akira Kurosawa , David Lynch , Stanley Kubrick , Frank Capra , King Vidor , Fritz Lang , Roman Polanski , Nicholas Ray , Buster Keaton .
early sound films, screwball comedies, actors Ruth Chatterton, Dan Duryea, Edward G. Robinson , Fredric March, Myrna Loy , Rudolph Valentino , Clara Bow , Julianne Moore , Charlton Heston , Lon Chaney Sr. , Norma Shearer , Lionel Barrymore, William H. Macy , Fred and Ginger , Michael Caine , Joe Mantegna, John Barrymore, Cary Grant , Harold Lloyd , Jack Benny , Peter Sellers , Nicholas Cage , Steve Buscemi , Cliff Edwards, Janet Gaynor , Spencer Tracy , Jean Arthur, James Stewart , Charlie Ruggles,
Laurel and Hardy , Max Davidson, Charlie Chase silent shorts, Harry Langdon.
Television:
Jeopardy , The Honeymooners , Twin Peaks , Gomer Pyle, I Love Lucy , The Dick Van Dyke Show , All in the Family , Columbo , Powerpuff Girls , Bob Newhart , The Jonathan Winters Show , Leave It to Beaver , Sid Caesar, Fawlty Towers , Monty Python , Sealab 2021 .
Books:
Favorite cartoonists:
Jack Kirby , Herge , Will Eisner, Darwyn Cooke , Chester Gould, Carl Barks, Herrimann , Steve Ditko , Milton Caniff, Chris Ware , R. Crumb, Hayao Miyazaki , Alex Toth, Frank Robbins, Joe Maneely, Paul Pope, Joe Kubert , Steranko, Gil Kane, Peter Bagge , Mike Sekowsky, Alfredo Alcala, Floyd Gottfredson , Curt Swan, early Carmine Infantino, Dr. Suess , Harold Gray, Jim Mooney, Joe Sinnott, Gene Colon, Basil Wolverton, Gerry Talaoc, Alex Nino, Sergio Aragones , Al Capp, Bill Watterson , Hank Ketchum, John Severin, Johnny Craig , Tom Sutton, Charles Burns.
Favorite authors:
Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald , James Agee , Ayn Rand , Robert A. Heinlein , Edward Albee, David Mamet , Clifford Odets, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , old children's books, pulp magazines , old crime fiction, Eudora Welty, Philip K. Dick , Fred Chappell
