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My favourites change constantly but in terms of readings, some of my favourite books are: Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"; "Sin", a collection of Forough Farrokhzad 's poems; Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5", Boris Vian's "There is no Way with Women", Leon Tolstoi's "Anna Karenina", etc...other authors I like are: Susan Sontag, Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Edgar Allan Poe... In terms of cinema some of my favourite films are: Abbas Kiarostami´s "Close Up", Samira Makhmalbaf's "The Apple" and Hal Hartley's "An Unbelievable Truth". I love Hal Hartley's films, also: Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Médem, Michael Haneke,Paul Thomas Anderson, Todd Solonz, all X-MEN films .... Can't live without music: electronic, punk, rock, classical... a few of my favourite songs are: Marc Bolan's "Cosmic Dancer", David Bowie's "Sight and Sound", FrançoiseCouperine's "Le Dodo ou l´amour au Berceau", Vangelis´ "L' enfant", Roedelius' "Ho Renomo", Lena PLatonos´"Ki Akoume s´agapo", and I could go on forever....