Music, novels and poems, movies, playing my guitar, going to concerts, going for walks with my ipod, knitting, spending time with friends and my wonderful Isak, studying/working, discovering new/old bluegrass bands and of course having a nice meal and a beer ;)
I'd like to meet:
Jens Bjørneboe, Jung Chang
Music:
Everything from bluegrass, folk and blues to electro and hip hop.. Motorpsycho (the all time favourite), Notwist, Hawksley Workman (the best liveshow ever!)Bob Dylan, Beirut, Terry Reid, Allman Brothers, Divine Comedy, Bela Fleck, New Grass Revival, Unni Wilhelmsen(at Madam Felle), Union Station, The Police, Bob Marley, Billie Holiday, Ane Brun, Dolly Parton, Devendra Banhart, Damien Jurado, M.I.A, Spank Rock, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, Donovan, and The Tussler Society to name a few!
Movies:
Dead Man's Shoes, Hero, Boys Don't Cry, Flying Daggers, Mifunes Sidste Sang, Kids, American Splendor, Fearless, Human Traffic, Spinal Tap, Sideways, Napoleon Dynamite, Livet er herlig, Trainspotting, Motorsykkeldagbøkene, Nightmare Before Christmas, Grizzly Man, The Proposition, Cinema Paradiso, Happiness, Memento, Edward Scissorhands, American Beauty, Lost Highway, Elsker deg for evig, Almost Famous, Kinamann, You and me and everyone we know, It's all gone Pete Tong.. All chinese samurai flicks except Seven Swords (what't that?)
Television:
The Office, Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Black Books, Futurama, Twin Peaks, That 70's Show, Fawlty Towers, the news, everything from the Monty Python crew of course.. british comedy, anti-american propaganda documentaries to fuel the fire
Books:
In a random order: Ville Svaner, Anna Karenina, 1984, Kvinnen som kledte seg naken for sin elskede, Kjærlighet i koleraens tid, Vindens skygge, Kosakkene, Lasso rundt fru Luna, Brødre i blodet, Hatten og andre forstyrrende momenter, Maskeblomstfamilien, Zahir, Utsikt til Paradis, Hundre års ensomhet, Den merkelige hendelsen med hunden den natten, Modellen, En passende ung mann, Ronja Røverdatter, Sataniske Vers, Middlesex, Beatles, Mannen som elsket Yngve, Bestialitetens historie (!!), Veronika vil dø, Hvite Niggere, Halvbroren, and various kinds of poetry.. I can die happy when I've read everything by Tolstoy, Jung Chang and Jens Bjørneboe.
Heroes:
Inger Hagerup, Olav H. Hauge, Jens Bjørneboe