The Art of Relaxing
being young
Judaism
Opus Dei
France
Frenchism
Coldness
Scandinavia
Learning languages
Fatboy Slim
Groove Armada
The Wiseguys
Happy Mondays
Morcheeba
Les Rythmes Digitales
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Stereo MC's
Primal Scream
Dubstar
Everything But The Girl
The All Seeing I
Nuyorican Soul
Saint Etienne
Metisse
Chicane
Leftfield
Underworld
Medway
Future Sound of London
Faithless
Cut La Roc
Double Six
The Knife
Muse
CocoRosie
Royksopp
Zero 7
Air
Yann Tiersen
Bram Stoker's Dracula!
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain,
Les Choristes
Crash
Beaches
Die
A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine,
Why 60 Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong,
Jean-Paul Sartre's stuff such as Les Jeux Sont Fait or Les Mains Sales,
1984 and generally George Orwell,
A Year in the Merde,
How I Became Stupid,
Great Expectations,
Lord of the Flies
anything by Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Harry Potter (Don't hate me, it's good...
Eugene Ionesco's jazz:
La Cantatrice Chauve
Le Roi se meurt
La Lecon
Chekhov's Five Plays - amazing.