art films/foreign films, the Shibuya-kei sound, 70s Filipino movies, art
It's not a question of who I want to meet. It's more of a question of who's ready to meet me. It ain't easy but it's sure worth the trouble.And I break out into song again...I'm wishing (I'm wishing) For the one I love To find me (to find me)...- Snow White from Disney's "Snow White"
the Shibuya-kei sound (particularly Pizzicato V, Towa Tei, Kahimi Karie and Fantastic Plastic Machine), EBTG, bossanova (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Lisa Ono, Marcos Valle, Joao Gilberto), Workshy
Wong Kar-wai films (In The Mood For Love, Chungking Express, Happy Together), Almodovar (Kika, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown), Love Letter (a Japanese film), De Leon's Itim and Kakabakaba Ka Ba?
Six Feet Under, Sex In The City, Ranma 1/2, Chobits, Ultra Maniac, GTO
Barker's Imagica and Weave World, Gaiman's American Gods, Stardust and The Dream Hunters, Bantock's The Forgetting Room and The Venetian's Wife, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World and A Wild Sheep Chase
Wong Kar Wai for directing, Chris Doyle for cinematography, David Lachappelle for photography, Yoshitaka Anano & Dave McKean & Nick Bantock for visual art, and Banana Yoshimoto & Haruki Murakami for prose.