Music, Arts, Literature,Photography,Movies,...
Music:
This list could be veeeeery long, I'll try to make it short (kind of):Tegan and Sara,Jude,Death Cab For Cutie, metric, le tigre, damien rice, rufus wainwright, the cardigans, garbage, phoenix, jamiroquai, nerd, elliot smith, mary kate o'neil,zazie, camille,nouvelle vague, the beatles, iron and wine, zero7, the chemical brothers, soulwax, too many djs,the beatles,bloc party, electric six, gorillaz, keane, bright eyes, james taylor, bruce springteen, prince (old stuff), sarah mc lachlan, emiliana torrini, susheela raman, -M-, coldplay, nellie McKay,ratatat,be good tanyas, AS Dragon, frou frou,The Knife,Gemma Hayes,Louis XIV, Stereophonics, Ted Leo, ladytron, the scissor sisters, jamie cullum, rachael cantu, Skunk Anansie, Blur, Syd Matters, girls in hawaii, Kaki King,Rhesus, Stars, the Hives, the shins,bella, architecture in helsinki, the arctic monkeys, M.I.A, gemma hayes, the green olives, gomez, the chalets, belle and sebastian,katerine, hey willpower, yeah yeah yeahs, phoenix, the pipettes,3 guys never in, badly drawn boy,Ben Kweller, Fiona Apple,Goldfrapp, ,Ray Lamontagne,Gomez, the Guillemots,Morningwood, Nouvelle Vague, Pretty Girls Make Graves,Sleater Kinney, Robots in disguise, Ellen Alien, MSTRKRFT,Riot In Belgium,CSS, The Long Blondes, Sexy Sushi, Gravy Train, B 52's, Stereo Total, The Faint, The Presets, Blondie, Vive la fête!, Prototypes, Peaches,Birdy Nam Nam,Arcade Fire, Boys Noize,Vampire Weekend, Lykke Li, Northern State,Cat Power, Hot Chip, Islands, Pony Up!, Remi Nicole, The Kills... I said I'd try to!
Books:
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Nadja - Andre Breton
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nigh-time - Mark Haddon
The Importance of Being Earnest + The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
Bernard Werber's
Tania De Montaigne's
Murakami'sToo many books to name...
"Dans la vie, l'essentiel est de porter sur tout des jugements à priori. Il paraît, en effet,que les masses ont tort, et les individus toujours raison. Il faut se garder d'en déduire des règles de conduite: elles ne doivent pas avoir besoin d'être formulées pour qu'on les suive. Il y a seulement deux choses: c'est l'amour, de toutes les façons, avec des jolies filles, et la musique de la Nouvelle-Orléans ou de duke Ellington. Le reste devrait disparaître, car le reste est laid[...]"Boris Vian, Avant-propos, in L'Ecume des jours
"Si la tentation de retoucher à distance l'expression d'un état émotionnel, faute de pouvoir au présent la revivre, se solde inévitablement par la dissonance et l'échec, il n'est peut-être pas interdit de vouloir obtenir un peu plus d'adéquation dans les termes et de fluidité par ailleurs"André BRETON, Avant-dire (Dépêche retardée), in Nadja
"There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between us—hard, cold and misted over with my breath. Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?"
Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea
