Travelling, reading, playing badminton, writing, movies/cinema, music, cycling, walking...
Like-minded creative people from all over the globe.My website: http://uk.geocities.com/akudryavitsky My Russian website: http://kudryavitsky.narod.ru
Bach, Handel, Dowland, Purcell, O'Carolan, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Cesar Franck, Faure, Ravel, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, Shostakovitch, Pärt... Apart from classical music, Planxty, Patrick Street, Andy Irvine, Kate Rusby, Silly Wizard, The Bothy Band, Mary Fahl, October Project, Genesis, Anthony Phillips, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Danu, Altan, Maighread and Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, Skara Brae, Andy M Stewart, Bill Jones, Sandy Denny, Caran Kasey, Solas, Show of Hands, Nic Jones, Chris While, Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance, Triakel, Ranarim
art-house, good old films
GAA games with the Mayo football team - especially if they win. Soccer - I've been a West Ham Utd fan for Goodness knows how many years. Tennis. Badminton. Good films (alas, rare guests on television these days...)
William Shakespeare, Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, Matsaoka Shiki, Santoka Taneda, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Richard Aldington, John Galsworthy, A.J. Cronin, W.S. Maugham, Gustav Meyrink, Thomas Mann, Leon Feuchtwanger, Stephan Zweig, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Goncharov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Zbigniew Herbert, Saint-John Perse, Sergey Yesenin, Joseph Brodsky, Genrikh Sapgir, Gennady Aigi, Valeria Narbikova, D.J. Enright, Ted Hughes, Mark Strand, Charles Simic, James W Hackett, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Paula Meehan, Siofra O'Donovan
Buddha. Michael Collins. Raoul Wallenberg: http://www.rwi.lu.se/institute/rw.shtml