smiling in the dark, Tristan und Isolde, kissing + trysts, MoMA, the Albert Bridge + the South Bank, boys named James, dancing in dark poorly-ventilated confined spaces, Sicily, Franz Klein, Saatchi's Sensation, heart-shaped reefs, Kandinsky, Sturm und Drang, classical piano + rock drumming, Musee Rodin, Calder, foreign languages, Abelard + Heloise
Feet in the air, heads on the ground
Wagner, Spiritualized, Slint, The Streets, Beethoven, Stan Getz, Royksopp, The Damned, Roy Orbison, Joy Division, Pulp, Verdi, Smashing Pumkins, U2, Air, Gang of Four, Roxy Music + Brian Eno, Nina Simone, Basement Jaxx, Scriabin, Jeff Buckley, Interpol, Peaches, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Boards of Canada, Pavement, Chopin, New Order, The Cars, REM, stellastarr*, Red House Painters, The Pixies, Johnny Cash, Magnetic Fields, Blur, Otis Redding, Spacemen 3, The Verve, Prince, Chet Baker, 2 Many DJ's, Flaming Lips, xfm London
Sunshine, The Departed, The English Patient, Valley Girl, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun, Before Sunrise + Before Sunset, Singles, The Evil Dead II, Sixteen Candles, Goodfellas, 12 Monkeys, Solaris, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Spiderman I + II, East of Eden, Deja Vu, Godfather saga, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taxi Driver, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 24 Hour Party People, Quills, everything by Christopher Guest
The Office, How I Met Your Mother, The Kids in the Hall, Sex and the City, My So-Called Life, Seinfeld, Square Pegs, Coupling, Twin Peaks, Nigella Bites, Curb Your Enthusiam, My Name is Earl, The Young Ones, AbFab
Love in the Time of Cholera, The English Patient, Lolita, The Alchemist, Jane Eyre, Death in Venice, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Glamorama, Brave New World, Bridget Jones's Diary, The End of the Affair, Shopgirl, Mrs. Dalloway, Birthday Letters, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Rebel Males, Persuasion, poetry by Pablo Neruda + Ted Hughes + Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pablo Neruda, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Marilyn Monroe, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Coco Chanel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sam Raimi, J. Spaceman, symphony conductors of the world, my mum my sister my father, a cat named Monkey, my husband