Arts and letters.

"I am willing to devote a considerable amount of time, which is my activity as an intellectual, to continuing the struggle for public education, public enlightenment, social justice, humanization, trying to keep alive humanist values in mass culture. If there is any chance in this society to keep open some alternatives which will permit a few people to make different kinds of choices, and if there is any chance to keep the general level of public and cultural life from sinking to an even lower standard than today, then there must be a considerable number of people prepared to do that work" - Susan Sontag

MUSIC: Dmitri Shostakovich, J.S. Bach, Kaikhosru Sorabji, James Dillon, Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler, Carl Orff, Gyorgy Ligeti, Max Bruch, Pierre Boulez, Leos Janacek, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Anton Webern, Krzystof Penderecki, Gioacchino Rosini, Gioavanni Battista Pegolesi, Giacomo Puccini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bela Bartok, Arvo Part, Karol Szymanowski, Robert Schumann, Maurice Ravel, Pablo de Sarasate, Frederic Rzewski, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Georg Phillip Telemann, Antonin Dvorak, Frederic Chopin, Clement Janequin, Leo Ornstein, Francis Poulenc, Eric Satie, Michael Finnissy, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Sidney Bechet, Miles Davis, Harry James, Dizzy Gillespie, Astrud Gilberto, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, The Magnetic Fields, Simon and Garfunkle, Yoko Ono, Jens Lekman, Beirut, Muzsikas, Owen Pallett, Devendra Banhart

FILMS: Cries and Whispers, Mirror, Jeanne Dielman: 23 Quai du Commerce Bruxelles, L'Avventura, Last Year at Marienbad, Closely Watched Trains, Je Tu Il Elle, Au hasard Balthazar, Masculin Feminin, Bicycle Thieves, Red Desert, Late Spring, News From Home, A Woman Is A Woman, Loves of a Blonde, In the Mood for Love, Pickpocket, La Grande Illusion, Autumn Sonata, Winter Light, A Clockwork Orange, Interiors, Scenes From a Marriage, Hiroshima Mon Amor, Mouchette, Eyes Wide Shut, Woman In The Dunes, Elephant, Barry Lyndon, Through A Glass Darkly, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Nostalghia, Faces, A bout de souffle, Three Women, The Third Man, The Silence, Persona, Manhattan, L'Eclisse, Au revoir les enfants, High School, Diary of a Country Priest, 8 1/2, Death in Venice, Shame, My Night at Mauds, Brewster McCloud, Andrei Rublev, Family Nest, Persona, The Cranes Are Flying, Alexander Nevsky, Il Posto, Jules et Jim, Lost In Translation, Umberto D., News From Home, Cleo From 5 to 7, My Own Private Idaho, Last Days, Rashomon, Diary of a Chambermaid, Ratcatcher, Werckmeister Harmonies, Kanal, The 400 Blows, Spirit of the Beehive, 5x2, Band of Outsiders, La Notte, The Rules of the Game, Nashville, The Passion of Anna, Stardust Memories, Paris Belongs To Us, Taste of Cherry, Murmur of the Heart, A nos amours, Viridiana, Anatomy of A Relationship, The Earrings of Madame de..., Out 1, Damnation, Vivre sa vie, The Sacrifice, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Chastie

BOOKS: Susan Sontag, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Elias Canetti, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, E.M. Cioran, Joseph Brodsky, Adam Zagajewski, Lionel Trilling, Marina Tsvetaeva

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