You, me and politics
I'd like to meet:
the Dalai Lama
Music:
PJ HARVEY, MORRISSEY, NICK CAVE, TORI AMOS, TRICKY
...
Air, Alpha, Astor Piazolla, Arcade Fire, Adult, Ali Farka Toure, Amália Rodrigues, Blondie, Boney M, Belle & Sebastian, Billy Idol, Bauhaus, Billie Holiday, B52s, Balla, Black Heart Procession, BRMC, Cat Power, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Colder, Chuck Berry, Chavela Vargas, Cesária Evora, Chicks on Speed, Charles Aznavour, Count Basie, Cinematic Orchestra, Calexico, Captain Beefheart, dEUS, DJ Patife, Death in Vegas, Daft Punk, Dee Lite, Depeche Mode, Dimitri from Paris, As Doce, Devendra Barnhart, Diamanda Galás, Detroit Cobras, Duke Ellington, Dead Can Dance, Ennio Morriconne, Earth Wind & Fire, Eagles of Death Metal, Echo and the Bunnymen, Françoise Hardy, Groove Armada, Goran Bregovic, Gill Scott Heron, Hank Williams, Human League, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Jacques Brel, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Johnny Cash, John Cage, Juliette and the Licks, Jay Jay Johanson, Kraftwerk, Le Tigre, LCD Soundsystem, Lou Reed, Ladytron, Lydia Lunch, Mazzy Star, Mogway, Mr Airplane Man, Mão Morta, Motorhead, Marianne Faithfull, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, New Order, Nina Simone, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Peaches, Patty Smith, Patsy Cline, Portishead, Phillip Glass, Pop Dell Arte, QSTA, Recoil, Roxy Music, Ry Cooder, Ramones, Rolling Stones (early), Serge Gainsbourg, Sonic Youth, Sleater Kinney, Siouxsy Sioux, St. Germain, Sex Pistols, Soul Coughing, Tindersticks, Talking Heads, Texabilly Rockets, Trans AM, The Raveonettes, The Cramps, The Smiths, The Kinks, The Ronettes, The Propellerheads, The Spinto Band, The Go-Betweens, The Slits, The Strokes, The Faint, The White Stripes, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, 2ManyDJs, The Raincoats, Velvet Underground, Vincent Gallo, Xiu Xiu, Zeca Afonso and soooo much more....
Movies:
Film noir, Hollywood epics, silent films, world cinema and french dramas. Some films: Jaws, Flashdance, Citizen Kane, Exorcist, Divine Intervention (Elian Suleiman), Gerry (Gus Van Sant), Le goût des autres (Agnes Jaoui), Blue Velvet (David Lynch), Pulp Fiction, Amarcord (Fellini), Psycho, Amélie, Dracula (with Bela Lugosi), The Night of the Living Dead (George Romero), Black Cat White Cat (Kusturica), Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray), Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), Dirty Dancing, Hana Bi (Takeshi Kitano), Playtime (Jacques Tati), Morocco (Joseph Sternberg), Breaking the Waves, 120 days of Sodoma (Pasolini), Persona (Bergman), Les Journals d'une femme de chambre (Bunuel, )Dogsville, Funny Games (Michael Haneke), The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover (Peter Greenaway), Naked (Mike Leigh, Amateur (Hal Hartley), Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow), Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow), TaxiDriver, Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers), Amélie, No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic).
All by Almodovar, Tarantino, Kubrick, Hong Kar Way, Lars Von Trier, Kiarostami and Hitchcock!!!
Television:
Green Wing, Peep Show, ER, Twin Peaks, Frasier, The Love Boat, Dallas, All in the Family, Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, Miss Marple, Poirot, Murder she wrote, Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street Blues, Herman Jose, Júlio Isidro and Carlos Cruz shows that have so fullfilled my childhood, RTP2, Newsnight, current affairs documentaries, History Channel, old b&w films
Books:
"Jonathan Livingstone Seagull" by Richard Bach is such an inspiring fable... Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa, Saramago, Al Berto, Natália Correia, George Orwell, Paul Auster, Garcia Marquez, F Scott Fitzgerald, Chomsky, Edward Said, Graham Greene, JG Ballard, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Patrick Suskind "Das Parfum", Capote, Tom Wolfe, Murakami, Michel Houllebecq, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke poetry, Marquês de Sade, Vaclav Havel, Laura Esquivel "Like water for chocolate", Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Amelie Nothomb...
Heroes:
Anybody that fights oppression, injustice and poverty. Random people I admire: Orlando Raimundo (for his precious teachings in journalism), Fernão de Magalhães, Zeca Afonso, Emmeline Pankhurst, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, Martin Bell, Vaclav Havel, John Pilger, Johnny Rotten, Patti Smith, Ian Curtis, Guerrila Girls and the Lumiere Brothers
Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes
Brave portuguese explorer and the first person to sail around the worldThe beginning of the moving image in 1895, Paris - Lumiere Brothers
Palestinian liberation fighter "I MADE THE RING FROM A BULLET AND THE PIN OF A HAND GRENADE"-Leila Khaled
Nuba people, Sudan
Pic taken by me: Young muslims in Sarajevo, June 2006
