Visual arts, video games, music, literature, cinema (when I got time), err... writing, eating and sleeping, discovering lots of things!
The only boy who could ever teach me was the son of a preacher man...
!!!; 2Unlimited; Adam Kesher; Afrika Bambaataa; Air; Al Green; Aphex Twin; Arcade Fire; Arctic Monkeys; Aretha Franklin; A Tribe Called Quest; At The Drive-In; Basement Jaxx; Bauhaus; Beastie Boys; Beck; Bee Gees; Big Daddy Kane; Billie Holiday; Blackalicious; Blondie; Blur; Bob Dylan; Bobby Womack; Brian Eno; Broadcast; Burgalat; Bustafunk; Busta Rhymes; Buzzcocks; Cameo; Can; Capleton; Captain Beefheart; Cassidy; Cassius; Cat Power; Charles Wright; Chico & Buddy; Chromeo; Clinic; Common; Cornershop; Curtis Blow; Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions; Cut Copy; Cypress Hill; Daft Punk; Damizza; David Bowie; Death In Vegas; De La Soul; Depeche Mode; Desmond Dekkers; Dinah Washington; Dinosaur Jr.; DJ Mehdi; DJ Shadow; Donna Summer; Dr. DRE; Duke Ellington; Duran Duran; Eagles Of Death Metal; Editors; Electric Light Orchestra; Ella Fitzgerald; Elvis Presley; Ennio Morricone; ESG; Etta James; Fairuz; Fire Escape; Flaming Lips; Frank Sinatra; Frank Zappa; Franz Ferdinand; Fred Neil; Gang Of Four; George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic; Gorillaz; Grandmaster Flash; Happy Mondays; Harmonia; Herman Dune; Hot Chip; House Of Pain; Ice Cube; Inner City; J Dilla; Jacqueline Taieb; Jacques Dutronc; Janis Joplin; Jarvis Cocker; Jay Reatard; Jesus and Mary Chain; Jimi Hendrix; Joakim; John Cale; John Lee Hooker; Johnny Cash; Joy Division; Juelz Santana; Junior Senior; Justice; Kid Frost; Kaiser Chiefs; Kasabian; Karen Dalton; KC & the Sunshine Band; Keziah Jones; Klaxons; Kool and the Gang; Kraftwerk; KRS One; Lambchop; LCD Soundsystem; Leadbelly; Leonard Cohen; Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner; Le Tigre; Linton Kwesi Johnson; Louis Armstrong; Love; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Madlib; Mantronix; Martha and the Vandellas; Matthew Herbert; MC5; Mel Carter; Method Man; MF Doom; Miles Davis; Moby; Mohamed Abdelwahab; Morrissey; Nancy Sinatra; Nat King Cole; Neil Young; Neu!; New Order; Nico; Nina Simone; Nine Inch Nails; Oasis; Os Mutantes; Otis Redding; Pavement; Peaches; Peter, Bjorn and John; Peter Tosh; Phoenix; Primal Scream; Prince; Prodigy; Public Enemy; Pulp; Queens Of The Stone Age; Radiohead; Rick James; Robert Wyatt; Roy Ayers; Roy Orbison; Roxy Music; Run DMC; Sam Cooke; Sebastien Tellier; Serge Gainsbourg; Sex Pistols; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Sly and the Family Stone; Smokey Robinson; Snap!; Snoop Dogg; Soapkills; Social Distortion; Sonic Youth; Soulwax; Sparklehorse; Stevie Wonder; les Stinky Toys; Sugar Hill Gang; Supergrass; T.Rex; Talking Heads; the Animals; the Beatles; the Brian Jonestown Massacre; the Chemical Brothers; the Clash; the Congos; the Cramps; the Creation; the Cure; the Dazz Band; the Diplomats; the Doors; the Fall; the Feelies; the Foo Fighters; the Four Tops; the Gap Band; the Go-Betweens; the Gossip; the Hives; the Kinks; the La's; the Last Poets; the Litter; the Libertines; the Marvelettes; the Meters; the Pixies; the Pretenders; the Raconteurs; the Rakes; the Ramones; the Raveonettes; the Residents; the Robocop Kraus; the Rolling Stones; the Roots; the Shadows; the Smiths; the Specials; the Stone Roses; the Stooges; the Stranglers; the Streets; the Strokes; the Supremes (& Diana Ross); the Temptations; the Velvet Underground; the Walkmen; the Who; the Wiseguys; the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; the Zombies; Thieves Like Us; Tiga; Timbaland; Tom Waits; Toots and the Maytals; Turzi; Uffie; Violent Femmes; Wolfmother; les Wampas; WhoMadeWho; Wu-Tang Clan; Zapp&Rogers... That's all I guess...
Alfred Hitchcocks, Stanley Kubricks, Michel Gondrys, John Waters, Russ Meyers, Fritz Langs, Lucio Fulcis, Dario Argentos, err... Nicholas Ray's "Rebel Without a Cause", David Lynchs, David Lachapelle's "Rize", John Carpenters, Sam Peckinpahs, Wes Cravens, Tobe Hoopers, Brian de Palmas, George Romeros, Farid Boughedirs, William Friedkins, Walter Hill's "The Warriors", Blaxploitation movies, then I don't remember.
Matt Groening's productions, Hanna&Barbera's cartoons, video games like all the GTAs, the Tekkens and Beaterator! Wrestling matches, TV show "Takeshi's castle", some of Arte programs.
Salman Rushdies, Ivo Andrics, Albert Camus, Thierry Jonquets, Tolstois, Abdelwahab Meddebs, Boris Vians, Sartres, Amin Maaloufs, Salvador Dalis, Malek Chebels, Gogols, Ionescos, Choderlos de Laclos, Prousts, Ambrose Bierces, Khalil Gibrans, Kunderas, Freuds, Naomi Klein ("No logo"), Arundhati Roys, Sandor Marais, Asimovs, Stendhals, "Les mille et une nuits", chronicles from Lester Bangs, Colettes, David Mitchells, James Ellroys, Moussa Lebkiris, Henri Millers, Anthony Burgesses, Robert Blochs, V.S. Naipauls, Stephen Kings, Sades, Blaise Cendrars, Thomas Pynchons, Frantz Fanons, (and newspapers of course). Art books. Comics: two majors of my childhood, Quino (Mafalda) and Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes). Robert Crumbs, Batman's comic books. The one that always make me laugh even when he's not funny is the cartoonist from Bordeaux "Urbs"!
RICK ASTLEY