Travel, music, gigs, photography, trees, art, cinema (foreign films&art house esp), classic black&whites on tv, curling up on the couch looking out the window to a miserable wet day!, sept/oct/nov..kinda like the autumnal/wintery feel in the air..its all about getting cosy, reading..can never be without a book nearby, laughing hard, being around true friends, partying, afternoon beers on a sunday, spontaneous nights out, red wine(rioja), going for dinner with friends/boyfriend, cornucopia/cafe paradiso (vegetarian restaurants), mountain trekking, skydiving (did this in NZ), glacier hiking(NZ), forests in autumn, moody stormy days, sunsets, sunrises, animals/african wildlife, hippie/alternative lifestyle & styles
Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Greenday, Radiohead, Guns N Roses, Queens of The Stone Age, Incubus, Auf Der Maur, System of a Down, Metallica, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Led Zeppelin, Depeche Mode, The Vines, The Doves, Mercury Rev, Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Stone Roses, The Who, Jeff Buckley, Ben Harper, Bob Marley, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Nick Cave&the bad seeds, The Killers, The Arcade Fire, Howling Bells, Rilo Kiley, Broken Social Scene, Midlake, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Neco Case, Cat Power, Imogen Heap, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Blonde Redhead, The Raveonettes, Azure Ray, The Duke Spirit, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Gnarls Barkley, Guillemots, Willy Mason, Damien Rice, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Jane's Addiction, Portishead, Placebo, YeahYeahYeahs, Sneaker Pimps, Weezer, Snow Patrol, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Kings of Leon, Interpol, Bloc Party, Mogwai, The Breeders, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Rainer Maria, Manu Chao, Jose Gonzales, Brendan Benson, Pete Yorn, Air, Zero7, Caf Del Mar, Yo La Tengo, Morcheeba, dEUS, Goldfrapp, Leftfield, Groove Armada, Architecture in Helsinki, Sigur Ros, Mum, Nouvelle Vague, Ray LaMontagne, Ryan Adams, Ed Harcourt, Kings Of Convenience, Rufus Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Isobel Campbell, Tom Baxter, Jack Johnson, The John Butler Trio, Cowboy Junkies, Fleetwood Mac, Supergrass, Jet, Blur, Razorlight, The Zutons, HotHotHeat, Gorillaz, Bellx1, My Brightest Diamond, Tegan&Sarah, Jenny Lindfors, Vyvienne Long, Gemma Hayes, U2, Belle & Sebastian, Counting Crows, Cranberries, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Kate Bush, Stevie Wonder, Aimee Mann, Erykah Badu, Jewel(old), Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, Prince, Beck, Bjork, Iron & Wine, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Ani DiFranco, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Buena Vista Social Club, Mingus Big Band, Anouar Brahem Trio, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovitch, Stravinsky, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Chopin, Gershwin,
A Very Long Engagement, Amelie, Chocolat, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Somersault, 5x2(cinq fois deux), Y Tu Mama Tambien, Three Colours (red/white/blue), Motorcycle Diaries, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Life is Beautiful, Dogma, High Fidelity, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Big Lebowski, The Departed, Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland, Babel, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Melinda and Melinda, Whale Rider, Lost in Translation, Lord of The Rings, Snatch, Seven, Michael Collins, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Godfather, Schindlers List, The Piano, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, 12 Angry Men, Inherit The Wind, Sophies Choice, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Farenheit 9/11, Fargo, Constant Gardener, Kill Bill, Walk The Line, Hidden (Cache), Junebug (quite strange but nice), The Squid & The Whale (also odd but interesting), Ratatouille!
Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Black Books, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The View, The Panel, Michael Palin's Himalaya, Questions&Answers, Six Feet Under, Scrubs, Animal Planet & National Geographic documentaries,Nat Geo Wild, Travel docu's (globe trekker).., Secret Life of Us, Lost, Sopranos, Weeds, Big Love
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, Papillon by Henri Charriere, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, The Dubliners by James Joyce, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Waiting Child by Cindy Champnella, From China With Love by Emily Buchanan, Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah, The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans, Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield, The Five People You Meet In Heaven,