Nature, Philosophy, Religion, Art, Architecture, Archaeology, Science, the Ocean, Travel, World History, Science Fiction, Film, Silents, Classic Theater Plays, Some Musicals, Languages and Etymology.
I'd like to meet:
RELIGIOUS FIGURES:Jesus the Christ, Mary, Joseph, Mary Magdalene, St. John, St. Peter, Moses, John the Baptizer, David, Daniel, Isaiah, Lao Tse, Buddha, Mohammed.MUSIC:Caruso, Farinelli, Maria Callas, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, Liszt, Paganini.LITERATURE:Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Cervantes.THINKERS:Plato, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Euclid, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, Pascal, Voltaire, Descartes.ARTISTS:Michelangelo Buonaroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, Picasso, Titian, Monet, Brueghel, Raphael, Renoir, Hieronymous Bosch.POLITICAL FIGURES:José MartÃ, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Alexander the Great, Marie Antoinette, King Tut, Julius Caesar.That's a good start, I think...uh...and Juan Diego Florez, the most fabulously talented Tenor in the world today!!!
Who I Have Met:
PIANISTS:Vladimir Horowitz, Claudio Arrau, David Helfgott, Agustin Anievas, Earl Wild, Ivan Davis, Andras Schiff, Andre-Michel Schub, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alexis Weissenberg, Andre Watts, Ivo Pogorelich, Eugene Istomin, Menachem Pressler, Anthony de MareCONDUCTORS:Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Frederick Fennell, James JuddVIOLINISTS:Nina BeilinaCELLISTS:Lynn HarrellCHAMBER GROUPS:Beaux Arts Trio, Juilliard String Quartet, Camerata Bariloche of ArgentinaCOMPOSERS:John Cage, John Corigliano, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem, Robert Ward, Carlisle Floyd, Juan Pablo SubiranaOPERA SINGERS:Luciano Pavarotti (twice), Jessye Norman, Monserrate Caballé, Martina Arroyo, James McCracken, Mirella Freni, Maureen Forrester, Dmitri Hvrostovsky, Mignon Dunn, Evelyn Lear, Cornell MacNeil, Anna Russell (opera comedienne)ACTORS:Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Cliff RobertsonPOP SINGERS:Julio Iglesias, Casey (KC) from the Sunshine BandCOMICS:Jackie Mason, Rip Taylor, Terry Jones (Monty Python)WRITERS:Chaim Potok, Allen Ginsberg
Music:
Classical music from 1500 to 2006, Opera, Early Ragtime to 50s Jazz and Blues, Pop Standards from 1880s to 1960s, Indian Ragas, Middle-Eastern, Cuban Standards, Mexican Rancheros, Indigenous Peruvian music, Argentinean Tangos, Celtic, Primitive African, 60s Bubble-Gum, Early 80s British and German underground, Progressive, New Wave, also Early Nitzer Ebb, Sigur Ros, Mogwai.
Movies:
Too numerous to mention. Comedies, Dramas, Historical Epics, Biopics, Classics on the screen, Silents like Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Lillian Gish, Dolores del Rio, Charlie Chaplin to Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Orson Welles, Ramon Novarro, Charles Laughton, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, to Alfred Hitchcock, Sergei Eisenstein, Kurosawa, Frankenheimer, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Kubrick, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, George Cukor, Federico Fellini, Vincente Minnelli, Preston Sturges, Andrei Tarkovksy, Theodoros Angelopoulos,
Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lean, Orson Welles, Hal Ashby, Joel and Ethan Coen, Mike Nichols, Otto Preminger...
Suffice it to say that I prefer classic film in the vein of Criterion and Janus and the Golden Era of filmmaking.But I can be coaxed to more modern fare with a little persuasion. :)
Television:
Bewitched, Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy, Carol Burnett Show, Twilight Zone (all versions), Outer Limits (old and new series), One Step Beyond, My Favorite Martian, The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Burns and Allen (LOVE that Gracie Allen!), My Little Margie, I Married Joan, Life of Riley, What's My Line? (original only), M.A.S.H., The Honeymooners, The Munsters, The Addams Family, All In The Family, Colombo, Matlock, Diagnosis: Murder, Banacek.
And recently some great offbeat programs: Psych, Monk, House, Dead Like Me, Eureka, Law and Order-Criminal Intent and SVU, Bones, Coupling (UK version), To The Manor Born (UK), Will and Grace, The First Wave (Sci-Fi), King of The Hill, X-Files, American Idol, Agatha Christie Mysteries, Mystery! (PBS), Discovery, Travel, Animal, Turner Classic Movies, Classical Arts Showcase.For starters...
Books:
The Holy Bible, Agatha Christie (any), The World According to Garp, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Carl Hiaasen (any), Death Be Not Proud, The Billion Dollar Sandbar, Don't Know Much About The Bible...But mainly, I love to read non-fiction books, history, science, religion, books about knowledge and understanding...where does one start?
Heroes:
José MartÃ, my Father, my Mother, my Sister
