Music. Film. Architecture. Photography. Graphic Design. Interior Design. Guitar playing. Playing the guitar. Keyboards. Wanderlust. I am a member of the band REDJETSON. I love Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, NYC, London, ReykjavÃk, Athens. I also feel inexplicably nostalgic/romantic about lighthouses. I like falling asleep to the sound of rain outside. Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville.
I'd like to meet:
Can it be true? Nobody warned you, nobody told you to make up your mind. Nobody told you that I could just waltz through and shake up your style. I'm inside, like a wrecking ball through your eyes and I change it all from inside...
Music:
Current favourites would include: The Berg Sans Nipple, Efterklang, Blonde Redhead, TV on the Radio, Liars, Sigur Rós, Björk, Interpol, iLiKETRAiNS, Elliott Smith, Youthmovies, Celebration, Iron and Wine, Serge Gainsbourg, Kraftwerk, Bat For Lashes, YYY's, !!!, Electrelane, Æla, The Album Leaf, Bloc Party, Emilie Simon, Low, Death Vessel, Stereolab, Amiina, Múm, The Concretes, Do Make Say Think, Grace Jones, The Organ, Benoît Pioulard, Depeche Mode, Gang of Four, Sonic Youth, Nina Nastasia, Marvin Gaye, Mew, Joy Division, Tired Irie, Shellac, Justin Timberlake, American Analog Set, early Aerosmith, dEUS, Hall and Oates, The Strokes, Explosions in the Sky, The Great Eskimo Hoax, Asobi Seksu, Miles Davis, Regina Spektor, John Coltrane, Radiohead, Cats and Cats and Cats, The Knife, ...Trail of Dead, Jeniferever, Arab Strap, Nina Simone, Lift To Experience, Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Slint, Woe, Wolf Parade, Hood, The Rapture, Apparat Organ Quartet, Ships A Going Down, Frank Sinatra, The Arcade Fire, Les Savy Fav, Fugazi, Benni Hemm Hemm...
Movies:
De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté. Anything by Ken Loach (especially Land And Freedom, My Name Is Joe, The Wind That Shakes The Barley). Les 400 Coups. Russian Ark. M. "Three Colours" Trilogy. La Double vie de Véronique. Das Leben Der Anderen. Dancer in the Dark. Wong Kar-Wai (In The Mood For Love, 2046). La Haine. Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. Before Sunrise/Sunset. Waking Life. Best in Show. The Dreamers. Cléo de 5 à 7. So I Married An Axe Murderer. The Maltese Falcon. Life is Beautiful. Todo Sobre Mi Madre. Les Poupées Russes. Lucas Belvaux's Trilogy. Jean-Luc Godard (especially Weekend, Le Mépris, À Bout de Souffle, Bande à Part). Casablanca. Ghostbusters. The Science of Sleep. Frantic. Belleville Rendez-vous. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. Lola Rennt. Mignight Cowboy. All The President's Men. Amelie. The Edukators. David Lynch (especially Blue Velvet, Lost Highway). Stanley Kubrick (especially The Shining, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange). Woody Allen (especially Annie Hall, Play It Again Sam). Good Bye Lenin!. The Squid and the Whale. Young Adam. Lost in Translation. Breakfast At Tiffany's. North by Northwest. Elefant. Nosferatu. The Third Man. Me and You and Everyone We Know. Anything with Bill Murray in it!....
Books:
George Orwell. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Franz Kafka. Anna Funder. Laurie Lee. Alexander Trocchi. Aldous Huxley. Anthony Burgess. Jean-Paul Sartre. Harper Lee. Jack Kerouac. Albert Camus. Henry Miller. Anaïs Nin. Mikhail Bulgakov. Truman Capote...
Heroes:
Lots of Musicians (especially Kjartan Sveinsson, each member of TVOTR, Alan Sparhawk, Guy Picciotto, Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill, Bob Weston, Jerome and Shane = The BSN), the writers and film-makers listed above, Romain Duris, Tony Benn, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Clement Freud, Andreas Gursky, Robert Doisneau, Peter Saville, Walter Gropius, Ronnie Barker, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames...