Music, Photography, High-Tech
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Stephan Grappelli, Oscar Peterson, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Scnittke, Mahler, Brahms
Ostrov, The Barber of Siberia, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The God Father and lots of Soviet Movies
Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), The Agony and the Ecstasy, Lust for Life (Irving Stone), Sacred and Profane (David Weiss), Chapaev i Pustota, Jizn' Nasekomyh (Pelevin)
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.