| General | Breathing | | Music | Completely eclectic.
In no particular order: Chopin, Dylan, Beethoven, Billy Holiday, Debussy, Janacek, Bartok, Stones, Clifford Brown, Monk, Anita O'day, Dianne Krall, Tom Waits, Sibelious, Ellington, Muddy Waters, Charles Ives, Blossom Dearie, Kurt Weill, Mahler,Tim Hardin, Ry Cooder, Christine Aguilera, Devil Doll, Screamin Jay Hawkins, and let's not forget the inimitable Spike Jones.
That should do for starters. | | Movies | In no particular order: Dr. Strangelove, Bonnie and Clyde, virtually all of Polanski's films, El Topo (Jordorowski), every Molly Parker vehicle I've seen to date, her performance in
"Kissed" among the most amazing I've ever seen, the Marx brothers ~ Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera in particular, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Some Like It Hot, Blue Velvet, Sweet Smell of Success, Silence of the Lambs, and of course, most of Scorcese's and Fellini's work. I'm a fan too of the Coen and Farrelly brothers.
One film I've always been utterly ambivalent about and should single out here is Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film "Salo ~ 120 days of Sodom".
It is in equal parts repulsive on one hand, and incredibly beautiful on the other.
"The Last Woman (AKA Dernière femme, La)", starring Gerard Depardieu and Omella Muti, is an amazing film I first saw 30 years ago, but couldn't bring myself to watch the end. I STILL CAN'T!
Then of course, there are the stunning visuals of Peter Greenaway, whose sensibilities have influenced my own work, as much as those of any painter.
Beyond that, simply put, there are just far too many films to enumerate here. | | Television | Two, but one's not working. The other's a pacifier. | | Books | Of course. | | Heroes | Tom Daly
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