I'd like to meet:
Truly, Anaïs Nin.
Music:
whoadie ? hot chip, superwolf: matt sweeney, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy; cheb mami & k-mel; richard and linda thompsonhip hop soul, thin lizzy, siouxie and the banshees; outhud, minnie riperton, johan, france gall, francoise hardy, def leppard, Phoenix, Cosmic Rough Riders, dancehall, slayer, new order, The Smiths, Arlo Guthrie, Plug-In City, Donovan, Ramones, GnR, Blondie, Rolling Stones, Byrds, PRINCE, Beach Boys, Def Jux stuff, Blueprint, etc. Alpha Blondy, T-Rex, Reggae, Tito Puente, Salif Keita, Stone Roses, Joy Division, Velvet Underground, The Clash, Bowie, Do or Die, early Madonna, Treeteops, The Band, Tahiti 80, mf doom, three 6 mafia, bob marley, catpower, cornelius, cult, libertines, tori amos, PRINCE, Men at Work, abba, Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush, The Pretenders, Pogues, Belle & Sebastian, joan jett, shuggie otis, some old UK garage stuff, Eric Sermon, Biggie Smalls, fabolous, Bushwick Bill, Slick Rick, Kanye West, Souls of Mischief, bay area hip hop stuff; Weezer, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Cyndi Lauper, Rod Stewart, Common, Naughty By Nature, DJ Cut Killer, IAM, JT.
Movies:
Peter Greenaway's A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist; Boogie Nights (marky mark), Jules et Jim, Withnail & I, Suspiria, Bande A Part, My Summer of Love, Breakdance, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Mifune, Fucking Amal, Chinatown, A bout de souffle, The Servant, Better Off Dead, Festen, 16 Candles, Dazed & Confused, Revenge of the Nerds, Wet Hot American Summer, Old School, Before Night Falls, All About My Mother, Duel, Head, les 400 coups, Au Revoir Les Enfants, La Haine, Y tu Mama Tambien, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Breakfast Club and other John Hughes films, City of God, Top Secret, Belle Epoque, Beat Street, Goonies, Zoolander, Amelie, Crimes & Misdemeanours, La Haine. Godfather I and first half of Godfather II, Edward Scissorhands, Three Colours Blue, Betty Blue, Brideshead Revisited, Grizzly Man, Bande a Part, L'eclisse, anything with Alain delon & Claudia Cardinale.
Television:
The Goodies! Monkey, That 70s Show, Law & Order, This Life, Beverly Hills 90210, Love Boat, that weird Italian sand cartoon show 'e a i, e a o' etc., North Square, period dramas like Henry VIII with rufus sewell, and Lord Byron with Johnny Lee Miller. The Mighty Boosh makes me laugh coz it does and Noel Fielding is sex.
Books:
'Where The Wild Things Are'; F.Scott Fitzgerald; Motley Crue: The Dirt; Francoise Sagan; Zola; Osip Mandelstam, Donna Tartt - The Secret History, Bret Easton Ellis, Henry Miller, e.e. cummings, Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five, Milan Kundera, 60s Comics, Salinger, Hesse, Chaim Potok, Austen, Bronte, biographies (tous les), Voltaire, Akhmatova, Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin, Peter Hoeg, Keats, Pablo Neruda, Evelyn Waugh, Swinburne, Colette, Flaubert, Moliere, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Bashevis Singer.