Favourite Novels
Georges Perec: Life. A User's Manual
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
Don DeLillo: Underworld
Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
James Joyce: Ulysses
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
Roberto Calasso: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia
Olivier Rolin: L'Invention du Monde
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
John Fante: Ask the Dust
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
Joseph Heller: Catch 22
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Roberto Bolaño: 2666
Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives
J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Favourite Dance Performances
William Forsythe: Eidos:Telos
William Forsythe: Enemy in the Figure
William Forsythe: Quintett
Pina Bausch: The Rite of Spring
Pina Bausch: Café Müller
Jérôme Bel: Véronique Doisneau
William Forsythe: In the Middle Somewhat Elevated
Jiri Kylian: Wings of Wax
Sasha Waltz: NoBody
Ohad Naharin: Three
William Forsythe: Artifact
Merce Cunningham: Biped
Pina Bausch: 1980
George Balanchine: Agon
George Balanchine: Violin Concerto
Yvonne Rainer: Trio A
Favourite Theatre Performances
Forced Entertainment: Bloody Mess
Luk Perceval: Ten Oorlog/Schlachten!
Elevator Repair Service: Gatz
Frank Castorf: Endstation Amerika
Einar Schleef: Salomé
Robert Wilson: The Black Rider
Frank Castorf: Forever Young
Thomas Ostermeier: Hamlet
Guy Cassiers: Proust
Favourite Films
Fallen Angels
Mulholland Drive
Natural Born Killers
Oldboy
Three Times
Caché
Requiem for a Dream
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
2046
Koyaanisqatsi
Pan's Labyrinth
Goodfellas
Psycho
8.5
Seven Samurai
Manhattan
Dr. Strangelove
Blade Runner
Traffic
Chungking Express
Festen
Lost in Translation
American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
Gegen die Wand
Infernal Affairs
Dekalog
Magnolia
The Shawshank Redemption
Waltz with Bashir
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Annie Hall
Taxi Driver
Favourite Animated Shorts
Father and Daughter (dir. Michael Dudok de Wit)
Manipulation (dir. Daniel Greaves)
Dog (dir. Suzie Templeton)
The Silence Beneath the Bark (dir. Joanna Lurie)
Madame Tutli-Putli (dir. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szcerbowski)
Street of Crocodiles (dir. The Quay Brothers)
The Lost Thing (dir. Shaun Tan)
De Karakters (dir. Evert de Beijer)
Ryan (dir. Chris Landreth)
Geri's Game (dir. Jan Pinkava)
Dimensions of Dialogue (dir. Jan Svankmajer)
Muto (dir. Blu)
The Sandman (dir. Paul Berry)
The Village (dir. Mark Baker)
Favourite Albums
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Burial: Untrue
Tool: Lateralus
Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Radiohead: Amnesiac
Underworld: Second Toughest in the Infants
2046 Soundtrack
Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Depeche Mode: The Singles 86 – 98
U2: Achtung Baby
PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Tricky: Maxinquaye
Clint Mansell: Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack
The Dust Brothers: Fight Club Soundtrack
Burial: Burial
LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
REM: Green
REM: Automatic for the People
Thom Yorke: The Eraser
Breakbeat Era: Ultra Obscene
Lou Reed & John Cale: Songs for Drella
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Abattoir blues/The lyre of Orpheus
Favourite Classical Albums
J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Gérard Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques
Gérard Grisey: Le Temps et l'Écume, Les Chants de l'Amour
Claude Vivier: Orion, Siddhartha, Cinq chansons pour percussion
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin & Piano
J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Anton Webern: Complete String Trios & Quartets
J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
John Cage: Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano
Favourite songs
Manic Street Preachers: Motorcycle Emptiness
R.E.M.: Try Not to Breathe
Lou Reed: Perfect Day
The Stone Roses: Fools Gold
Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy
Ride: Chrome Waves
The Stranglers: Golden Brown
Joy Division: New Dawn Fades
Shigeru Umebayashi: Yumeji's Theme
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Theme de Yoyo
The Police: Message in a Bottle
The Police: Spirits in a Material World
R.E.M.: Drive
Four Tet: And They All Look Broken Hearted
The White Stripes: Jolene
Dead or Alive: You Spin Me Round
Chaka Khan: Ain't Nobody
The Bee Gees: Staying Alive
Metallica: The Unforgiven
Johnny Cash: Hurt
Ry Cooder: Paris Texas
David Sylvian: When Poets Dreamed Of Angels
Jimi Hendrix: All Along The Watchtower
Tears for Fears: Mad World
Nirvana: Lithium
Thievery Corporation: Shadows of Ourselves