music, dancing, reading, writing, film, literature, dance journalism, music journalism, demonstrating kneespins, kenny loggins on ice, spooks, cutie creatures that like to eat treats, dystopian tales, tumbledogs.
The leader of the monocles.
Terry Hall circa 1979-1981. Or perhaps Terry Hall circa 1982-1983, complete with his pineapple hair. That would be okay too.
manic street preachers, british sea power, knifehandchop, jens lekman, stereo total, giorgio moroder, francoise hardy, air, pulp, belle and sebastian, love is all, broadcast, grauzone, serge gainsbourg, the specials, madness, echo and the bunnymen, donovan, electric light orchestra, the zombies, jahcoozi, rex the dog, ladytron, modeselektor, the knife, ttc, radioclit, stacs of stamina, belladonnakillz, the decemberists, claudine longet, dexy's midnight runners, bis, the jam, cut copy, adam and the ants, efterklang, dizzee rascal, neutral milk hotel, the dandy warhols, les georges leningrad, data panik, lee hazlewood, the chalets, wire, hot chip, gang of four, chad and jeremy, ellen allien, apparat, polysics, les savy fav, the pixies, tv on the radio, lily allen, lo-fi-fnk, surkin, DAT politics, deerhoof, justice, para one, Tepr, vitalic, [T]ÉKËL, suburban kids with biblical names, and a bunch of other stuff that no one seems to really like.
Xanadu, Better Off Dead, Rushmore, The Baxter, Citizen Kane, Amelie, Bottle Rocket, My Neighbor Totoro, The Warriors, Buffalo '66, The Royal Tenenbaums, Donnie Darko, Beat Street, Shaun of the Dead, The Science of Sleep, Howl's Moving Castle, Hot Fuzz, Alphaville.
Arrested Development, The Office (UK), Stella, Spaced, Trailer Park Boys, Freaks and Geeks, Ghost Hunters, Kenny vs. Spenny.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig, Superstud: Or How I Became a 24 year old Virgin by Paul Feig, In Search of Respect: Selling crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois, THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol, Watership Down by Richard Adams, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, David Sedaris.