A few of my favourite things: Motorbikes, my cat Jack (RIP), Barnacle Jean changing my name thrice daily, taking photos, tomfoolery, good manners, wildlife, travelling (not that I do that much of it, but I'd like to), sleeping, rants, Halloween, nice pairs of flares, snowball fights, cheese, hot 'n' hairy rock men, making lists (see below), board games.
Optimists, smartarses, tellers of tall tales, like-minds. And if anyone's in the business of wish-granting: Viggo Mortensen, Josh "Sawyer" Holloway and Cap'n Jack Sparrow.
Dem's good people
I suppose I like a pretty broad range, but if pushed I'd say I listen to stuff of a psychedelic/stonery/doom bent the most.
Here's a stupidly long list of some of my favourites:
13th Floor Elevators, AC/DC, The Band, Beach Boys, Big Black, Black Heart Procession, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Boredoms, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Solomon Burke, Butthole Surfers, Captain Beefheart, Cheap Trick, Circle, Comets on Fire, The Cramps, Cult of Luna, The Cure, Dalek, Dead Meadow, DFA 1979, Devo, Dinosaur Jr, Dirty Three, Domakesaythink, Electric Wizard, Fantomas, Faust, Edith Frost, Fugazi, Funkadelic, The Gossip, Grails, Guided By Voices, The Gun Club, The Heads, Isis, The Jesus Lizard, Johnathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Kinski, Kiss, Kyuss, Mark Lanegan, Liars, Lightning Bolt, Love, Masters of Reality, Mastodon, Melvins, Minutemen, Moondog, Mudhoney, Nina Nastasia, Nebula, Neurosis, Nick Cave &; the Bad Seeds, Old Man Gloom, Will Oldham, Oneida, Outkast, Pharoah Overlord, Pixes, Prince, Public Enemy, QOTSA, The Ramones, Redd Kross, Otis Redding, Saint Vitus and anything else involving Wino, Screaming Trees, Shellac, Sleater Kinney, Songs:Ohia, Sunn O))) & other Southern Lord-types, The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Trouble, TV on the Radio, Rufus Wainwright, Ween, Witch, Witchcraft, Neil Young, Zen Guerilla...
I like most films by these folks: Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, John Carpenter, Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, George A. Romero, Studio Ghibli, Lars Von Trier, Billy Wilder...
And these are some of my favourite movies: Alien(s), The Breakfast Club, Clerks, Don't Look Now, The Empire Strikes Back, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ghostbusters, Glengarry Glen Ross, Happy Gilmore, Harvey, Indiana Jones, In the Heat of the Night, Jaws, , Key Largo, Kelly's Heroes, Monty Python (Holy Grail/Life of Brian),Mystery Men, Nosferatu, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Philadelphia Story, Repo Man, Shaun of the Dead, This is Spinal Tap, Toy Story, Tremors, Twelve Monkeys, The Wicker Man, Young Frankenstein, Zoolander…
Buffy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Father Ted, Firefly, Fishing With John, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, The League of Gentlemen, Lost, history and nature docs, My Name is Earl, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Pinky and the Brain, Quincy, Samurai Jack, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks...
Favourite authors: Paul Auster, Truman Capote, E.E. Cummings, Louis De Bernieres, Michael Faber, Graham Greene, John Irving, Jack Kerouac, Joe R. Lansdale, Henning Mankell, Garth Marenghi, Henry Miller, David Mitchell, Edwin Morgan, Philip Roth, Tolkien...
Favourite books: Catcher in the Rye, The Cutting Room, High Fidelity, His Dark Materials , I Am Legend, The Lord of The Flies, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Wasp Factory, Watership Down, Where the Wild Things Are, Winnie-The-Pooh
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and last, but definitely by no means least:
Daily Show: Tom Waits Pt. 1
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Daily Show: Tom Waits Pt. 2
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Daily Show: Tom Waits Performance
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