A song I can't
get enough of
The Ghost of Old Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen.
Favourite Chat show presenter
Oprah Winfry. Smart, cute and compassionate ... What could be better? Where else
would someone like Richard Gere, for just one example, get an opportunity to remind
us that China is screwing over a lot of people because it's politics are murderous
and oppressive and that we as consumers are propping up a slave labour regime by
buying their goods while at the same time inviting us to wish for the happiness of
others and entertaining us. Looks simple but it isn't.
Favourite Record
Label
WEA especially circa 1975
Photographers
Jane Bown ~ Etienne Bol.
Directors
Scorsese ~ Ridley Scott ~ Tarkovsky ~ Dennis Hopper ~ Ingmar Bergman ~ and about
a hundred more
Actors
Impossible question. Frank Finley as Salieri in Amadeus at the West End was about
as good as it gets. Gary Oldman rarely lets me down. Mary Steenburgen gets quietly
chosen by many a thoughtful director and Juliet Stevenson should make any quality
actor want to give up completely she's so accomplished. This list could easily extend
into several pages.
Columnists
Charles Shaar Murray (UK's MacUser).
Most respected
DJ / VJ
Alan Bangs
Favourite UK
Radio Music Station
Jazz fm
Most respected
A&R
Howard Thompson (Currently runs Almo USA)
Independent Film
and Television Company
Palomar Pictures
Favourite Songwriters
Bob Dylan ~ Joni Mitchell ~ Marc Cohn ~ Van Morrison ~ Randy Newman.
Athlete
Boris Becker
Business execs
Anita Roddick (Body Shop) ~ Ed Heine (Warner Chappell).
Favourite book
this week
Favourite royalty
collection agencies
GVL and GEMA in Germany.
They put the UK ones, particularly the PPL, to shame, because their focus is where
it belongs: paying royalties quickly, accurately and fulsomely to their members
Favourite audio
book
Bill Bryson: Made in America (read by Mike McShane)
Favourite Guru/Mythologist
Joseph Campbell
Favourite TV intellectuals
Almost everyone that appears with, and including, Mark Lawson on BBC2's Late Night
Review.
Favourite Freud
Nicki
Most imitated
and generally ripped off comic genius
Prime founder of alternative comedy, Alexie Sayle (not forgetting one of his writers,
Harry Bogdanovs)
Favourite rap
song
"B Movie" Gill Scott Heron
Documentary film
makers
David Munroe and John Pilger, Laurie Flynn
Favourite Web
Site
For the simple unpretentiousness of its style, its cute graphics and its complete
lack of "Hey look at me", I've got a sneaking admiration for www.willa.com
Beneath contempt
You know who you are .... D'you really want to leave this planet to the sound of
the rest of us rejoicing that we now carry a lighter load? Stop chiselling and copping
a deaf one for Chris'sakes.
Thanks for visiting. DK
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