MySpace is entering Orwellian menopause. What is interesting is interesting, and gives rise, via a-causal syncronicity and general domino effect phenomena, to other things that are compelling. To put it more succinctly....and in spite of the fact that myspace is essentially a list-networking community...this category is a small and one dimensional bread pan that is asking for more yeast than it can comfortably hold. To rattle off a few things before the dough bloats and expands: poetry, film, the ocean, 19th century postmortem daguerreotypes, cats, surrealism, dadaism, mythology, folklore, (particularly the more macabre British figures, like Raw Head & Bloody Bones) alcohol, oceanography, astrology, the American West, the American South, physics, dream interpretation, snow, Mexican food, vengeance, caricature, theatre, philosophy, the road (in the diminishing epic sense) Americana, Kitsch
Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Vivaldi: Four Seasons, The Pogues, The Pixies, Patty Griffin, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Charlie Parker, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Nosferatu soundtrack (Herzog version) Bruce Springsteen (Born To Run/Nebraska era), early Elton John (Madman Across The Water era) PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, Townes Van Zant, Old Crow Medicine Show, Cowboy Junkies, Patsy Cline, Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, Sonata Absurda, Big Black, My Bloody Valentine, Bauhaus, The Cure, Throbbing Gristle, Psychik TV, Legendary Pink Dots, Loreena McKinnett, Concrete Blonde, Throwing Muses (the earlier the better), Nick Cave (for his lyrics rather than his music), Velvet Underground, Gershwin Concerto In F, music from Porgy & Bess, The Goblins (Dario Argento's "Suspiria") Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, Counting Crows (for "August & Everything After" mainly) Bob Seger, Skynrd, AC/DC, Black 47, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Sex Pistols, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, Martha Wainwright, The Smiths, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Eagles, Abba, Bee Gees, Mazzy Star, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sarah McLachlan, Gitane Demone, Nirvana, Portishead, Goldfrapp, and many others who aren't coming to mind right now. »-(¯`v´¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯`v´¯)-«
Mulholland Drive, The Wizard Of Oz, Persona, The Virgin Spring, The Saddest Music In The World, Wings Of Desire, Taxi Driver, Through A Glass Darkly, Hour Of The Wolf, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, Orpheus, Blood Of A Poet, La Strada, 8 1/2, Camille Claudel, The Story Of Adele H, Madchen In Uniform, Haxan (1922) The Cement Garden, Sunset Boulevard, Beyond The Forest, All About Eve, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Dark Victory, The Haunting (Claire Bloom/Julie Harris...NOT the unspeakable remake) Night of The Hunter, Double Indemnity, Crumb, The Innocents (Deborah Kerr.....one of the best horror films ever made)Repulsion, Bitter Moon, Rosemary's Baby, El Topo, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Mystery Train, Heavenly Creatures,My Summer Of Love, The Dreamers, American Splendor, Last Tango In Paris, Streetcar Named Desire, On The Waterfront, Dr. Zhivago, Possession (Adjani/Neal)Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Don't Look Now, Annie Hall, Stardust Memories, Hannah & Her Sisters, Sleeper, Manhattan, Breaking The Waves, Orlando, Psycho, The Birds, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Nosferatu (Herzog) Grizzly Man, My Best Fiend, Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Female Trouble, Mondo Trasho, Hairspray, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Ed Wood, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen Or Glenda, Suspiria, Liquid Sky, Spinal Tap/Waiting For Guffman/A Mighty Wind/Best In Show, Blade Runner, Apocalypse Now, Boys Don't Cry, Bukowski: Born Into This, Ghostworld, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Barfly, Within The Realms Of The Unreal: The Mystery Of Henry Darger, All That Jazz, Black Orpheus, The Exorcist (director's cut) Harold & Maude, Evil Dead, 2000 Maniacs, or any similarily kitschy B-grade horror film, Reefer Madness and its drug-scare descendants, Sexploitation films, badly dubbed low budget films, Cemetery Man, Hud, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Wild At Heart, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Last Unicorn, A Christmas Story, Paris Texas, Midnight Cowboy, Wiseblood, Chinatown, Betty Blue, Contempt, La Belle Nouisse, .... there are so many more.....it will take hours for me to remember, and subsequently list, my film preferences.
The Twilight Zone (original Rod Serling series) Twin Peaks, The Simpsons (they got Thomas Pynchon on there...and the Ayn Rand School For Tots) South Park, Reel Wild Cinema, Family Guy, American Dad, Seinfeld, Little House On The Prairie
Djuna Barnes's "Nightwood" & Alexander Theroux's "Darconville's Cat" (my two favorite novels of all time.....and a sublime "box set" of sorts) poets: Robinson Jeffers, John Ashbery, James Wright, Robert Lowell (especially his late work) DH Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Ted Hughes, John Berryman, ee cummings, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Yeats, HD, Frost, Randall Jarrell, Robert Penn Warren, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Kim Addonizio, Mark Strand, Diane DiPrima (I don't generally care for Beat poetry, but she is frequently an exception) Rilke (the Stephen Mitchell translation) Rimbaud (the Paul Schmidt translation only) the complete & unabridged Grimm's Fairy Tales, Struwwelpeter, Florence King, "With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy," anything Florence King has ever written (she has been described as "the love child of a union between H.L. Mencken and Dorothy Parker, abandoned in early childhood and raised by Westbrook Pager"....)Proust, "Remembrance Of Things Past," Nabokov, "Speak Memory" "Ada" "Lolita;" "The Enchanter," anything by Vivian Darkbloom, any and all Thomas Pynchon, but above all "V," Faulkner, "The Sound & The Fury" "As I Lay Dying," A. Scott Berg, "Max Perkins:Editor Of Genius," Jean Paul Sartre (because he is a great comic writer) Jean Genet (so is he) Plato, "Symposium," Huxley "The Doors Of Perception," Samuel Beckett, "Krapp's Last Tape," Randall Jarrell, "Pictures From An Institution," "No Other Book,"Elizabeth Hardwick, "Seduction & Betrayal," Diane Middlebrook, "Her Husband: Hughes &; Plath: A Marriage," Nancy Schoenberger, "Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood," all Flannery O Connor, The Great Gatsby, Robertson Davies, "The Depford Trilogy,"John Kennedy Toole "Confederacy Of Dunces," Jack Kerouac "Visions Of Gerard" "Visions Of Cody" "Maggie Cassidy," & "On The Road", all Pauline Kael, the short fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Jean Stein's "Edie: An American Biography", Jim Hoberman & Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Midnight Movies," Shirley Jackson, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," JD Salinger, "Nine Stories" "Franny &; Zooey" "Raise High The Roofbeam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction," William S. Burroughs, "The Cat Inside," children's books: Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass, The Long Slide (a little known surrealistic masterpiece) Little House On The Prairie series, Harriet The Spy, Animal Farm, The Wind In The Willows, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Hans Christian Anderson, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (primarily by virtue of the brilliant, ghastly illustrations by Stephen Gammel) onwards: John Steinbeck, the stories of John Cheever, Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Virgin Suicides," the fiction of Richard Brautigan, some Bukowski ("Notes Of A Dirty Old Man" being probably the best) Jean Stafford, "The Mountain Lion," the novellas and short fiction of Algernon Blackwood, Dorothy Sayers, "The Mind Of The Maker," William Styron, "Lie Down In Darkness," Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek" and "The Writing Life," Denis Johnson "Jesus's Son," Brian Greene "The Elegant Universe" "The Fabric Of The Cosmos," and many others.
Djuna Barnes, Florence King, DH Lawrence, Robert Crumb, Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribners, the surrealists (Breton, Dali, Cocteau, Bellmer, Ernst, et al) Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch, Pauline Kael (except when she's wrong) Bette Davis, Tori Amos, Jack Kerouac, the Vivian girls, and anyone who loves, honors, and protects cats.