life. music, nature and dreaming – preferably a combination of all three. smiling people. staring at the sunshine in rainy forests. feeling the moss beneath my bare feet. clouds. respect of all living things. spring and summer. sunshine after rain. bicycling all day during the summers while listening to Belle and Sebastian. lighthouses. sailing with out a sound, only hearing the sound of wind and waves caused by nature. trees and tree tops. falling asleep around the shores of southern helsinki. storms. Sigur Rós. the sea and the ocean. old typewriter fonts. “floating†soundlessly and effortlessly on a bicycle through the sleeping city during summer nights- and early mornings. dreaming about waking up to us. apple trees and maple leaves.
Atmosphere, Antony and the Johnsons, A Tribe Called Quest, Aesop Rock, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Björk, Black Moon, Black Star, Blur, Brother Ali, Clouddead, Ceebrolistics (and all the affiliates), Camera Obscura, The Concretes, John Coltrane, DoseOne, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Sage Francis Marvin Gaye, Gangstarr, José González, Ed Harcourt, EL-P, El Perro Del Mar, Håkan Hellström, Joy Division, I'm From Barcelona, Interpol, The Knife, Jens Lekman, Looptroop, Massive Attack, Mugison, Múm, Morrissey, Oasis, Paavoharju, Pavement, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Portishead, Radiohead, RJD2, Rubik, Sole, Sigur Rós, Soul Captain Band/Kapteeni Ä-ni/Jukka Poika, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Sufjan Stevens, Timbuktu, Why? + Almost all music: from Iceland and Scotland + pop music from the 60's (thanks mom) + roots and rocksteady Reggae from the 70's + soul from the 60's and the 70's + swedish indiepop + boom-bap rap from 92 to 95 + "avantgarde" jazz from the 60's, britpop from 94 to 97 + indie hip-hop from the second half of the 90's (especially Rawkus, even though the label itself proved to be a piece of sell out sheit) + basically the whole catalog from indie-hop labels like: Anticon, Day By Day, Def Jux, Stones Throw and Rhymesayers (GOD LOVES UGLY!!!) - to sum it all up - GOOD MUSIC
Malcolm X. Fever Pitch. Do the Right Thing. Surplus. Style Wars. Ghost Dog. The Hurricane. films with Hugh Grant (and his hair). Dumb and Dumber. Before Sunrise and the follow-up Before Sunset. and Koyaanisqatsi. (even though I haven't actually seen the whole thing yet, but all my friends who make and study the art of making films and ..ary films and thereby know a likkle somethin' somethin' about films in general, anyway, they have said that Koyaanisqatsi is the most beautiful piece of moving pictures ever made)
+ I also like pretty much all films by: Spike Lee. Sofia Coppola. and Jim Jarmusch...
S.P.U.N.G, Kobra, Musikbyrån, This is our music, Planet Earth, The Office, Avara Luonto
by Harry Martinson, Erlend Loe, Nick Hornby, Kjell Westö, Per Hagman, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, Einar Már Guðmundsson...Currently reading "Elliott Smith and the big nothing" by Benjamin Nugent.
My mom and my dad, my grandparents, everyone who stand up for the good that they believe in. Vandana Shiva. And over the years Morrissey, Slug, Elliott Smith, Jens Lekman and Håkan Hellström have also proved to be rather important heroes.