Belgian beers, music, Guinness, music, malt whiskey, music, Ian Brown, paintings, The National, paintings, Hüsker Dü, paintings, Sean Scully, films, Leon Spilliaert, films, Jackson Pollock, films, Scarlett Johansson, books, Alfred Hitchcock, books, Audrey Hepburn, books, Ham on Rye, architecture, L'Étranger, architecture, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, fashion, Arne Jacobsen, fashion, Victor Horta, fashion, Dries Van Noten, bitter, etc. etc. etc
Haven't got the foggiest. Not a clue. Maybe people that will make me smile.
The National, The Feelies, String Cheese Incident, Jacques Brel, Hüsker Dü, The Shins, Postal Service, Phish, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Talking Heads, Kate Bush, 16 Horsepower, Flaming Lips, David Sylvian, Beta Band, Jimi Hendrix, Stone Roses, Ian Brown, Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, The Clash, Elmore James, Ramones, Marvin Gaye, Blue Nile, Chris Isaak, Primal Scream, Herbie Hancock, Bloc Party, Wolf Parade, Massive Attack, The Smiths, Grant Hart, Thelonious Monk, Joy Division, Love, Van Morrison, Elbow, Miles Davis, The Replacements, Green, Sufjan Stevens, Buddy Guy, REM, Pearl Jam, Jef Buckley, Morphine, Beck, Johnny Cash, Johnny Winter, Nirvana, Keith Jarrett, Broken Social Scene, Prince, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joni Mitchell, Loreena McKennitt, Television, Richard Thompson, Rolling Stones, Guillermo Gregorio, Nick Cave, Prefab Sprout, Jesus and Mary Chain, Interpol, Neil Young, Robert Johnson, Mercury Rev, Tricky, New Pornographers, O'Jays, Okkerville River, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, The Doors, Bela Fleck, Beach Boys, My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Newsom, Talk Talk, Modest Mouse, Modern Lovers, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Mars Volta, The The, Leftfield, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Death Cab for Cutie, Allman Brothers, The Triffids (David McComb, aye, no worries, you live on)And all Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Gorecki, Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius, Wagner, and Huelgas Ensemble.
Hitchcock, Lynch, Coen, Coppola (x2), Lean, Welles, Mann, Tarantino, Fincher, Lang, Kubrick, Renoir, Scorsese, Leone, Chaplin, Godard, Kazan, Frankenheimer, Kieslowski, Wong Kar-Wai, Zhang Yimou, Park Chang-Wook (basically anything released from Asia nowadays that makes it over here is absolutely mint) Lost In Translation, Midnight Cowboy, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Casablanca and The Night of the Hunter.
Charles Bukowski. And Charles Bukowski. And Charles Bukowski.Otherwise, Nabokov, Kerouac, Miller, A.F.Th. van der Heijden, Turgenev, Camus, Burgess, Verhelst, Eugenides, Banville, Joyce, Hamelink.
James Ensor, Alan Turing, Cary Grant, and the McGeeneys, Toonens, Para's and Jacobses of this world (hope I have embarrassed you now)