I love women (merci flo pour l'idée simple, mais ô combien précieuse)
musicians: thom green & jon greenwood (radiohead), billy corgan (smashing pumpkins), jon spencer, dj shadow, nobuo uematsu (final fantasy)
writer: paul auster, gabriel garcia marquez, kafka
painter: yoshitaka amano
movie directors: katsuhiro otomo (creator of akira and domu), hayao miyazaki (director and creator of laputa, spirited away, princess mononoke), takashi miike (director of ichi the killer, audition)
actors: bill murray, tadanobu asano (ichi the killer, taste of tea, survive style 5+), jessica alba (y'arr!)
pretty girl: tila nguyen, kaylee defer
instrumental rock (el ten eleven, pawa up first, 65daysofstatic, explosions in the sky, do make say think, etc.)
post rock (tortoise, godspeed you black emperor, etc.), epic rock (sigur ros, mogwai, aamina, etc.)
noise & math rock (hella, chevreuil, battles, ooioo, etc.)
electronica with instruments (manitoba/caribou, minotaur shock, goddamn electric bill, etc.)
electronica (boards of canada, mum, kid koala, dj shadow, ninja tunes, massive attack, etc.)
electro pop (postal service, the go find, notwist, etc.)
indie rock (pavement, malajube, islands/unicorns, pedro the lion, the books, etc.)
alternative rock (smashing pumpkins, radiohead, flaming lips, etc.)
hip hop (lyrics born, blackalicious, atmosphere, automato)
and on and on and on...
classics (ghostbusters, neverending story, roger rabbit, beetlejuice, etc.)
japanese and asian (fantasia festival, uzumaki, taste of tea, cutie honey, linda linda linda, etc.)
animated - japanese and others
film noir
films français
etc.
cartoons - japanese (cowboy bebop, ghost in the shell, samurai 7, samurai champloo, etc.)
cartoons - american (avatar, samurai jack, boodocks, batman & dc comics, x-men, 6teen, fairly odd parents, etc.)
les invicibles (radio-canada), heroes, the hour (cbc), little mosque on the prairie, akihabara@deepnature and wild life documentariesand the news
anything from paul auster, gabriel garcia marquez - cien anos de soledad, elizabeth vonarburg, kafka. i happen to be reading a lot of schorlarly books about audio culture and digital sound processing these days
my grandfather is probably my hero