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This is a hard category. I have such a wide range of tastes. Here is a sampling of what I very likely could be listening to right now: Velvet Underground, Ramones, TKK, High on Fire, Concrete Blonde, Mazzy Starr, Fiona Apple, The Replacements, Firewater, Franz Ferdinand, Cowboy Junkies, Over the Rhine, Pink Floyd, Patti Smith, Garbage, Portishead, Tom Waits, The Stranglers, Rob Zombie, System of a Down, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Scissor Sisters, Jackson Browne, The Pretenders, Led Zeppelin, PJ Harvey, The Plasmatics, Mourning Noise, Leonard Cohen, New Order, Frank Zappa, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Lords of the New Church, My Dying Bride, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Split Enz, Toy Dolls, The Undertones, Adicts, Cramps, VNV Nation, Massive Attack, Terminal Choice, Covenant, KMFDM, Wumpscut, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Poison Girls, Dead Kennedys, Mussorgsky, Holst, Greig, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Mahler, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Wagner. I'm a big fan of BLUEGRASS/Appalachian Folk Music/Roots Music and R & B/Soul/Funk of the 1970's ..... I absolutely Love BRAZILIAN JAZZ...Any JAZZ. Cajun/Zydeco is Great too....
A Streetcar Named Desire, Harold and Maude, The Shining, The Omen, Amelie, A Clockwork Orange, The Sting, Annie Hall, The Producers (the original), Sideways, The Royal Tenenbaums, Quills, Breakfast at Tiffany's (Sorry, I'm a chick, alright?), Garden State, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Blade Runner, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Odd Couple (the original), The Graduate, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Driving Miss Daisy, Sylvia, The Wings of the Dove, Barefoot in the Park, Deconstructing Harry, Taxi Driver, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Rosemary's Baby, This Property is Condemned, The Jerk, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Goodbye Girl, The Fortune Cookie, Easy Rider, Last Tango in Paris, Manhattan, The Remains of the Day, Gosford Park, Mulholland Drive, Bram Stokers's Dracula (once I get past the fact that Winona Rider's part would have been better with someone else, and the fact that Keanu Reeves is IN the movie AT ALL....Actually, his character is incidental to the reasons why I like the movie. Tom Waits as Renfield.....Balances it out a bit)
I'm not going to come up with a long list of books....Many of the writers I admire don't/didn't write books. It's much easier for me to make a list of my favorite writers: Dorothy Parker, Lewis Grizzard, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Neil Simon, Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Charlie Kaufman, John Berendt, Voltaire, Allen Ginsberg, Miguel de Cervantes, Albert Camus, Dylan Thomas, Bertrand Russell, Kierkgaard, William Blake, Sylvia Plath, Edward Gorey, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Guest, Mel Brooks, Nora Ephron, Mark Twain, George Orwell, James Thurber, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Matt Stone & Trey Parker, Eudora Welty, Art Buchwald, Tennessee Williams, Woody Allen, Will Rogers.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks
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