Music, Literature, Photography (still learning), Films, Theatre... not only looking or hearing... doing, writing and making too!
And more generally : modern architecture & art-déco, dance, history & human rights, art, travel, fashion (!) and linguistics.
I'd like to meet:
Others passionates, specially in music and cinema.
Music:
Singing all day... Eclectic tastes in music, with a special admiration for those who manage to express humour and irony and to build original sound-world.
In artists, well: Radiohead, Björk, Ghinzu, M, Ella Fitzgerald, Bowie, Nirvana, Emilie Simon, Olivia Ruiz, Abd Al Malik, Brel, Susheela Raman, Billie Holyday, Sigur Ros, Asian Dub Foundation, Placebo, Indochine, Mana, Janis Joplin, Morcheeba, PJ Harvey, No doubt, Archive, Shakira (before her english period), Vanessa Paradis
Composers like Bartok, Shostakovitch, Danny Elfman, Stravinsky, George Gershwin, Mozart, Chopin, Malher, Szymanovsky, Dusapin, J.Berghmans, Prokofiev, Duhamel, Piazzola, Gainsbourg...
Movies:
So many!
Generally : Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu's film (the 3!), Woody Allen's (Match Point, and nearly all), Burton's (nearly all), Gondry's(Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Science of the sleep), Fincher's (Seven!! Fight Club), Soderbergh's (Traffic, Sex, lie & video), kitano's (Kikujiro's summer) Almodovar's (Habla con ella and others), Kubrick's (all, specially "Dr Strangelove", young Kurosawa's (Cure, Kaïro) and Bergman (Fanny & Alexandre).
I love "La fille sur le pont"(Patrice Leconte), "The Others"(Amenabar), "Memories of murders"(Joon-ho Bong),
"Dance with wolves"(Costner), "Amadeus"(Forman), "Some like it hot"(B.Wider?), "Chaos"(Serreau), "Dancer in the Dark"(von Trier), "Love Actually"(Curtis), "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"(Loach), "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (Clooney), "Lost in translation"(Sofia Coppola),"The Hours"(Daldry), "Lawrence of Arabia"(Lean), "The Godfather"(Coppola), "The English Patient", "The Pianist"(Polanski), "Romeo + Juliette"(Luhrmann), "Taxi Driver" (Scorsese) etc...
Television:
Don't watch a lot. I was a TV drog-addict when I was in school, then I lived without TV and now, I'm cured...
Books:
"So many!" 2
I learn a lot about all the books I read.Quickly : "Hotel Savoy" de Joseph Roth (and "Confession of a murder"),
"Il Contexto" de Sciascia,
works of Stefan Zweig como "Le joueur d'echec" (The royal game)
Everything I read of Haruki Murakami, Albert Camus, Bougakov, Gogol, Dostoïevsky, Virginia Woolf, Cortazar, Juan Rulfo, Sabato, Michaux, Prévert, Queneau;
"Mercure" of A. Nothomb;
"La rue" of Isroel Rabon;
"Truisme" and "Naissance des fantômes" of Marie Darrieussecq
"Paradis" of Toni Morrison
"Seven Gothic Tales" of Blixen etc...
Big classic books like "Cien años de soledad", "El quijote", "Les frères Karamazov", "El llano en llamas", "A la recherche du temps perdu", "Gatsby le Magnifique", "Nouvelles de Petersbourg" and soon maybe others...
Heroes:
Einstein, Bartok, Almodovar, Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola, Paul Stoerckel, José Berghmans, Björk, Romy Schneider, Kate Winslet, Scarlett Johansson, Bowie, Michel Gondry, John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Sciascia, Virginia Woolf, Mikaïl Boulgakov, Haruki Murakami, Ingrid Bétancourt, Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit