My wife Katya (left) and myself (right)

Good Music is:

• Canterberry (Caravan, Camel)
  
• Progressive (Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Mike Oldfield, Gong, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Jade Warrior)
  
• Penetrating (Frank Zappa)
  
• Sentimental (Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Nina Hagen)
  
• Nostalgic (Slade, Nazareth, 10cc, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Beatles)
  
• Driving (Creedence, La Bionda, Talking Heads)
  
• Dinner (Pink Floyd, Enya)
  

Good Books are:

• by Romain Rolland ("Colas Breugnon")
  
• by Herman Hesse ("Steppenwolf")
  
• by John Fowles ("Collector", "Magus")
  
• by John Steinbeck ("Tortilla Flats")
  
• by brothers Strugatski (the cream of Soviet Sci-Fi)
  
• by Albert Heinlein ("Friday", "Stranger in the Strange Land")
  
• by Robert Sheckly ("Mind Swap")
  
• by Philip Dick ("Ubik")
  
• by Stanislaw Lem ("Solaris", "Pirx the Pilot", "Star Notes...")
  
• ... no way I can list them all
  

A good place to be is Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia:

• On the way to the Ob-sea
• Katya and me: just about to eat something
• Whatever it was, it's eaten
• Oksana with Glasha-the-kitten
• M.D. Gosha (a.k.a. China George, left) and M.S. Andrei (right)