writing stuff (prose, theater, film), reading stuff (prose, poetry), improvisation, raising and owning dogs, the underdog, arguing, flaring up, sarcasm, symmetrical chaos, chaos, taking and making photos, people's faces, imagining other people's stories, graffiti, making stuff up, teaching, small jazz bars, languages, the savvy innocence of old movies, the psychopathology of fear, ways out of golden cages
Daydreamers
jazz (lately exploring its insaner aspects), Tom Waits, Latin Playboys, Sonic Youth, Leonard Cohen, Velvet Underground, Television, TV on the Radio, Massive Attack, etc., etc., some Belgian local acts
not that crazy about movies, although I write for screen; Romanian cinema, some Spanish, some French, some Scandinavian, Woody Allen, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Michelangelo Antonioni, I'm a sucker for Casablanca, Philadelphia Story, most old movies
most hated waste of time
Samuel Beckett, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Beckett (the prose!), Heinrich Boell's "Opinions of a Clown", Solzhenitsyn, Orhan Pamuk, Italo Calvino, Michel Houellebecq when he's losing it, and did I mention Samuel Beckett? Also, I really don't like Hemingway, so far.