whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not
beniouff@hotmail.com

sport (tennis, football, ultimate frisbee,...), music, cinema, photography, all kinds of art, sleeping, pink elephants, old vinyles, meditation about life, friends, subdued cafés, reading, taking my time, daydreaming, observing people, talking with them (i actually appreciate talking to my fridge too), water-lilies, yellow submarines and velvet undergrounds, discovering new cultures and the beauties of this diamond-like planet, philosophy, coffee, uncertainty, marcel duchamp, positive nihilism (a new concept), lighthouses, big cities, absurdity, windmills, disorderliness, hats, sunflowers, second states, paris and britney, zao wou-ki, minimalism and abstract expressionism, jukeboxes, dreamcatchers, good things, bad things, life.

renaud, brel, brassens, gainsbourg, aubert, souchon, bertignac, 113, an pierle, bjork, daniel helin, deus, girls in hawaii, jimi hendrix, m, mano solo, ozark henry, saian supa crew, sioen, sophia, tété, the pixies, tiken jah fakoli, yann tiersen, zita swoon, keith jarret, neil young, led zeppelin, ac dc, sublime, the strokes, the white stripes, malibu stacy, air, jamiroquai, ben harper, franz ferdinand, arctic monkeys, faithless, arcade fire, antony and the johnsons, admiral freebee, sigur ros, ayo, ai phenix, beck, jeff buckley, bob dylan, calexico, devendra banhart, eric clapton, nadasurf, nina simone, olivia ruiz, tom waits, the guillemots, the decemberists, noir désir, dick annegarn, al di meola, paco de lucia, massive attack, radiohead, cesaria evora, goran bregovic, buena vista social club, damien rice, thomas fersen, nick cave, souad massi, anouar brahem, jack johnson, julien doré, christian kjellvänder, dobacaracol, jehro, john buttler trio, nouvelle vague, eagle eye cherry, panic! at the disco, tegan et sara, pj harvey, manu chao et sa mano negra, matt costa, xavier rudd, vaya con dios, dire straits, blondie, adam green, donavon frankenreiter, metallica, jason mraz, jesper steverlinck,...

arizona dream, big fish, the pianist, a history of violence, domino harvey, blow, matchpoint, 21 grams, jeux d'enfants, la vita e bella, monster, amores perros, coffee and cigarettes, carnets de voyage, paris je t'aime, the 25th hour, trainspotting, scoop, the big lebowski, snatch, de battre mon coeur s'est arrete, les invasions barbares, mar adentro, respiro, central do brazil, man bites dog, lost in translation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, la cidade de deus, requiem for a dream, dancer in the dark, fight club, the jacket, babel, la haine, dans paris, exils, je vais bien ne t'en fais pas, reservoir dogs, 4 months,3 weeks,2 days, un jour sur terre, hable con ella, roméo et juliette, my blueberry nights, broken flowers, roman de gare, les sentiers de la perdition, kill bill I, romanzo criminale, l'auberge espagnole, le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain, der untergang, le pressentiment, little miss sunshine, pollock, i'm not there, pulp fiction, a night on earth, into the wild, lucia y el sexo, malena, paris, in bruges, old boy, transylvania, two days in paris,...

"tv screeeen makes you feeeeel smaaaaaall, not alive at all" right Mr Bregovic, tv sucks;-)

"what doesn't destroy me, makes me stronger" Friedrich Nietzsche
"BE the change you wanna see appear"
"depuis six mille ans la guerre
plaît aux peuples querelleurs,
et Dieu perd son temps à faire
les étoiles et les fleurs." Victor Hugo
"je crains l' homme qui ne connait qu'un seul livre et qui ne jure que par lui"
"insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule" Friedrich Nietzsche
"les gens laisseraient tomber 5 cents à terre sans les ramasser mais quand c'est un mandiant qui les leur demande, ils boudent" Joseph Bondo
"life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death" Miguel De Unamuno y Jugo
"one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star" Friedrich Nietzsche
"what we think, the way we feel, is what separates illusion from the truth we conceal" dreamers
"si la haine répond à la haine, comment la haine finira-t-elle?" Bouddha
"celui qui n'est pas occupé a naitre est occupé a mourrir" Bob Dylan
"le bonheur n'est pas au bout du chemin. c'est le chemin" Chris McCandless
"drink russian, smoke jamaican, kiss french, wear italian, dream american, eat mexican...be belgian"
"life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. most fail. some work. you do more of what works. if it works big, others quickly copy it. then you do something else. the trick is doing something else." Leonardo da Vinci
"the more I study science, the more I believe in God." Albert Einstein
"il n'y a pas de petits rôles, seulement de grands acteurs" francis huster. mouhahaha j'taime bien francis

et celles que j'aime pas:

"la majorité a toujours raison"
"les bons comptes font les bons amis"
"qui se ressemblent s'assemblent"
"le travail finit toujours par payer" parce que c'est pas vrai...