music:<br />
the black keys, cake, glenn gould,<br />
thelonious monk, al green, the cars, bill evans, lena horne, miles
davis, shivaree, cat power, r.e.m., cat stevens, george harrison,
badfinger, bob dylan, donovan, prince, david bowie, simon &amp;
garfunkel, eliot smith, edith piaf, john coltrane, ccr, the rolling
stones, pink floyd, queen, nat king cole, chet baker, the dire
straits<br />
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literature/criticism:<br />
robert hass, haruki murakami, stanislav lem, hanif kureishi, stuart
hall, milan kundera, wallace stevens, george orwell, william
faulkner, aldous huxley, immanuel kant, sidonie-gabrielle colette,
v. s. naipaul, philip sidney, derek walcott, marguerite duras,
albert camus, elizabeth bishop, t. s. eliot, franz kafka, james
joyce, joseph conrad, joseph heller, anton chekhov, ursula k.
leguin, jean rhys, martin amis, gustave flaubert, jamaica kincaid,
flannery o'connor, vladimir nabokov, dostoevsky, miguel de
cervantes, john donne, john milton, george herbert, virginia woolf,
don delillo, lady mary wroth, salman rushdie, sylvia plath, william
burroughs, william styron, saul bellow, david foster wallace.<br />
<br />
movies:<br />
breathless, la dolce vita, elevator to the gallows, pandora's box,
guess who's coming to dinner, martin scorsese, waltz with bashir,
wings of desire, la ley del deseo, los abrazos rotos (2009), pedro
almodovar, sidney pollack, bullitt, the steve mcqueen-faye dunaway
version of the thomas crown affair, pandora's box, andrei
tarkovsky, cleo from 5 to 7, the big lebowski, my beautiful
laundrette, pulp fiction, jackie brown, reservoir dogs, harold and
maude, the godfather part ii, the godfather part i, the misfits,
the graduate, the network, chinatown, annie hall, taxi driver, mean
streets, the french connection, the shinning, sweet sweetback's
baadasssss song, last tango in paris, y tu mama tambien, amores
perros, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, blade runner, pierrot
le fou, i am love,<br />
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food: i'm truly omnivorous, though not a big fan of red meat. i
love indian, japanese, thai, vietnamese, latin american...alert me
to something i haven't tried and chances are that i'll like it.
novelty is delicious, or it remains novelty :/