/ love, fine food, fine wine, fine spirits / politics, thinking about the future, trying to influence it a little bit / globalised culture, local idiosyncrasies, individual quirks / poetry, cinema, comic books, painting, photography... etc etc etc
Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai, Dead Can Dance, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, The National, Radiohead, The Cure, And also the trees, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Ministry, Orbital, Morrissey, The Smiths, Sigur Ros, Tindersticks, The Sisters of Mercy, Cocteau Twins, M83, Red House Painters, Asobi Seksu, The Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, The Aloof, Arcade Fire, The Divine Comedy, Pulp, Bauhaus, Spiritualized, Clan of Xymox, New Order, Interpol, Sonic Youth, Massive Attack, Underworld, Future Sound of London, Sébastien Schuller, Herman Düne, Noir Désir, My Bloody Valentine, The Field Mice, Mojave 3, The Chemical Brothers, This Mortal Coil, Suicide, House of Love, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Philip Glass, Arvö Part, Gorecki, Bach, Mozart, Telemann, Monteverdi, Haendel, Vivaldi, Debussy, Mahler, Satie, Fauré, Penderecki, Talking Heads, Plastikman, Felix da Housecat, Test Dept., The Clash, Durutti Column, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Electrelane, Primal Scream, Beastie Boys, Technasia, Echo and the Bunnymen, Sad Lovers and Giants, Legendary Pink Dots, Portishead, Sophie Moleta, Morcheeba, Add (n) to X, Hector Zazou, Nine Inch Nails...
Welles, Fellini, Reggio, Kurosawa (A.), Dreyer, Murnau, Lynch, Jodorowsky, Tarkovski, Jarmusch, Eisenstein, Malick, Jackson, Scorcese, Peckinpah, Fuller, WKW, Brisseau, Egoyan, Sokourov, Kubrick, Greenaway, Cronenberg, Miyazaki, Visconti, Antonioni...
well... not much to say here (although i actually earn my living from understanding TV bosses...)
Twin Peaks was great though... and of course, immersing one's soul completely in those scrolling stock quotes on Bloomberg TV to someday achieve screen satori
Dostoievski, Calaferte, Ellis, Selby, Durrell, Pynchon, Vonnegut, Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Cortazar, Bouvier, Ballard, Cohen (A.), Vollman, Kerouac, Stephenson, Sei Shonagon, Shea and Wilson (fnord!), Wolfe (G.), Herbert, Murakami
Perse, Mallarmé, Blake, Yeats, TS Eliot, Baudelaire, Villon, Pessoa, Rilke