Opportunities (right place at the time kinda stuff), fast stuff, technology/gadgets, mahjong, creating, suspicion and conspiracies, books, thoughtful contributions, food that makes my nose run, music, language, soccer, art, movies, writing, rogue regimes, video/photography, not the telephone, youth/pop culture, fashion, the semicolon, money and making it, design, the principles of placement, anything art deco, typography, the Internet/Web2.0, red vinfandel, women, the 3rd world, motorcycles, the occasional travel excursion, Shanghai...
Andy Warhol, my grandfather, Li Yong, Bob Dylan, Jack Ma, Gemma Ward, Zhou Enlai, Roberto Baggio, and of course Chuck Norris...Kim Jong Il...
Canadian rock!, Xie Tian Xiao, Ahmad Jamal, Thom Yorke (The Eraser), Camille, Aphex Twin, Elvis, Miles Davis, Beck, Teitur, Broken Social Scene, Oscar Peterson, Cat Power, Bjork, Sondre Lerche, Johnny Cash, Yo-Yo Ma, Radiohead, Editors, Fiest, Ahmad Jamal, Ms. John Soda, Stars, Bob Dylan, Interpol, John Coltrane, The Grateful Dead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Headphones, Bei Bei, Philip Glass, The White Stripes, Nitin Sawhney, Plej...its a long, random list that bounces between jazz, anything with a guitar, and classical soloists.
American Psycho (my all-time favorite...it's a masterpiece...Patrick Bateman is 26 in the book, 27 in the movie, why?), Gangster Number One, Hard Candy, Old Boy, Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind, Kicking and Screaming, The Squid and The Whale, Scarface, Everything is Illuminated, Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine (great soundtrack)...documentaries...
Rarely...House M.D., Indian dramas dubbed in Mandarin, any Chinese game show hosted by Li Yong (e.g. Fei Chang 6+1, yes!)...not enough time for TV...Internet TV anyone?
International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com), www.mindmeters.com, DanweiMedia (www.danwei.org), just finished "Made in Detroit" (Paul Clemens) and it was a total waste of my time. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" (John Perkins) was fantastic...I like biographies...I have less and less patience/attention span for full-length books...I am more of a magazine/blog/RSS/articles kinda guy.
No one really...my parents get radder and radder the older I get......Eric Cantona perhaps.........The Shanghai Beat: A Show About Urban Life in Modern ShanghaiXINJIANG: KASHGAR (part 2 of 2)XINJIANG: Part 1 of 2 of video from a recent trip to Xinjiang. Footage shot in and around Urumqi and Turpan. Featuring Adam Harr, Rick Krakowski, Julia Filip, Ginger Xiang, and me. We are the machine....Eric Cantona...respect...Favorite movie, favorite scene (American Psycho)Thom Yorke - The EraserLionel Messi is fast becoming a hero of mine...