The Snowdown Aviary is my favourite building in London. Art, Architecture, Literature, Theatre, Cinema, Philosophy, Psychology, Photography, Skiing, Tennis, Kickboxing, the mountains, the desert, the sea...oh the sea...the waves...
I'd like to meet:
People who are driven by creative accomplishments and people who continuously further their understanding of the human condition.
Music:
Erik Satie, Django Reinhardt, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Miles Davis, John Cage, Kraftwerk,
Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson: "Language is a Virus", Lucio Battisti, Piero Piccioni, Ennio Morricone, Paolo Conte, Samba and Bossanova, Dr. Dre, Nirvana, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Massive Attack, Richard D. James - Aphex Twin, Autechre, Four Tet, Joy Electric, The Cure, Placebo, Daft Punk, Komputer, Ekkohaus, Dan Berkson & James What, Sohodolls, Mason (Amst.), Pitch Black (NZ), Neil Landstrumm, Tocadisco, Herbie Hancock, Miss Kitten & The Hacker, Steve Bug, Isole', Vitalic, Oxia, Tiefschwarz, Trentemoller.
Movies:
Jean Vigo, Orson Welles, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, Vincent Gallo, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-Wai. Jean Luc Godard, Le Mepris (1963)When I hear the word ‘culture,’I reach for my checkbook...Jerry: I like gods. I like them very much. I know exactly how they feel--exactly.Fritz Lang: Jerry, don't forget. The gods have not created man. Man has created gods.
John Carpenter, Escape From New York (1981).Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982)
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Television:
The Prisoner (1963) Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself. Artsworld.
Books:
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, Lao Tse, Tao-Te-King. Senzaki, 101 Zen Stories. Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Pirandello,
Herman Hesse, Siddharta, Narcissus and Golmund. Andre Gide, The Immoralist.
Albert Camus, The Outsider and The Fall. Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions. Curzio Malaparte, Woman Like Me. Nabokov, Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. ...You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style:
J.G. Ballard. Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
Heroes:
William Shakespeare, Erich Fromm, The Dalai Lama, "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." Mohandas Gandhi, Adolf Loos, Herzog & De Meuron, Souto De Moura, Rem Koolhaas.
