Music:
Talking Heads, Serge Gainsbourg, Bowie, Prince, Roxy Music, Radiohead, Nick Cave, Joy Division, Kinks, Lou Reed & V. Underground, Beck, Blonde Redhead, YYYs, Al Green, Sly & the F Stone, Sonic Youth, Cure, Gang of Four, etc...
Movies:
Godard, Kurosawa, Scorsese, Truffaut, Fellini, Woody, Wong Kar-Wai, von Trier, Kieslowski, Jean-Pierre Melville, Buñuel, Tarantino, PT Anderson, Hitchcock, W. Anderson, Jonze, Capra, Kubrick, De Sica, Antonioni, Errol Morris & any Documentaries...
Books:
Houellebecq, Kundera, Sedaris, Z. Smith, Wolfe, Vidal, Salinger, Chabon, Eggars, Eugenides, New Yorker, NY Times
Heroes:
Lou Reed; Woody Allen; Radiohead; Martin Scorsese; the great Gerhard Richter; Tim Gardner, Lisa Yuskavage & John Currin; Yiddish; Akira Kurosawa; the People of Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire for their consistent excellence in the production of English Stilton; The New Yorker; The New York Times; the brilliant Zadie Smith; Earl Grey for his delicious tea; Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut & other pioneers of the New Wave; Talking Heads; Wong Kar-Wai; the city of New York; Juliette Binoche; the makers of Arizona Iced Teas; British Television for the consistent excellence in the field of television comedies like “The Officeâ€, “League of Gentlemenâ€, and “Monty Python’s Flying Circusâ€; Milan Kundera; Paul Thomas Anderson, and Wes Anderson; ex cetera, ex cetera, ex cetera…