Musique, concerts, lectures, films, politique, bref tout ce qui ouvre l'esprit, fait rire, pleurer, respirer, vivre! Music, gigs, reading, movies, politics, in short all the things that open the mind, make laugh, cry, breathe, be alive!..
La liste est trop longue...too many interesting people in my list, but him, the man with the tambourine, for sure:
Before all, Blues and Punk Rock, Grunge, Jazz, Classical, even latino when it's good, I'm very eclectic.So,the great classicals like Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Janis Joplin,Jimi Hendrix , Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, Ike & Tina Turner, James Brown, Aretha Franklin,and some others: The Ramones, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Patti Smith,The Stooges, Jam, the Clash, the Ruts, Dead Kennedys,the Cramps, Devo,the Sex Pistols,the Stranglers, Nina Hagen,Joy Division, Generation X, Motorhead,The Fleshtones, Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age,the Foo Fighters, P.J. Harvey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Black Angels, the White Stripes, BRMC (of course), The raveonettes, Tito & Tarentula, Kings of Leon, the Dead Sixties,Green Day, Calexico, Panico, Asian Dub Foundation, US3, Morcheeba, Macy Gray,The Cuban Cowboys, the Babyshambles,the Strokes, Queen and some frenchies: Gainsbourg (the best), Polnareff, Rita Mitsouko, Bashung, Kat Onoma, Dogs, Marquis de Sade, Oberkampf, Philippe Katerine, Wunderbach, Tio Manuel,Youpi Youpi Yeah, and some B.O.: Broken Flowers, From Dusk till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, Strangers than Paradise and many , many others!
Truffaut, Fritz Lang, Cassavetes, Waters, Tarentino, Rodriguez, Altman, Scorsese, Jarmush, Burton, Wenders, Wong Kar-Waï, etc..etc...
All, from Huysmans, Maupassant (in a word french classicals), Patrick Modiano, Paul Auster, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer (except the last one), Joyce Carol Oates, to...Harry Potter, authors from all countries, and especially thrillers.
Spartacus, the Queen Margot, Olympe de Gouges, Condorcet, Théroigne de Méricourt, Louise Michel, Jaurès, Manouchian, Martin Luther King, Jim Morrisson...