Absinthe, strong coffee and sharp knives, travel [including sex, romance, friendship,] with indigenous populations of various localities...havana, barcelona, brooklyn. vintage erotica, decaying neighborhoods, slow kissing, haunted and empty city streets at night, all these together, same place and time: priceless.
Diane Arbus, Anna Akhmatova, Walter Benjamin, Osip Mandelstam, Sid Grossman, W.G Sebald......and Jane Birkin]
Elliott Smith, Morrissey, Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra, Wu-Tang Clan/Rza, Radiohead, Vic Chesnutt, Modest Mouse, The Smiths, Nina Simone, Cat Power, Arvo Part, Gang of Four, Mekons, Nirvana, Lungfish, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jane Birkin, Hank Williams, Chopin's Nocturnes.....etc.
L'Enfant, Naked, La Jetee, Even Dwarfs Started Small by w.herzog, Husbands, Street of Crocodiles, Faces, Freeze Die Come to Life, Withnail and I, Salesman, Hiroshima Mon Amour, La Promesse
The Radetzky March, Jesus's Son, Austerlitz by WG Sebald, Lines of My Hand, Ray's A Laugh by Richard Billingham, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, Osip Mandelstam-Collected Poems, StoryLines by Mr. Frank
W.G Sebald, Elliott Smith, Robert Frank, Alberto Giacometti, Diane Arbus.