Books, Anti-capitalism, Anarchism, Linguistics, Music, Making Music, Drawing and Painting, Cooking, Collecting Odd Things, Buying CDs of Failed Performers, Bipolar Disorder, Islam, Turkey, Languages, Dead Languages, Non-Translated Languages (ie, Indus, Kush, etc.), Catholicism, All Asian Foods and Condiments.
people who like talking about language, music, books, good food, bad cookbooks, Lifetime movies (to make fun of them), failed experiments, inventions and crazes, very dreamy, tingly cocteau-ish guitar sounds, Laurie Anderson, Balthus, Istanbul, Medieval European art, Early Christian painting, Late Roman sculpture, African sculpture and novelists, Artists, musicians, writers, non-conformists, anarchists, intelligent thinkers.
cocteau twins, guitar, bjork, dif juz, morrissey, the creatures, interpol, jesus and mary chain, yo la tengo, savinna yianatou, whale, tricky, blonde redhead, the hope blister, julee cruise, lutoslwaski, faye wong, my bloody valentine, sonic youth, pj harvey, orbital, bim sinclair, this mortal coil, lisa gerrard, dead can dance, pizzicato five, tricky, martina topley-bird, miranda sex garden, siouxsie and the banshees, the smiths, radiohead, sigur ros, massive attack, everything but the girl, psb, gus gus, harold budd, natasha atlas, dj cheb i sebbah, talk talk, plaid, yoshihiro hanno, two lone swordsmen, isan, the beatles, dusty springfield, sarah vaughn, jimi hendrix, robert fripp, it goes on...
'Ran' directed by Akira Kurosawa, 'Persona' directed by Ingmar Bergman, 'Stalker' directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 'In Absentia' directed by The Brothers Quay, 'Blackboards' directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, 'Zerkalov' (Mirror) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
'The Homestead Grays', 'The Lost Rebellion' and 'The Sign of Dawn' all by James Wylie, 'Petals of Blood' - wa Thiungo, 'Kitchen' - Banana Yoshimoto, 'The Brothers Karamazov' - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'War and Peace' - Leo Tolstoi, 'Orlando' - Virginia Woolf, 'The Palm Wine Drinkard' - Amos Tutuola, 'Nguru' - Flora Nwapa, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' - Amy Tan, 'Collected Poems' - Marianne Moore, 'Demons' - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Nightwood' - Djuna Barnes, 'Collected Poems' - Anna Ahkmatova, 'The Stranger' - Albert Camus, 'The Theif's Journal' - Jean Genet, 'Waiting for Willa' - Dorothy Eden, 'La Curee' - Emile Zola, 'Therese Raquin' - Emile Zola, 'The House of Mirth' - Edith Wharton, 'Man's Fate' - Andre Malraux, 'The Old Curiosity Shop' - Charles Dickens.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Josephine Baker, Anna Akhmatova, and anyone who has suffered, remained alive, and remembered that life is not hell.