Playing in a band (sometimes), guitar, pianist, painting, Photoshop digital painting, Flash, stuuupid web-design stuff, philosophy, history, classical literature, politics, marketing, artist. My artist gods: Degas, Schiele, Bacon, Lucian Freud et al. To be cool like everyone else: Dali, Edward Gorey, William Blake.
I'd like to meet:
Me, 20 years ago.
Musicians(that share the same interest), someone with a piano, a younger P.J. Harvey, artist (that don't work a 9-5 job), revolutionaries (thought and political), writers (real or delusional)...
...agitators, activist, atheist, Buddhist, vegetarians, feminist, libertines, existentialist, carnies, grifters and Visigoths.
Music:
Old favorites I still like: The Damned, Pulp, Hanoi Rocks (old stuff), Nick Cave and company, Clash, Tom Waits, early Oasis (1st album), early Supergrass, Bowie (everything before Let's Dance), Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, TSOL, Husker Du, Pixies, Sub Humans, Lime Spiders, (early) Miracle Workers, Beck, Bjork, P.J. Harvey, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Beastie Boys. Icons such as: Beatles, Zepplin, Doors, Hendrix, early Stones, Who. Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn.
Newer stuff, along the lines of: Dresden Dolls, Franz Ferdinand, Killers, Ladytron, Placebo, some other stuff I can't remember- NO new EMO, whatsoever. No kiddy punk bands, etc. I'm not impressed with much new music, I've heard it all before and am not impressed when someone discovers 7th or Sus4 chords.
Movies:
Wong Kar Wai movies, Lars Van Trier movies...
A Partial List:
2046, Chung King Express, In the Mood For Love, Zentropa, The Kingdom Parts 1 & 2, Element of Crime, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Manderlay, Oldboy, Run Lola Run, Sin City, Amores Perros, Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Lost in Translation, Irreversable (that's right, I said it), Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2, Malena, Cinema Paradiso, Amelie, Clockwork Orange, Naked Lunch, The Professional, Eyes Wide Shut, Heavenly Creatures, Bittermoon, Crash (Cronenberg's), Henry and June, The Lover, Life is Beautiful, Moulin Rouge, The Last Emperor, Gandhi, Raging Bull, All The Kings Men (original), Inherit the Wind, Of Mice and Men (1939), Meet John Doe, Harvey, Seven Year Itch, Magnolia, American Beauty, The Royal Tenenbaums, 12 Monkeys, Brazil (Gilliam's cut), Woody Allen stuff (good and bad), I'm sure I'm missing some other good movies.
Television:
HOUSE
cable serials..ala, Dexter, Curve, Weeds, Californication.
Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Meet the Press, HardBall, Keith Olbermann.
Books:
Stuff old people read. Goethe to Dickens, Fitzgerald to Rushdie(pre-New York years).
Philosophy: Plato to Sartre. The Analects (Confucius), Bible (cultural Christian Mythology source). Various books, writings dealing with intellectual stimuli : critical theory, Marxism and commie and socialist thought, existentialism, sociology, Jung, Freud.
Mindless stuff: Bukowski, Burroughs
Mindfull stuff: Huxley, Jose Ortega y Gassett, Nietzsche, Kant, Machiavelli, Milton, Dante
Favorite all time authors: Henry Miller, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Voltaire
The Short List:
Tropic of Cancer- Miller; Sexus- Miller; The Moor's Last Sigh- Rushdie; Satanic Verses-Rushdie, Midnights Children- Rushdie; One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez; Love in the Time of Cholera- Marquez; The Razor's Edge- Maugham; Tender is the Night- Fitzgerald; Lolita- Nabokov; Anna Karenina- Tolstoy; A Tale of Two Cities- Dickens; Crimes and Punishment- Dostoevsky; Nausea, Sartre; Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck; Candide- Voltaire; The Sound and the Fury -Faulkner; Language Truth and Logic- Ayer; The Republic- Plato; Man and People- Ortega; Thus Spoke Zarathustra- Nietzsche, all of his writings; Why I am not Christian, Bertrand Russell.
The long list:
I like books and can't list all of them I have read, but, I'd have a bigger library if I never had to move.
Heroes:
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.†Plato
