music, philosophy, art, literature, darkness, light, truth, beauty, dance (modern classical), love, passion, romance, intensity, tranquilty, vodka, cognac, chocolate, late nights, strange dreams, fashion, travel, spirituality, sensuality, architecture, poetry, beautiful excess, perfect skin, infinite depths, night skies, nature, creative/deep/beautiful souls, espresso, twilight, the view of the horizon, the extreme, the absolute, everything and nothing...
Evening
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion
of what becomes a star each night, and rises;
and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
(Translation: Stephen Mitchell)
The Beautiful and Damned. Conversationalists, Collaborators, Co-Conspirators, The Inspired and the Inspirational, Uppers and Downers, Dreamers and Visionaries, Seekers and Seers, Musicians, Singers, Artists, Poets, Dancers, Philosophers, Smokers, Thinkers, Idealists, Sensualists, Romantics, Peacemakers, Futurists, Vegetarians, Drinkers, Insomniacs, Ukrainians, Slavs, Dark Angels, Utopians, Dystopians, Creators, Destroyers, the Passionate, the Compassionate, the Dispassionate, Believers, Sceptics, Doubters...
theles, Led Zeppelin, Kate Wax, Bloc Party, Bach, Miles Davis, Vivaldi, Sia, Zero 7, The Art Of Noise, Basement Jaxx, Björk, Bonde Do Role, Booka Shade, Brazilian Girls, Bryan Ferry, Cassius, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, CSS, Colder, The Cult, Da Lata, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Air, Dido, DJ Mehdi, Donna Summer, DJ T, Duran Duran, The Doors, Echo & The Bunnymen, Editors, EDU K, Eurythmics, Fischerspooner, Flunk, Franz Ferdinand, Gabriel Ananda, Gang of Four, Genesis, The Glass, Girl Eats Boy, Garbage, Gorillaz, Groove Armada, Gui Boratto, Gus Gus, Gwen Stefani, Havana Guns, Gliss, Goldfrapp, Gotan Project, Hooverphonic, The Human League, Hybrid, Interpol, Jazzanova, Joy Division, Juliet, Justice, Kalabrese, The Killers, The Kills, Kish Mauve, The Knife, Koop, Kraftwerk, Kylie Minogue, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem (...for those of you who still think you're from England...), Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Les Rita Mitsouko, Uffie, Lindstrom, Love & Rockets, Les Rythmes Digitales, Lily Allen, M.I.A., M83, Madita, Boris Grebenshikov, Akvariyum, Madris de los Austrias, Malena, Marisa Monte, Martin Solveig, Martina Topley-Bird, Mason, Massive Attack, Material, Metro Area, Melissa Kaplan, MFSB, the sound of Philadelphia!, Mietta (makes me love Italy even more), Mirwais, Miss Kittin, Moby, Moguai, Mojo Project, MOnica Nogueira, Mono, Morcheeba, MSTRKRFT, MU, My Bloody Valentine (the real wall of sound...), Mylène Farmer (suicide sex), Mylo (love is all around...), Natacha Atlas, New Order (the originals, still the best, well then let's not forget Kraftwerk...), New Young Pony Club (this one's for you), Nicola Conte (jazz Italian style), Nirvana (when you want to break something...), Nitin Sawhney (dreamy/sensuous/sentimental), Oasis (always causing trouble in the neighborhood bar), Ojos de Brujo (post-flamenco firestarters...), OMD, old Orbital (drive thru the Holland Tunnel with the Brown Album on 11), Parliament Funkadelic (basslines from the ultimate party), Charlotte Gainsbourg (imagined (im)possible worlds of nostalgia and longing), Charlatans, Céu (make-out music), Cat Power (can folk be soulful? here's your answer...), Boards Of Canada, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Bertrand Burgalat (kitsch for intellectuals), Beck (born of the Sidewalk Cafe...), Armand Van Helden (still rocking the clubs), Bugz in the Attic (don't stop the music...), Prince (shut up and play your guitar!), Bill Laswell (producer and bassist extraordinaire), The Cars (living in the 80s!), the Damned, PiL, Chicago (for those hot horn charts... and for writing "I've Been Searching So Long"), Chicken Lips, Chopin (perfection exists...), The Cinematic Orchestra (soundtrack to the East European film I never wrote...), Chromeo, Chungking (add "Following" to your break-up song playlist), Cibelle (fine, then, I am moving to Brasil), The Clash (white punk hip-hop funk), The Clientele, Club 8, Colder (...and she starts dancing to the music slowly by my side...), the Creatures (Siouxsie never really went away...), Marvin Gaye (that voice...), Curve (more now than ever), Cyper 7 (dreams or nightmares?), Daft Punk (pioneers of the new French resistance...), Dalida (we miss you, we love you...), Dani Siciliano (bring back smoking in the clubs!), David Sylvian (too smart for his own good, deeper than deep...), Dawn Penn (slow down, take a hit...), Dead Can Dance (you know you're a closet goth when...), Death from Above 1979, Deep Dish, Democustico, Depeche Mode (,,,a pain that I'm used to...), Digitalism (techno rocks), Diplo (from favela t Philly...), Donna Summer, Dot Allison, Duke Ellington (the bridge between the orchestra and the big band..., racial harmonizer, musical synthesizer, no words can say it, just listen over and over...), the Eagles (don't roll your eyes, as if you could really listen to "Desperado" without a shiver...), Elektrochemie (I love techno... can you handle it?), Elysian Fields (dark love...), The Emperor Machine, Enigma (most-played in bedrooms worldwide?), Eric B & Rakim ("Now if you're from uptown, Brooklyn-bound, The Bronx, Queens, or Long Island Sound,
Even other states come right and exact, It aint where youre from, its where youre at..."), Erik Satie (furniture music...), Etienne Daho, Etienne De Crecy, FC Kahuna, Fedde le Grande, Frederico Aubele (time to finally learn to salsa...), Feist, Felix Da Housecat, Four Tet (heartbreak beats for post-rockers), Freeform Five (mix it up), Fridge, Frou Frou (love of lyrics...), The Future Sound Of London, Gang Of Four (just listen, you need to know this...), Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Hector Zazou, Hefner, Herbert, Hossam Ramzy, The Human League (and League Unlimited Orchestra), Hybrid, Imogen Heap, In the Nursery, Indochine, Infadels, INXS (real INXS, not post American Idolatry), The Jam, Jamiroquai, Japan, Jazzanova, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jill Scott, Jon Hopkins (dreamland...), The Juan Maclean, Judith Juillerat, Juliet (Philly goes global...), Junior Boys, Justice, Kate Wax, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Klaxons, The Knife, Kudu, Ladytron (...they heard the sound of the snow falling...), Laika, Lali Puna, Laurent Garnier, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Les Negresses Vertes, Les Rhythmes Digitales, Les Rita Mitsouko, Lily Allen, Lindstrom, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Lost Orchestra, The Lost Patrol, Love & Rockets, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Beethoven, Luke Chable, Lush, Blur, M.I.A., Pulp, Ride, Slowdive, M83, Madita, Madrid De Los Austrias, Mandalay, Marcello, Marin Marais, Mark Ronson, Martina Topley-Bird, Mason, Massive Attack, Material, Mazzy Star, Medicine, Metasonica, Metric, Metro Area, MFSB, ...
Anything beautifully mysterious. Film noir. Tous les Matins du Monde, Solaris, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Dark City, Night Watch, Kafka, The Double Life of Veronique, Rouge, anything else by Kieslowski, Tarkovsky, anything by Wim Wenders...
I'd rather sleep. My dreams are far more interesting.
Tolstoy, Kundera, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kant, Plato, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Rilke...
My parents. My grandparents.