painting, writing, playing, seeking, dancing, mythologizing, musicologizing, creatifying, making up words
People with stories. Which just about describes everyone. (And now adding people who like to go dancing AND will invite me along so I can shake it!)
A Certain Ratio, Slowdive, Cut Chemist, Nouvelle Vague (and inspirations), Gang of Four, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Looker, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Jeff Buckley, Television, Pyschedelic Furs, Talking Heads, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Throwing Muses, Unicorns, Tindersticks, David Bowie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, Mommy and Daddy, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Nickodemus, The Stranglers, The Replacements, The Smiths, The Cure, Porno for Pyros, Joy Division, Happy Mondays, Jens Lekman, Kostars, The Walkmen, Maximo Park, Kings of Convenience, Joan Jett, Sleater-Kinney, The Kills, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Divine Comedy, Superdrag, The Twilight Singers, Junkbox, Bjork, Magnetic Fields, Duran Duran, Liquid Soul, Ali Farka Toure, Modest Mouse, Fats Domino, Stars, Faithless, Edith Piaf, Goldfrapp, Elastica, Bob Dylan, Zombies, Breeders, Del the Funky Homosapien, Peggy Lee, Guided by Voices, The Jam, etc. etc. etc....
In The Mood for Love, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Brazil, L'Auberge Espagnole, Breathless, Juliette of the Spirits, Seven Samurai, Seventh Seal, All About My Mother, Eat Drink Man Woman, Mostly Martha, Wet Hot American Summer, Brick, Tristram Shandy a Cock and Bull Story, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Style Wars
Currently, my endless queue of netflix.
Books so far that I would recommend to almost anyone:Possession - A. S. Byatt, Orlando - Virginia Woolf, Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh, One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibson, House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem, The Land of Laughs - Jonathan Carroll, Pattern Recognition - William Gibson, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman, Geek Love - Katherine Dunn, Bel Canto - Ann Patchett, Beggars in Spain - Nancy Kress, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami, Starfish - Peter Watts, Vellum and Ink - Hal Duncan
People who don't take themselves too seriously.