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THE NETHERLANDS, Brazil, Spain, India, Pakistan, England, USA, Japan, Morocco, Germany, France, Mali, Senegal, Cuba...the list never ends, actually- blueses, jazzes, soundtracks, psychedelic, old and some new school electronic, soul, classical, death/ power/ black/ hair metal, r'n'b, punk, old timey country/folk/bluegrass, funk, good disco, avant-garde, hardcore, prog/ fusion, old (and some) new school hip hop, noise, silence, etc. just good music....most of my own music pages are listed in my "Friends" section: Timo Ellis- The Netherlands- The Marcy Mnemonics- U. Mcdammon- Best Supporting Chango (w. PAPA JAPA)- Pterodactyl, Bird of Doom- ..and coming soon: Shania Divorce Shocker!
Is it mildly annoying to have a movie list this long? It's only gonna get (way) longer...Mostly classics for now, will thoroughly update soon...!Whatever Happened to baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich) Wild Strawberries,Persona (Bergman) Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) The Incredibles (Brad Bird) Clearcut (Richard Bujaski) The Diary of Chambermaid, The Discreet charm of the Bourgouisie(Luis Bunuel) Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow) The Conversation (Coppola) Dead Ringers, A History Of Violence (David Cronenberg) Z, Missing (Costa-Gavras) The Garden of The Finzi-Continis (Vittorio deSica) The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards) La Strada, Il Bidone, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, Giulietta of The Spirits, 8 1/2 (Fellini) The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford) The Manchurian Candidate (original, John Frankenheimer) My Beautiful Launderette, Prick up your Ears (Stephen Frears) Time Bandits, Brazil (Terry Gilliam) Contempt, Band of Outsiders ( Jean-Luc Godard) Ftzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) Notorious, Rope, Rear Widow, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds (Hitchcock) The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, The Treasure of The Sierra Madre (John Huston) Woman of The Dunes (Kiichi Ichikawa) Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison) The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan) The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe) A Streetcar Named Desire, On The Waterfront, East of Eden (Elia Kazan) Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, The Killing, The Shining, Spartacus (Kubrick) High And Low, Ikiru, Ran, Dreams, Rhapsody In August (Kurosawa) M, Metropois(Fritz Lang) Naked(Mike Leigh) Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean) A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Sergio Leone) Diner (Barry Levinson) 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Network (Sidney Lumet) The Elephant Man, Dune, Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) Jacobs Ladder (Adrian Lyne) All Abot Eve, Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) The Samurai (Jean Pierre-Mellville) Mad Max , Babe*(George Miller) Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer) Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood (Mike Nichols) Mamma Roma, Accattone (pier paolo pasolini) Klute, The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula) Midnight Express, Mississipi Burning (Alan Parker) The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) Bonnie and Clyde, Little Big Man (Arthur Penn) Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen) Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown (Roman Polanski) Three Days of The Condor (Sydney Pollack) Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi) The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) The World Of Apu (Satyajit Ray) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner) An Autumn tale( Eric Rohmer) The Boyfriend, Altered States (Ken Russell) The Brother From Another Planet, Matewan (John Sayles) Midnight Cowboy, The Falcon and The Snowman (John Schlesinger) Mean Streets, After Hours, Goodfellas (Scorsese) Cat People (Paul Schrader) Rocco and His Brothers, The Damned( Luchino Visconti) Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously, Master and Commander! (Peter Weir) Citizen Kane, Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles) Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders) Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Seven Year Itch, Some like it Hot! (Billy Wilder) Romeo and Juliet(Franco Zeffrelli)
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Mostly non-fiction lately, esp. stuff that reveals the greed/ lies/ brutality of the W. administration, et. al.: The War on Truth (Nafeez Ahmed), The New Nuclear Danger (Dr. Helen Caldicott), On Violence (Hannah Arendt), See No Evil (Robrt Baer)- now other stuff: Just Above my Head, Another Country, (James Baldwin), Midnight's Children (Rushdie), The Myth of Freedom (Chogyam Trungpa), Living In Truth (Vaclav Havel), The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) Tolstoy, Genet, Dostoevski, Calvino, Poe, Bukowski, Nabokov, Henry James, Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Pema Chodron...even more recently: The Third Chimpanzee (Jared Diamond). The Assassin's Gate (George Packer), Virginity or Death! (Katha Pollitt), Kubrick and Woody Allen Interviews, A People's History.. (Howard Zinn), Buddha (Osamu Tezuka), The Terror Timeline (Paul Thompson), 2012 (Daniel Pinchbeck), No Logo, The Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein), periodicals and comics galore
Louise Slaughter, Dr. Helen Caldicott, anybody that really stands up to the Bush Administration, James Baldwin, Van Halen (circa1981), The Cars, Buffy Sainte-Marie, U shrinivas, Tony Williams, Vaclav Havel, Arundhati Roy, Freddy Mercury, Michael Jackson, my older sister Elizabeth, Mark O'Brien, Hayao Miyazake (sp?), Mary Lou Williams, Diamanda Galas, Nafeez Ahmed, Bill Hicks, Angus Young, Agata from Melt Banana, Doc Watson, Ian Paice (sp?), Pema Chodron, original Bad Brains, Earth, Wind and Fire, Can, JimiJimiJimiJimiJimi, The Dalai Lama, Howard Zinn, George Carlin, Max Ernst, Bob and Doug Mckenzie, Ron English, Parliament/ Funkadelic, Chogyam Trungpa, Yuen Wo Ping, D. Boon, those old Steve Martin records, Mel Blanc, Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, The Jersey Girls, Johnny and June, Hannah Hoch, Dali, Luis Bunuel, Chalmers Johnson, ShowPerson, Shroudy, Naomi Klein