• This here webspacery thing is truly a joy to behold but please don’t hold it against me if I don’t reply straight away. It’s just my mind takes a little detour while knitting, reading and daydreaming
• I go to Sitch n Bitch
• surrealist conversations with strangers
• the quirky and the heartfelt
• reading & the irresistible smell of new books
• cafe nero mocha
• painting, bold colours, drawing, scratchy pencil markings, illustrations
• summer-holiday-kid-shop-memories arriving home exhausted, mucky, muddy from digging holes, making camps and climbing the apple blossom tree
• crisp, clear, bright blue weekends
• scrabble in pubs
And
• Louise Bourgeois
• Egon Schiele
• Annora Spence
• Mark Rothko
• Andy Goldsworthy
• Emily Prince
• Chris Ofili
• Gillian Ayres painting "Hinba" but internet pictures never do it justice!
• Chinatsu Ban
• Tom Hunter
pretty picture by Ernesto Caivano...
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You can see the sort of thing I like by my project playlist.
• Iron and Wine
• PJ Harvey
• Gogol Bordello
• Joanna Newsom
• CSS
• Operator Please
• White Stripes
• Goldfrapp
• Moloko
• Nick Drake
• Squirrel Nut Zippers - Katherine Whelan’s divine voice
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Ray Lamontagne
• Joni Mitchell - I grew up listening to the Blue album & could listen to it everyday for the rest of my life
• Puppini Sisters
• Laura Cantrell
• Vashti Bunyan
• Zero 7
• Tunng
• Simon and Garfunkel
• Belle and Sebastian
• Gorky's Zygotic Mynci (eps. the beautiful Blue Trees)
• Rodrigo & Gabriela
• Charles Cadwell
• Nina Simone
• Elastica
• Elbow
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Vetiver
• Cat Power
• Don McLean
• Love
• Kings of Leon
• Money Mark
• John Martyn
• Ween
• Kodo
Myspace music:
• Jon Allen
• The Panderers
• Off Ground Touch
I like them. Better with popcorn. That's it.
• Spaced
• The Mighty Boosh
• Green Wing
• Black Books
• My name is Earl
• QI
• Look Around You
• IT Crowd
• House
• League of Gentlemen
• Margaret Atwood (Alias Grace, The Penelopiad, The Blind Assassin)
• Kate Atkinson (Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Cast Histories…)
• The children's book 'Love' by Gian Berto Vanni
• JRR Tolkein
• Ian McEwan (Enduring Love, Black Dogs)
• Arundhati Roy (God of Small Things)
• Michel Faber (Crimson Petal & The White, Under The Skin)
• Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry)
• Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)
• Nancy Friday (The Power of Beauty – had a big impact on me during my mid-20’s)
On Beauty
Perfume (International Writers)
The Crimson Petal and the White
Cold Mountain
Great Apes (Self, Will)
The Shadow of the Wind
The Little Friend
The Secret History
The Bone People: A Novel
The Bloody Chamber
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
The Whole Woman
Beloved
The Hobbit
Enduring Love: A Novel
Black Dogs: A Novel
Regeneration
Alias Grace: A Novel
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