Make some music, create some literature, but don't do nearly enough of either...mostly because of a life-long rubick's cube obsession. This page has a sample of both my music and my writing.//This is an incomplete list but I thought I would take a few minutes with different categories and write down what came to mind.//
Novelists and Poets:Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gogol, Homer, Dante, Erasmus, Chaucer, Philip Roth, Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shelley, Don Delillo, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, John Donne (The Flea: best bar pick up line in the canon), Emerson, Richard Yates, The Great Gatsby, early Hemingway, T.S. Eliot (esp. The Wasteland), Mrs. Dalloway, Pride and Prejudice, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Ovid, Virgil, Petrach, Kafka, Musil, Henry Miller, Kundera, Marquez, Bulgakov, Nabakov, Lawrence, Russell Banks, Hesse, Celine (especially Journey To The End of Night).
Picks:
Group: 19th C. Russians
Book: The Brother Karamazov
Poetry Group: The English Romantics.
Poem: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell//Playwrights:
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Hauptman, Wedekind, Chekhov, Brecht, Pirandello, Beckett, Pinter, Antonin Artaud (theory) Carol Churchill, Sam Sheppard, Peter Handke, Jean Genet, Maria Irene Fornes, Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard.
Group: 20th C. European
Play: Hamlet (What? Not 20th C. European? See Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary)//Music (concert hall).
Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Stravinsky, Charles Ives, Alban Berg (Wozzeck: favorite 20th Century opera) Janacek, Lutoslavski, Bartok, Kodaly (Cello solo opus 8), Nielson, Shoenberg, Hindemith, Webern, Liget, Millhaud, Block, Honegger, Schuller, George Crumb, Roger Sessions, Morton Feldman.
Group: 20th C. European
Piece: Gustav Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde//Music (jazz//blues):
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Charles Gayle, Albert Ayler, John Zorn, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Robert Johnson, Son House, Pinetop Perkins, Charlie Patton.
Group: 20th C. American
Piece: A Love Supreme//Music:
The Beatles, Love, The Chocolate Watch Band, Bob Dylan, VU, Lou Reed, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, The Pixies, Camper Van Beethoven, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Alex Chilton, Robyn Hitchcock, The Cure, The Cult, Wilco, Sonvolt, The Smiths, Love and Rockets, Pavement, REM (80s), Social Distortion, The Replacements, XTC, Husker Du, Tom Waits, Beck, Nirvana, Patsy Cline, David Bowie, New Order, Peter Gabriel, Violent Femmes, Sonic Youth, Jane's Addiction, The Stone Roses, Pogues, World Party, Minutemen.//
Period: 80s alternative
Group: VU (What? Not 80s alternative? See Jon Kott's Lou Reed our contemporary)//Music (recent this decade that may eventually go on the list) The Moldy Peaches, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Belle and Sebastian, Modest Mouse, Olds 97, Bright Eyes, Arcade Fire, Apollo Sunshine, The Mendoza Line, Neko Case, Ryan Adams, Spoon, Sam Roberts, The Shins, New Pornographers, Sufjan Stephens.//Film
The Lumier Brothers, Melies, The Battleship Potemkin, Orson Welles, Godard, Fellini (especially La Dolce Vita), The Bicycle Thief, Robert Altman (esp. McCabe and Mrs. Miller), Lars Von Trier, Igmar Bergman, Buneul, Fritz Lang, Antonioni, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Terrence Malick (esp. Bandlands), Yasujiro Ozu (esp. Tokyo Story), Werner Herzog (esp. Aguirre), Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (esp, Ali, Fear Eats the Soul), Abbas Kiarostami, Pedro Almodovar, Scorsese, The Night Of The Hunter , Peckinpah, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ang Lee, Drugstore Cowboy/My Own Private Idaho, Wes Anderson, The Dresser, Last Tango In Paris, Fargo, The Blue Angel (1930), Fingers, The Hired Hand, The Apu Trilogy, The Best Years of Our Lives, Slackers.
Recent Films that may make it onto the list: Brokeback Mountain, Raising Victor Vargas, Thumbsucker, Tristram Shandy, 24 Hour Party People, Being Julia.
If I could only buy 5 films: The Apu Trilogy (I know, thats really 3 films), Tokyo Story, Breathless, La Dolce Vita, The Bicycle Thief.Visual: The German expressionists plus George Rouault (who is much closer to the German expressionsits than the Fauves anyway.)
Pick: Emil Nolde////Mythical intellectual that may capture the spirit of all the intellectuals that have influenced me: Sigmund Nietzsche
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