Going to gigs and listening to new music. Drinking beer. And wine. And spirits. Wearing t-shirts. Bad dancing to good music. Tootling on my recorders. Kickboxing with no co-ordination. Walking up mountains. Swimming in the sea. Cooking whilst listening to loud music. Wandering around museums on Saturday afternoons. Wandering around galleries on Sunday afternoons. Eating good food in the company of good friends. Reading biographies of cultural heroes. Watching films. Spending inordinate amounts of cash on music. The smell of freshly fallen rain. Drinking tea. Visiting friends in foreign cities.
Cool people into cool stuff. That's basically it really. Like-minded people who think that wearing the stickers from apples on the bridge of your nose is normal, acceptable behaviour. Oh, and Seth Cohen.
Boy, where do I begin? Ermmmm: Mr Scruff, Joanna Newsom, Clogs, Riton, Sufjan Stevens, Deerhoof, Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Jim Noir, Matthew Herbert, Can, Adem, Tunng, Guillemots, Four Tet, Battles, The Books, Prefuse 73, Rufus Wainwright, Squarepusher, The Raconteurs, Aphex Twin, Broadcast, Sigur Ros, Pixies, The Go! Team, Tom Vek, King Creosote, James Yorkston and the Athletes, Juana Molina, The Album Leaf, Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Grant Green, David Bowie, Thomas Ades, Elliott Smith, Super Furry Animals, Smiths, Interpol, Hot Chip, Cut Copy, DJ Shadow, Nick Drake, Blur, Tortoise, Autechre, Plaid, Jackson and his Computer Band, Boom Bip, Mugison, Smog, Aidan Smith, Richard Hawley, Radiohead, The Walkmen, M Ward, Belle and Sebastian, Kings of Convenience, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Boards of Canada, The Roots, Bjork, Devendra Banhart, Bonobo, Jeff Buckley, Grizzly Bear, Final Fantasy, Simian, Calvin Harris, Billie Holiday...
Dead Man's Shoes, Donnie Darko, In the Mood for Love, Happiness, Grosse Pointe Blank, Amelie, Team America - World Police, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Fargo, The Man with the Golden Arm, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...
Lovejoy, Drop the Dead Donkey, The Day Today, Brass Eye, The West Wing, The Mighty Boosh, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Father Ted, Spaced, This Life, My So Called Life, Peep Show, Six Feet Under, The OC, Dogtanian, Press Gang...
Just finished reading Immortality by Milan Kundera. Might start on a bit of Thomas Mann...