The Raymaker List

Here, a list of things that have brought me joy, made me think, caused my heart to race or my pulse to rush, touched me, moved me. Here, a list of things I like…

Ludivico Einaudi’s ‘I Giorni’

Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’

Nick Brandt’s amazing photography

Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Daydreaming’  feat. Jill Scott

Sesame Street – Kid addiction!

The Muppet show - Adult addiction!

Eric Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 1

Bette Midler’s ‘Experience the Divine’

Brazillian Dos Santos High blend from The Algerian Coffee Shop

Nina Simone’s ‘Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Diet Coke as a hangover cure

August Wilson’s Century Cycle

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Fourth Movement ‘Allegro’

Anything with Djimon Hounsou

The happenings of Portuguese artist João Onofre

The Knife ‘Heartbeats’

Mark Twain‘s wit!

David Rudder’s ‘High Mas’

Amuse Bouche’s Champagne Mojito

Aestheticism and Homoeroticism in ‘A Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’

The soundtrack to ‘Elite Squad’

Michael Gambon in Rupert Goold’s production of ‘No Man’s Land’

Elliot Erwitt’s photography

Art that I actually would wear

Twitter – a tremendous way to waste small bits of time

The splendid sounds of Sigur Rós

Puccini Bomboni - chocolate heaven in Amsterdam

Stephen Fry’s brain and funny bone

Body percussion by Barbatuques