I'm not easily pleased believe me, so if you're in my list take a bow.
If you're not and you
should be, how come I forgot you?
A
song I can't get enough of at the moment
The Ghost of Old Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen.
Favourite
Record Label
WEA circa 1975
Photographers
Jane Bown ~ Etienne Bol.
Directors
Scorsesse ~ Ridley Scott ~ Tarkovsky ~ Dennis Hopper ~ Ingmar Bergman.
Actors
Frank Finley as Salieri in Amadeus at the West End was about as good
as it gets. Gary Oldman rarely lets me down and Mary Steenburgen gets quietly
chosen by many a thoughtful director
Columnists
Charles Shaar Murray (UK's MacUser).
Most
respected DJ / VJ
Alan Bangs
Most
respected A&R
Howard Thompson (Currently runs Almo USA)
Independent
Film and Television Company
Palomar Pictures
*****
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
Restoration: Rose Tremain
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,
+ Germaine Greer, not least for her complete inability to be boring
Favourite
Freud
Nicki
Most
imitated and generally ripped off comic genius
Alexie Sayle (not forgetting one of his writers, Harry Bogdanovs)
The Ghost of Old Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen.