history, photography, writing, soccer, music, clever pranks
rebels from the republic of georgia and beautiful people who are ethnically either circassian or khazar
MC Lyte, old brian ferry (roxy music), postal service, anything mike patton touches, eminem, kelis, pharell, kino (russian), the walkmen, calla, french kicks, interpol, flaming lips, N.E.R.D., more...
'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (true masterpiece), 'good-bye lenin', 'antonioni's 'eclipse, ' visconti's 'rocco and his brothers, ' wes anderson's 'bottlerocket, ' mikhalkov's 'burnt by the sun, ' balabanov's 'brother'
eugenides' 'middlesex', pynchon's gravity's rainbow, stendhal's red & black, yury olesha's envy and no day without a line, tolstoy's war and peace, shklovsky's sentimental journey, nabokov's lolita, mandelstam's 'the noise of time', and platonov's 'the fierce and beautiful world.'
yuri gagarin, andrei platonov