There is a trend at the moment for compiling top ten lists of personal favorites form the decade so I’m going to join in perhaps more for personal fascination reasons then anything else.

I’ll keep popping back every time I create a new list of things I’ve discovered in the last 10 years and add it to this page.

Films that have had an impact on me (in no particular order)

1. The Fountain
2. Mulholland Drive
3. The Happening
4. Children of Men
5. The Wrestler
6. The Darjeeling limited
7. Moon
8. El labarinto del fauno
9. Tonari no Totoro
10. Le Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain

Authors that have had an impact on me over the last decade (in no particular order)

1. Anton Checkhov
2. Hunter S. Thompson
3. Raymond Carver
4. Roland Barthes
5. Christmas Humphries
6. Michael Gira
7. Franz Kafka
8. S.F. Said
9. Mark Sommerset
10. Oliver Jeffers

Places I’ve visited and loved

1. Waiheke Island – New Zealand
2. The Coromandel – New Zealand
3. Stockholm – Sweden
4. KareKare – New Zealand
5. Daybro – Australia
6. Sunshine Coast – Australia
7. The Old Kenmare Road – Ireland
8. Dovedale – England
9. Eymet – France
10. The gap of Dunlow – Ireland