Орден Термоса и Таро (магистр-основатель), телепередача "Выпил и Поехал" (концептуальный подбор автомобилей), футбольный клуб "Дрезден Сити" (пресс-секретарь), футбольный клуб "Ноттингем Хворост"/"Мачингем Форест" (дворник-газонокосильщик), магазин-салон велозапчастей "Норильский нипель" (дворник), птицефабрика "Окорочка и крылья Советов" (дворник-программист)
Языки (шведский, норвежский, датский, голландский), происхождение вселенной
Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Crosby Stills & Nash, Neil Young, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Hollies, The Byrds, The Mamas and The Papas, Jesus Christ Superstar, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Fisher King, The Big Lebowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Adventures of Picasso, Мимино, Золотой Телёнок, Jönssonligan/Olsenbanden
The Jeeves and Wooster series, Astrid Lindgren, Life on the Mississippi (M. Twain), The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Merchant of Venice, The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien), История одного города
Monty Python's Flying Circus, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Oz And James Drink To Britain
Why do people have hobbies? They're working their guts out doing something they don't really like to do, but they just happen to have caught a job and do it, and at night they go home and on the weekends they have a hobby. They are working to get those few hours to spend on their hobby, when that's the area they should really be working in...
(Keith Richards, 1992)
It's life's illusions I recall,
I really don't know life at all.
(Joni Mitchell, 'Both Sides Now')
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
(Woody Allen)
Art is a lie that leads us closer to the truth.
(Pablo Picasso)
Some see Nature all Ridicule and Deformity... and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
(William Blake)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
(Douglas Adams)
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
(Salvador Dali)
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
(Jerome K. Jerome)
If it can be shown that something that could have gone wrong did not go wrong, then subsequent events will prove that everything would ultimately have turned out better if that thing had gone wrong.
When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
(From Murphy's Laws)