cinema, photography, music, literature, playin' guitar (or should I say strummin' on it), politics, contemporary history, cats, chocolate, foolin' around, (black hot bitter) coffee and (hand-rolled) cigarettes, cyclin', Peanuts!, shopping and vintage clothing...
I'd like to meet:
Timothy Leary
Music:
I love good music, whatever genre it belongs to.
Some of my favourite musicans are: the Beatles, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Joe Strummer and the Clash, Joy Division, the Who, the Kinks, Radiohead, the Stone Roses, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Blur, Johnny Cash, Wannadies, Violent Femmes, Paul Weller and the Jam, Morrissey and the Smiths, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, the Shins, Emiliana Torrini, Belle & Sebastian, Yo La Tengo, Pixies, dEUS, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Italian songwriters (Fabrizio De Andrè, Vinicio Capossela, Rino Gaetano, Paolo Conte), George Gerswhin, Chet Baker.
French music enchantes me.
LATELY:
Barzin - My life in rooms
Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything?
Sparklehorse - Good morning spider
Giardini di Mirò - Rise and fall of academic driftings
Tortoise - Millions now living will never die
Movies:
My favourite directors are Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, Billy Wilder, Jean Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, Joel & Ethan Coen, Robert Altman, Federico Fellini, Quentin Tarantino , Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmush, Woody Allen, Orson Welles.
I'm in love with french Nouvelle Vague.
Some of my favourite movies (in no particular order):
Touch of Evil, Sunset Boulevard, Le ballon rouge, The killing, The third man, M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder , Freaks, City lights, À bout de souffle, Jules et Jim, Casablanca, Entr'Acte, Brazil, Taxi Driver, Dead Man, Donnie Darko, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Vertigo, Boogie Nights, Bringing up baby, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, Dolls, C'era una volta in America, Unforgiven, 8½, Lost in translation, Afterhours, Iron 3, Catch me if you can, Requiem for a dream, Reservoir dogs, Apocalypse now, Annie Hall, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dogme #2: Idioterne, Old Boy, The usual supects, Animal House, Underground, Stand by me, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Der himmel uber Berlin, Paris Texas, The meaning of life, Harold and Maude, Hiroshima Mon Amour, In the mood for love, Young Frankenstein, The elephant man, Il sorpasso, The Godfather (Parts I and II), Being John Malkovich, Alice in Wonderland, The adventures of Robin Hood, Memento, La haine, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
(More to come)
LATELY:
The purple rose of Cairo - Woody Allen
Ae Fond Kiss - Ken Loach
The Corporation - Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Body Double - Brian De Palma
La masseria delle allodole - Paolo e Vittorio Taviani
Television:
«I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book»
(Groucho Marx)
Books:
I don't read very much. I often tell myself "Read more!", but my chronic laziness always wins.
However, here are some books I read when I used to read and that I really really love: Zazie dans le mètro (Raymond Queneau), Ask the dust (John Fante), Ficciones (Jorge L. Borges), The duel (Joseph Conrad), The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (Tim Burton), almost everything I read by Orwell and Hemingway, Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami), Candide (Voltaire), Jules e Jim (Henri Pierre Rochè), The wind in the willows (Kenneth Graham), Snow (Maxence Fermine), The master and Margarita and Heart of a dog (Michail Bulgakov), Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), A Thin Dark Line (Joe R. Lansdale), The big sleep (Raymond Chandler), The catcher in the rye (Jerome D. Salinger), Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), L'Homme qui Rit (Victor Hugo), Ascolta il mio cuore (Bianca Pitzorno), Pulp (Charles Bukowski), Diario de un killer sentimental (Luis Sepulveda), Trois chambres à Manhattan (George Simenon), The Great Gatsby (Francis Scott Fitzgerald), Happy Days (Samuel Beckett), Les illusions perdues (Honoré de Balzac), Dedalus - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce), Traumnovelle (Arthur Schnitzler), La chatte (Colette), A lost lady (Willa Cather), Peter Pan (James Mattew Barrie), Snow Country (Kawabata Yasunari), Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Wolf), The Lord of the flies (William Golding), The age of innocence (Edith Wharton), The Gambler (Fedor Dostoevskij), Uno, nessuno e centomila (Luigi Pirandello), High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), Der Tod in Venedig (Thomas Mann), La vida es sueño (Pedro Calderon de la Barca), La bête humaine (Emile Zola), Watership Down (Richard Adams), De brevitate vitae (Seneca), The Devils of Loudun (Aldous Huxley), Leben des Galilei (Bertolt Brecht), Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima), Triste, solitario y final (Osvaldo Soriano)...
LATELY:
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Julio Cortázar - Historias de cronopios y de famas
Jean-Luc Godard - JLG/JLG Autoportrait de décembre
Seneca - De brevitate vitae
Fedor Dostoevskij - Le notti bianche
Heroes:
«Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes»
(Bertold Brecht)
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