RANDOM FAVOURITES
Food:   Italian, Japanese
Drinks:   Diet Coke, Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Colours:   Gold, black, turquoise
TV Channels:   A&E, Comedy Network, Spike TV
Fruits:   Kiwi, strawberry, melon
Vegetables:   Corn, potatoes, brussel sprouts
Words:   Subconscious, decadence, mercurial
Cities:   Edinburgh, Nice, New York, Quebec
Stores:   Indigo, H&M, Kensington Market
Numbers:   2, 8, 28, 23

MY FAVOURITE MOVIES
Comedy:   Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dr. Strangelove, Dogma, City Lights, Anchorman, Election
Horror/Thriller:   Scarface, The Shining, Blue Velvet, Kiss Me Deadly, Casino Royale
Drama:   The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Full Metal Jacket, Goodfellas, Serpico, Raging Bull, Midnight Express, A Clockwork Orange, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ghost World, About Schmidt, Donnie Brasco, American History X, Dog Day Afternoon, The Devil's Advocate, ...And Justice For All, Carlito's Way
Foreign:   Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto, Seven Beauties, The Last Laugh, The Bicycle Thief, Run Lola Run
Science Fiction:   2001: A Space Odyssey
Animation:   Waking Life
Documentaries:   Baraka

MY FAVOURITE FILM PEOPLE
Actors:   Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Giancarlo Giannini, Robert de Niro, Richard Burton, Joe Pesci, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush
Actresses:   Elizabeth Taylor, Isabella Rossellini
Directors:   Stanley Kubrick, Lina Wertmuller, Martin Scorcesse,

MY FAVOURITE WRITERS
Fiction:  Mary Shelley, D.H. Lawrence, Carson McCullers, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Elizabeth Bowen, Zadie Smith
Non-fiction:   Camille Paglia, Maya Angelou, Marjani Satrapi
Crime:  James Ellroy
Poetry:   Anne Sexton, John Donne, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Karen Eyo, Sharon Olds, William Blake
Plays:   William Shakespeare

MY FAVOURITE MUSIC
Alternative:   Bjork, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Garbage, Hole, Nico
Pop/Rock:   Madonna, The Beatles, John Lennon
Electronica:   Goldfrapp, M.I.A., Portishead
Trance:   Tiesto
Opera:   Maria Callas, Puccini, Mozart, Bellini, Bizet
Classical:   Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky
Gothic/Industrial:   Dead Can Dance, Rasputina, Delerium, Bauhaus
Punk:   The Distillers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

MY FAVOURITE TV SHOWS
Non-guilty pleasures:   The Simpsons, South Park, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Cold Case Files, American Justice, Da Ali G. Show, 24, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Inside the Actor's Studio, Miami Ink, Biography
Guilty pleasures:   America's Next Top Model, Canada's Next Top Model, Maury, Dr. Phil, Montel

MY FAVOURITE ARTISTS
Gothic:   Duccio
Renaissance:   Michelangelo, El Greco, Leonardo, Messina, Van Eyck,
Classicist:   Ingres, Jacques-Louis David
Baroque:   Caravaggio
Impressionist:   Delacroix, Monet, Manet, Degas
Pre-Raphaelite:   Rossetti, J.W. Waterhouse, Millais
Modern:   Frida Kahlo, Munch, Modigliani, Dali, Matisse, Tamara de Lempicka, Klimt, Picasso
Sculptors:   Michelangelo, Bernini, Donatello, Canova