Good:
Movies
Music
People
Books
Food
Wine
Beer
Landscapes
Cityscapes
Spaces
Sports
Games
Girls
Bad:
Cheap:
Okay, I'm just kidding. Sort of.
I'd like to meet:
Federico Fellini... Ernest Hemingway... Helmut Newton... Buddy Holly... Gwynne Dyer... My buddy Vinny's blood dad, to find out if he has any idea what he missed out on... My mom's dad... Noam Chomsky's kids, to find out what it's like to live with that kind of pressure... Stephen Crane... Kobayashi Issa... Matsuo Basho... Kim Philby... Homer, Jesus, Akira Kurosawa, Lao Tzu, Theseus... Well, since you ASKED.
Music:
This will be constantly evolving, I'm sure. Here goes: Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, Otis Redding, Buddy Holly, Nina Simone, Emmylou Harris, The Velvet Underground, Serge Gainsbourg, Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire, Beethoven, The Pretenders, most Motown, like Marvin, Smokey, Diana, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Mary Wells, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Marvellettes, Stevie Wonder, most old school R&B like Otis, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Sam & Dave, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, LaVern Baker, Solomon Burke, The Coasters, The Drifters, The Spinners, Clarence Carter, The Commodores, The Dramatics, Barry White, Al Green, I like dance hall, Beenie Man, Buju, I like reggae and ska, Finley Quaye, The Specials, Selecter, I like Tom Waits, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Sonics lots of old stuff. I like Feist, Nellie McKay, what I've heard of Bright Eyes. Gram Parsons. I pretty much like anything so long as it's good. I love live orchestral performances and rock'n'roll.
Movies:
Myths about the developing world (Amazing graphics) (TEDTalks, Hans Rosling)
This is a great way to spend 20 minutes, especially if you understanding the world is important to you.With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks a few myths about the "developing" world. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:35) - More TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com
Damn. If I start I'm going to starve because I'll keep writing and forget to eat. Fellini, Kurosawa, some Coen Brothers stuff, Malick, anything written by Charlie Kaufman... for recent stuff, check out my blog Persistence of Vision .
Books:
Most of Hemingway's books that were published while he was alive... Death in the Afternoon and A Moveable Feast among the tops, but The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, and For Whom The Bell Tolls all kicked my ass. One Hundred Years of Solitude was great. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Robert Haas' translations of the haiku masters called The Essential Haiku is, with Stephen Crane's Complete Poems, my bible. I loved Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer. I dig David Mamet's nonfiction - The Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama was awesome. I'm loving Future: Tense by Gwynne Dyer. Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky was killer. Akira Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography was one of the sweetest, funniest, most touching reads I've had in ages. The Great Gatsby was sweet. Franny and Zoe sucked. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was pretty wild. Camus' The Outsider ruled. I'm reading bits and pieces of a sailing manual that's fun and I'm getting a kick out of the Set Lighting Technician's Handbook by an author with an unfortunate name - Harry C. Box. That's it for now...
Heroes:
My brother, my mom, my Oma, my buddy Vinny.
