Wine, Food, Music Culinary arts, architecture, Cheese (Lots of French ones), travel, swimming, DJing and music, opera, Robert Irwin, sailing, anything to do with water, la mer, Hiking down La Rhune (on the French / Spanish border - borders just don't seem that much when you can turn to your left and then to your right and try to make visual sense of the so-called separations between countries), Floating on my back in the bay of Biscay (though not too far from land), Le Mouff in Paris and St Germain, Hotel 4 Soeur in Bordeaux and Rue de St Catherine, and of course Badie, Arachon Oysters, Strolls down the Grande Plague in Biarritz, the fish market of St Jean de Luz, the tree in Gernika, the painted forest of Bosque de Oma, Bilbao, pintxos in San Sebastian, having a drink on a rainy Paris afternoon on the Seine watching life go by as if it were in slow motion...
People of Interest
Interpol, coldplay, bjork, air, massive attack, bittersweet, nick cave and the bad seeds, moby, pixies, sonic youth, beck, frou frou, groove armada, portishead, dj shadow, blue note jazz, johnny cash, jem, flaming lips, ladytron, autour de lucie, ivy, karen ann, dj shadow, prefuse 73, Nightmares on Wax, aphex twin, tosca, bebel gilberto, cibelle, the avalanches, senor coconut, beastie boys, craig armstrong, the devics, alpha, naked music, K&D, goldfrapp, 4AD, zero 7, faze action...
Amelie, Miller's Crossing, Delicatessen, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and her Lover, Usual Suspects, Underworld, Casablanca, Sabrina (not the witch but Audrey Hepburn), Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind, Wings of Desire, Lord of the rings, Traffic, Fight Club, Pleasantville, Lost in Translation, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, The good thief, Cronos, Big Fish, The Pillow Book, Prosperous Books, Titus, The Big Sleep, Lair of the White Worm, Exotica, Delta of Venus...
Kitchen Confidential, Urban Tribes, Mariko Mori, Siddhartha, Heart of Darkness, Are Men necessary?, The Cheese Palte, Cerebus, 100 years of solitude, The tempest, the 4 agreements, French Laundry (Thomas Keller)...
Don't really subcribe to heroes but people who inspire me; Robert Irwin, David Fincher, Nick Cave, Anthony Bourdin, Michel Cassou - Debat, Robert Irwin, Michel Gondry, Maureen Dowd...