ENGLAND, football, drinking, records, art, profanity, literature, flying into unnecessary rage.
Miscreants, malcontents, ne'er-do-wells, naysayers, louts, curmudgeons, mavericks, renegades, partisans, scoundrels, hooligans, ruffians, rogues, scalawags, cynics, misanthropes, boozehounds, outlaws, defeatists, wastrels, lollygaggers, grifters, highwaymen, charlatans, philistines, cretins, angry youth and bitter old men.
Who I Don't Want to Meet:
Sycophants, proselytes, teetotalers, yes men, amateurs, bootlickers, zealots, fundamentalists, freeloaders, imitators, braggarts, windbags, dimwits, simpletons, pretenders, hipsters, trendsetters, passive aggressives, new age travellers and vapid whores.
Vinyl!
Oasis, Clash, Nips, The Jam, Stone Roses, Stranglers, The Ruts, Ride, Stiff Little Fingers, Pogues, Business, Sham 69, UK Decay, Inspiral Carpets, Partisans, Cockney Rejects, X Ray Spex, Happy Mondays, Charlatans, Chameleons, New Order, Joy Division, Blondie, Sex Pistols, PIL, Morrissey, Pulp, The Twang, The Rifles, Dave Clark Five, The Godfathers, Dub Pistols, Damned, Desmond Dekker, Misfits, 808 State, Primal Scream, Goldblade, Prince Buster, Blondie, Boomtown Rats, Amazulu, Motorhead, Havana 3am, The Members, Last Resort, James Brown, King Tubby, Naked Raygun, The Rifles, Prodigy, Jesus & Mary Chain, Nina Simone, Etta James, Neds, The Church, Business, Alton Ellis, Specials, Aretha Franklin, Lee Perry, The The, Toots, Wanda Jackson, Wedding Present, Wild Swans, The Smiths, Selecter, Undertones, The Verve, Slade, Siouxsie, Generation X, Cramps, Social Distortion, Exploited.
Hammer & Lynch, Meadows & Boyle, anything with Gary Oldman & Michael Caine. Oh, and guns.
This is England, Krays, Quadrophenia, Psychomania, Trainspotting, Sweet Sixteen, Layer Cake, Twin Town, Limey, Gangster No1, Scum, Chopper, Essex Boys, The Firm, Made in Britain, Snatch & Lock Stock, Withnail & I, King of NY, The Untouchables, Absolute Beginners, Bourne series, Bond, Football Factory, Mean Machine, Goodfellas, Green Street, Nil By Mouth, Long Good Friday, Reservoir Dogs, A Life Less Ordinary, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Once Upon a Time in America, Heavenly Creatures, Hope & Glory, Shallow Grave, Fight Club, Full Metal Jacket, Gallipoli, Dead Man's Shoes, Red Dawn, Dirty Dozen, Swingers, Desk Set, Evil Under the Sun, Clockwork Orange, A Room With A View, Commitments/The Van/The Snapper, 24 Hour Party People, orig. of Get Carter & Wickerman, Suburbia, Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Boondock Saints, Miller's Crossing, Millions, Flash Gordon, Valley of the Dolls, To Sir With Love, Baby Jane, Less Than Zero, Victory, Drugstore Cowboy, Repo Man, Night of the Comet, Freejack, Intermission, anything John Hughes.
I'm a massive news junkie. Football (if I'm lucky) and loads of old British comedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Irvine Welsh, Bukowski, PJ O'Rourke, Henry Miller, Bret Easton Ellis, Roddy Doyle, Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Malachi Martin, Salinger, Rand, Moliere, Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson, Kant, Kierkegaard, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Dickinson & Frost, and anything to do with casual culture, secret societies & crime.
"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
Prince Philip and I have much in common.