I'd like to meet:
Tom Waits, Bill Murray, Patricia Clarkson, and Philip Roth, in conversation together in a smoky bar.
Also Brazilian jazz singer Luciana Souza and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, who I saw in concert on March 18, 2007, at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa, CA. Simply amazing. Check out her recording of Pablo Neruda's sonnet 49 on You Tube by clicking the video at left.
CLICK HERE TO SEE LUCIANA SOUZA DISCUSS HER NEW ALBUM, "THE NEW BOSSA NOVA"
Click here to visit Luciana Souza's website
Click here to visit The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet's website
Music:
McCoy Tyner, "Quartet"
McCoy Tyner, "Afro Blue"
Stacey Kent, "Breakfast on the Morning Tram"
Shakira, "Hay Amores" (song)
Luciana Sousa, "The New Bossa Nova"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, "Brazil"
"Brazilian Chill Sessions"
Dave Brubeck, "Indian Summer"
Sergio & Odair Assad, "Jardim Abandonado"
Bing Crosby, "Bing Sings whilst Bregman Swings"
The Puppini Sisters, "Betcha Bottom Dollar,"
Luciana Souza, "Brazilian Duos" and
"The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop"
Karrin Allyson, "Footprints"
Kurt Elling, "This Time It's Love"
Johnny Hartman, "For Trane"
Los Lonely Boys, "Sacred"
Jim Tomlinson, "The Lyric"
John Pizzarelli, "Dear Mr. Sinatra"
Bob Dylan, "Modern Times"
Diana Krall, "From This Moment On"
Bruce Springsteen, "Devils and Dust"
Madeleine Peyroux, "Half the Perfect World"
Tom Waits, "Nighthawks at the Diner"
Tom Waits, "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards"
The Rolling Stones, "Aftermath"
Shakira, "Oral Fixation 2"
Movies:
Movies You Have to See:
Thomas McCarthy, The Station Agent
Kenneth Lonergan, You Can Count On Me
Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus
Luis Bunuel, The Obscure Object of Desire
Tod Browning, Freaks
Jane Campion, The Piano
Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Anything starring Steve McQueen, particularly "Bullitt" or "The Thomas Crowne Affair"
Television:
Larry David, "Curb Your Enthusiasm." That's all you need. Ok, maybe "The Daily Show," too.
And I'm finally discovering "The Sopranos."
Books:
Now Reading:
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
On My To-Be-Read Soon Pile:
Exit Ghost, Philip Roth
The Daydreamer, Ian McEwan
Recently Read:
Mr. Pip, Lloyd Jones
Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
Michael Connelly's LA detective novels:
The Black Echo
The Black Ice
The Concrete Blonde
The Last Coyote
Trunk Music
Angels Flight
I the Jury, Mickey Spillane
Leviathan, Paul Auster
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden, Ian Mc Ewan
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris (essays)
Strong is Your Hold, Galway Kinnell (poems)
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Zorro, Isabel Allende
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Everyman, Philip Roth
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster
Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell
Writing Los Angeles, David L. Ulin (ed.)
All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Nobody's Fool, Richard Russo
The Whore's Child, Richard Russo
