philosophy, late antiquity, the study of religions, the Weimar afterglow, languages (I speak 9, and hope not to leave it at that), vintage, burlesque, good shoes, good clothes, tango, picnics, icons, dramatic tension, over-the-top arguments, outrage, good food, good wine, debauchery, dancing
tom waits, the tigerlillies, squirrel nut zippers, baghdaddies, cherry-poppin' daddies, leonard cohen, gogol bordello, recoil, electro shite, iamx, sneaker pimps, nick cave, the cure, claude chalhoub, palestrina, fado, tango, flamenco, crazy gypsy music, klezmer, the good old 80s
in the mood for love, jamon jamon, all about my mother, the life of others, mephisto, Takeshi Kitano, Almodovar, la reine margot, dead man
the mighty boosh, battlestar galactica, aeon flux (original animations)
charles bukowski, leonard cohen, clement of alexandria, edmond jabès, henrik ibsen, isaac bashevis singer, jacques derrida, james joyce, jorge luis borges, ludwig feuerbach, magic realism, michel de montaigne, haruki murakami, nietzsche, origen, plato, peter nà das, thomas pynchon, ryszard kapuscinski, salman rushdie, antal szerb, william butler yeats, evelyn waugh