My musts
Since it’s all about the egotistic me ’round here, why not get the chance to show off a lil’ bit?
Seriously speaking, here are my favorites, and, in my book, the musts.
Authors
Mircea Eliade, EM Cioran, Eugene Ionesco, C Noica, FM Dostoievski, A de Saint-Exupery, Romain Gary, A Paleologu, A Dragomir
Books
Dialogues (Plato)
The Paltinis Diary, The Forbidden Door, Love Declaration (Gabriel Liiceanu), Utter Metaphysical Banalities (Alexandru Dragomir), The Common Sense as Paradox, The Defiance of Memory (Alexandru Paleologu), The Chronicles of Narnia (C. S. Lewis), especially The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the 5th volume of the series), The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery), The Unending Story (Michael Ende), Jurnal filozofic (Constantin Noica), No (Eugene Ionesco), On the Heights of Despair & Les Syllogismes de l’Amertume (E.M. Cioran), Maitreyi & The Diary of the Near-Sighted Adolescent (Mircea Eliade), La Promesse de l’Aube (Romain Gary), The Lord of the Flies (William Golding), La Condition Humaine (Andre Malraux), Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov (F.M. Dostoievski), The Death of Ivan Illitch (L. Tolstoi), The Master and Margarita (Mihail Bulgakov), Before the End (Ernesto Sabato), Comment Je Suis Devenu Stupide (Martin Page), Novecento (Alessandro Baricco)
Music
Yanni, Leonard Cohen, Nightwish,
Apocalyptica, Dire Straits, Dream Theater, GN’R, Haggard, HIM, Iron Maiden, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Lacrimosa, Metallica, Michel Sardou, My Dying Bride, Pink Floyd, Queen, Sonata Arctica, Therion, The Rolling Stones, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Tristania, Within Temptation, Yngwie Malmsteen. I love tons of other artists, but these guys gave music new dimensions.
I really enjoy classical/symphonic music as well. Bach is my feebleness. But that kind of music is beyond the rigors of liking and disliking.
Movies
Zorba the Greek, Titanic, Baraka, The Last Temptation of Christ, Forrest Gump, A Beautiful Mind, Legends of the Fall, Meet Joe Black, Legend of Nineteen Hundred, The Wall, Dead Poet Society, Filantropica, The Shawshank Redemption, Good Will Hunting, Amelie, Enemy at the Gates, Cast Away, Seven, Schindler’s List, City Lights, Doctor Zhivago
Painters
Salvador Dali, El Greco, Giorgio de Chirico, Hieronymus Bosch, Francisco Goya, Rene Magritte, Michelangelo
Sculptors
Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dali (believe me, he made fabulous sculptures)
