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"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto" ("I am a human being, I consider nothing human foreign to me")

Practical and theoretical phenomenological ontology.

Paris and anything related.

Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Nick Drake, dEUS (and side-projects), The Smiths (and Morrissey solo), Joy Division, Pulp, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, Big Star (plus Chilton & Bell solo), Talking Heads, Eels, Syd Barrett, Blonde Redhead, Morphine, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Serge Gainsbourg, Television, The Who, The Zombies, The Kinks, The Stone Roses, Scott Walker, Yo La Tengo, Can, The Rolling Stones, New Order, The Clash, Pixies, Josef K, R.E.M., Flaming Lips, The Psychedelic Furs, Gang Of Four, P.I.L., Einsturzende Neubauten, Violent Femmes, Joe Jackson, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Mc5, Iggy & The Stooges, Beach Boys, The Beatles, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Simon and Garfunkel, The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, Soulwax, Pere Ubu, Blur, Beat Happening, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Brian Eno, Sebadoh, Polvo, This Heat, June of 44, Slint, Nick Cave, Wire, Xtc, Suicide, Orange Juice, The The, Wilco, N.Y. no wave, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Motorpsycho, Posies, Beck, T-Rex, John Cale, the garagey Lennon of early post-Beatles, Radio Dept, Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion, Johnny Cash, Lucio Dalla, Luigi Tenco, Them & Van Morrison, Patti Smith, Jeff Buckley, Belle and Sebastian, Depeche Mode, The Pastels, Galaxie 500, Wannadies, Air, the latest Talk Talk, Chemical Brothers, Fugazi, Cabaret Voltaire, Silver Apples, Television Personalities, Throbbing Gristle, Portishead, Notwist, Lali Puna, Tortoise, Kraftwerk, Faust, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (and side projects), Sex Pistols, Deerhoof, Daniel Johnston, The Pop Group, Schneider TM, Undertones, Devo, Clinic, Prince, Arcade Fire, Nuggets, Sonics, Johnny Thunders, New York Dolls, 13th Floor Elevators, The Chills, Dave Kilgour, The Clean, Jean Paul Sartre Experience, A.R. Kane, Disco Inferno, Papa M, Windsor for the Derby, The La's, Elvis Costello, Apparat (live), Duran Duran, Roxy Music, Tears for Fears, Ah-ha, Michael Jackson, Bangles, Cyndi Lauper, Paolo Conte, Frankie Hi-Nrg, Franco Battiato, Bluvertigo, Fabrizio de Andrè, Cardigans

Getz / Gilberto, bossanova, Eddie Cochran, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Link Wray & His Rumble, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, Delta Blues, Aretha Franklyn, Cole Porter, Burt Bacharach, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Luis Armstrong, The Ronettes, silly pop songs by Phil Spector, Edith Piaf, Kurt Weil, Jacques Brel, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Motown - Stax stuff, Four Tops, Nino Rota, western Morricone, Django Reinhardt

CLASSICAL STUFF:

Tchaikowski, Schubert, Mahler, Satie, Gerswhin, Chopin, Stravinskij, Ludwig Van, Johan Strauss, Sostakovic, Mussorgskij, Ravel, Schumann, Mozart, Bach, Grieg, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Ligeti, Varese, Saint-Saens, Brahms, Respighi, Haendel, Gounod, Berlioz, Wagner, Liszt, Richard Strauss, Vivaldi, Bartok, Rachmaninov.

LISTENING TO:
see RateYourMusic

Jean Luc Godard (J.L.G. is the Cinema), Ingmar Bergman, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Wong Kar-Wai, Max Ophuls, Jean Vigo, Takeshi Kitano, Sergio Leone, Kristof Kiesslowski, Alfred Hitchcok, Alexander Sokurov, Charlie Chaplin, Hayao Miyazaki, Francois Truffaut, Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Nagisa Oshima, Werner Herzog, Billy Wilder, Michael Haneke, Nicholas Ray, Dino Risi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Walt Disney & scholars, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Fritz Lang, Woody Allen, Howard Hawks, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bunuel, Abbas Kiarostami, Eric Rohmer, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Gus Van Sant, Jacques Tati, Nanni Moretti, Roberto Rossellini, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Donen...

I have a not-too-secret fondness for sophisticated comedies, Sean Connery's O07 movies, cartoons & golden age musicals

Movies:

Fanny & Alexander - Screams and Whispers - The Seventh Seal, Otto e mezzo - La dolce vita - Amarcord - Roma, Apocalypse Now, In The Mood for Love - Hong Kong Express - 2046, Dolls - Sonatine - Hana-bi, Pierrot le fou - Bande a part - A bout de souffle - Vivre sa Vie, La caduta degli dei - Morte a Venezia - Rocco e i suoi fratelli - Le notti bianche, C'era una volta in America - C'era una volta il west, La ronde - Lettera da una sconosciuta - Le plaisir, La Grande Illusion - Une partie de campagne, 2001 Space Odissey - Barry Lindon - The Killing - Full Metal Jacket - Shining - Path of glory, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Gohatto, Howl's Moving Castle - Spirited Away, Dead Man - Coffee & Cigarettes, Lost in translation, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Dekalog - Three Colors, Elephant, Arca Russa, Jules et Jim - Baisers Volees - Les Quatrecents coups - La chambre verte, North by Northwest - Rear Window, Il sorpasso, Marie Baie des Anges,Sunset Boulevard - Some Like it Hot, City Lights, Touch of Evil - Citizen Kane, Les invasion barbares, Kaspar Hauser - Stroszek, Johnny Guitar - Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, Donnie Darko, Funny Games, Iron 3, M - il mostro di Dusseldorf, Vampyr, Il gabinetto del Dottor Caligari, Nosferatu, Andrei Rublev, L'Atalante - Zero de conduit, Comte d'Automne, Pulp Fiction, Vincent - Edward Scissorhands - Nightmare Before Christmas - Beetlejuice, Les triplettes de Belleville, Parole Parole Parole..., Au revoir les enfants, Il ritorno, Annie Hall - Manhattan - Love and Death - Crime and Misdemeanors, The Life acquatic with Steve Zissou, Mamma Roma, Viaggio in Italia - Germania Anno Zero, Brazil - Monthy Phyton's Meaning of life, Duck Soup, L'uomo con la macchina da presa, The Man Who Would Be King, Film, Entr'Acte, La Haine, Jarhead, Caro Diario - Bianca - Ecce Bombo, Singing in the rain, Noi Albinoi, The Rules of Attraction, Freaks, Le Ballon Rouge, La Vie Revèe des Anges, Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, Il sapore della ciliegia, Black Cat White Cat, Stand by me, Blade Runner, Butch Cassidy, The Unforgiven, La ceremonie, The Night of the Living Dead, The Big Sleep, Alice in Wonderland - Bambi - Fantasia, Who framed Roger Rabbit?, Labyrinth, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Os mutantes, Un chien andalou - Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Kiss, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Les Roseaux Sauvages, Divorzio all'italiana, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Un'ora sola ti vorrei. (more to come)

LAST MOVIES SEEN:
"Paris, je t'aime" - A.A.V.V.

FAV WRITERS:

Proust, Mann, Arthur Rimbaud (a god between half-gods), Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Kafka, Pavese, Borges, Baudelaire, Calvino, Musil, Fitzgerald, Leopardi, Zanzotto, Beckett, Camus, Pessoa, Tasso, Murakami, Tolstoj, Auden, Conrad, Foscolo, Gozzano, Larkin, Kavafis, E.A. Poe, Melville, Majakowskij, Carver, Brecht, Cechov, James, Mishima, Dante, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sofocles, Perec, Flaubert, Cortazar, black novels by Maupassant, Salinger, Sartre, Zweig, Wilde, Shakespeare, Vonnegut, Strindberg, Gadda, Mallarme, Dostojevskij, Bulgakov, Gogol, Puskin, Brodskij, Katherine Mansfield, Coleridge, Maeterlinck, Hoffmann, Steinbeck, Ariosto, Ferlinghetti, Bourroughs, Bukowski, Buzzati, Pasolini as a poet and a theorist (not that much as a novelist), Luzi, Comisso, Sbarbaro, Shiki, Basho, Buson, Chikamatsu, Cocteau, Verlaine (while with Rimbaud), Hemingway, some contemporary american authors (i.e. Frank Bidart, Sam Lypsite, A.M. Homes, Louise Gluck...), Houellebecq, the last Yeats, Arbasino, Petronio, Virgilio, Terenzio, Frisch, G.M. Hopkins, Catullo, Pound, P.B. Shelley, Byron (his writings but his biography best!), Trakl, Goethe, Blake, Seferis, Ungaretti, Lewis Carroll, Schnitzler, Alfieri, Caproni, Verga...

Barthes, Debord and all situationists, Machiavelli, Freud, Valery, Nietzsche, Artaud, Plato, Schopenauer, Voltaire, Cioran, Stirner, Bergson, Focault, Simmel, Benjamin, Nancy, Jung, Susan Sontag, Heidegger, Zeno, Deleuze, Derrida, Lyotard, De Certeau, Baudrillard, Adorno, Bazin, Gide, Eco, Flechner, Spengler, Sorel, Montesquieu, Diderot, Kant, Beccaria, Kierkegaard, the young Enrico Ghezzi, Zizek, Augè, Bakunin, Yamamoto, Musashi, Lao-Tse, Jankelevitch, Parmenides, Aristoteles, Mac Luhan... books about magic, alchemy, myths and misteries, nineteen century's medicine... essays about everything... art & photography books... stupid books... comics by Charles Schulz (I LOVE PEANUTS), Grant Morrison, Andrea Pazienza, Tiziano Sclavi and Henki Bilal...

READING:
see Anobii