Travel, Photography, empty beaches at night, salt-water swimming pools, the smell of kerosene when boarding planes, Andalucia, Playing Music, Listening to Music, Film, Walking, Photoshop, Art, Books, Pool, Word 2007, Soulseek, Pitchforkmedia.com, planning future trips, evenings in the Centre Pompidou, Night-time taxis through the city, music-blogs, the smell of farms in the winter, museums, waking up in big unexplored cities, drinking coffee while watching someone's boat come in, the hills when they're alive with the sound of music, bottle caps, random words on walls, Mountains, Food, the Seine and a bottle of wine, Parks, pine trees, She who makes my heart beat faster, Early mornings singing, Badminton, Plaza Major de Madrid, Trains, Ferries, Piers, Nights, Paris, Decadence, Cheap hotel rooms with even cheaper paintings on the walls, Bubblegum and experimental music and nothing in between...
Afghan Wigs, And you will know us by the trail of dead, Ambulance Ltd, Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, Art Brut, Babyshambles, Devendra Banhart, Beatles, Belle & Sebastian , Lou Barlow, Beastie Boys, Beirut, Beat Happening, Beta Band, Bettie Serveert, Big Star, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blood Red Shoes, Blueboy, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bonnie Prince Billy, Breeders, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Buckley, Butterflies of Love, Bill Callahan, Camera Obscura, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Cardigans, Cat Power, Clap your hands say yeah, Clientele, Cocorosie, Leonard Cohen, Cure, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Evan Dando, Dandy Warhols, Kimya Dawson, Death Cab for Cutie, dEUS, Dinosaur Jr, Doves, Elastica, Elf Power, ELO, Evil Superstars, Explosions in the Sky, Fischerspooner, Flare, !Forward Russia!, the Fall, Felt, Field Mice, Figurines, Franz Ferdinand, French Kicks, Fugazi, Future Bible Heroes, Futureheads, Gang of four, Girl Talk, Girls Vs Boys, Gonzales, Good Shoes , Gothic Archies, Grandaddy, Adam Green, Guided by Voices, Halo Benders, Ed Harcourt, Hidden Cameras, Hot Hot Heat, Horrors, Idlewild, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jam, Jesus & Mary Chain, Josef K, Joy Division , Joy Zipper, Killers, Kings of Leon, Kings of Convenience, Klaxons, the Knife, Kool Keith, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Jens Lekman, Jeru the Damaja, Lemonheads, Les Savy Fav, Liars, the Long Blondes, Lali Puna, Libertines, Love, Loveninjas, Low, Lucksmiths, M83, J Mascis, Magnetic Fields, Stephen Malkmus, Mary Onettes, Math and Physics Club, Matt and Kim, Maximo Park, Menomena, Mercury Rev, Microphones, Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Moldy Peaches, Jason Molina, Morrissey, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Julian Nation, New Order, Notwist, Of Montreal, Oh No!Oh My!, Orange Juice, Organ, Page France, Pajo, Pastels, Pavement , Peaches, Peter Bjorn and John, Pet Shop Boys, Phoenix, Pixies, Postmarks, Elvis Presley, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Radio Dept, Ramones, Raveonettes, Jonathan Richman, Rough Bunnies, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Sea and Cake, Sebadoh , Shangri-Las, Shins, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, Frank Sinatra, Elliott Smith, Smiths, Silver Jews, Slint, Smog, Snowden, Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin, Songs: Ohia, Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Stars, Stereolab, Stereo Total, Sufjan Stevens, Stooges, Strokes, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Suede, Swan Lake , Talk Talk, Tapes n'Tapes, Teenagers, Television, Television Personalities, Thermals, These New Puritans, Tilly and the Wall, Justin Timberlake, Tocotronic, Tokyo Police Club, Twilight Singers, TV on the Radio, Unicorns, Rufus Wainwright, Walkmen, Weezer, Kanye West, Wilco, Patrick Wolf, Wolf Parade, We are Scientists, Whirlwind Heat, White Stripes, Wu Tang Clan, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo etc etc etc
Mulholland Drive, Brazil, Magnolia, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Indiana Jones, Goodbye Lenin, Waking Life, Wizard of Oz, Pi, I heart Huckabees, Storytelling, Igby Goes Down, Amelie, Manchurian Candidate, Traffic, Crash, Raising Arizona, Punch-Drunk Love, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Abre Los Ojos, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, Woody Allen, Garden State, Full Frontal, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, The man who wasn't there, 24hour party people, The Royal Tenenbaums (and everything else by Wes Anderson), Babel, and all the rest I've forgotten right now...seen in cinemas across the world, classrooms, trains, planes, and in dreams.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peep Show, the Office (BBC and NBC), Ali G, Gilmore Girls, CSI, Six Feet Under, Family Guy, South Park, OC, X-Files, Lost.
The Magus - John Fowles, Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger, Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis, Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson, The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles, All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland, Choke, Survivor etc - Chuck Palahniuk, John Ashbery, Jean Baudrillard, JP Sartre, Albert Camus, Roald Dahl, A man in full - Tom Wolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as political stuff, e.g. John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Rawls, Thomas Hobbes etc, and history books.
'Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.'
Rousseau
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