GenghisTheHun's Favorite Stuff
Ode to Joy in Beethoven's 9th, stuff from the 1950's and early 1960's, Johnny Cash, G. F. Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, Wolfe Tones, Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, George Jones, Ernest Tubb, Byrds, B. B. King, Joan Baez, Rolling Stones. I love Chicago Blues.
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas; Modern Times by Paul Johnson; The Siege of Vienna by John Stoye; I am partial to the works of Graham Greene; I relish the Flashman series by G. M. Fraser. Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe and Starbuck series are splendid. I am starting Patrick O'Brian and apologize for not reading them earlier!
Flicks where they shoot lots of dingoes. John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, John Huston-- directors. Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Ellen Barkin, Vera Miles, Mimi Rogers, Maureen O'Hara--stars. TV shows: Original Star Trek, the Lawman, Newhart, Maverick, China Smith, Gunsmoke, Deadwood, X-Files, Monty Python, Sopranos