I'd like to meet:
Corto Maltese.(or firstly just somebody with a house on the Thames and a rowing boat? hu-hu?!)
Music:
ok...lets see what comes to mind: Calexico, Bjork, Beck, Pavement, Sebadoh, dEUS, Of Montreal, Tropicalia Compilation, Studio One Ska/Roots, Kings of Convenience, Erlend Oye, Jimi Tenor, Blurt, home-made compilations, The Renegades, Ladytron Softcore Jukebox, Rough Trade Post Punk, Life Aquatic Soundtrack, Mystery Train soundtrack, Devo, White Stripes, Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, Devendrah Banhart, Graham Coxon, M.A. Numminen, Finnish Tango, Gotan Project, Lexy&K.Paul, Ghost Dog-soundtrack, Cat Power, Beastie Boys, ...so on so forth - keeps changing too, doesnt it?
Movies:
recent favourites: Blame it on Fidel, After The Wedding, Science of Sleep; potpourri of other favourites: (some) films by Wong Kar wai, Jim Jarmush, Aki Kaurismäki, Michel Gondry, Tim Burton ...Cold Fever, Match Point, Deconstructig Harry, My life without me, Gosford Park, Tiger&Dragon, Trilogie 1-2-3, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, On connait la chanson, Heat of the Night, Tap, Cabaret, Big Lebowski, Fargo, Dangerous Liaisons, Angel A, Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei, Goodbye Lenin, Volver, Habla con ella, Jane Eyre, High Hopes, Talented Mr Ripley,...
Books:
books next to me bed at the moment:Jonathan Lethem/the fortress of solitude; Now Dig This- the unspeakable writings of Terry Southern; Uwe Johnson/Jahrestage; recently good reads: John Banville/Birchwood; Kazuo Ishiguro/Pale View of Hills; Romesh Gunesekera/Reef; Jeffrey Eugenides/Middlesex; Marguerite Yourcenar/Memoires d'Hadrien, Coetzee/Youth; Toni Judt/Postwar Europe (not finished yet...); David Guterson/East of the Mountains; other popular authors: Murakami, TC Boyle, Tardi, Hergé, Hugo Pratt, Marguerite Yourcenar,...
Heroes:
check www.myspace.com/uktap
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