Playing guitar, listening to music, going to gigs, cinema, writing, book readings, poetry, politics, comedy [Dave Gorman, Jen Brister, Rosie Wilby], human rights charities
International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), 17 May 2007see here.
I'd like to meet:
anyone friendly and genuine, interested in culture, arts, and music. also, for networking and possible work collaboration, it'd be great to meet people who work in field of cultural diversity, poetry, museums, archives, public and community history.
Music:
Belle and Sebastian [my fav band], Indigo Moss, Calexico, Joanna Newsom, Lamb, Slint, Architecture in Helsinki, King Creosote, the Funk Brothers, Mazzy Star, the Pixies, Tilly and the Wall, Ani DiFranco, Angélique Kidjo, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Paul Robeson, The Emotions, The Orchids, Blonde Redhead, Tanya Donelly, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Betty Marie Barnes, The Besties, Isobel Campbell, Ojos de Brujo, Curtis Mayfield, Cat Power, Rebekah Bornstein, BC Camplight, Antony and the Johnsons, Me Enveneno De Azules, Andy Palacio, Mojave 3, Dressy Bessy, Stereolab, George Gershwin, Maria Taylor, Marianne Dissard, Tindersticks, Gossip, Manu Chao, Bright Eyes, Sambassadeur, Belly, Liam Gerner, The Secret Machines, Airliner [love song 'everything that's you'], Lucky Soul, American Music Club, Pictish Trail, Os Mutantes, Tattle Tale [Glass Vase Cello Case is a wonderful, incredible song!] Dusty Springfield, Pinetop Seven, The Duke Spirit, Det Gamla Landet, Sandy Denny, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Mark Eitzel, Watoo Watoo, Pharoah Russell, Karl Rasheed Abel, Tullycraft, Yo La Tengo, Naim Amor, eMiL Jensen, Asobi Seksu, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ride, Broken Family Band, Hearts of Black Science, Pavement, Blood Music, Jens Lekman, Silver Jews, Sufjan Stevens, Glen Campbell, The Shins, The Mendoza Line, The Pipettes, Vapnet, Voxtrot, Spider [love Maggie's song for Alice], Shearwater, El Perro del Mar, Monkey Swallows the Universe, The Zombies, Polar Bear, Acoustic Ladyland, Fulborn Teversham
Movies:
All about my Mother, Almost Famous, 12 Angry Men, Be Here to Love Me, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, the Sound of Music, Volver, Shaun of the Dead, But i'm a Cheerleader, Spirited Away, The Double Life of Veronique, Tipping the Velvet, Secrets and Lies (Marianne Jean-Baptiste is amazing, one of Britain's finest actresses, so angry at how she was treated by the British film industry!)
Television:
The L Word, Spaced, Law and Order, CSI, Corrie, Everybody Hates Chris, Scrubs, Emmerdale, Peep Show, Mitchell and Webb, Less than Perfect, Without a Trace, Monk, Black Books, Father Ted
Books:
Ben Okri, The Famished Road; anything by Stella Duffy, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; Gary Younge's No Place Like Home; Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name; works by Bernardine Evaristo, Dorothea Smartt, Kei Miller, Chinua Achebe, Caryl Phillips, Jackie Kay, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Carol Ann Duffy
