art, music, movies, going to concerts, reading, surfing on the internet, travelling, having interesting/silly conversations, doing nothing, inner travels and DREAMING!
Music:
I'm very bad at classyfying music as I think many bands belong to different styles at the same time. And also, I like a lot of different genres so making a list like this is very long and frustrating cause I know I will forget to mention many bands I love.
All time favorites :
The Cure, The Human League, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode
New Wave, post-punk and 80's stuff in random order :
The Human League
Depeche Mode
Durutti Column
The Chameleons
Section 25
Japan
Clan of Xymox (the early work)
Fad Gadget
PIL
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Echo and the Bunnymen
Joy Division
The Slits
Tuxedo Moon
Visage
Jesus & Mary Chain
XTC
Trisomie 21
The Cure
Ultravox
Norma Loy
Asylum Party
Little Nemo
Marquis de Sade
Cocteau Twins
This Mortal Coil
Bauhaus
Buzzcocks
The Clash
Cabaret Voltaire
Devo
Christian Death (early stuff)...
Indie Rock, rock, and other stuff :
American Analog Set
Arab Strap
Beck
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bloc Party
Interpol
Sneaker Pimps
Blonde Redhead
Broken Social Scene
Calexico
Cat Power
Curve
Dandy Warhols
She Wants Revenge
Elysian Fields
Trespassers William
Garbage
Mazzy Star
Deerhoof
Autolux
Faunts
Death Cab for Cutie,
Editors
Interpol
Eels
The Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand
Arctic Monkeys
M83
Spokane
Puressence
Gliss
Logh
dEUS
Autour de Lucie
Emilie Simon
Robin Guthrie
Sebastien Schuller
Venus
K's Choice
Lush
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive
Pink Floyd
The Album Leaf
Explosions in the Sky
Ride
Adorable
Placebo
Mew
Mogwai
Pavement
PJ Harvey
Sleater Kinney
Portishead
Nine Inch Nails
NearLY
Foo Fighters
Silverchair
Sigur Ros
Mono
Massive Attack
Smashing Pumpkins
The Radio Dept.
Ride
Asobi Seksu
Red Sparowes
Cut Copy
The Raveonettes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Electronic Music :
IAMX
Robots in Disguise
Peaches
Client
Ladytron
Celluloide
w.i.t.
daft punk
Batcave, death rock, punk cabaret, goth stuff... :
Christian Death (early stuff)
Cinema Strange
Katzenjammer Kabarett
Dresden Dolls
Sleeping Children
Skeletal Family
Coil
London After Midnight
Die Form
Dead Can Dance
Nature and Organisation
Death in June
Current 93
Faith and the Muse
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Artists that are hard to classify :
David Bowie
Nick Cave
Kate Bush
Lisa Germano
Kristin Hersh
Story of my life...
Movies:
I used to go to the movies all the time but it became so expensive that I stopped going there and started renting DVDs instead.
My favorite movie is Lost in Translation. It makes me feel more things than any other movie. I can't really describe.
I also like:
Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette
Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Sailor and Lula...pretty much all the movies made by David Lynch.
Tim Burton movies.
Wong Kar Wai's movies.
Leaving Las vegas
School of Rock
American Beauty
High Fidelity
Ghost World
Little Miss Sunshine
Broken Flowers
Midnight Express
American Psycho
Almost Famous
Match Point
Requiem for a dream
Velvet Goldmine
Mysterious Skin
My Summer of Love
Before Sunset
13 going on 30
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Elephant
Night on Earth
The Never Ending Story
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Clockwork Orange
Eyes Wide Shut
My Neighbour Totoro
Chihiro
Dracula (Coppola)
and so many others whose name I'm too lazy to type for now.
Television:
Six Feet Under...a life-changing experience. I'll never forget.
Books:
When I was a child, my favorite game was to read books outloud. I have always loved reading. As a teenager, I read a lot of French classics. As a student, I started reading English and American Literature. Now, I still enjoy reading but I have less time for it. My reading cravings are more sporadic. I can spend weeks or even months without reading, and suddenly, I open a book and stay in bed all day to read it.
The list of books I love is very long. I love novels, fiction, books with amazing, deep characters. I also like science fiction, comedy, plays, medieval French literature...
Writers I like (random order) :
Paul Auster
Philippe Djian
Neil Gaiman
Bret Easton Ellis
Amelie Nothomb
Alexandre Dumas
Emile Zola
Rousseau
Camille Laurens
Camus
Kafka
Roald Dahl
Flannery O'Connor
Shakespeare
Marguerite Yourcenar
Stefan Zweig
Nick Hornby
Armistead Maupin
Fetjaine
Tolkien
Ray Bradbury
Philip K. Dick
Dan Simmons
Boris Vian
Stendhal
JD Salinger
Dostoïevski
...
I also love comic books and I am totally crazy about graphic novels.
I started reading graphic novels about five years ago. The first one I read was Black Orchid, by Neil Gaiman and Dave Mc Kean. Favorite illustrators :
Dave Mc Kean (Black orchid, Mr Punch, Arkham Asylum...)
David Mack (Kabuki)
Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra, Jimi Hendrix : the legend of the voodoo child; Stray Toasters...)
Kent Williams (Blood, Tell Me Dark...)
Bill Templesmith (30 days of night, Criminal Macabre...)
Yoshitaka Amano (The Sandman...)
Heroes:
A band that trully changed my life. In many ways. They're a big part of me.
