Subject: Re: Survey!!:) Paul K
From: Will Hochman (Hochman@scsu.ctstateu.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 00:11:49 GMT
Paul, you've captured so many of my favorites, I simply wish to say
Ditto with respect to Wallace Stevens ,Richard Hugo, Miles Davis, and
Fellini, Will
>I can't believe I'm doing this, but here goes:
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>>1) 10 of your favorite authors and/or books
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> Henry David Thoreau
> Gabriel Garcia Marquez
> Italo Calvino
> Fyodor Dostoyevsky
> Tom Robbins (who doesn't seem to belong, but who cares)
> John Cheever
> John Updike
> Thucydides
> Shakespeare
> Machiavelli
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>>2) 10 albums you can't live w/o
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>Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (or anything, even Mr. Zimmerman breathing
>heavily!)
>Glenn Gould/JS Bach, The Goldberg Variations (BOTH early and late recordings)
>Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe, Barcelona!
>Neil Young, Goldrush
>Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
>Beatles, Double White (or anything but Let It Be)
>Il Giardino Armonico/Vivaldi, Four Seasons
>Ella Fitzgerald/Cole Porter, The Song Books
>Leonard Cohen, Greatest Hits
>Joni Mitchell, Blue
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>>3) 10 of the best movies you can think of.
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>Les Enfants du Paradis
>On The Waterfront
>The Graduate (probably for reasons similar to the above Tom Robbins)
>Armarcord (sp?)
>Annie Hall
>Le Decline de l'Empire Americain (mandatory Can-Con)
>Perfectly Normal (Can-Con again, which probably means I'm the only
>bananafish who's ever seen it. But any film that simultaneously
>deals with opera and ice hockey HAS to be a masterpiece! Besides,
>it was written by a friend.)
>Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
>East of Eden
>DoDesKaDen (or almost ANY Kurosawa)
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>>3) favorite place you've travelled to.
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>How come it's suddenly ONE place, and not TEN?
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>Barcelona (ya gotta love a city where they danced in the streets when Franco
>died, and ran out of champagne--or rather 'Cava'--in the shops)
>New York
>Shanghai
>London
>St. Petersburg (aka Leningrad)
>Amsterdam (it must be something about that sickly sweet smoke)
>Jerusalem (POOR Jerusalem....)
>Siena
>Montreal
>.....and then there's this tiny Ontario lake called Otter....
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>>4) Gore, Bush, Nader, Buchanan, or other? or none of
>>the above?
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>Allow me, quite purposefully, to spoil my ballot....
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>>5) astrological sign
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>Cancer
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>>6) if you were reincarnated as an animal, which one
>>would it be?
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>I wouldn't mind a couple more cracks at being a HUMAN animal.
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>>7) are you Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic, Hindu,
>>Buddhist, Athiest, Agnostic, non-practicing, etc...
>>etc...?
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>I'm a Woody Guthrite. May your pastures of plenty always be free!
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>>8) favorite work by J.D. Salinger
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>The Catcher in the Rye
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>>9) character you most identify with in Salinger's
>>works
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>When I was twelve years old, it was obviously Holden.... Later, when I
>desperately wished that I'd been born into the Glass family, it was
>Zooey.... On bad days, even now, I fear that there's a bit of Buddy in me,
>or sometimes even Mr. Spenser. And it's still easy to fall instantly in
>love with Phoebe, Franny, and Esme.
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>>10) what questions would you ask on a survey?
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>Name me ten books that you NEVER intend to read.
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>Cheers,
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>Paul
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