Art and artists - Music, photography, fashion, painting, people - I love people - is that so strange? - piano (a concert grand - size does matter!), horses (for real - I love horses - I used to compete professionally), comedy, gardening (I'm a farm boy at heart), architecture, travel, languages, movies, good food & wine... and Tuscany, where I grew up... one of the most beautiful places in the world...
I'd like to meet:
Cool people - anyone into music, literature, photography, film, fashion or the arts in general - LA, London, New York, Italy... anywhere
Music:
Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, Bach, Puccini, Verdi, Bellini, Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, Debussy, Bizet, Berlioz, Sibelius, Dvorjak, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov - and anything passionate and beautiful as well as music that is beautifully sad. Flamenco, tango, rock, blues, jazz, old Napolitano songs, lounge, Jap rock and anything inspired. Nino Rota, Bernard Herman, Eric Korngold, Morricone, Howard Shore, Danny E - any great movie scores - (since I am now writing some myself). And as for rock - er, early Bowie, T.Rex, Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Led Zep, Radiohead, Stone Roses, Coldplay, Oasis, Bjork, the Who, U2, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, Matteo, Zucchero, Klaus Nomi, the Hollies, Hot Chocolate, B.B.King, Johnny Lee Hooker, Sigur Ros and so on - very eclectic.
Movies:
The Lady Eve, the Big Sleep, Shakespeare in Love, Kill Bill, Some Like it Hot, Cyrano de Bergerac, Toto.. e la Malafemmina, Rashomon, Les Visiteurs, Sullivan's Travels, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Philadelphia Story, Mutiny on the Bounty, Spaghetti westerns, Fargo, Spinal Tap, A Fish Called Wanda, Frida, True Romance, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Casablanca, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, L'Avventura, Lord of the Rings, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Il Bidone, House of Flying Daggers, the Godfather I, II & III, Blow Up, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Palm Beach Story, Citizen Kane, Hail the Conquering Hero, Crouching Tiger, The Thin Man, Belle de Jour, Pirates of the Caribbean, One Eyed Jacks, Crash, Ryan's Daughter, Sunset Boulevard, Mad Max, Chinatown, Barry Lyndon, Clockwork Orange, Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Amadeus, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Groundhog Day, Annie Hall, I Vitelloni, Immortal Beloved, Pulp Fiction, Roma Citta.. Aperta, Il Generale della Rovere, Dr. Strangelove, Les Enfants Terribles, Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Pink Panther, French Connection, Seven Samurai, Winslow Boy, Mediterraneo, Lawrence of Arabia, Hero, Cowboy Beebop, Long Good Friday, Sleeper, My Man Godfrey, Mrs Doubtfire, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Touch of Evil, Shawshank Redemption, LA Confidential, Rocky Horror Picture Show, North by Northwest, the Hustler, the Graduate, Adam's Rib, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Captain Blood, Dr Zhivago and so on
Television:
I don't even own a TV
Books:
Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen, Plato, Aristophanes, Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse, Dante, The Da Vinci Code, Feydeau, Karen Blixen, Hemingway, Dickens, Tolstoy, Turgenyev, Chekov, Goethe, Boccaccio, Wilde, o.henry, Virgil, Italo Calvino, Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse, Moliere, Raymond Chandler, Donne, Shelley, Keats, Shakespeare, Chaucer, M.E.C. Horton, Voltaire, Bronte's, E E "Doc" Smith, Scott Fitzgerald, Conrad, Tolkein, Byron, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, Maupassant, Flaubert, Joe Orton, Samuel Becket, Dumas, Pirandello and so on
Heroes:
Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Franz Liszt, Preston Sturges, Toto', Eddie Izzard and Ziggy Stardust - of course
