Surviving, history, music, smoking, food & drink, cooking, politics, movies, dogs, books, family & friends, travelling, poverty, cars, live bands, board games, soup, internet, current affairs, central banking, the state of the world, the great wars
Anyone who wants to meet me and mine...
BANDS I HAVE BEEN IN OR PEOPLE I HAVE PLAYED WITH IN NEW ZEALAND: Gigajoule, The Wholetones, Christchurch, Supanova, Ritchie Venus, The Axemen, The Quakers, The Renderers, Lil' Steve McCabe, Brother Love, Nick Jackman, The After Dinner Mints, The Stepford Five, The Haggard Brothers, The Dog's Bollix, The Crack, Shaft - BANDS I HAVE BEEN IN OR PEOPLE I HAVE PLAYED WITH IN SWITZERLAND: Lizard Kid, The Song Dogs, The Unisource House Band, Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Soul Jam, The Make Believes, DeLorain's Stray Bullets, Stephen Simmonds - MUSIC I LIKE: Folk, blues, country, R&B, jazz, western swing, rockabilly, rock & roll, soul, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, glam, garage, punk, ska, rocksteady, reggae, etc - BANDS I LIKE: Led Zeppelin, The Who, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, The Band, Van Halen, Motörhead, Ramones, Hawkwind, Beatles, BTO, Sex Pistols, ELO, Funkadelic, Supersuckers, Doobie Brothers, Jethro Tull, T-Rex, The Dudes, Deep Purple, Split Enz, Gluecifer, Uriah Heep, Dragon, Cheap Trick, Pink Floyd, NY Dolls, Blerta, way too many to name. You can see all the folks I admire in my "friends" section - ARTISTS I LIKE: Hank Williams, Roky Erickson, Neil Diamond, Toots Hibbert, Ernest Tubb, Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan, Bob Wills, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, George Jones, George Brigman, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joan Jett, Patsy Cline, Charley Patton, Fats Waller, Billy Joe Shaver, Slim Dusty, Loretta Lynn, Louis Prima, Dolly Parton
FILMS: Night of the Living Dead, The Wicker Man, Suspiria, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Kelly's Heroes, Dawn of the Dead, The Hill, The Piano, The Big Red One, Alien, Bird, Unforgiven, Once Upon a Time in the West, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Peeping Tom, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Shining, 28 Days Later, Tampopo, Dr Strangelove, Audition, They Live!, Hostel, A Taxing Woman, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Deer Hunter, The Last Waltz, Planet of the Apes, Full Metal Jacket, Das Boot. DIRECTORS: Dario Argento, George A Romero, Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Clint Eastwood, Russ Meyer, Peter Jackson, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Roger Corman, John Carpenter
The Simpsons, LOST, The New Zealand Wars, Get Smart, M*A*S*H, Mission Impossible, The Man from Uncle, The World at War, Dallas, Faulty Towers, The Black Adder, Ready Steady Cook, Thunderbirds, Seinfeld, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Soap, Happy Days, I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched, Wonder Woman, Top Cat, Dr Who, Blake's 7, Star Trek, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Barney Miller, Top of the Pops, Married with Children. Most television is absolute shite that will rot your mind
GENRES: Thrillers, history, SciFi, biographies, politics, current affairs, humour, travel, non-fiction mostly. AUTHORS: Nick Tosches, Truman Capote, Frederick Forsyth, Colin Escott, Sven Hassel (if it actually was him), Graham Greene, Peter Guralnick, Philip K Dick, Chuck Eddy, Hunter S Thompson, Joe-Bob Briggs, Dostoyevsky, Stephen King. I really do need to read a lot more books, especially the classics. COMICS: Preacher, Footrot Flats, Stanley, Giles, HATE, 2000 AD, Heavy Metal
Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dad, JFK, Dr Martin Luther King, Keith Moon (although not particularly in that order)