Daffodils. Cornish cider. Tickling.
Fellow writers, cultural obsessives and anyone able to think for themselves.
Boards of Canada. Talk Talk. Baby Ford. Maurice Ravel. Massive Attack. Jim White. The Flaming Lips. Johnny Cash. Bjork. M.I.A. Erik Satie. Future Sound of London. Flamenco. Amadou and Mariam. Acid house. Nick Cave. DJ Shadow. Kate Bush. CSS. Claude Debussy. The Velvet Underground. Mid-Sixties punk-psych-pop. Oscar Peterson. LFO. Gillian Welch. Jhelisa. Four Tet. Leadbelly. Mozart. Old stuff on Soma Records, Harthouse, Rising High & WARP. The Beatles. Of Montreal. Steve Reich. Bongwater. Bluegrass. The Slits. Autechre. Mercury Rev. Billie Ray Martin. Blondie. Early Orbital. Nick Drake. A Guy Called Gerald. Manu Chao. Lee Scratch Perry n bredren. Spacemen 3. Dirty old blues records. Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers. Billie Holiday. Etc.
Dead Man. Night on Earth. Lost in Translation. Atajanjuat. Finding Nemo. Donnie Darko. Hairspray. Todo Sobre Mi Mama. Amores Perros. Habla Con Ella. Manhattan. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Once Upon a Time in The West. Desperately Seeking Susan. Amelie. Delicatessen. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Bonnie and Clyde. Dial M For Murder. American Beauty. 24 Hour Party People. Butterfly Kiss. Fight Club. Ratatouille. Alice in Wonderland. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Emerald Forest. The Third Man. The Ladykillers. Belleville Rendezvous. Trainspotting. The Exorcist. The Blair Witch Project. Straw Dogs. etc.
really lost that special something when you no longer had to wait thirty seconds for it to warm up.
'Persuasion' + 'Pride + Prejudice' - Jane Austen. 'Mythologies' - Roland Barthes. 'Disgrace' - JM Coetzee. 'Fictions' & 'The Aleph' - Jorge Luis Borges. 'The Brotherhood of the Grape' - John Fante. 'The Sandman' - Neil Gaiman. 'Fight Club' - Chuck Palahniuk. 'Sputnik Sweetheart' - Haruki Murakami. 'Footsteps' - Richard Holmes. 'A Room With A View' & 'A Passage to India' - EM Forster. 'Pedro Paramo' - Juan Rulfo. 'The Bell' & 'The Time of The Angels' - Iris Murdoch. 'Love in the Time of Cholera' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'The Never Ending Story' - Michael Ende. 'Wuthering Heights' - Charlotte Bronte. 'A Room of One's Own' - Virgina Woolf. 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' - Muriel Spark. 'Where I'm Calling From' - Raymond Carver. 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' - Ken Kesey. 'Misery' & 'The Shining' - Stephen King. Lao Tzu. Anton Chekhov. Dr. Seuss.Currently reading: 'The Complete Stories' by Flannery O'Connor and 'Ghosts of Spain' by Giles Tremlett.
Rosa Parks, Andy Warhol, Claire Short, Jarvis Cocker, John Peel.