Food and wine; wine and food; I always add wine when cooking - sometimes I even put it in the food. Love cooking and eating and erm, drinking. Love fine dining when my pocket allows it - not often enough sniff sniff. The usual music, books, films etcetera ooh and Astrology! I am fascinated by star signs and the planets and the stars and the moooooooon especially when it's FULL.
Dark Angels and Black Beauty ...
Everything from Rod Stewart and the Stones (I HATE THE BEATLES - there I said it), Marianne Faithfull, Petula Clark, Doris Day, Dolly Parton for her music and her fantastic personality, other random Country and Western, Roxy Music, Marc Bolan, SLADE, Northern Soul, Rock: Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Nazareth, Alex Harvey, Kate Bush, Motown, Punk Rock (the "proper" stuff), Wire, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash (was a real Clash girl way back when), Buzzcocks, Magazine, Patrick Fitzgerald, X-Ray Spex, The Adverts, Blondie, Dead Boys, Duritti Column, Echo and the Bunneymen, Teardrop Explodes/Julian Cope, Suicide, John Cooper Clark, The Vibrators, Joy Division, Gang of Four, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Adam and the Ants - both transmogrifications!; Cabaret Voltaire and all the Sheffield bands from back in '77/'78 that were so ahead of themselves, Nick Lowe, all the Stiff chaps and chapesses!; Yello, US pre-punk New York Dolls, MC5, Roky Erikson, 13th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watch Band, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Stooges, Iggy Iggy Iggy, folk when I am in my hippy mood (see above), Demented are Go!, Rev. Horton Heat, old Rock and Roll, David Essex (true!), Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (esp Viv Stanshall), Catatonia/Cerys Matthews, Ska Reggae & Dub, Lee "Scratch" Perry, John Spillane (and other random Irish music), MUSICALS ha ha YES you CAN be punk rock and sing-a-long-a-sound-of-music and I do know other Punks that do so don't laugh or we'll form a gang and sing you to sleep alright? the "man" Leonard Cohen, the other "man" Johnny Cash and all the Carter family god bless Johnny & June, New Stuff: LOVE Goldfrapp don't see the point in Franz Ferdinand and the Scissor Sisters they both sound the same to me CRAP lol, like Kaiser Chiefs, Editors and Killers, Datsuns, Kings of Leon, White Stripes, the Hives ..it all gets a bit samey tho ... Eminem - sorry forgot I love that piece of white trash, old skool hip hop and gansta rap esp. Ice T, Tim Dog etc and Run DMC ... Like they say: If it's good it's good.
Other than musicals (snigger) The Wicker Man!! (actually probably my favourite film .. but it's hard to choose innit?), any/most Almodovar, Scarface, most Bigas Lunas, Goodfellas, Highlander, The Party, Bell, Book & Candle, The Wicked Lady, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Gaslight, Forever Amber, Tiger Bay, Whistle Down The Wind, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Velvet Goldmine, That'll Be The Day, Stardust, Roger Waters films, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - in fact most Russ Meyer, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin oldies, Dario Argento and most horror - esp Zombie films I love zombie films and musicals, did I say that .. in fact lots and lots of films - newies and oldies - Frankenhooker, Street Trash and other gross-out horror, Fuck me! Forgot! I love martial arts films - esp old Jackie Chan plus Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers etc etc.
Torchwood - new love!, Mighty BOOOOSH!, The League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, Catherine Tate, Armstrong & Miller ... most new and old UK comedy stuff, Phoenix Nights, Peep Show, Hearbeat (the only bit of fresh air I get some weeks - and I love the old tractors and the Ford Anglia cop car!), Spaced, Top Cat (I Love Benny!), Bewitched!, Coronation Street - it really is Shakespearian sometimes you know - esp Fred Elliott - my dog was called Elsie Tanner (RIP - the dog and Pat Phoenix) we did once live with a small snappy terrier called Ivy Tilsley so there you go; Yanky stuff: Six Feet Under, The Sopranos (I get palpitations when Big Tony is on the screen ooh), have recently enjoyed Saxondale, Time Trumpet ... MONKEY!
Ditto other sections. Martin Amis, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Moorcock (see hippy moments above), Kinky Friedman (for president?!!), Ian Rankin, P D James most "whodunnits", Hunter S Thompson, Angela Carter,
Pat Phoenix, Diana Dors, Joe Strummer, Wreckless Eric, DA RAMONES!!, Doris Day, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, Petula Clark, Patti Smith, Che Guevara, Papa Castro