music. violin, guitar, gigs, taking photos (mostly of trees, lights and ugly modern architecture), poetry, scarves + mittens, ranting about politics, the sea, tea and toast, sketching, snow at night, walks in green places, good friends, environmentalism
sonic youth, dirty three, bjork, gorecki, 65 days of static, elliot smith, beck, arvo part, sigur ros, battles, bonnie prince billy, tom waits, patrick wolf, iliketrains, arab strap, rothko, joanna newsom, godspeed you black emperor, pj harvey, bright eyes, cat power, television ........
beautiful, thought provoking, ideas more than plot. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the science of sleep, actually anything by michel gondry, studio ghibli films, richard linklater, the beat that my heart skipped, pan's labyrinth, amores perros, three colours, david lynch, the lives of others...
franz kafka, george orwell, james joyce, oscar wilde, halldor laxness, nabokov - esp his short stories, g.k.chesterton, stephen fry, jasper fforde, sartre, katherine mansfield, milan kundera, sylvia plath, b.yoshimoto, iris murdoch, 'heat' by george monbiot, gustav klimt's drawings...