Family and Friends obviously but also Music, Cinema, Literature and Art !!
So many people !! But a lot of them are dead ... Among alive people ? Amélie Nothomb, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Elliott Landy, Kate Winslet, Steven Soderbergh, Sean Connery and many more !!
Eclectism is a weak word ! Let's see...I am going to begin with classicals : The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who but also The Clash, Bruce Springsteen, The Band, Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Simon and Garfunkel, Van Morrison, Elliott Murphy, The Pogues, The Waterboys, Clem Snide, The Kinks, The Byrds, AC/DC (above all for "Back in black" !), Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Cassandra Wilson, Marlena Shaw, Joan Baez, Norah Jones, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Beth Orton, Alanis Morissette, Carly Simon, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Evie Sands, Melanie Safka, Linda Ronstadt, Dusty Springfield, P.P Arnold, Rita Mitsouko, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Polnareff, Air, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Brel, Etienne Daho, David Bowie, Scott Wlaker, Mercury Rev, Mum, Radiohead, Mazzy Star, The Cowboy Junkies, Ben Kweller, The Cranberries, Belle and Sebastian, Herman Dune, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Fontella Bass, Diana Ross, Candi Staton, Motown, Stax, and so on ...
Melanie Safka - Lay Down (Candles in the rain)
Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends (woodstock 1969)
Pulp Fiction, Ocean's eleven and twelve, Singing in the rain, Titanic, Petits meurtres entre amis (Shallow grave), A life less ordinary, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pour le pire et le meilleur (As good as it gets), The war of the Rose, Serial mother, Psycho, Four weddings and a funeral, Sense and sensibility, The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Neverland, Charlie et la chocolaterie, High Fidelity, Presque célèbre, Butch Cassidy and the Kid, Hôtel du Nord, L'auberge rouge, La traversée de Paris, Les Tontons flingueurs, Flic ou voyou, Lethal weapon 1,2,3, La folie des grandeurs, and so on ...
Singin' in the rain
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Les Tontons flingueurs
Friends (now, tomorrow and forever...), Sex and the city, The X-files, Moonlighting (which shows that Bruce Willis is a great actor !), ER, CSI, Desperate Housewives.
Amélie Nothomb (Stupeur et tremblements, Mercure), Jane Austen (Orgueil et Préjugés, Raison et Sentiments), Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre), Guy de Maupassant (Bel-Ami, Une vie, Le Horla), Emile Zola (La Curée, l'Oeuvre, Thérèse Raquin, Le Rêve), George Orwell (1984), Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame aux camélias), Antoine de Saint Exupéry (Le Petit Prince), Helen Fielding, JK Rowling, Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde (Le Portrait de Dorian Gray), Boris Vian (L'arrache-coeur), Raymond Queneau (Zazie dans le métro), and so on...