Living, breathing humans who have something to say.
Something, anything, make up your freekin mind, take a stand, form an opinion, do something.
It might hurt, but I promise it will be so worth it.
Music, Movies, Poetry and Art and nonverbal communication.
Sculpting, connecting with exes and finding out they are no longer bitter, lol, or not.
Photography, my digital work, uncorrupted pure portraiture.
I'd like to meet:
Your mother, to find out why she did that to you.................
Music:
Concrete Blonde, Johnette Napolitano has the voice of an angel & for many years I wanted to leave my bf for her. Listening to her sing Bessie Smith a cappella was sublime.
Bobby Aday, Donavon Frankenreiter, Lyle Lovett, Sons of Roswell, Interpol, Jazz, Paul Weller, The Style Council, The Jam, The Walkmen, Razorlight, Bronski Beat,
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes; Teddy Pendergrass, the epitome of real soul, old school.
World Party: Egyptology is pure genius and you can dance to it!
Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, BePop, Chet Baker, Debussy, Patsy Cline, Nick Cave, Dwight Yoakam, Nick Drake, Tom Waits, George Jones, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, Led Zeppelin, Nat King Cole,
The Beatles, ELVIS, and Dylan, all rock & pop and even lame country rock flows from them......well actually it flows from their interpretations of old, great southern & mountain music. I thank all of them daily but mostly Elvis even though Dylan is the closest to a musical genius, I just love Elvis more.
Ryan Adams when he is off the smack, Feist, Chrissie Hynde, Jazz, Sade, The Killers, Vince Guaraldi, Mozart, Oasis, The Animals, Van Morrison, The Electric Prunes, Pink Floyd, Kermit & the Muppets, Chopin,
Cartman's cover of 'In The Ghetto' is really inspired.
Jazz, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Brubeck, Gerald Wilson,
Ella, Etta & Sarah,
Did I mention Jazz? Not acid jazz or new age jazz which is a blight on the soul of humanity but true jazz. 40's big band evolving into 50's bepop.
It is the only true religion.
Everything great and good and beautiful and true and sad and hopeful and whole, comes alive in Jazz...........................!!!
Movies:
Swingers
A Room With a View
Talk to Her
Hustle & Flow
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Kingpin..."oh shutup it wasn't that bad"
Wings of Desire (my all time FAVORITE, ever!)
Being Julia
Impromptu
My Dinner with Andre
Fight Club
Shawshank Redemption
All About Eve
My Favorite Year
Excess Baggage
Valmont
Sweet and Lowdown
The Deer Hunter
Manon of the Spring
A Patch of Blue
Caddyshack
On the Waterfront
Tender Mercies
8 1/2
Casablanca
Bullets Over Broadway
Coffee & Cigarettes
Crash (flawed but so lingering)
Withnail & I
London Kills Me
Local Hero
Kieslowski's Red, Blue and White, a brilliant trilogy, his vision is sadly missed.
Yume, aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Au revoir, les enfants
Hope & Glory
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Goodfellas
The Piano
The Pianist
Notorious
Hannah & Her Sisters
Dominick & Eugene
Wag the Dog
A Bronx Tale
Bitter Moon
Taxi Driver
and many many more but few done recently.
Television:
The Colbert Report, South Park, Rescue Me, Mad TV, the best shows were canceled:
Sports Night
Love Monkey
Kitchen Confidential
Relativity
Profitt (sick, twisted & brilliant, I LOVED this tv show!)
and so many others.....meanwhile we get Everybody hates Raymond for 10 years? WTF??? The dumbing down of the masses reaches new depths on US telly
Books:
Breakfast of Champions
Atlas Shrugged
The Tin Drum
Hotel New Hampshire
The Grapes of Wrath
Gone With the Wind
Allen Ginsberg's Howl
Plath's Ariel
Shakespeare; The Merchant of Venice and Romeo & Juliet are eternal favorites
Beyond Good & Evil
A Confederacy of Dunces
On the Road
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, love, love, LOVE this book!
Green Eggs & Ham
Jane Eyre
Music for Chameleons
The Temple of My Familiar
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Tao of Pooh
Lord of the Flies
Farewell to Arms
Pride & Prejudice
Great Expectations
Light in August
Native Son
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Tolkien's Trilogy
All Quiet on the Western Front
Reading is my great escape, truly, it is a gift from the Gods and Goddesses.
Heroes:
Jesus, for that dying shtick,
bad PR but mad props for the effort, although he might need to start planning something new for my next batch of sins.
Buddha, for showing me that fat and enlightenment are not mutually exclusive.
Shiva, and all the Goddesses for not smiting this whole planet, cuz sometimes I still enjoy it!
