life and death and everything in between...
I will arise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek...whom my soul loveth.
classical, opera, blues, jazz, reggae, metal, house, funk, anything that sounds good to my ears... for example, Mozart, Mahler, Schubert, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, John Lee Hooker, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Van Morrison, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Metallica, Moby, U2, Police/Sting, Rammstein, Erasure, New Order, Enigma, Tori Amos, Prince, Peter Gabriel's Passion, Korean Pansori, French Chanson, and more...
Death in Venice and anything by Visconti, Fellini, Chaplin, Kurosawa, Bergman, 2001, Harold and Maude, The Man for All Seasons, Gates of Heaven, Wings (1927), Wings of Desire, In the Realm of the Senses, Henry and June, Bitter Moon, Shrek, The Hair Dresser's Husband, The Shining, Cocteau's Orpheus, Eric Rohmer, Bruce Lee films, any movie with Marlon Brando in it (especially, Last Tango in Paris) and many more I can't remember the titles, but images linger on my mind...
too many, actually...let's see, anything by Henry Miller, Leo Tolstoi, Thomas Mann, James Joyce (the ultimate writer's writer), Dostoevski, I Ching, Chang Tze, Confucius, Kawabata's Snow Country, The Little Prince, Ende's Momo, Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Nausea, Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus (great for anyone who's contemplating suicide), any books on the mythology, Don Quixote, Emily Dickinson, Paul Celan's Death Fugue, When I was younger I really enjoyed Rimbaud's poems, Pascal's Pensees, Huysmans' Against the Grain, Krishnamurti's Freedom from the Known, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Mallarme, Stephen King, Susan Sontag's essays but not her fictions (can't stand them), Stendhal, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Nietzsche, G W Leibniz, Goethe, Aurelius, A J Toynbee, Li Po's poems, can spend hours going over dictionaries, books on art history and architecture, Prevost's Manon Lescout, Dibs: In Search of Self, The Old Man and the Sea, Waiting for Godot, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, Norman Mailer's Prisoner of Sex, E A Poe, Kafka, Eco, Hesse, G G Marquez, E M Remarque, Kundera, Pasternak, Turgenev, Natsume Soseki, Walt Whitman, Marguerite Duras, Shiono Nanami, Jeanette Winterson, Yi Sang's poems, I can go on and on...
my mother