pastimes

with friends, at gym or yoga, reading in a cafe, strolling the beach, painting, sketching, writing, adventure travel, sometimes working late at the office, at a friend's dinner party, entertaining, intimate conversations, listening to music(s), watching a play, movie, exhibit, at a gala or social/charity event, dancing, wine tasting, ubiquity

personality

adventurous/wild/spontaneous, artistic, conservative/clean cut, mellow, picky, easygoing/flexible/open-minded, flirtatious/playful, friendly/kind, high energy, humorous/witty, intellectual, sensitive/nurturing/loving, outgoing, practical, romantic, self confident, serious/responsible, sophisticated/worldly, talkative, unconventional/free-spirited

other

coffee, chocolate, colors, indoor trees, texture, tall vases, warm waters, new places, coffee

authors

gabriel garcia marquez, patrick suskind, vladimir nabakov, milan kundera, adam smith, lewis carroll, james clavell, william shakespeare, james stewart, fyodor dostoyevsky, toni morrison, homer, giovanni boccaccio, dante alighieri, aristphanes... Topping the list: gabriel garcia marquez's 100 Years of Solitude; clavell's Shogun; Zorba the Greek; dante's Inferno; milton's Paradise Lost; womack jones, and roos's The Machine that Changed the World; stewart's Den of Thieves; harold robbins's Jitterbug Perfume; boccaccio's Decameron; croutier's The Palace of Tears; mafouz's Palace Walk; dariel fo's The Tricks of the Trade and Accidental Death of an Anarchist, dostoevsky's The Idiot, hemingway's For whom the Bell Tolls

movies

casablanca, breakfast club, risky business, we're no angels, beetlejuice, edward scissorhands, african queen, forest gump, tootsie, ghandi, braveheart, unforgiven, four weddings and a funeral, love actually, eyes wide shut, star wars, sixteen candles, top gun, city of god, l.a. story, dr. zhivago, lost in translation, nightmare before christmas, when harry met sally, eat drink man woman, kill bill v2, shawshank redemption, Dr. Strangelove, Usual Suspects, the graduate, being john malcovich, resevoir dogs, some like it hot, roman holiday, rush hour (hey, I was in it), little shop of horrors, clerks, shrek,

music(s)

cocteau twins, masive attack, boards of canada, rune "Calabria", royal gigolos "California Dreamin", the youngsters "the Army of 1-0", placebo "Sleeping with Ghosts", troublemakers "ExpressWay", the orb, moby, omd, depeche mode, black science orchestra (bso), kaito, dj koze, ... presidents of the united states of america, offspring, aerosmith, motley crue, ... bad religon, marilyn manson, nofx, ... brooks & dunn, alabama, ....tchaikovsky, mendelson, grieg, ravel, mozart, wagner, rossini, bizet, puccini, verdi, strauss, brahms, ....strunz & farah, ottmar liebert, .... magnetic fields, belle and sebastian, bjork, badly drawn boy, the cardigans, camera obscura, buena vista social club,... Alternative, Blues, Classic Rock n' Roll, Classical, Country, Dance/Electronica, industrial, noise, Hard Rock & Metal, Latin, Modern Rock n' Roll, New Age, Oldies, Opera, Pop/Top 40, Rap/Hip Hop, Reggae, Soul/R&B, World Music/Ethnic, Punk, Instrumental, Acoustic, Indie