Candies and candles, onanism, stars and scars, addictions, fat dogs, screaming queens, bubble bath, cruising, jumping rope, watching tearful movies, digesting, designing love, smiling at myself in a sly way, looking for my keys or ID, digressions.
Un gouffre de tendresse. A thief of hearts. Mektoub.
Air, Bonobo, Susumu Yokota (Grinning Cat), Mig (Dhikrayat), Gotan Project, Cassius, Rinoçerose. Cocteau Twins, Nick Drake, Pizzicato Five (Playboy & Playgirl), Rick Astley, Billie Holiday, Indochine, Mathieu Rosaz, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie, The Cure, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Astor Piazzolla, Iggy Pop (Avenue B), Jean-Louis Aubert (H), Flight of the Conchords, Miss Kittin, Silence, Buckshot LeFonque, Yo la tengo (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out) , Brigitte Fontaine, Gainsbourg, Final Fantasy, Marie-France (Raretés), Cassius, Jay Jay Johanson. Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Boy George, Francky goes to Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, Prince, Eurythmics, Kylie Minogue (Fever, X), Madonna, Wham, Nirvana, Queen.
Kim Ki-Duk, Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Two Drifters), Ferrara(R Xmas), Todd Solondz (Storytelling, Palindromes, Happiness), Jaime Chávarri (El Desencanto), Imamura (The Pornographers), Noi Albinoi, Hettie MacDonald (Beautiful Thing), Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree), Truffaut (L'amour en fuite, La sirène du Mississipi), Abdellatif Kechiche, Mankiewicz, El cielo dividido, Antonioni, Miyazaki, Max Ophüls (Lola), Renoir (La règle du jeu), Virallonga (Tras el cristal), Bruno Dumont, Jean Becker (Deux jours à tuer), Kitano (Dolls, A scene at the sea), Ozon, Tarantino, Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Wong Kar-Wai, Johnnie To (Exiled), Cédric Kahn (L'ennui), Almodovar, Walter Salles (Avril brisé), A dog day afternoon, Lifshitz (Wild Side), Rémi Lange, Breakfast at Tiffany's, "The salt mines", followed by "The Transformation" (Susana Aikin and Carlos Aparicio), Billy Wilder (The private life of Sherlock Holmes), Lars von Trier (Breaking the waves), Claire Denis, Lynch, Gregg Araki, Larry Clark (Bully, Wassup Rockers), Jacques Demy (Les parapluies de Cherbourg), Haneke, Murnau (Tabou), Téchiné (Les roseaux sauvages), les frères Dardenne (Le fils), Ducastel et Martineau. The American Teenagehood Trilogy: Requiem for a Dream, American Dream, and Donnie Darko.
Photography: Doisneau, La Castiglione, Slava Mogutin, Emilie Jouvet, Nicolas Sénégas, Kael T Block, Herb Ritts, LaChapelle, Arthur Tress, Claude Cahun, Tazzio, Hervé Guibert, Jesse Fernandez. Painting: Balthus, Lucian Freud, Romaine Brooks, Bacon, Amanda Lear, Guayasamin, Gustavo Pavel Egüez, Oswaldo Viteri, Soutine, Léger, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tamara de Lempicka, Michel-Marie Poulain.
Roberto Arlt (Los siete locos), James Purdy (Narrow Rooms), Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea), Gomez-Arcos (L'Agneau carnivore), Cocteau, Dorothy Alison, Lewis (The Monk), William Sassine (Mémoire d'une peau), Tierno Monénembo (L'Aîné des orphelins), Mishima (Le marin rejeté par la mer), Julia de Burgos, George Sand, Hugo (Les travailleurs de la mer), Maupassant, Pierre Loti, Giono , Rachid Boudjedra, Driss Chraïbi,Pessoa, Duras, Robert Alexis, Mabrouck Rachedi, Olivier Bouillère, Fabienne Juhel (La verticale de la lune), Genet, Guibert, Eric Jourdan, Manuel Ramos Otero. Decadent literature: Gautier, Baudelaire, Rachilde, Pierre Louÿs, Renée Vivien, Barbey d'Aurevilly. Everything by Philip Larkin and Proust.Philosophy/Queer Theory/Psychoanalysis: Fourier, Sade, Stirner, Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir,Foucault, Deleuze, René Schérer, Hocquenghem, Butler, Jean Allouch.
Gilles de Rais, Messaline.