LIFE.
I'd like to meet:
Yummy people.
Music:
At random.Indigo Girls, Lhasa, Carla Bruni, Ani di Franco, Bob Dylan, Manu Chao, Gillian Welsh, and more, and then throw in Franz Ferdinand, the Strokes, Portishead, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Diana Krall, Chopin, Schubert, Mozart, Bach, old school madrigals, Debussy, Satie, Ravel, Brassens, Brel, Bob Marley, Jamiroquai, Nirvana for special occasions(:, Noir Desir late period, Tryo, Ella and Billie, Stacey Kent, Yann Tiersen, Calexico, Bjork, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Brendan Benson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Loreena McKennit, Altan, Air, Depeche Mode, Jane Siberry, Old School Madonna, Kasey Chambers, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Third World, Edith Piaf, The Divine Comedy, Snow Patrol, PJ Harvey, Cat Stevens, Ekova, Joni Mitchell, Manu Chao, Peggy Lee, Suzanne Vega, Souad Massi, Don Maclean, Lisa Ekdahl, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Conflict diamonds.
Movies:
Among faves: Babette's Feast, Cyrano de Bergerac, Star Wars( the first ones), Children of Paradise (old French film), Princess Bride, Dark Crystal, The Wizard of Oz, Le roi et l'oiseau, The Great Dictator (Chaplin is a genius), Gone with the Wind, L'effrontee, Three Colours Red, Dances with Wolves, Robin Hood, Peau d'Ane, Jacquot de Nantes; lately have really enjoyed Merry Christmas, Etre et Avoir, Hotel Rwanda, The End of the Affair, Howards End, Amelie, Spirited Away, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Roman Holiday, Bridget Jones 1, Legally Blonde 1, Wayne's World, Garden State, West Side story, Manhattan, Everyone says I Love You, It's a Wonderful Life, I admit to having loved Titanic as well(:, Fantasia, Elizabeth, Bagdad Cafe, Princess Bride, Lost in Translation, LOTR especially number Two, Le Petit Criminel, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blade Runner, Indiana Jones, and of course...Bergman's Magic Flute, Fanny and Alexander, and the Seventh Seal...Baisers Voles by Truffault, When Harry met Sally, Respiro, Il Postino, Caro Diario, La Double Vie de Veronique, A very long engagement, anything that blows my mind, lifts my spirit, makes me laugh, takes me far, makes me believe.....
Television:
Friends, The Office, Anne of Green Gables, BBC's Pride and Prejudice, Kaamelott, Curb your Enthusiasm. And I admit to an obsession with Strictly Come Dancing...(-:
Books:
top 10 in no order: David Copperfield, Lord of the Rings, Music and Silence, by Rose Tremain, La nuit des temps by Barjavel, Harry Potter (4,5 and 6 as one big book!),A wizard of Earthsea by U Le Guin, Letters to a young poet by Rilke, Jonathan Strange and Mister Norell by Susanna Clarke, Lecons Particulieres by Helene Grimaud, The Artists' Way by Julia Cameron. I will add Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen...and The Little Prince. Oh and the Silver Skates and Ronya Fille de Brigand (for my inner child's choices!!!-nicely cheated eh!(-:)And Poetry by e.e cummings, Apollinaire, Aloysius Bertrand, Yeats, Rimbaud...
Heroes:
Marianne Williamson, Julia Cameron, Helene Grimaud, Gabrielle Roth, Juliette Binoche, Rose Tremain, Cheryl Hines (She is the BEST in Curb your enthusiasm),Christiane Northrup, Jennifer Ehle, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Gitta Malasz, Katy Yule, Agata Ciesla, Pirlouit, The Smurfs and Conflict Diamonds.
