faves

fave composers

c l a s s i c a l bach, bernier, purcell, lully, leclair, dumont, telemann, strauss r, scriabin, respighi, tchaikovsky, mahler, schoenberg, honneger j a z z previn, tristano, peterson, jarrett, alexiou, loussier, zadeh, krall, williams, gershwin, arlen, porter, evans, vaughan f i l m shore, serra, barry, goldenthal, sakamoto, legrand, rota, steiner, herrmann, waxman, williams, goldenthal, glass, beltrami, arnold, morricone, elfman, vangelis g r e e k hatzidakis, theodorakis, christou, kraounakis, plessas, arvanitakis, spanoudakis, galani d a n c e tiesto, buuren, dyk, oakenfold, jules, dimitris T, atb, iio, bennasi, sanchez, schultz

fave performers

gould, sgouros, ashkenazy, demidenko, pogorelich, sokolov, gavrilov, ardasev, alexeev, krainev, kilenyi, hamelin, angelich, perticarolli, arrau, horowitz, escenbach, hantai, coopman, suzuki, alessandrini, barto

fave conductors

karajan, thielemann, solti, muti, maazel, barbirolli, bernstein, ozawa, rattle, toscanini, sinopoli, mehta, stokowski, davis, kempe, klemperer, walter, abbado, szell, reiner, haitink, lazarev, golovanov, weller,

fave movies

tous les matins du monde, una pura formalita, passion of christ, apocalypto, unforgiven, cinema paradiso, malena, hamlet, romeo & juliet, best intentions, fanny & alexander, virgina woolf, sheltering sky, on the waterfront, streetcar named desire, falcon bird, jude, angela's ashes,magdalene sisters, shadowlands, remains of a day, the chase, casablanca, rebecca, notorious, holiday inn, big sleep, haute tension, dog soldiers, descend, rise of evil, good thief, color purple, 28 days later, 28 months later, silence of the lambs, blairwitch project, human stain, human bondage, sentinel, slevin, life of others, match point, behind enemy lines, red line, schidler's list, house of the fog, requiem for a dream, das experiment, der untergang,

fave actors

brando, robbins, mcfadyen, carlyle, nolte, hopkins, nicholson, branagh, farell, murphy, clooney, eccleston, lange, close, leigh, lewis, bacall, tomson, winslet, laurie, richardson, margolyes, planer, pope, mayall, coltrane, lacey, atkinson, frost, fry, mcInnerny, robinson;

fave directors

hitchcock, bergman, besson, branagh, bertolucci, pasolini, rossellini, antonioni, fellini, almodovar, herzog, lang, nichols, demme, howard, houston, gibson, roth, allen, eastwood, ivory, scorsese, polanski, verhoven, yimou, tarantino, stone, skazan, kubrick, lucas, spielberg, winterbottom, shyamalan, zemeckis, lynch, jackson, cronenberg, soderbergh

fave books

agamemnon, antigone, hamlet, king lear, titus andrinicus, dr faustus, Astrophil and Stella, everything by shakespeare & aeschylus;

fave playwrights

shakespeare, aeschylus, sophocles, plato, marlowe, maugham, shaw, joyce, christie, bennett, osborne,

fave poets

blake, byron, bradstreet, marvell, wordsworth, boyle, whitman, hardy, keates, chopin, milton, paine, coleridge, byron, shelley, sydney, kavafis

famous quotes

sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. there is a time for silence. a time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. gloria naylor

people think I'm an intellectual because I wear glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money woody allen

you can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. woody allen

if only God would give me some clear sign! like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. woody allen

i despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy beethoven

i was cut off from the world. there was noone to confuse or torment me and i was forced to become original haydn

the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt bertrand russell

i am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.Pigs treat us as equals winston churchill

to be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it olin miller

without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. george bernard shaw

since the best man can not always be obtained, mediocre ones have to be accepted platz

art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. oscar wilde

i feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people vincent van gogh

all good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff frank zappa

life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises s butler

if all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error galbraith

you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it jm barrie

i don't know anything about music. in my line you don't have to elvis presley

hell is full of musical amateurs; music is the brandy of the damned shaw

before the beginning of great brilliance,there must be chaos i ching

the only thing standing between me and greatness is me woody allen

life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. woody allen

we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are anais nin

wise men never say what they think of women samuel butler

i am a revolutionary. money means nothing to me chopin

in the long-run we are all dead john maynard Keynes