1) outdoing childhood or at least
coming close every once in a while
2) things that stimulate the mind,
the soul, the body, and provide us
with inspiration
3) sleep.
I'd like to meet:
God (preferably in a bar) or if he can't make it, I guess
David Hasselhoff will do.
In the meantime, here's a list of people I'd like to meet
here on myspace: Sam Peckinpah (and I did, somebody
went ahead and made a tribute page. thank you person),
Tsai Ming Liang, Jean Renoir, Gus Van Sant, Sharunas
Bartas, Otto Preminger, Alexander Sokurov, John Huston,
and of course... octopi enthusiasts
Music:
smog, joao gilberto, spain, nick
drake, will oldham, leonard cohen,
neil young, jim o'rourke, m ward,
east river pipe, richard buckner,
yo la tengo, pokett, tindersticks,
belle and sebastian, low, durutti
column, mark eitzel, the pixies,
the velvet undreground, talk talk,
lisa germano, dave brubeck, julie
doiron, cat power, lee hazlewood,
matthew carr, scott walker, rivkah,
lou barlow, jason molina, paloma,
sonic youth, curtis mayfield, the
softies, pavement, dominique a,
john cunningham, tortoise, felt,
jonathan richman, sea and cake,
brokeback, bjork, the go-betweens,
shantu, ennio morricone, ben watt,
stina nordenstam, tracy thorn,
red house painters, moondog and
some other stuff I'm sure...
Movies:
Love Streams (1984)
Alice in den Stadten (1974)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Badlands (1973)
Down by Law (1986)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Blowup (1966)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
The Navigator (1924)
Manhattan (1979)
The Big Sky (1952)
Days of Eclipse (1988)
The Funeral (1996)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (73)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Breezy (1973)
Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël ? (96)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Out of the Past (1947)
Accattone (1961)
Eclipse (1962)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (76)
Few of Us (1996)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
Model Shop (1969)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Hana-bi (1997)
The Adjuster (1991)
Pale Rider (1985)
Kids (1995)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Man of Aran (1934)
La Règle du jeu (1939)
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
My Way Home (1978)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
La Maman et la putain (1973)
Night and the City (1950)
Charade (1963)
Walkabout (1971)
Once Upon a Time in the West (68)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Scarecrow (1973)
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Paris, Texas (1984)
The Unforgiven (1960)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Rome, Open City (1945)
The Trial (1962)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Lilith (1964)
Trouble Every Day (2001)
Laura (1944)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Lettre de Sibérie (1957)
The General (1927)
Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (74)
Family Life (1971)
Design for Living (1933)
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (33)
Through a Glass Darkly (1962)
La Peau douce (1964)
Modern Times (1936)
Sonatine (1993)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Blue Velvet (1986)
La Double vie de Véronique (1991)
The Godfather (1972)
Exotica (1994)
Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (66)
Elephant (2003)
The Great Dictator (1940)
High Art (1998)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Ken Park (2002)
Blade Runner (1982)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Annie Hall (1977)
La Dolce vita (1960)
Gummo (1997)
Le Joli mai (1963)
Andrei Rublev (1969)
Vidas Secas (1963)
King of New York (1990)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The River (1997)
Television:
sucks for the most part
(click link for long version)
Books:
James Agee
Raymond Carver
Don Dellilo
Carson McCullers
Jim Harrison
James Fogle
John Steinbeck
Andrew Garcia
Edward Bunker
J W Schultz...
