Music, film, literature, wine & food, travel, cooking, empty beaches, storms...

That Thin Wild Mercury Sound: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Annette Peacock, T-Bone Burnett, Sam Phillips, Graham Parker, Brian Eno, King Crimson, Tim Buckley, The Feelies, Tom Verlaine, Television, The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, The Saints, Nick Cave, Van Morrison, Warren Zevon, The Band, Chuck Prophet, Green on Red, J. Karjalainen, Robert Wyatt, Pixies, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Sam and Dave, Al Green, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Kayah, Kino, Robyn Hitchcock, Kate Bush, Kevin Ayers, Mark Lanegan, Flamin' Groovies, Neu, XTC, Roxy Music (first 4 albums), Ron Sexsmith, Patti Smith...

Shock Corridor, Masculin Feminin, Trust, The Unbelievable Truth, Written on the Wind, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Touch of Evil, Detour, Kiss Me Deadly, The Match Factory Girl (Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö), Juha, Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat), Diary of a Country Priest, Gertrud, Ordet, Tokyo Monogatari, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Naked Kiss, Stranger than Paradise, Miller's Crossing, O Melissokosmos, Mia Eoniotita Ke Mia Mera, Topo Stin Omichli, L'Argent...

Master and Margarita, Madame Bovary, The Sirens of Titan, The Shock of the New, Tropic of Cancer, Ways of Seeing, The Lion Witch & the Wardrobe, (Barthes') Mythologies, Chekhov short stories, John Cheever short stories, Raymond Carver, Mysteries & Hunger (Knut Hamsun), Karel Capek...

Super Chicken...

Supercalafragilisticexpealadocious, even though the sound of it is really quite atrocious...