In no particular order: writing, music, football (soccer) going to concerts & festivals, taking pics, watching other people's pics, painting, shooting videos, art galleries and interactive museums, exhibitions, making sense of Muse's lyrics =;) communicating, reading, partying with friends, drinking good wine (moderately & appreciatively), falling in love, travelling, driving, supporting awesome young artists...
I'd like to meet:
Why??? YOU of course!
because:
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Anais Nin
Oooh and... Those ARCHIVE guys ... Definitely!
And James Spader !
Music:
Sooo much music I like.... Will probably forget some. Ok, let's go for a list anyway :
-Archive
God rid us
of our conscience so we can float away... Fave music/band presently. My whole life looks, sounds and tastes like an Archive song, you know these sick and delicious 8 to 15 mn tracks that you think you've heard enough, but make you feel empty when they stop and that you just replay endlessly???
-Muse
Ok, willing to avoid unnecessary comment here, but they were the alpha & omega of music to me till around 2006. An incredible sound, that applies to both studio and live performances, but indescribably astounding live, really. Genius lyrics. The conjonction of three fabulous musicians (Bellamy being the f**ing charismatic guy he is of course, but there's even more to the band than him).
So, once and for all, i thank the gods for the music of
MUSE which can still produce enough cathartic power to take me out of the usual sentimental crap as well as the worst mental states !
Listen to some of my fave Muse tracks :
Space Dementia (Muse)
Citizen Erased (Muse)
Hyper Condriac (Muse)
Map Of Your Head (Muse)
Other important music
-TeneightEight
Hmmm, and if you haven't yet, you should give this great music by TeneightEight a listen. Just incredible.
(And in no particular order) Radiohead, The Beatles (White album era), Jeff Buckley, The Doors, Tears for Fears, Roland Orzabal (solo),Tori Amos, Bjork, Kate Bush, Triggerbox, Yann Tiersen, the Eels, Pedro the Lion, Janis Joplin, Natalia M. King, Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Low,
Jane's Addiction, Yes, Emiliana Torrini, Kings of Leon, The Chemical Brothers, Beth Gibbons/Portished,) Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel, Cinematic Orchestra, Slobberbone, Archive, etc...
Plus those VERY important ear-opener opuses by : Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovski, Bartok, Dvorak, Bizet,
Glinka, Bach Verdi, Beethoven, Rodrigo, Vivaldi, Mozart, Orff, Chopin, Prokofiev, Smetana, Haendel, Wagner, Barber, Dukas, Albinoni, Schuber, Holst...
Movies:
Love going to the movies...
Some cinema picks would have to be : Sex Lies Videotapes, Short Cuts, Amelie Poulain, L'auberge Espagnole, Bowling for Columbine, almost everything Tim Burton & Woody Allen (with a pref for Manhattan, Hannah & her Sisters & Interiors)
No Man's land, Citizen Kane, LOTR, Le Diner de Cons, The 5th Element, Nikita, Le Grand bleu, O'Brother, Monthy Python's The Holly Grail, The Meaning of Life, Life of Brian, Jabberwocky, Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, American Beauty, Sleepy Hollow, Forest Gump, Le Goût des Autres, The Name of the Rose, The Wizzard of oz, La Folie des Grandeurs, Almodovar's Speak With Her, Talons Aiguilles, Spielberg's The Colour Purple, La Crise, 3 Hommes & un Couffin, From Hell, Princess Bride, La Cité de la Peur, I Comme Icare, Dancer in the Dark, True Romance and some more...
Books:
Everything poetry from Baudelaire to Kerouac, from Verlaine to Houellebecq etc...and good novels or plays.
