Work with, write, sing and listen to all kinds of music
that take me places I have never been or long to go..
New and old friends! :-)
Gazpacho (yeah I know, but shamelessly plugging your own band sometimes give great results!), Sarah McLachlan, Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, Tom McRae, Jayhawks, Bob Dylan, Kent, Foo Fighters, Tomahawk, Mr.Bungle, Faith no More, Sigur Ros, Coheed&Cambria, Björk, Kashmir, Mew, Radiohead, Steely Dan, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Anja Garbarek, Velvet Belly, Locomotives, Elvira Nikolaisen, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Cesaria Evora, Kate Bush, Marillion, Roxy Music, Talk Talk, Kraftwerk, Logic System, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett, Johnny Cash, System of a Down, Kurt Nilsen, Illinois Jacquet, Sonny Rollins, Die Toten Hosen, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Anneli Drecker, Bel Canto, Illumination, David Bowie, Lou Reed....the full list would be endless... :-)
The Coen Bros., Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Alfred J. Hitchcock, Sergio Leone and Francis Ford Coppola just about sums it up. Oh! And this brilliant movie by Robert Altman called "Short Cuts". Anything and everything by or with Billy Connolly, and the same goes for any of the Monty Pythoneers. I'll never tire of massive cast (or massive animation) films either, like LOTR and all the old biblical/roman empire "Old Hollywood "-ones.
The Simpsons, Young Ones, Bottom, The New Statesman, all things Rowan Atkinson but especially Blackadder. Good comedy in general, but preferably British. News, news and news.. other than that, TV isn't a big thing for me.
My three last good books read are Mother Tongue (John Helmer), The Perfume (Patrick Süskind), and Chronicles (Bob Dylan)
Many.. :-)