Truth and Beauty.
Flamenquismo Duende Compas
Live Music, Living Art, Living Theatre.
Improv! Dance
The human voice, guitar, cello.
Electricity, Magnetism, Fire and Ice
Things that go whirr and thunk
Shiny things.
Watching the comedie humaine.
I'd like to meet:
Flamencos, World Musicians, artists in all media.
Hipsters, Flipsters, and finger-poppin' Daddies.
People who love to sing, people who love to riff.
The better angels of my nature
?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
Morpheus
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Music:
Flamenco. Salsa/Son/Bolero. Arab Maqam. Jobim. Astor Piazzola. American R&B from New Orleans to Memphis to Chicago and Detroit. Ok, OK, New York and Culver City (Elmore James) too. World Music. Folk music. Balkan singing, Lithuanian polyphony (Sutartines)
All totally mainstream stuff of course. Well let's don't forget Tom Waits, Rickie Lee, the Beatles, and Beck. I could go on a long time here. Did I say Mozart and Marley? Van Morrisson. Sivuca. MoonDog. Gerry Mulligan. Radiohead.
Movies:
Bunuel. Fellini. Bergman. Altman. Almodovar. Coen Brothers.Inarritu. del Toro. Monty Python. Coppola. Clint Eastwood. Scorcese. Figgis. Larry Clark. Todd Solonz. Anything with Amanda Plummer or Salma Hayek.
Television:
HBO, Comedy Central, Discovery, TMC, IMC, Sundance Channel. K.O.
No Broadcast Networks. No Faux (except the Simpsons)
Books:
Shakespeare. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yeats. Nabokov. Dante. Cervantes. Richard Brautigan. Idris Shah. I was an English major in college, am re-reading all the greats without the coercion this time. And how could I not mention Kurt Vonnegut, rest easy, Kilgore Trout.
Heroes:
Vaclav Havel; John Lennon; Bob Dylan; Mykolas Birziska (my grandpa;) Gandhi; my brilliant offspring Ona & Daina; Nelson Mandela; Camaron de la Isla. Catt Avery. Venta. the Dalai Lama & his grandpa Gautama Buddha.
Gabo Marquez; Brigitte Bardot. Frank Zappa. Eric Cartman.
