20th Century Art, Culture and History; Politics; Reading; Movies; Music; Slow Food; Belly Laughs
I'd like to meet:
Folks with broad range of interests in art, culture, or general wierdness, who choose not to take themselves or life too seriously, with a healthy sense of Ha-Ha.
Music:
aah, you know. all the popular stuff:
punk-rock polka, german soft-core porn music, old-country, Red Army Choir, fat Elvis, murder ballads, Weimar cabaret, shouting men of Finland, field hollers, trucker music, yé-yé, caper music, garage, rock/punk/psycho/spank/abilly, hillbilly swing, gypsy punk, and of course -- jazz violin (although my musician firends insist that's an oxymoron)
Oh...almost forgot...the quintessential 70's genre of
cowbell-driven, southern-fried, flute rock
Movies:
Huge movie fan everything from Busby Birkeley musicals to Douglas Sirk melodramas to classic Noir. Very select list of favourites: Reds , Best Years of Our Lives , Faces and Killing of a Chinese Bookie (by Cassavetes), Scarface (1932 original) , All Kubrick but The Killing I think is my favourite followed by Dr. Strangelove, All of Scorsese (even his "bad" ones), Coppela's Black Stallion and of course Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Badlands and Days of Heaven (by Terrance Malick), David Mamet's movies... Recent movies that I loved - The Aristocrats, Brokeback Mountain, 40 Year Old Virgin.
Television:
Sucker for "reality" TV - Survivor, Amazing Race, and the ones that require some talent like Project Runway, and Build or Bust; comedies - Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Rick Mercer Report, Dave Chapelle Show, The Office, Fox News; dramas - Law and Order, Medium, The Unit, Rescue Me, Weeds; News and documentary - The Hour, Passionate Eye, Frontline; CBC Radio 1 - The Current, As it Happens and Ideas... and last but not least -- I have been known to be a bit of a Trekkie at times.
Books:
The U.S.A trilogy by John Dos Passos; Spy novels - Alan Furst especially; Berlin Noir - Phillip Kerr, 19th and Early 20th Century Classics Tolstoy, Zola, de Maupassant, Hardy, Henry James, George Elliot etc; Graham Greene; Dashiell Hammett; Money, London Fields, Dead Babies - by Martin Amis; Everything By Orwell but Homage to Catalonia is my favourite. Oh... and of course the complete works by Nelson Algren, and Louis Celine.
Heroes:
George Orwell, Terry Fox, Nelson Mandela, Primo Levy, Tommy Douglas, Bill, Betty
