ART WORKS, BOOKS, SONGS, MORE SONGS, MORE BOOKS, MORE ART WORKS, SKATEBOARDING (MUCH MORE THAN SKATEBOARDERS), STONES AND ROCKS, ASPHALT CONCRETE, WOOD, PLYWOOD, HOME, FRIENDS, FRIENDS'S WORKS, SONGS, DESIGNS...
YOU GUESS THAT...
The Modern Lovers, everything by Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground, The Seeds, The Standells, Garage Rock in general, The Zombies, The Kinks... Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Tim Hardin, Pink Moon by Nick Drake, Paris 1919 by John Cale... 1977 and 78 Punk Rock (Mekons, The Saints, Buzzcocks, The Avengers, The Only Ones...), London Calling of course, The Feelies (Crazy Rhythms of courses but the followings albums also), Boys don't Cry but the Cure... Almost everything by Smog, Silver Jews and Yo La Tengo, Will Oldham or whatever you call him, Beat Happening (Black Candy, You Turn Me On), everything by The Halo Benders, One Foot Ine The Grave by Beck, Daniel Johnston, Lou Barlow, The first Folk Implosion with John Davis (mostly Take a Look Inside), Pavement and Malkmus, Whatever Mortal by Papa M, Black Heart Procession (mostly ..2 and ..3), Songs Ohia and above all the first Magnolia Electric Co, The Anomoanon, Herman Düne (as a band and on their own), Jack and Jeff Lewis, Kimya Dawson, The Branches...
Everything by Jean Rouch, Eric Rohmer (la collectionneuse might be my favorite), la nouvelle vague en générale (the firsts Godard, Rivette, Varda - la pointe courte, Cléo de 5 à 7, Jacques Rozier) Antoine Doisnel films and Fahrenheit 451 by Truffaut (and that's it), some of Resnais's classics, The Mabuses by Fritz lang, L'inconnu by Tod Browning, L'homme à la caméra by Dziga Vertov, Hitchcock in general, The Lady From Shagaï by Wells, Detectives and Trials movies, Sci-Fi movies, everything by Miyasaki, Shohei Imamura (l'Anguille - the eel - is one of my all time favorite, de l'eau tiède sous un pont rouge is stunning), the delightful The Taste Of Tea by Katsushito Ishii, and Mods byy Serge Bozon. And skateboarding videos...
Claude Barma's Belphegor with Juiette Greco and Yves Renier... Patrick Mc Goohan's Prisoner of course.
Jorge Luis Borges (Fictions, Le livre de sable, L'aleph, Enquêtes, Conférences...), Italo Calvino (6 memos for the next Millenium,...), Witold Gombrowicz (Ferdydurke, the masterpiece, Journal,...), Adolpho Bioy Casares (L'inventionde Morel, Plan d'évasion), Lewis Carrol (Alice), O. Wilde (Le déclin du mensonge), Thomas Pynchon (The crying of Lot 49), René Daumal (Le mont analogue), Alfred Jarry (Ubu), Cyrano de Bergerac, le vrai, (l'autre monde ou les états et empire de la lune), Roger Caillois (Le Fleuve Alphée), Diderot (the fantastic Jacques le fataliste), Gustave Meyrink (Le Golem), Vladimir Nabokov (Pale Fire), Haruki Murakami (The End of Time and Hard Boiled Wonderland, Les chroniques de l'oiseau à ressorts,...), and it goes on...
I am not sure I would called them so, but let's go for dead people : Ulysse, Pre-Socratic Philosopher, Tchang Tzu, Lucrece, Copernic, Giordano Bruno, Galilée, Les 4 mousquetaires, Sherlock Holmes, Rouletabille, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Rouch, Robert Smithson...