music...dance...travel...buddhism...food...magic...
dancers, musicians, film-makers and animators for interdisciplinary collaborations, global electronica producers, yogis of all kinds, those involved in martial arts, anyone who has a connection with Shimla, Salvador da Bahia or Granada, Spain, performance artists...gods that dance and goddesses with many heads...and check out: http://www.resartis.org/index.php?id=20&tx_newloginbox_p i3[showUid]=889
brazilian electronica and drumnbass. jazz. cuban music, especially son and cuban jazz, irakere circa 1991. joao gilberto. susana baca. stevie wonder. bjork. led zeppelin. amerie. lamb. prince & the revolution. bach esp. pablo casals. beethoven. chopin. goldie. adam and the ants. manu chao. talvin singh. pharoah sanders. nathan haines. moreno veloso. nick drake. camaron & paco de lucia. jill scott. cleveland watkiss. charlie parker. billie holiday. early orb. llorca. thelonius monk. indian classical. early pretenders. very early madonna. early police. tchaikovsky's waltz of the flowers still blows me away, bebel gilberto's tanto tempo remixes make me jump around...music is the magic map that connects me with life and all of you...
red beard by kurosawa. vertigo by hitchcock. anything by almodovar, but especially matador. I liked pan's labyrinth recently. the low down by jamie thraves. the warrior by asif kapadia. hotel new hampshire. all 80s dance films, especially the breakdance films, and take the lead (the one where antonio banderas gets the kids out of detention). under the cherry moon (prince's finest hour?). documentaries, short films, animations and music videos, like michel gondry's ones for bjork. silent movies, especially pandora's box. y tu mama tambien. exiles, by tony gatlif. 32 short films about glenn gould, and splash! of course...
Don't watch! Do capoeira and yoga instead, OK? But I will happily watch reruns of anything by oliver postgate (bagpuss) not to mention camberwick green, bod, mr benn...any creative animations...and I used to love a programme called Father Ted...
jean rhys. william blake. sherman alexie. langston hughes. kahlil gibran. the tao of physics. travel books. children's books (the narnia books fired my imagination so much!), books about buddhism, lord rochester. edward de bono. playwrights: lorca and eugene o'neill.visual artists: chagall, frida kahlo, amrita sher-gil, kirchner, max ernst, indian tantric art
Maria von Trapp