Painting, Photography, Graphics and everything involved with images. Music. Oh, and I love the Uk and Ireland, especially South-West England and London. Deeply addicted to black tea and dark chocolate.
Joseph Fiennes, Luc Tuymans and Egon Schiele (... but he died in 1918). Oh, also Gonzo and all the Muppets!
My Quotes:
"Perhaps even bad artists have their place in the scheme of things"
- Epitaph for George Dillon - Osborne & Creighton
"Who is tired of London is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson
"There is no world without Verona walls,
But purgatory, torture, hell itself."
- Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene III - William Shakespeare
“There are no small parts. Only small actors.â€
- Milan Kundera
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.â€
- Leonardo Da Vinci
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?â€
- Pablo Picasso
“I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.â€
- Stephen Wright
“Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.â€- Frank Zappa
“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.†- Groucho Marx
“Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.â€
- Luigi Pirandello
Depeche Mode,
Radiohead,
Thom Yorke,
Coldplay,
Muse,
Bjork,
Jeff Buckley,
Damien Rice,
Alice in Chains,
Jerry Cantrell,
Nirvana,
Stone Temple Pilots,
James Blunt,
Gorillaz,
U2,
Incubus,
Frank Zappa,
The Who,
Deep Purple,
Led Zeppelin,
Quintorigo,
John De Leo,
Mike Patton,
Tori Amos,
Sigur Ròs,
Josè Gonzalez,
Ephel Duath,
The Cure,
Opeth,
Ulver,
Katatonia,
Dark Tranquillity,
Meshuggah,
Spiritual Beggars,
Surfact,
Mothercare,
Fear of Fours,
Liv (nelle sue varianti)...and MANY more
The Merchant of Venice,
Shakespeare in Love,
Luther,
Enemy at the Gates,
The Pianist,
The Machinist,
Schindler's List,
The English Patient,
The Jacket,
Donnie Darko,
Spider,
Red Dragon,
The Constant Gardener,
Swept from the Sea,
Titus,
Jarhead,
Pleasantville,
Toy Story,
Boundin' ,
For the Birds,
The Goonies,
The Nameless (Los Sin Nombre),
Freaks,
Billy Elliot,
Almost Famous,
Velvet Goldmine,
Muline Rouge,
Back to the Future,
Pollok,
Memento,
The Crow,
Frankenstein Jr,
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
...and School of Rock just to mention a few
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.†- Groucho Marx
Anyway... I usually watch Six Feet Under, and
the Simpsons.
One, No one and One Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
Epitaph for George Dillon - Osborne & Creighton
Immortality - Milan Kundera
Running with Scissors: A Memoir' - Augusten Burroughs.
Anything by Shakespeare
Filosofia delle Immagini (Philosophie des images) - Jean-Jacques Wunenburger
Art treatises
Keith Douglas. Poems selected by Ted Hughes
The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
I am currently reading L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere by Milan Kundera