accents, acting, adbusters, all things guava, alpine areas, alpine butterflies, altruism, amnesty international, amsterdam, anagama kilns, ancient shortwave radios, appalachian wildflowers, archeology, architecture, art galleries, astrophotography, astrophysics, atheism, atman, aurora borealis, autumn, bad mimes, beekeeping, bicycles, biking, biochemistry, birdwatching, black & white photography, botany, bouldering, british comedy, buddhism, buzzlife, canyoneering, caravaggio, cats, celadon, cello, chickens as friends not food, china, cliffs, climbing, cloudy days, clubbing, colloquialisms, color, compassion, crayola crayons, crusty bread, cuddling, collecting old vinyl records, comets, computer animation, cooking breakfast for people, cooking dinner for people, cooking for people in general, croatia, dali, dancing, dark comedy, dark shadows, dc, dead languages, debates, depression, dismantling heteronormativity, dnb, documentary filmmaking, dostoyevsky, dreams, dressage, dry humor, earl grey as is, east london, edm, egyptian arabian horses, electronica, empathy, endurance trekking, entomology, epiphytes, equestrians, espresso, ethnobotany, europop circa the 60s, existentialism, fair trade, falconry, fallen civilizations, fallen leaves, fashion design, feeding ducks, femme fatales, film, film archiving, film criticism, film history, first amendment rights and knowing how to use them, flash gordon, foreign cultures, foreign foods, foreign languages, forgiveness, found magazine, free food, free-verse, free speech, geeks, gender?, geometry in art, ghost towns, go (the game), golden ratio, good coffee, good friends, good gas mileage, good wine, graffiti, graffiti on trains, graffiti in west virginia, graphic design, green, gregorian chant, growing tomatoes, guitar, gypsy punk, hands, hawaii, hedgehogs, herb gardens, high altitudes, hiking, history, hole-in-the-wall coffeeshops, homemade pie, honesty without hesitance, houndstooth, house rabbits, hugging, iceland, impermanence of existence, independent film, indra's net, intellectual conversations, interesting looking pigeons, international travel, improvisation, italian pinot grigio, jazz, kelp forests, knowledgeable orinthologists, korean inlay pottery, kozyndan, learning everything, leonardo da vinci, linguistics, llamas, lobsters as pets, london, mandolin, medieval music, meteorites, meteor showers, microbiology, minimalism, mongolia, the morin khuur, mountains, mosaics, murals, museums, music, my wok, nanawale forest preserve, narrating campy muted 50s sci-fi, neo-noir, new river gorge, new york film academy, night, NPR, nomads, northern italy, old books, old instruments, old pulp novellas, open-source software, orchids, ostia, oxfam, pacific northwest rainforests, pacifism, pahoa, painting, palau, paleontology, paleobotany, paris, patagonia, patterns, people-watching, pepys, petroglyphs, phi, philosophical discussion, pi, piano, pine trees, pine cones, pine sap stuck to my fingers, poetry, poetry on napkins, pompeii, portland, portuguese, post-apocalyptic themes, pottery, primitive ceramics, purist oldskool painting techniques, queer theory/studies, rain, raku, raptor/bird of prey rehabilitation, red bananas, robotics, rome, sagan (carl), sailing, salty sea breezes, screenwriting, sculpture (ceramic, metal, and stone), seedy pubs, selle francais, semiotics, shakespeare, silent films, sinful cheesecake, skateboarding, skiing, slamdance film festival, small cars, snow, snowboarding, socialism, socialized medicine, somafm, spanish riding school, spelunking, spur-of-the-moment roadtrips, stargazing, star parties, state parks that few people know about, string theory, studio engineering, subway musicians, sumatran rhinos, sundance film festival, surfing, surrealist art and poetry, taking action, tea of all kinds, technology, theatre, theoretical mathematics, this american life, thrift stores in socal, trail running, turntables, ulaanbaatar, unique tattoos, urban gardens, urban photography, vegetarianism, vermeer, vespa-riding, vineyards, vintage clothing, vinyl, war photography, water snakes, web design, weird fashion, white sided dolphins, whitewater kayaking, whitewater rafting, winter, writing songs, xi'an, zines, zeitgeist
Fellow artists. Filmmakers/film addicts. Philosophers and fans of philosophy. Fellow photographers. Actors/actresses. Scientists/mathematicians and the science-addicted. Ex-robots. Musicians of all shapes and sizes, and especially those interested in ethnomusicology or crisp-funky-bleepy computer music. Fluffy woodland creatures on antidepressants. People with incurable wanderlust and other such globe-trekking hobos. Vintage clothing connoisseurs. Open-minded folk. Ex-patriots. Equestrians. Those who are unafraid of living to the point of tears. Other cosmopolitans in the true sense of the word. Dancers. Anyone interested in social/economic/environmental justice and human rights issues. Other cellists. Poets/writers/screenwriters. Woodsmen/woodswomen. Wanna-be linguists. Turntablists. You, yes you!
yes. so much.
Because I’m a filmmaker and real lover of film, I’ve decided to omit the horrendously-long movie/doc list that I had before and instead have decided to just list directors and filmmakers that I appreciate. This is, of course, a work in progress.
Hany Abu-Assad, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Roy Andersson, Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Darren Aronofsky, Noah Baumbach, Ingmar Bergman, Luc Besson, Danny Boyle, Niki Caro, Shane Carruth, Jacques Cluzard, Joel & Ethan Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón Michael Curtiz, Cazim Dervisevic, Federico Fellini, Eytan Fox, Bahman Ghobadi, Michel Gondry, Jim Henson, Alfred Hitchcock, P.J. Hogan, John Huston, Ahmed Imamovic, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Kirk Jones, Spike Jonze, Miranda July, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Ang Lee, Ben Lewin, David Lynch, Georges Méliès, F.W. Murnau, Alexander Payne, Jacques Perrin, Michael Radford, Guy Ritchie, George A. Romero, David O. Russell, Walter Salles, Miranda Smith, Burr Steers, Danis Tanovic, Gregg Toland, Giuseppe Tornatore, Anh Hung Tran, François Truffaut Tom Tykwer, Eric Valli, Gus Van Sant, John Waters, Hans Weingartner, Billy Wilder, Andrei Zvyagintsev
no. not much. some made-for-TV docs though.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera; Destinée Arbitraire by Robert Desnos; Corps et biens by Robert Desnos; Nadja by Andre Breton; Manifestes Du Surrealisme by Andre Breton; The Automatic Message, the Magnetic Fields, the Immaculate Conception by Andre Breton; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath; Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski; Other - Seven Plays by August Strindberg; The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac; On the Road by Jack Kerouac; Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac; Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; Junkie by William S. Burroughs; Dada: Art and Anti-Art by Hans Richter; The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe; Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs; The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman; Notre Dame des Fleurs by Jean Genet; Un Captif Amoureux by Jean Genet; Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Cane by Jean Toomer; The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway; The Complete Works of Federico Garcia Lorca; The Complete Works of Pablo Neruda; 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami; Four In The Morning by Sy Safransky; Transformations by Anne Sexton; Selected Poems by Robert Lowell; New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver; The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seif; The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene; The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen William Hawking; On the Shoulders of Giants by Stephen William Hawking; The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind; Cosmos by Carl Sagan; Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems by Stephen T. Thornton; Godel’s Proof by Ernest Nagel; The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio; The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose; Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh; Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson; The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins; Casals and the Art of Interpretation by David Blum; Emanuel Feuermann by Anette Morreau; Cello Üben Eine Methodik des Übens nicht nur für Streicher by Gerhard Mantel; Das Violoncello by Wilfried Pape; Boccherini's Body - An Essay in Carnal Musicology by Elisabeth Le Guin
Richard Evan Schultes. J.S. Bach, J. Brahms, W.A. Mozart, Karl Schwarzschild, Gregg Toland, Andreas Sinanos, Caravaggio, Galileo, and (of course) the Buddha.