Words, photography, images (still and moving), the way words and images are put together, martial arts, reading and making zines & books, foreign languages and cultures, green tea, the Dream of the Red Chamber (Story of the Stone), brain chemistries, image/media/culture theory, road trips, Calvados, Chinese Zen thoughts, history of women & feminism, silent films, doing away with the dichotomy between dualism and non-dualism, typography, the Middle Ages, observation, post-structuralism, Eastern mysticism, jazz and classical piano, challenging pornography/stimulating erotica, understanding things from another point of view, galleries and museums, Thai masssages, graphic design, publishing, intellectual honesty, Dutch/Flemish paintings, the I-Ching, Ancient Greek everything, escargots, true glamour, MUSIC, Chinese bronze, Bourgogne, the Middle East, Buddhist sculptures and wood carvings, live concerts, Asian food, sunday buffets at the synogogue, emotions and intimacy, love and friendship as the very foundation of life...
Prophets and muses, fearless women, mad scientists, free minds, generous benefactors, people from my past (I am obsessed with the passage of time), people who do their own things, people I'm meant to meet, even if it's just for once, artists with whom there's space for cross-fertilization, Jean Baudrillard (this may happen this year), CATHERINE BREILLAT (we've met once but have since lost contact), Uma Thurman (she looked tall even from the second balcony of the Rex theater, especially next to Tarantino, but I really should have had my binoculars when I went to that screening of Kill Bill), GEORGE BATAILLE, Pablo Neruda, Bill Evans, LARRY CLARK, J.S. Bach, Brahms, Madonna, Isabelle Huppert (I again forgot to bring those damn binoculars for the Césars), ROBERT SCHUMANN, Gurdjieff, Bill Viola, Gilles Deleuze, Beethoven, MICHEL FOUCAULT, Herbie Hancock, Walt Whitman, Miles Davis, Socrates, Mimi Nguyen, Artur Rubinstein, Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Horowitz, Jean Klein, John Malkovich, JOHN TRAVOLTA, Charlie Chaplin, DADDY DOLL, Daddy Doll's biological father, Art Tatum, EURIDIPES, Sappho, ANDY WARHOL, Marilyn Monroe, CAO XUE-QIN, Jia Bao-Yu from the Dream of the Red Chamer, Lao-Tze, Zhuang-Tze, Ghandi, COLTRANE, the Buddha, BACCHUS, Jesus, SIVA, you...
Children under 18 years of age, please beware that you are blocked from contacting me in light of current international legal and medical consensus. In the name of "protection," you have no rights over your body and mind, and the material posted here is going to be too advanced for you anyway. I have total sympathies - been there, done that. But this is MySpace, and you play on your playground, I play on mine. Btw, I can tell when you are lying about your age, so...
Le coup du mépris: Interview with Godard
*I'm always looking for models (mostly women, sometimes men, of all ages) for fashion/artistic work. Send me some of your images if you are passing by or live in Paris, and I'll send you mine.
**If you are an artist and would like to collaborate, please don't hesitate to contact me. You are the reason I'm here.
Endless and endlessly evolving list from Bach to structured noise.
Cinéma d'auteur, cinéma d'art et d'essaie, cinéma subversif, cinéma underground: Godard, Truffaut, Genet, Fellini, Pasolini, Charlie Chaplin, Ken Russell, Jia Zhang-Ke, Tarkovski, Catherine Breillat, Nagisa Oshima, Larry Clark, Pedro Almodovar, Wim Wenders, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wong Kar-wai, Chan-Wook Park......
Click here for a list of my all-time fetish movies.
Watching the universe reflected in the misery and splendors of this monkey mind.
I'm an incurable book bulimic and used to steal books from local bookstores (that was some years ago). Bookstores and libraries are still my favorite hang-outs. Nowadays, mostly reading and rereading old favorites, poetry, history, religion, metaphysics, philosophy, natural sciences, comics, image/media theory, Chinese classics, and books on photography and contemporary art, in Chinese, English, or French.
Sappho, Socrates, Daddy Doll (he gave me more than my life and I miss him everyday), Hubby Doll (my life saver and my best friend), electricians and mechanics (they are modern-day magicians - what would I do without them?), people who are skillful with their hands (so envious), people who fearlessly step into the unknown, even if it means not stepping back.