Bumpernuts, boobs, movies, short men, music videos, lacrymosal reactions to art, editing, cameras, lighting, serious music, opera, the smell of old books, botanical porn, euculturality, new york accents, 3's, sexuality, queer, dandy, fashionality, oh! and the opposite of love, afrocentrism the only true oppositional movement extant, neo-neopolitan sixths, material redemption, wine soaked madelaines, boy make-up...ask me more?
Creatives only need apply, and those who are desperately not famous but willing to do what it takes to resist going into the hamster wheel. Artists, crafters, composers, actors, painters, fashion, gender benders, cosmonauts, goths who do not flush, music, etc, etc... General great people and beautiful types may hang out too.my favourite movie scene: he's got ass!
http://www.projectplaylist.com/playlist/additem/78748 Impressionistic, modern art music, loads of stuff...Phillip Glass, John Cage, does anyone have any info on Victor Hussar, I got some of his sheet music second hand and it is very naïve.For the piano, Beethoven sonatas are my staple diet, Villa Lobos, Mompou (I really enjoy), Lizst Rhapsodies, Schubert, Satie, Debussy (of course), Carlos Seixas, Rameau, Widor, Scarlatti, anything I can get my hands on to sight read basically.On the popular modern side, Deep Dish, Nelly Furtado, Nick Cave, Maria Bêthania, The Articulate Hymens, Dead can Dance, m a d o n n a (anytime, anywhere, just cannot get enough of the glamour), 80's crap!, Nina Hagen, eurotrash, Kraftwerk, Nina Simone, Pet Shop Boys,Dead can Dance! Evita, Cabaret, Elton John, Café del Mar, Kwaito (from South Africa), Madredeus, Fado...dance music with humourous lyrics, Favourite song: The song to which I am making love XO
Directors: John Greyson, Jack Lewis, Fosse, Almodovar, Greenaway, Godard, French New Wave, Fassbinder, Wenders, Lynch, von Trier, van Sant, Scorsese, Malick, Minnelli, and so on and so on... Experimental, new genres...Examples (older): Rosa, Pillow Book, "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover", Lost Highway, Dune, Muholland Drive, American in Paris, Cabaret, Meet Me in St. Louis, "New York, New York", Goodfellas, Casino, Blair Witch Project (very impressed), Velvet Goldmine, Lillies, Proteus, Pricilla, Ed Wood, Goonies, The Cat from Outer Space, My Stepmother's an Alien, Dancer in the Dark, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mala Educacion, Willow, The Piano, Gilda, Stand by Me, Adaptation, Viagem O Principio do Mundo, The Craft, Interview with a Vampire, Metropolis, Princess Mononoké, Blue Angle, Querelle, Boys in the Band, El Crime del Padre Amaro, Caligula, Top Gun, Serial Mom, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Phantom of the Paradise, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Boogie Nights, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Koyaanisqatsi, Y Tu Mama Tambiem, Kings of the Road, Bande a Part!!!!, Weekend, Alphaville, Mean Streets, Bamboozled,(newer): The King, New World, Renaissance, Totsi (very proud), Manderlay, Last Days, Brokeback Mountain (see my blog), Capote, Foon, De Battre Mon Coeur S'Arreté, Darshan,From Cannes: Electroma (Daft Punk 74min Music Video--lots of fun!), Short Bus (very comfortable to watch), Marie Antoinette (see Blog), Fast Food Nation, and Summer Palace.
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Russian Classic, Autobiography, Criminal Pathology and...should read a lot more non-fiction - respect - At the Moment (circa June 2006) David Sedaris, Paul Verlaine, and, the grand master, Brett Easton Ellis (mind blowing) African Cinema
Family, Ghandi, Beethoven, Simon Silber (who never really existed), nurses, aid workers, soldiers (when they are just), Mozart (now since 27/03/04 - see Blog), some of the great teachers I have known like Bunny (don't laugh) from the Drakenberg Boys' Choir, immigrants, refugees, Gluck, Mandela (wow), Renaissance Men, Warhol (well, he does not really belong here), Gay activists there is a lot to be won.Anti-heroes: Britney Spears (Tit-knee), President Bush, Paris Hilton (well, sometimes she is just too much!), Snobbish people with silly jobs, French film directors who make commercial films (what a waste!), Romantic comedy directors (unless i like them, ;)), Action movie directors (most of them!), Dan Brown (I shall surely lurch), Most Comedy directors, that guy who wrote "The Power of One" because nothing bad every happens in that book?, Spammers, One Night Stands (I say "Amen"),..