painting, traditional shaolin kung fu, jazz piano, history, russian and eastern-european literature, philosophy, languages (right now, arabic)
would have liked to meet joseph brodsky, nobel Prize laureate for literature
paul bley, andrew hill, keith jarrett, brad mehldau, juergen friedrich, marilyn crispell, chick corea, charlie haden, jason moran, coltrane, t.monk, gonzales rubalcaba, bobo stenson, tim berne, john ellis, aaron goldberg, kurt rosenwinkel, django bates, henry threadgill, rabih abou-khalil, nick drake, a. schnittke, schoenberg, bartok, shostakovich
anything by tarkovsky, particularly 'andrei rublev', all films by fassbinder, kurasawa, kubrick, apocalypse now
no thanks!
joseph brodsky, jorge luis borges, isaiah berlin, michael ignatieff, w.g.sebald, baudrillard, hannah arendt, anna akhmatova, osip mandelstam, peter sloterdijk