Shy covers on youtube (the camera is facing a wall. or you can just see the guitar). Boggle. deliberately falling over, beards,baking, making plans, handicrafts, foreign snack foods, cute male singer/songwriters, going out in the snow (who doesn't love that? idiots.), tiny hats, woolen hats, embellishing clothing/ electrical items/ furnishings/ everything i own, notebooks, left-handed gadgets and paraphernalia, outwitting detectives, american satire, stand up comedy (my first and only true love), writing implausible radio sitcoms, drawing pointless cartoons, drinking tea, cooking curries that are difficult to love, speaking in odd voices, repeating the same joke until it's funny again, making up little songs, writing on myself, sticking gaffer tape to my face like a beard (i'm a sexxxxy lady), meeting strangers, going to parties, travelling to perform comedy, dancing to magnetic fields in my kitchen. that's scary, somehow the word "test" appeared on here but i didn't write it.
People who make me want to try harder at everything. People who try to make their lives poetic and beautiful without becoming pretentious wankers. also people who are buckets of fun. and boys who are kind and funny as hell. (preferably who like primary school style teasing.) people who like to go to the cinema alone in the morning. People who stay up late. these are my two favourite type of youtube videos.. .. width="425" height="350" ...... width="425" height="350" ....also iain lee
Scottish Indie, American Lo-Fi and Uk Hiphop. (channel U is the best). I like tv on the radio, smog, will oldham and final fantasy. Andre 3000, atari teenage riot, Alisdair Roberts, Arab strap, Bikini Kill, Billy Childish (Thee Headcoats, The Buff Medways etc!), Bright Eyes (although not that much anymore), Belle and Sebastian, Ben Christophers,Bob Dylan, Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Eliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Chicks on Speed, Camera Obscura, Cursive, The Clash, The Cure, Cats on Stilts, Cocteau twins, dead kennedys, Eels, Faith no more, Fugazi, The Fall, Fireworks Night, Grip right swing right, Joy Division, Jane's Addiction, John Lee Hooker, Ella Fitzgerald (esp. live in london when she's an old lady),Kimya Dawson,kate nash, les savy fav, Ladytron, Magnetic Fields, Mr Bungle, My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Newsom, Nirvana, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Nick Gill, Poulenc, Pixies, Pavement, Radiohead, Rachmaninov (love complicated piano music!) Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth, Smiths, Smoosh (!!),Sleater-Kinney, The Shins! Sebadoh, Specials, television, Tim Buckley, Tomahawk,Talking Heads, The Lemon Curd, X Ray Spex, M Ward, The White Stripes, weezer and all that, "The Sweetest Feeling" by Jackie wilson, All of the beach boys songs that everyone loves...And you will know us by the trail of the dead. I can't think of any more, i'll come back to this! but you know, all of that atp kind of stuff. and folk. folk is good. and obviously sufjan stevens and neutral milk hotel and paul simon and king creosote and ben folds five.
I love charlie kaufman. i think his films are wonderful. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Royal tennembaums, and Rushmore! (Wes anderson), Magnolia, City of God, Coen Brothers (everything!) and Todd Solondz (have i spelt it wrong? i know i could check it on imdb but that would mean opening another window and this isn't my computer and dan will tell me off) and jim jarmusch and all of that. Amelie poulain amelie poulain amelie poulain, the big sleep (what are other films with humphrey bogart being all sarcy and cool?). I haven't seen enough films. The best films i've seen so far this year are annie hall and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.....
My a1 top favourite show is Skins. Father Ted, Big Train, Spaced, league of gentlemen! black books, The day today, jam, blue jam, I'm alan partridge, brass eye, "oh no! it's selwyn froggit!", fist of fun and this morning with richard not judy, nightingales (if you remember this we should be friends), Family Guy, Futurama, A little boy saying "fannies" on countdown today, Reeves and Mortimer (a lot lot lot!), Look Around You, Kids in the Hall..... family guy, futurama Monty python! Anything graham linehan has ever done and will ever do. Mr Show! and Reno 911, and curb your enthusiasm! american comedy is damn hot... arrested development. and series two of the american office.and series three is great too, you can watch it on the internet in secret
I just read the handmaid's tale and female chauvinist pigs and reading lolita in tehran. I'm having nightmares about totalitarian antifeminist regimes. but they were ever so good. Dan Rhodes (esp. Timoleon Vieta Come Home), John Clare, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Flann O Brian - The Third Policeman, Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451, John Milton - Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes (seriously), Raymond carver, J.D. Salinger "For Esme with love and squalor", Daniel Clowes, Sinclair Lewis, F Scott Fitzgerald (it's called the great gatsby because it's great), Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut (lots), McSweeney's, dave eggers, jeffrey brown, Nathanael West, Sylvia Plath (don't bother insulting her, i am not 15 and i don't want to kill myself), Elizabeth Jennings, W.B Yeats, Richard yates: especially LIARS IN LOVE, Tristram Shandy, Philip Larkin, Dorothy parker (a bit), George Orwell, Albert Camus, Alexander solzhenitszyn (spelt wrong probably), David Hume, Soren Kiekergaard, Persepolis 1 and 2 by Majane Satrapi. Chris ware: jimmy corrigan Lots of stuff... Generation x is good as well isn't it?
Jeffrey Lewis! Stewart lee, Flight of the Conchords, david o doherty, daisy steiner, jp sartre and s-to-the-dbeauvoir, black francis (who says tubbers can't be rock and roll stars), dorothy parker, malachi whitaker, wes anderson, billy childish. victoria wood, kimya dawson and Rhoda Dakar. Shirin ebadi and Azar Nafisi and all of the brilliant iranian women who i am reading about at the moment.