Living intensely, being inspired, doing anything once, dreaming, glowing inside, learning new things, shaking my head to fast music till I fall over, people-watching, new ideas, photographing emotions, capturing thoughts in words, running very fast, being challenged, being together, being alone, being in awe and laughing so hard I want to puke :o)))))
Air, Alice In Chains, All About Eve, Amon Tobin, The Animals, At The Drive In, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, Beck, Belly, Beth Orton, Bjork, Black Crowes, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Bomb The Bass, The Bones, The Breeders, Bush, Buzzcocks, Charlatans, Chemical Brothers, The Clash, Cocteau Twins, Come, The Cramps, Cranes, The Cure, Daisy Chainsaw, The Dandy Warhols, Dead Kennedys, Death In Vegas, Depeche Mode, The Distillers, DJ Shadow, Elastica, Faithless, FC Kahuna, Fields of the Nephilim, Fischerspooner, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Goldfrapp, The Hives, Hole, Horace Andy, Idlewild, Iggy Pop, Iron Maiden, Jet, Jimmy Hendrix, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Kaito, King Tubby, Kristin Hersh, Ladytron, Lamb, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, LTJ Bukem, Lucifer Star Machine, Lush, Marilyn Manson, The Mars Volta, Mazzy Star, MC Solaar, Mercury Rev, Metallica, Miles Davis, Mint Royale, The Mission, Murder Mile (mouahaha!), Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Nancy Sinatra, The Neptunes, New Order, Nick Cave, Nirvana, Offspring, The Paddingtons, Peaches, Pearl Jam, PiL, Pink Floyd, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Portishead, Prodigy, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, Ramones, RHCP, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, Sisters of Mercy, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, The Stone Roses, The Stooges, Stranglers, Sugercubes, System of a Down, Texas Chainsaw (yeeah!), Throwing Muses, Tricky, Type O Negative, Underworld, The Urban Voodoo Machine, The Velvet Underground, Veruca Salt, Violent Femmes, The White Stripes etc etc etc etc....
Pah! Until the British media gets past the censors, no thanks..!
Amongst many others: Robert Antelme, Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Noam Chomsky, Paulo Coelho, J M Coetzee, Marguerite Duras, Jonathan Franzen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Primo Levi, Ian McEwan, Katsuhiro Otomo, John Pilger, Philip Roth, Irvine Welsh...
I've a profound admiration for the people who, driven by altruism not personal gain, dedicate their lives to activism and fight for the advancement of societies...Naming heroes just seems fundamentally wrong, but that said you have to deeply respect Chomsky... he's one of the greatest minds of our time, and he just speaks sense.