I'd like to meet:
People mainly but also some animals, certain inanimate objects, Artists,creative people and anybody with similar or dissimilar interests to myself who feels they would like to communicate with me. Old friends, new friends,people in the U.K. and people all over the world! I guess that pretty much covers everyone then. I’ll be thrilled to make your acquaintance, honest I will! Absolutely no bigoted, small minded, homophobe racists or people of a generally unpleasant disposition please! You know who you are and life is far too short to spend time talking to you! … I thank you! (In a Victorian freak show host stylee)
Music:
Lots!! Pop, punk, psychedelic, New wave, jazz, funk, rock, techno, drum n bass, rock, classical, Hip Hop, I would say I like a great many things with perhaps the exception of “RnBâ€. Sorry I just don’t get it! Here is a list in no particular order, - Beatles, Beach Boys, the Who, early era Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Sparks, Stranglers, Bonzo Dog Band, Adventures in stereo, Country Joe and the Fish, The Doors,Love,The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Quick Silver Messenger Service, Grateful Dead, the Red Crayola, Led Zeppelin, Kraftwerk, Can,Joyzipper, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Stereolab, Rain Parade, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, The Electric Prunes, The Monks, The Nazz, The Litter,The Kinks, The Sonics, The Vampires (soundtrack to Vampiros Lesbos),The Zombies, Brian Eno, The pretty Things, Broadcast, Juana Molina, Salako,Silver Apples, Belle and Sebastian, wet wet wet (not really, they're rubbish) Associates, Tubeway army, Cardiacs, Crazy Otto, Madness, The Beat, The Specials, Funkadelic , Air, Pulp, Beck, Pavement, Pixies, Mercury Rev, The Devine Comedy, Cornelius, The Lilys, Caravan, Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, Roy Ayers, Mc5, The Stooges, The Fall, Fad gadget,Residence,Snake Finger, Teardrop Explodes, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Roots Manuva, De la Soul, Public Enemy, The Human League, The Music Machine, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Bowie, David Axelrod, United States Of America (Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies) Music Emporium, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Captain Beefheart and his magic band, Aphex twin, Orbital, Amon Tobin,Tipsy,Luke Vibert,Incredible String Band,Nick Drake, Pentangle, Birt Jansch, Kings of Leon, The Strokes,Gogol Bordello, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Olivia Tremor Control, Chas n Dave, The Fantastic Peddlers, Go team, Miles Davis, Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin,The Jimmy Castor Bunch,Curtis Mayfield, Television, Wire, Sex Pistols, Dead Kenedys, the Slits, Wellwater Conspiracy, The Minders, Loop,Spacemen 3,Pixies, Velvet Underground, The Dave Pike Set, Ravi Shankar, Ananda Shankar, any any any old shankar, Buffalo Springfield,Clinic,Cribs,Van Morrison,Mystery Jets,Young Knives,Coral,Super Furry Animals, Supergrass,Black Rebel Motorcycle club...I'll just keep adding to this list as I think of stuff, it could get ridiculous though as I keep discovering great new artists and remembering others I had forgotten about!.
Movies:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam stuff in general), The Wicker Man, Alice (and anything by the master animator and probable genius, Jan Svankmajer) A Matter Of Life or Death, Laputa Castle in the sky, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, another probable genius whose work I really admire), Godzilla(Invasion of The Astro- Monsters), Gandhi, The Elephant Man (though it hardly ever fails to make me weep!, so I don’t watch it much even though it is rather good, as is most David Lynch stuff.) Kind Hearts and Coronets (any old Ealing comedy will do but that’s my fave),The Big Lebowski, Jason and the Argonauts, The Forbidden planet, Star Wars, 2001, The Seven Samurai,Throne of blood,The Seventh Seal, The Happiness of the katakuras, Photographing Fairies...
Television:
I dont really watch very much t.v. anymore and I hate reality t.v., I prefer listening to music or the radio when I'm doing stuff. when I do turn on the old "One eyed God" its usually to watch dvd's or nature documentaries, particularly anything by David Attenborough,some weird old science fiction (nothing too serious mind),some anime,comedy- Ronnie Barker-the Two Ronnies ,Porridge etc, Monty python's flying circusssss, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Reeves and Mortimer, Father Ted, League of Gentlemen, Brass Eye...
Books:
I dont read as much as I should but heres a list of books and authors I like and have read anyhow!
-War of the worlds, everybody should read this book! (I really love old H.G.Wells!) John Wyndham, and various vintage scfi pulp,Kurt Vonnegut,(Slaughter house 5, Breakfast of Champions...) Hunter S. Thompson, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear,Edward Gorey, William Hope Hodgeson, H.P. Lovecraft, Alfred Jarray,Albert Camus,Alan Watts(the Way of Zen,The Wisdom Of Insecurity)"Conversations with God"-Neale Donald Walsch,Llyle Watson's "Supernature", Terrence McKenna "True Hallucinations", Robert Anton Wilson-cosmic trigger. "Zero" Masatake Okumiya/Jiro Horikoshi."Samurai William"-Giles Milton.