I am learning the piano. I'm also particularly fond of the lute.
My Tastes For Classical Include:
Rennaissance in general, including: Luys Milan, Luys de Navaraez, Gaspar Sanz and the like for the Spanish lute --- Baroque in general, including: Dietrich Buxtehude, J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Henry Purcel, Handel, Weiss, Antonio Vivaldi and the Italians --- Classical: Haydn, Mozart, Muzio Clementi --- Romantic: Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Brahms, Franz Shubert, Chopin --- Modern: Gustav Mahler, Isaac Albeniz, Augustin Barrios, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten.
Classical Performers:
Pianists:
Glenn Gould
Dinu Lipatti, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel, Leonard Bernstein, Artur Rubenstein, Sviatoslav Richter, Alfred Cortot
Harpsicordists: Wanda Landowska, Gustav Leonhardt
Organists: Gould, Leonhardt
Many Instruments: Gergely Sarkozy
Guitarists: Andres Segovia, Julian Bream, John Williams, Paul Galbraith
Lutenists:
Bream
Conductors: L. Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Vladimir Golschmann, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Nerville Marriner, Toscanini,
Claudio Abbado
Pop:
Sinatra, Cab Calloway, Elvis, The Dave Clark Five, Bob Dylan, The Beatles (including many solo works by the lads from Liverpool), The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Simon and Garfunkle, Jimi Hendrix, Chicago (I-III), Led Zeppelin (I, II, IV mostly), The Scorpions, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Devo, The Talking Heads
The Cars
Robert Palmer, Def Leppard, Huey Lewis and the News, Gary Moore, Pet Shop Boys, Mr. Mister, Big Daddy (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), The Beastie Boys, Late 80s through mid 90s rap (Coolio, 2-Pac, Salt-n-Peppa, Run DMC, N.W.A., Too-Short, Young MC, etc.), The Streets, anything Wes Anderson selects for his films
Non-English:
Inti-Illimani (Chilean variety), M.C. Solaar (French rapper), Rammstein (German heavy rock), Vladimir Viysotsky (Russian folk), Jacques Brel (French traditional pop), Mylene Farmer (French glam-pop), Rooki (Russian pop)
Jazz:
Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington
One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando, USA, 1961) ------------------ Alice (Jan Svankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1989)
Vampyr (Carl Theodore Dreyer, Denmark, 1931)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, France, 1959)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1962)
Hawks and Sparrows (Pier Paulo Pasolini, Italy, 1966)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy, 1970)
France, 1999
Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, France, 1958) ----- Where Is the Friend's House and
Life and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1985/1992)
The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray, India, 1955-1959)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, USA, 1935)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1958)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, USA, 1968)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, USA, 1927)
Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA, 1955)
USA, 1998
The New World (Terrence Malick, USA, 2005)
The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, France, 1959)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, France, 1973)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy/USA, 1975)
Shoeshine (Vittorio de Sica, Italy, 1946) --------------------------- The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia, 1974)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, USA, 1950)
Singing in the Rain (Stanley Donen, USA, 1952)
Television
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Fawlty Towers --- Mr. Bean --- Blackadder --- I Claudius (a British mini-series in the late 70's)
All Star Trek, especially the 1st, but not the last --- Married With Children --- Dragnet --- I LOVE Lucy
Red Dwarf
Animated:
Samurai Jack
Teen Titans --- Rocky and Bulwinkle --- Looney Tunes --- Popeye --- Superman (the 40's one by Fleischer) --- Woody Woodpecker and Friends --- Pinky and the Brain --- Dexter's Laboratory --- Tex Avery made cartoons --- Futurama --- Spongebob Squarepants --- Courage the Cowardly Dog --- Winnie the Pooh (Russian)
Sports: especially S.F.
baseball
Books
Some of my absolute favorite books are:
For a complete list see my blog of 7-26-07
Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam as rendered by Edward Fitzgerald
(illustrated by Edmund Sullivan)
The Bible (King James version)
--------------------- Arthur Rimbaud ---------------------- Douglas R. Hofstadter ------------------ Rainer Maria Rilke
Andre Bazin
William Shakespeare
Tintin by Herge
------------- Hermann Hesse --------------------------- C.S. Lewis
Pier Paulo Pasolini
Lewis Carroll
Knut Hamsun
ARTISTS
Arkady Rylov
Giotto and the Renaissance Italians, Hieronymus Bosch (who painted the backdrop to this page), Northern Renaissance (such as the following:)
Master of the Trebon Altarpiece
El Greco
Velazquez, Van Gogh, Monet, Valentin Serov, Vasily Polenov, Cézanne, Rodin, M.C. Escher, Redon, Gustav Klimt, Norman Rockwell,
Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: French, Drama
Clubs: Improvisational Acting.
One Play: (The Dark of the Moon ).
Played baseball for one semester, then quit.
1998 to 2001
Berkeley High
Berkeley,California
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: I played baseball and was in the Star Trek Club
1994 to 1998
Jeremy My foreign policy model has a "judicial ring" encircling everything else. But they can't get rid of the flees our long-haired cat has spread. Task Posted at 9:15 AM Oct 14 view more
I keep a journal to clarify and remember. I like correspondence.
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You are Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion. You are determined and tend to be very clever. You get along well with others and work towards a common good. Of course it is in your best interest to do so, since you are stuck in a German prison camp.
Link -- the noble hero. There is no greater reward than aiding those around you and close to you in their time of need, and you flock to the helpless in their time of struggle. You are still very much a kid, despite your old age.
You scored as Albert Camus. You are Albert Camus, so you are one sweet existentialist. He built largely upon the framework of existentialists before him, but introduced the concept that life is absurd, but that we should continue living anyway. You have strong liberal leanings, although you annoy the Communists. You are susceptible to driving fast, and possibly crashing into a tree.
Oh. my my, have i forgotten? dear me where has my mind gone?. dear me too much going on I suppose. But now that you've kindly reminded me of this wrong doing I shall make some time to remedy it.
Hello sir! how you been? Don't hear from you much so I thought I'd drop by to undue what time has done to take us just a bit further apart. I see it's purpose and I know that's life. Everyone has to go their own way. But it's nice to say hello now and then.
Hello sir! I'm producing, hosting and performing in the the Young guns of Comedy Thursday, December 18th in downtown SF. Hope you can make it! All the info is on the flyer below and if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Well sorry I didn't write sooner but I've been a bit busy. But hey better late than never right? at least in some cases.
Well the project you're seeing started in September and was finally done in November. I believe I spent a total of I'm going to guess about 80 to 120 hours on it. It's for YVs Alice in Wonderland. What happened is that due to budget cuts the drama department was cancelled. Leaving a group of kids wihtout a favorite elective. So the old Drama teacher happened to be in the area and was asked to do this play. The director knew my friend Latoyya who was in contact with me. I was asked and I agreed to do the project. I wasn't sure what I was getting into and it turned out to be an ordeal. Between the tightening of school rules, my work schedule and everything else that I'm doing currently with my life I had to fight to get time. I managed though and the set looked good in the end. The kids were happy and they've been doing fairly well in their performances. Their last one is tonight and I believe it's nearly sold out. I saw it yesterday and was happy with it overall. I'm sure I may never see any of these kids again. But it was a fun project to work on and it will be something that they'll remember for the rest of their lives.
Well the time has finally come.... Our 10 year reunion is here. I hope you all come out and enjoy each other's company this saturday.
If you havent bought your ticket, dont worry. You can still go on www. greatreunions. com and get one. If worst comes to worst, you can always get your tickets at the door.
hey there! you should definitely check out romania. i'm not crazy about the capital, as you can tell, but i love the rest of it! i didn't find any boys and girls clubs, though. :) congrats on almost finishing!!!
