Classical Sculpture, French Cinema, Classical Music, Philosophy, Marxism, Socialism, Class Warfare, Wine, Basil, Activism, Rambling, Walking, Italian Opera, Cooking without a recipe, Absurdist writing, non-fiction radio programs

Yann Tiersen, Rufus Wainwright, Paris Combo, Pink Martini, Vanessa-Mae, Guiseppe Verdi, Sylvia Vartran, Django Reinhardt, Nick Drake, songs I make up and sings out loud

Raise the Red Lantern, The Bird Cage, Run Lola Run, Desperate Living, The Taste of Cherries, Aladdin

Stargate: Atlantis, Reno 911!, Battlestar Galactica, Mi-5 (Spooks)

The Odyssey, The Complete Poems of Cavafy, Lamb, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The Gospel of Mark, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~Diderot

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ~Voltaire

You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different. ~Magneto