I loooove (random order) food, cooking/baking, films, travel, languages, politics, news, music, singing, walking, biking, autumn, summer, winter, spring, urban living, cottages, lakes, museums, galleries, my family and friends. You know, all the things that make life worth it.
I'd like to meet:
A single malt scotch whiskey. A cup of tea. A good job.
Music:
The best of the rest: Bjork
And the rest: Antibalas, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Beth Gibbons, Billie Holiday, Billy Bragg, Caetano Veloso, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cinematic Orchestra, Dmitri Shostakovich, DJ Gilles Peterson, Feist, Four Tet, Hawksley Workman, KT Tunstall, Kyle Minogue, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Peter Bjorn and John, Portishead, Pulp, Radiohead, Rick Astley
Movies:
The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, An Angel at my Table, The Corporation, Dancer in the Dark, Delicatessen, Dr Zhivago, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hidden, Nights of Cabiria, Open Your Eyes, Strictly Ballroom, Trois Couleurs, Underground, Wings of Desire, Woody Allen, Yes, any French New Wave (Godard, Truffault, Varda...)
Television:
CSI Las Vegas (getting into NY as well), whatever cooking and food shows I can find, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Doctor Who, British comedy: Tittytitty Bangbang, The Mighty Boosch, The Office.
Books:
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer,
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky,
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, In Patagonia and The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, books by Ian McEwan, Andrew Miller, Salman Rushdie, plays by Oscar Wilde, books on our dire food system, natural health and therapies and cookbooks.
News Media and Magazines: The Ecologist, New Internationalist, Harper's, The Walrus, The Nation, ZMag, This Magazine, Alternatives Journal, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC
Heroes:
I don't have any heroes...boo hoo.
