Apparently looking for paradoxes.
I wish I really was a conoisseur of music, contemporary art and irish whiskeys.
These guys:
randomly listed: Efterklang, mum, Mojave 3, Low, Swod, Charles Mingus, Alfred Schnittke, Tom Waits, dEUS, Mogwai, Sparklehorse, A Silver Mt. Zion, Fog, Radiohead, 65daysofstatic, Four Tet, Zita Swoon, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Giya Kancheli, Sigur Ros.
7 directors in alphabetical order: Darren Aronofski, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, The Marx Brothers, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton.
No thanks.
14 authors in alphabetical order: Bohumir Hrabal, David Grossman, Emily Dickinson, Fëdor Dostoevskij, Gaétan Soucy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italo Calvino, José Saramago, Julio Cortázar, Matt Ruff, Peter Esterházy, Philip K. Dick, Robert McLiam Wilson, Wislawa Szymborska.
My family.