Power and its myriad uses.
Whimsical dictators, purposeful puppets, down-to-earth space cadets, artless creators, agnostic saints and the like.
Music be the food of love, G!If I missed putting your band in my list it's only because your music is too good to be on my list.Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland (especially old American songs sung by William Warfield), Debussy, Hayden, Handel, Holst, Ives, Mahler, Purcell, Ravel, Schostakovich, Vivaldi...Snoop Dogg (except those materialistic misogynistic lyrics - what's the point?). NWA...Rap can be great, with boss sounds, but I haven't followed the artists' names too much. Plus I'm kind of scared of them.Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Newer Johnny Cash. Taj Mahal.Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Shirley Horn, Blossom Dearie, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker.Stevie Wonder.The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Moody Blues (early), Tindersticks, Soft Machine, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, The Sex Pistols, Megadeth, Slayer, Marilyn Manson, The Buzzcocks, The Dead Milkmen, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Coldplay...
Yes, let's make one!I love foreign and independent stuff that dares to be weird, poses honest questions and gives me a sense of spiritual substance, especially and not excluding: The Singing Detective (original BBC version), Fanny and Alexander, The Battleship Potemkin, Nanook of the North, The Big Parade, The Crowd, The Deer Hunter, Strocszek, The State of Things, Yeelen, Black Orpheus, The Fast Runner, La Dolce Vita, Mon Oncle Antoine, The Gold Rush, The 39 Steps, North by Northwest, Vertigo, F for Fake, The Lady Vanishes, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Shadowlands (original BBC version), Fando Y Lis, El Topo, THX 1138, Made in Britain, Le Beau Marriage, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Le Genou de Claire, Georgy Girl, The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Take the Money and Run, Masculine Feminine, The Mother and the Whore, Last Tango in Paris, I Heart Huckabees, La Promesse, Les Bonnes Femmes, Les Bitches, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Napolean Dynamite, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Celebration, Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence, Scenes from a Marriage, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, It's a Wonderful Life, Adaptation, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Heat (by Paul Morrissey), Trash (P. Morrissey), Blood for Dracula (P. Morrissey), The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Green Wall, City of God. Documentaries include: Paradise Lost, Revelations, Brother's Keeper, Notebooks on Cities and Clothes, American Movie, The Thin Blue Line, Best Boy. Filmmaker keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Trauffaut, Werner Herzog, Claude Chabrol, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicholas Roeg, Jean Eustache, Eric Rohmer, Stanley Kubrick, Shoshei Imamura, Todd Solanz, Jean Renoir, Luis Bunuel, Martin Scorcese, John Cassavettes, Jacques Rivette, Paul Morrissey, King Vidor, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, David Lynch...
Rarely watch, but I really like "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Dave Chappelle. And Conan O'Brien is a brilliant foole. Breathtaking movie on HBO called, "Something the Lord Made." PBS. Also, TCM is just great.
Will you write a book for me? While I wait, I will settle for these people's work:J.D. Salinger, John Fante, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Raymond Carver, Haruki Murakami, Henry Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Nadine Gordimer, Dave Barry, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, D.H. Lawrence, Federico Garcia Lorca, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Dostoeyevski, Dickens, Eudora Welty. Books: The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Dreams from Bunker Hill, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Cathedral, Post Office, The Book of Sand....
Mommy and Daddy.