Music:
two Gallants, Toubab Krewe, the Black Keys, frank zappa, sharon jones and the dap kings, ali farka toure, miles davis, amália rodrigues, lenine, bob Dylan, bajka/bonobo, les claypool, james brown, garage a trois, sts9 etc.
Books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), the Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Slaughter-House Five (Kurt Vonnegut), the Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( Robert M. Pirsig), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), Norwegian Wood + the Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami), the Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury), the Stranger (Albert Camus), She's come Undone (Wally Lamb), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Frank O'Hara...