yoga, pottery, olives, cheese, swimming, piano, tropical fruits, vipassana meditation, anthropology, linguistics, south asia, knitting, textiles, ginger, weekly world news, scotch, oxo utensils, curry, espresso, short stories, tropics, tintin, free will astrology
other harmless eccentrics
ivy, beth orton, antony and the johnsons, ben folds, juana molina, french kicks, sufjan stevens, tahiti 80, benjamin biolay, roisin murphy, jude, vanessa daou, smiths, EBTG, rufus wainwright, aimee mann, tribe called quest, keren ann, patricia barber, cibo matto, REM, mark lavoine, avenue d, M.I.A., le tigre, debussy
smarmy bollywood flicks ("hare ram! raju, you got a face transplant! I thought you were done for! come, let us sing and do choral-ography with the alps in the background...")