My work, my friends, my family, my dogs!...not in any particular order, snowboarding, the mountains & the snow, the beach, travel, travel & more travel, anything design related, photography, film, art, galleries, museums, theatre, live music, live shows, cities, the country, eating out, eating in, a good night out, a good night in, cooking, great food, shopping (shamelessly, for anything!), good shoes, apple macs, all animals (especially Meerkats), cars, good hotels + holidays, fresh sheets & anything of quality frankly...interesting conversation with a good debate attached to it...oh, and eBay!
I'd like to meet:
Honest, grounded, interesting (& interested) people from all over the world, australia, from sydney or just around the corner...
:: M A R A T E A | JUNE 07 ::
:: S H A N G H A I | DEC 06 ::
Music:
TEENAGER, THE PRESETS, CUT COPY, WHO MADE WHO, MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS, THE WHITEST BOY ALIVE, DAMN ARMS, Dj Ajax + BangGang, Sneaky SS, Avenue D, Kelis, Daft punk, The Winston Giles Orchestra, sergio mendes, astrud gilberto, har mar superstar, they might be giants, crazy penis, violent femmes, Air, The Strokes, the stone roses, joy division, new order, The Cure, depeche mode, happy mondays, (early) INXS...ie. Michael Hutchence, the avalanches, pavement, the smiths, suede, blur, Basement Jaxx, portishead, leftfield, massive attack, bjork.
Movies:
City of god, Marie Antionette, Betty Blue, the cremaster cycle, Full metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, Bad Education, Motorcycle Diaries, Play Misty for me, hero, house of flying daggers, casino, taxi driver, shattered glass, Amelie, The Cremaster Cycle, valley of the dolls, Devdas, the breakfast club, 16 candles, blue crush, napoleon dynamite, waiting for guffman, best in show, baraka, silence of the lambs, lost in translation, The basketball diaries, crash, 8 mile...and of course BMX Bandits!
Television:
SUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH (of course!) mainly Stuff on the ABC, SBS or BBC World for news and some programming on cable...Mainly doco's. BIG LOVE, City of Men, OZ, We can be Heroes, Nighty Night, This Life, Prime Suspect, Meerkat Manor, Early Law & Order & The Smurfs.
Books:
Fashion, architecture, interior & art / design Mags, Photographic + design books, biographies, non-fiction, sociology and business books.
Heroes:
HEDI SLIMANE, MARTIN MARGIELA, RICK OWENS, Christopher Bailey, Lucas Ossendrijver, Nicolas Gresquiére, M/M Paris, Dries Van Noten, Marc Jacobs, alexander mcqueen, Kate Moss, Anthony Vibert, Stella Tennant, Michael Thompson, Craig McDean, Guillaume Brahimi (and not just for his french cuisine) Nick Knight, Ryan McGinness, Fabien Baron, Anna Wintour, Michael Hutchence, Nick Littlemore, Ang Lee, Sydney Pollack, Pedro Almodóvar, Sophia Coppola, Drew Barrymore, Johnny Depp, Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush days), Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Christo, Ed Ruscha, Paul Rand, Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Chloe Sevingy, Parker Posey, Thandie Newton, Rose Byrne, Ryan Phillippe, Lindsay Lohan, Uma Thurman, Abbie Cornish, Selma Blair, Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Seth Godin, Edward de Bono, Papa Smurf & anyone who is honest and selfless like my mum!
ED RUSCHA :: THE MOUNTAIN
