Which artists do I like?

Directors

Justine Triet, Celine Sciamma, Eric Rohmer, early Sofia Coppola, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg (primarily for Munich).

Writers

Goethe, Marcel Proust, Van Gogh (letters), Milan Kundera, Pascal, Montaigne, David Hume, Tony Judt, Vassily Grossman, Jonathan Littell

Composers

Brahms, Rachmaninov (Particularly Rach3 by Yunchan Lim), Mahler (Mahler 2nd and 5th are my favorites), Chopin (No. 1 Piano Concerto by Martha Argerich), Liszt (Transcendental Etudes), Schumann, Schubert (Standchen), Mozart (Piano Concertos and Requiem mostly), Philip Glass, Jean Sibelius (Hilary Hahn’s Violin Concertos), Edward Elgar (Jacquline du Pre’s interpretation of Cello Concerto).

Poets

Paul Celan, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Wilfred Owen, Anna Akhmatova, Catullus, Ovid (maybe … )

Who do I not like?

Jeff Koons (plagued by kitsch in an ironic manner). Jacques Audiard (for his consistency in producing and directing the most extreme form of mediocrity).

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