Favourite Things
A few of my…

Art

Paintings & painters

Lawrence Alma-Tadema — Art Renewal Center , Museum Syndicate 

“Spring” – One of Alma-Tadema’s best-known paintings and justifiably so.

Meindert Hobbema — Art Renewal Center , Museum Syndicate , Web Gallery of Art 

“The avenue at Middelharnis” – Not a great landscape painting, but one that has emotional resonance for me, as it hung on my parents’ living-room wall for many years, and reminded my mother of the town where her father grew up.

Edward Hopper — Art Renewal Center , Museum Syndicate 

“Nighthawks” (1942) – Not only Hopper’s most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable in American art, and one that anticipates the look of film noir, whose development Hopper may have influenced.

Rodney Matthews — The Official Rodney Matthews Website 

“The Spirit” (1980) (cover art for Magnum’s Chase the Dragon) and “Sanctuary” (1981) – “Sanctuary” was intended as the inside spread of a gatefold sleeve, which, unfortunately, the record company decided it could not afford.

Arthur Rackham — Art Renewal Center , Museum Syndicate 

“… only a pack of cards!” (1907)

Patrick Woodroffe — Patrick Woodroffe – Author, Poet, Painter & Sculptor  

“Sad Wings of Destiny” (cover art for Judas Priest’s album of the same name) – One of Woodroffe’s most restrained and least whimsical paintings, and thus one of his strongest.

 

Music

Electronica

Autechre — Ae. , Discogs 

• Amber

Carbon Based Lifeforms — CBL.site.v1.8 , Discogs 

• Hydroponic Garden – “Exosphere” ★★★★

Global Communication — Discogs 

• 76:14

Leftfield — Discogs 

• Leftism – “Melt” ★★★★★

Orbital — WWW.LOOPZ.CO.UK , Discogs 

• [the brown album] – “Halcyon + On + On”, feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw ★★★★★

Solar Fields — Solar Fields Offical Website , Discogs 

• Blue Moon Station – “Elevator Sunshine Girl” ★★★★

Spooky — Spooky , Discogs 

• Gargantuan – “Schmoo” ★★★★

System 7 — System 7 website , Discogs 

• Planet 7 – “Planet 7”, remix by Son Kite ★★★★★

Tangerine Dream — Tangerine Dream – Edgar Froese , Discogs 

• Stratosfear – “Stratosfear” ★★★★★

Underworld — Discogs 

• Second Toughest In the Infants – “Rez” ★★★★★

Rock

Be Bop Deluxe — Discogs 

• Sunburst Finish – “Sleep that Burns” ★★★★★

The Cross — Discogs 

• Mad : Bad : and Dangerous to Know – “Sister Blue” ★★★★★

Heart — HEART , Discogs 

• Passionworks – “Sleep Alone” ★★★★

Magnum — www.magnumonline.co.uk , Discogs 

• Chase the Dragon – “Soldier of the Line” ★★★★

Muse — MUSE , Discogs 

• Black Holes and Relevations – “City of Delusion” ★★★★★

Queen — Queen Online › Home , Discogs 

• Innuendo – “Ride the Wild Wind” ★★★★★

Roger Taylor — Discogs 

• Happiness? – “Touch the Sky” ★★★★

ZZ Top — ZZ Top | home , Discogs 

• Fandango! – “Heard It On the X” ★★★★★

World

Sheila Chandra — Sheila Chandra , Discogs 

• Weaving My Ancestors Voices – “Sacred Stones” ★★★★

Värttinä — Värttinä – Home , Discogs 

• Iki – “Nahkaruoska” ★★★★

Orchestral: Romantic

Maurice Ravel — Maurice Ravel Frontispice , ClassicalNet , Discogs 

• Miroirs, Marnat 43 – “Une barque sur l’océan” ★★★★

Orchestral: 20th century

Carl Orff — Carl Orff , ClassicalNet , Discogs 

• Carmina Burana – “Tempus est iocundum” ★★★★

Jean Sibelius — ClassicalNet , Discogs 

• Lemminkäinen Legends, op. 22 – “Lemminkäinen’s homeward journey” ★★★★

Richard Strauss — Richard Strauss Online , ClassicalNet , Discogs 

• Also Sparch Zarathustra, op. 30 – “Einleitung” ★★★★

Orchestral: Modern

Philip Glass — Philip Glass , ClassicalNet , Discogs 

• Concert fantasy for 2 timpanists and orchestra – “I” ★★★★★
• Violin concerto – “III” ★★★★★

Steve Reich — The Steve Reich Website , ClassicalNet , Discogs 

• Music for mallet instruments, voices, and organ ★★★★

Soundtracks

Danny Elfman — Danny Elfman’s Music For A Darkened People , Discogs 

• Batman – “The Batman Theme” ★★★★

James Horner — Discogs 

• Aliens – “Ripley’s Rescue” ★★★★★

Movies & TV

Movies

• 2001: A Space Odyssey — IMDb 
• Aliens — IMDb 
• Batman Begins — IMDb 
• The Big Sleep — IMDb 
• The Dark Knight — IMDb 
• Die Hard — IMDb 
• The Fifth Element — IMDb 
• Gladiator — IMDb 
• I, Robot — IMDb 
• Iron Man — IMDb 
• The Italian Job (1969) — IMDb 
• El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) — IMDb 
• The Lavender Hill Mob — IMDb 
• Léon (The Professional) — IMDb 
• The Lord of the Rings — IMDb , IMDb , IMDb 
• The Maltese Falcon — IMDb 
• Metropolis — IMDb 
• The Name of the Rose — IMDb 
• π — IMDb 
• The Princess Bride — IMDb 
• Quatermass and the Pit — IMDb 
• Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers) — IMDb 
• Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) — IMDb 
• Stargate — IMDb 
• Twelve Monkeys — IMDb 
• Yojimbo — IMDb 
• Young Frankenstein — IMDb 

TV

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — CSI Wiki Home – CSI , IMDb 
• Criminal Minds — IMDb 
• Dexter — Showtime : Dexter Official Site , IMDb 
• Doctor Who — … The Official Site , Outpost Gallifrey , Doctor Who Wiki … , IMDb , IMDb 
• Heroes — Heroes SCI FI Show – SCI FI UK , IMDb 
• House M.D. — FOX Broadcasting Company: House IMDb 
• Hustle — BBC – Drama – Hutsle – Homepage , IMDb 
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Law & Order: Criminal Intent (CI) … NBC Official Site , IMDb 
• NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service — Home – NCIS on CBS , IMDb 
• QI — QI : Quite Interesting IMDb 
• The Shield — The Shield , IMDb 
• Spooks — BBC Spooks Homepage IMDb 
• Stargate SG-1 — Stargate SG-1 | SCIFI.COM , IMDb 
• Star Trek — STARTREK.COM , Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki , IMDb 

Books & writers

Fiction

Brian W. Aldiss — The Official Brian W. Aldiss Website 

• The Malacia Tapestry — LT 

Iain (M.) Banks — Iain Banks 

• The State of the Art — LT 

Leigh Brackett — The Thrilling Detective Web Site , books and writers 

• The Secret of Sinharat — LT 

Raymond Chandler — The RC Web Site , The Thrilling Detective Web Site , books and writers 

• The Lady in the Lake — LT 

Greg Egan — Greg Egan’s Home Page 

• Axiomatic — LT 

Neil Gaiman — Neil Gaiman – Home 

• The Sandman: Season of Mists — LT 

Dashiel Hammett — The Thrilling Detective Web Site , books and writers 

• The Maltese Falcon — LT 

M. John Harrison — empty space 

• The Pastel City — LT 

Robert E. Howard — Robert E. Howard , The Barbarian Keep 

• The Hour of the Dragon — LT 

Fritz Leiber —

• The Swords of Lankhmar — LT 

China Miéville —

• Perdido Street Station — LT 

Michael Moorcock — Moorcock’s Miscellany 

• Gloriana, or the Unfulfill’d Queen — LT 

Terry Pratchett — Terry Pratchett at Transworld 

• Thief of Time, a Discworld novel — LT 

Nonfiction

Daniel C. Dennett — Daniel C. Dennett’s Home Page 

• Conciousness Explained — LT 

David Deutsch — David Deutsch – Home 

• The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything — LT 

Brian Greene — Brian Greene @ Columbia University 

• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory — LT 

Random books from my library(thing)

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