Working on a PhD in literature and theatre studies, elevating Sunday afternoon naps to works of art, travelling (this summer, for instance, I went to Portugal and made a roadtrip from New Orleans to Miami), eating swordfish as often as possible, smuggling wombats (keep this between you and me).

cooking chicken stew with Oude Geuze (a traditional, Brussels sour beer), going to theatre premières, playing board games.

Jorge Luís Borges, Hafid Bouazza, Derrida's 'Éperons', Greek tragedies (most of all 'Ajax', 'Bakchai' and 'Philoctetes') 'Kaddish for an Unborn Child' by Imre Kertész, Walter Moers, Heiner Müller, Nescio, the newspaper, Nietzsche, Gerard Reve, Seneca's 'Phaedra', Vergilius, Peter Verhelst.

Amores Perros, most movies of the Coen brothers, Darkwing Duck ("Lets get dangerous"), Family Guy, Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Edipo Re', the documentaries of Louis Theroux. More recently, I really enjoyed Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom'.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Deus, 'Canto Ostinato' by Simeon ten Holt, Joy Division, Nick Drake, Pixies, The Velvet Underground, 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' by Schubert, the opening whistle tune of Disney's Robin Hood. In corny moods I tend to sing along with Laura Pausini and Françoise Hardy.

becoming a Caucasian brown bear (ursus arctos meridionalis). So far, I never found the time.

I have two pairs of pyjamas. One with an anteater on it, and one with a turkey.