Preserving my own life and health
Love and friends,
Cinema (I know, it sounds like the worse line on a resume, but really, I love it as an art)
Dancing, salsa in particular,
Italian Renaissance sculpture and painting,
Making new friends,
Beautiful smiles, beautiful hair, beautiful whatever,
American politics, telepathy with cats, large good dogs.
Weirdly (can I say weirdly?), I have recently developped a strong interest in making pastries.
Anything really interesting, incredible but true, or just sensational (not in a TV journalism meaning)
Shopping (not the type of guy who will sit around when my girlfriend choses a new outfit, I want my say in it).
Someone with whom I can have a good conversation.
I'd also like to chat with people from the Paris area, from both genders, so that I can actually meet them, for a change. Go out for a drink, dance, homemade parties, stuff like this.
David Bowie, Gerard Manset, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Ravel, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Bill Straihorn, Yann Tiersen, U2, Leonard Cohen, Beethoven, Satie, Rachmaninov, Guns and Roses, Simon & Garfunkel, Jacques Brel, Brassens, Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto, Tito Puente, Brahms...
Classical, Jazz, Pop, Ragtime, Rock, Hip-Hop, Salsa...
Stanley Kubrick :
Dr Strangelove, 2001, Space Odissey, Shining
Ernst Lubitsch:
The Shop Around the Corner, Ninotchka, To Be or Not To Be
Akira Kurosawa:
Throne of Blood, Red Beard, The Bad Sleep Well, Dersou Ouzala
Woody Allen:
Manhattan, Love and Death, Annie Hall
Clint Eastwood:
Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, A Perfect World...
And also,
Yi Yi, Scarface (De Palma's), All About Eve, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowsky, In the Mood for Love, Mars Attacks!, Mulholland Drive, The Mummy, Dune, Amelie, Kill Bill 1&2, The Night of the Living Dead, The Night of the Living Bread, La Haine, Delicatessen, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dogville, The Birds, Brazil, Zoolander, Troy, Etre et avoir, Un air de famille, Koyaniskatsi, The Others, La cité de la peur, Underground, Chunking Express, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
The Beeb or Euronews for the news.
CNN to get my dose of daily misinformation.
French news because that's where you get news about France.
Sex and the City.
Animal documentaries.
La promesse de l'aube (Romain Gary), Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Moliere), Shakespeare (everything), Kurt Vonnegut (everything), The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster), Dune (Franck Herbert), L'automne a Pekin (Boris Vian), Les chroniques de la haine ordinaire (Pierre Desproges), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand), Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), Dersou Ouzala (Vladimir Arseniev), Le dialogue des carmélites (Bernanos), Indiana (George Sand), Don Quichotte (Cervantes)...
I thought about this for a long time. I don't think I have a hero. But I do admire certain people, such as Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Yehudi Menuhin, Mozart, Faure, Pachelbel, Jonny Depp and Vanessa Paradis (what a couple!), Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Peter Sellers for his incredible characters in Dr Strangelove, The Party and Being There, David Bowie, Evariste Galois, Coluche, Pierre Desproges, Simone Veil (a hero in France, as she stood firm in front of our Parliament for women's right to abortion, when all those men were cursing her and shouting obscenities at her).