Films, art, music, football, poetry, literature, cycling, snowboarding, writing, history. Nouvelle Vague, the Dutch Total Football of 1974 and 1978, Zizou, Diego Maradona, the fabulous destiny of Amelie Poulain, Edward Hoppers Americana, Vermeer, Joan Miró, Mark Rothko, Andreas Gursky, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, le tour, tapdancing like Gene Kelly while singing in the rain, floating over London roofrops with an umbrella Mary Poppins style, Three Colours: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge, old libraries, Black and white photography, Audrey Tautou + Audrey Hepburn. Happiness is late summer afternoon walks along the Seine and going for coffee in St Germain before remembering i don't like coffee but not minding because the ghosts of Albert, Jean Paul and Simone sit beside me debating as I listen in.
Manic Street Preachers, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, The Postal Service, Public Enemy, Belle and Sebastian, Ryan Adams, The Jam, The Smiths, Björk, The Stone Roses, Radiohead, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Oasis, Death Cab For Cutie, Interpol, The Libertines, Le Tigre, The White Stripes, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Wilco, Hank Williams, Miles Davis, Radiohead, Neko Case, Dntel, Saint Etienne, Nouvelle Vague, The Clash, The Beach Boys, Atari Teenage Riot, Cat Power, Bruce Springsteen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Charlie Parker, The Dead Kennedys, Jimi Hendrix, Patrick Wolf, Sigur Rós, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Air, Tommy Smith, The New Pornographers, The Cure, Elvis Presley, 2 Many DJs, Optimo, Bikini Kill, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jacques Brel, The Velvet Underground, Dmitri Shostakovich, Fugazi, MC Solaar, Erik Satie, The Roots, Orange Juice, New Order, McCarthy and lots more.
La Haine, Dekalog, Trois Couleurs, Cidade de Deus, Underground, A Bout de Souffle, Black Cat / White Cat, Les Quatre Cent Coups, Amelie, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Once Upon a Time in the West, Stalker, Solaris, Tillsammans, Seven Samurai, Fistfull of Dollars, Lilja 4-Ever, The Battle of Algiers, The Red..The White, Fucking åmål, West Beirut, I [heart] Huckabees, A Very Long Engagement, Uzak, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Fallen Angels, 2046, In the Mood For Love, Chungking Express, The Apartment, Rumble Fish, Hana-Bi, Wild Strawberries, South Park the Movie, Jules et Jim, Persona, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Mullholland Drive, Dr Strangelove, 12 Angry Men, Rashômon, The Third Man, On the Waterfront, High Noon, A Streetcar Named Desire, Yojimbo, The Searchers, Trainspotting, Ratcatcher, Amores Perros, Back to the Future, 21 Grams, The Godfather 1 + 2, Oldboy, Sympathy of Mr Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Der Untergang, Stalker, Apocalypse Now, Casablanca, Morvern Callar, Dirty Pretty Things, The Third Man, Bande à part, and more and more...
The Simpsons, South Park, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Peep Show, M*A*S*H, Seinfeld, Monty Python, Yes Minister, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 24, Firefly, Futurama, Fawlty Towers, The Flintstones, Twin Peaks, American Dad, Six Feet Under (season 1 and 2), The X Files (pre-movie), Family Guy, My So Called Life, City of Men.
Favourite books: La Peste, l'étranger, La Chute, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Lolita, Pale Fire, Animal Farm, 1984, Don Quixote, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, Goodbye Columbus, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Catcher in the Rye, The Trial, Le Grand Meaulnes, Terror and Liberalism, On The Road, The Adventures of Augie March, Brilliant OrangeFavourite authors/poets: Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Vassily Grossman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vladimir Nabokov, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Philip Roth, Arnon Grunberg, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde, John Steinbeck, Pablo Neruda, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Saul Bellow, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michel Houellebecq