Beauty in Art "driving me backwards..."
People who are intelligent, cultivated, witty and with a good sense of humour. (told you I was hard to please...)and this guy...
Here is what you can find in my vinyl and CD collection (in the random order in which they come to my mind): David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, The Velvet Underground, John Cale, Kraftwerk, Bryan Ferry, Interpol, Depeche Mode, Air, Joy Division, Lou Reed, Ryuishi Sakamoto, The Beatles, Echo and the Bunnymen, Suede, The Cure, Michel Polnareff, Jerome Soligny, Etienne Daho, Marquis de Sade, Christophe, Prosaics, the Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo, Phoenix, Ultra Orange, Jad Wio, AS Dragon, Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Indochine, Iggy Pop, the Stooges, the Kills, the Organ, movie soundtracks such as: Trainspotting, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, a Clockwork Orange, Basquiat, Velvet Goldmine, The Smiths, Alice Cooper, The Sex Pistols, Louis XIV, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, the Futureheads, VHS or Beta, New Order, Mahler, Lully, Haendel, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Elisabethan music, Cockney Rebel, Baroque, Ladytron, Goldfrapp, the Bravery, Kaiser Chiefs, Garbage, Duran Duran, Royksopp, Amon Tobin, Maximo Park, T Rex, Slade, the Sweet, the Who, the Sparks, Mott The Hoople, Klaus Nomi, The Ark, Adam and the Ants, Jobriath, Japan...
My personnal cult films: Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Todd Hayne's Velvet Goldmine, Vincente Minelli's An American In Paris, Philippe Rousselot's the Serpent's Kiss, Julian Schnabel's Basquiat, Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, Jim Sharman's Rocky Horror Picture Show, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Rouben Mamoulian's Queen Christina, Nagisa Oshima's Furyo, Neil Jordan's Enterview with a Vampire, Bernard Rose's Immortal Beloved, John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Nicolas Roeg's the Man Who fell to Earth, Dominic Sena's Kalifornia, Luc Besson's the Fifth Element, Marcel Carne's Les Enfants du Paradis, Victor Fleming's Wizard of Oz, James Ivory's Maurice, Andre Hunebelle's Le Bossu...
Shouldn't watch that much... I love watching silly soaps and Real TV, it helps unplugging my brain when I want to. I enjoy watching old films late in the night. I like some series... When I was a teenager I was a big X Files fan, now it's funny to find old episodes on air... Oh! and I'm a huge Black Adder addict! Just love that show.
I'm not a big reader. Some books are stuck in my memories though: André Malraux's "La Condition Humaine", Wlliam Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Molière's "Tartuffe", Bram Stocker's "Dracula", Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac", Joseph Kessel's "Le Lion", John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"... I love reading well written music magazines like old french Rock and Folk and Best and english mags like Q, Mojo, Uncut or Record Collector... I love art books! I've always prefered books with a lot of images and just a few words... If I were rich, I would have a hell of an art book collection...