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Love:unconventional music, language, eating out, Ghent, dancing (home and away), sonnets, ism's, herbs, France, spring, complicated clouds, live music on the radio, café glacé, driving my car at night singing with the radio loud, Klimt, churches when I'm very sad, brilliant interviewers like Dave Peeters, Qwerty-keyboards, Jersey City, anti-heroes, my grandmother's pies, brunching, Flemish bread, cranberry-orange muffins, black n white pictures, Westmalle Dubbel, sharing things, the duality of life, cyclism, Croatian men though I've never met one, Jakub's e-mails with attached illustrations of every day life in Bratislava, the sound of a train arriving at its station.
Dislike: clichés, Sex and the City, mosquito bites, big crowds, astrology, provincialism, people who fail seeing things in their own context, my working hands, men who smell of soap.
People who don't talk over me, but to me.
Who I don't want to meet:
Desperate men, looking for a Belgian visa.
Really. Don't bother.
ELBOW Asleep in the back (2002) Cast of thousands (2003)
Leaders of the free world (2005)
COCO ROSIE La maison de mon Rêve (2004) Noah's Ark (2005) The Adventures Of Ghost Horse And Stillborn (2007)
HAUSCHKA The prepared piano
HANNE HUKKELBERG Little things (2005) Rykestrasse 68 (2006)
JUANA MOLINA Son (2006)
ISOBELL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN Ballad of the broken seas (2005)
KINGS OF CONVENIENCE Riot on an empty street (2004)
EMILIANA TORRINI Fisherman's woman (2005)
JOANNA NEWSOM The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004) Ys (2006)
THOMAS DYBDAHL One day you'll dance for me, New York City (2006)
MOLOKO Statues (2003)
AN PIERLÉ mud stories
OZARK HENRY The sailor not the sea
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
LAMB
NORAH JONES
COUNTING CROWS
RICHARD ASHCROFT
CRANBERRIES
JOSH ROUSE
M. WARD
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
LAMBCHOP
CAT POWER
SOLO ANDATA
GETZ & GILBERTO
LOST IN TRANSLATION.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF.
MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD.
LA DOLCE VITA.
AMERICAN BEAUTY.
LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMELIE POULIN.
THE HUMAN STAIN.
DOGVILLE.
SOME LIKE IT HOT.
LA MEGLIO GIOVENTU.
THE FIVE SENSES.
SOMERSAULT.
MONTY PYTHON.
WEST SIDE STORY.
THORN BIRDS.
KULDERZIPKEN. Youth sentiment. Absurd humor for young souls.
COUPLING.
THE IT CROWD.
COLD FEET. British quality.
THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN.
WILLY'S EN MARJETTEN
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I just love essays, letters, diaries, poetry, 200-year old novels and travel stories. I read non-fiction books for fun, which makes my friends sure I'm crazy.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Extremely loud and incredibly close
ERNST GOMBRICH A little history of the world
GEERT MAK In Europa
MULTATULI Max Havelaar
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Democracy in America
STEFAN HERTMANS steden
TOON TELLEGEN Brieven aan Doornroosje
ALAIN DE BOTTON The consolation of philosophy; On love
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR A transatlantic love affair
Multatuli
Cordelia