Dreams were technicolor under the midnight sun - nabokov ************************************************************ ***turn ons : gin + tonics in some shabby apartment in the latin quarter, listening to the velvet underground screaming "vive la france" from hotel room windows in any country BUT france, rapping about fake bag salesman on busses in rome***Bellinis and champagne brunches******deep house parties*** darling, I travel more than a supermodel.Anthony Bourdain, Berolucci..Truffaut, amelie, art nouveau, nigella lawson, audrey hepburn, barolo, belle epoque, bertolucci, charles aznavour, cocochanel, courtesans, couture, dali, deep house, depeche mode, dior, edith piaf, family guy, fellini, france, gauloises, godard, goodfellas, hedonist, hotel costes, israel, jaguars, jazz, jean pierre jeunet, kerouac, kubrick, larry david, leather, libertine, lounge, madame x, marquez, ministry of sound, nabokov, opera, pablo neruda, paris, pearls, philanthropy, photography, puccini, rauschenberg, stephan pompougnac, stieglitz, surfing, **velvet underground***, Manchester United, Chelsea Football Club, Real Madrid, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 65 jaguar roadster, alfa romeo, appleseed cast, art, barolo, bebel gilberto, bisco, britcoms, british accents, citroen, dadaism, dave brubeck quartet, Eddie Izzard, david beckham, diesel, bubble tea, dimitri from paris, dirty martinis, discotheque, dispatch, dj, dmb,hockey, dng, doom generation, fashion style, fettes brot, fila brasiliero, firenze, french, full lips, funk, godfather, golf, goodfellas, goran bregovic, gregg araki, grey goose, guitar, hadag nahash, hebrew, deep house, indie film, indie rock/cinema, israelis. brasil, jam bands, jazz, john waters, kafka, koufax, lacrosse, marcel duchamp, minolta, nabakov, neitzsche, nikon, office space, pafa, Pablo Neruda, paris, paris lounge, pelligrino, photograp hy, photography, pink flamingo, pink floyd, politics, portuguese, opera, renault,, Masculin/Femenin, Sergio Mendes + Brasil 66 rilo kiley, robert rauschenberg, rugby, sedaris, sexy funky people, shiny happy people, smoldering eyes, smoldering kisses, soccer, soullive, stan getz, stanley kubrick, stilettos, surfing, techno, the brakes, the office, tolstoy, vespa, vintage dior, vinyl, Rachimaninov, Goodfellas, belle epoque paris, 60's/70's paris... paris some more. Brazilian pops, mojitos, records, veuve clicquot, linguistics, nelson shanks, salvador dali, calla lillies, dim sum, samba, charles aznavour, Serge GAINSBOURG!, Paul Belomondo, the monaco royal family, edith piaf, liberals, students, revolutionaries, che guevera, amsterdam, roma, 007, vintage ray bans (cop killa mothafuckas), playing piano, playing classical guitar, wandering the city at 2am, the EL, glassblowing, small shows, VIP lounges, AirFrance (fair le ciel le plus belle de la terre), tight leather pants, Nico, Anthony Bourdain, El Che Vive, DJ Dan, breakbeats, etc...."Hapiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" - Hemmingway
I'd like to meet:
Apollinaire, Diane Arbus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Botero, John Singer Sargent, Serge Gainsbourg, Athenais, Colette, Chanel, Stravinsky, Julie Christie, the Sassoon family, Rudolph Valentino, Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Hef, Fellini, Francisico Rivera, El Cid, Hemmingway, RuPaul, Karl Marx, Pablo Neruda, Charles Aznavour - and you. obviously... you.**************************************------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------Those who fight bulls and run with them, "the dandy", James Spader, eclectic people. Cary Grant and any potential lookalikes (boys who make up their own accents with chin dimples a plus), travelers, people with curiousities about the world, artists, musicians, poets, euro-trash, photographers, old souls, kindred spirits, reformed club kids, insomniacs, michael alig, DJs, expatriates, admirers, admirables, the absurd, the insane, the surreal, **Travel writers, inidividuals who haven't forgotten honor and chivalry in this mad mad world.... Boys who bring me flowers who party in the late hours.. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen" - Francis Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Music:
HOUSE!!!!
Hip Hop, House, Classical, Opera, Jazz, Classic Rock, Funk, Disco House, Chillout, Post-Rock, Indie Rock, Big Band, Swing, Samba, Salsa,Flamenco, Dancehall, Reggae, Jam Bands, French pop more classical... more jazz... ************************* eg; The Velvet Underground,Beethoven, Gipsy Kings, SERGE GAINSBOURG, Gotan Project, Pink Martini, Stan Getz, Bebel Gilberto, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Iron + Wine, Zeppelin, The Rapture, Rolling Stones, Cody Chesnutt, Ryan Adams, Nico (solo), Lou Reed (solo) Mobb Deep, AIR, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Stereo Total, Dimitri from Paris, Sigur Ros, Stephane Pompougnauc, Bjork, Cat Stevens, anything put out by the ministry of sound label,Astrid Gilberto, The Kinks, Brahms, Stravinsky, the Beatles, Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, Blonde Redhead, Gypsy Kings, the Stones, Benny Goodman, Common, Blackstar, Cat Power, M.I.A., The Streets, Glenn Miller, Elton John, Andres Segovia, Manu Chao, Keller Williams, Deltron 3030, Fiona Apple, Gangstarr, DJ Premier, Belle + Sebastian, Apples in Stereo, Mozart, Alizee, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Miles Davis, pre-rehab Coltrane, Zeppelin, Cream, Badly Drawn Boy, etc etc.... I'll post an ipod playlist up here eventually 3
Movies:
Belle du Jour, the Dreamers, A Christmas Story, Delicatessen, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, before sunsrise, before sunset, angel face, best in show, a mighty wind, breathless, 9 1/2 weeks, City of God, Shaun of the Dead, Swimming Pool, A Little Romance, Masculin/Feminin, Goodfellas, Super Troopers, Casino, The Doom Generation, La Notte, Jules et Jim Cecil B. Demented, Run Lola Run, 8 women, On The Waterfront,Pulp Fiction, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Yellow Submarine, Empire Records, The man who loved women, Goodfellas, any Adam Sandler flick, Casino, Made, Swingers, Resevoir Dogs, Full Metal Jacket, Black Cat White Cat (Goran Bregovic), Donnie Brasco, Blow, Gladiator, Godfather (1 & 2), The Producers, Monty Python and the meaning of life, Tea with Mussolini, Run Lola Run, Lolita, Roman Holiday, Almost Famous, Freaks (classic 1928 cinema), Viva Zapata (classic Brando),A soldier's daughter never cries, On the Waterfront, Donnie Darko, Almost Famous, Dangerous Liasons, Harold and Maude, Breakfast Club, La Dolce Vita, Under the Tuscan Sun, anything directed by Kubrick, Fellini, Waters, or Jean Pierre Jeunet, Godard, Truffaut, Antonini, Bertloucci, otto Preminger, David Lynch, David Mamet (my favorite boys)
Television:
I don't own a TV... but... family guy, pbs nova, sex + the city, red dwarf, spaced, arrested development, ladette to lady, digging for the truth (some hitler channel nerdiness), korean soap operas at 4am, masterpiece theatre, sealab 2021, entourage, rome, curb your enthusiasm, footballer's wive$...
Books:
Colette, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Hemingway, Verlaine, Paz, Neitzsche, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Kerouac, Capote, Neruda, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Ginsberg, Sedaris, Marquez, Mistry, McEwan, George Sand, Wilde, Eugendies, Baudelaire, Abelard + Heloise (oh.. letters...), Balzac, Zola, any 16th - 20th century European history. ************************************************************ ********************************Artists; Botero, Rauschenberg, Doisneau, Arbus, Newtown, LaChapelle, Sargent, David, Fragonard, Stango, Johns, DuChamp, Delacroix, Gaudi, Toulouse-Lautrec, Titian, Bo Bartlett, Klimt, Lempicka, Kandinsky, Modigliani, Phillipe Starck, Cocteau.. ish., La Tour..
Heroes:
Diana Vreeland, Golda Meir, Your Mom**, Lois, Frederico Fellini, Audrey Hepburn, Serge Gainsbourg
