Truth. Life and death.
I'd like to meet:
Nobody.
JOHNNY CASH lyrics
Music:
Not in any order but Mr. Cash is still No. 1: Johnny Cash, Peer Gynt, Stone, Kingston Wall, Rush, Led Zeppelin, 45 Degree Woman, Von Hertzen Brothers, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Thin Lizzy, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Dio, Blue Oyster Cult, Suburban Tribe, Tool, Prince, Depeche Mode, Ennio Morricone, Basil Poledouris, Bernard Hermann, Hybrid Children, rock and rokki, 70's hard'n'heavy, southern-rock, ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Godsplague, Pantera-Dimebag-Anselmo, Zakk Wylde, Euge Valovirta, Ted Nugent, Steve Vai, Rory Gallagher, Social Distortion, Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols, Clash, Problems?, Pelle Miljoona, Mana Mana, pre-Load Metallica, Slayer, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, outlaw country, sad country songs, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Stray Cats, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Elvis, Robbie Williams, Vesa-Matti Loiri's Eino Leino & Ivalo albums and many others
Movies:
anything directed by these good people: Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, Sergio Leone and Darren Aronofsky. Other favourite directors: Clint Eastwood, Sam Peckinpah, John Woo, Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder, John Ford, Martin Scorsese, Matti Ijäs and Aku Louhimies
My Top (not in particular order and subject to change any minute)
- Charlie Chaplin: all (Gold Rush specially)
- David Lean: Lawrence Of Arabia & Bridge On the River Kwai
- Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and Cross Of Iron
- Stanley Kubrick: all (Barry Lyndon & Clockwork Orange specially)
- Francis Ford Coppola: Godfather part I & part II, Apocalypse Now!
- Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull & Goodfellas
- Elia Kazan: On The Waterfront & East Of Eden
- Howard Hawks: Rio Bravo
- John Ford: The Searchers
- Darren Aronofsky: Requiem For a Dream
- Sergio Leone: Once Upon A Time In the West & Once Upon A Time In America
- Giuseppe Tornatore: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso & L'Uomo delle stelle
- John Woo: The Killer & Bullet In The Head
- Sofia Coppola: Virgin Suicides
- Steven Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark
- George Miller: Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)
- Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack: King Kong
- Michael Curtiz & William Keighley: The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Clint Eastwood: Pale Rider & The Unforgiven
- John Carpenter: The Thing
- Brian DePalma: Scarface & The Untouchables
- Aku Louhimies: Irtiottoja, Paha Maa & Valkoinen Kaupunki
- Matti Ijäs: Katsastus
Television:
Conan O'Brien, Simpsons and Yle news (I miss Arvi Lind, he always told the truth)
Books:
- My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin
- Bruce Lee - Fighting Dragon by Bruce Thomas
- I Need Love by Klaus Kinski
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Sin City by Frank Miller
- Halla by Eino Leino
- Ghost Rider - Travels On The Healing Road by Neil Peart
Heroes:
- My father and my mother
- My brother Kitsi
- My very few true friends
- Charlie Chaplin
- Eino Leino
- Tarzan, Korak, Jane, Cheetah and Tantor
- Conan O'Brien, Conan the Barbarian
- Robin Hood, Winnie The Pooh, Homer Simpson
- Arvi Lind