Old tins, cracked paint, looming thunder, little shillings. Arsenic laced tea, pencil-shavings, trout and tea cake; Whiskey, Gin and the extended spirit community; illicit encounters, beautiful decay.
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The Pogues, Ian Dury, Vic Godard, Billy Bragg, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Ramones, the Clash, the Kinks, Jock Scot, Modern Lovers, the Smiths, Will Oldham, Edith Piaf, Belle and Sebastian, Billie Holiday, Chuck Berry, Pulp, Television, Absentee, Captain Beefheart, the Fall, Ivor Cutler, Magazine, Little Richard, Wreckless Eric, Orange Juice, LOVE, Serge Gainsbourg...and I only dance to Northern Soul.
Truffaut's entire works (esp. 'the 400 blows'), same for Godard and Jarmusch - particularly 'Stranger than paradise'&'Down by Law'. Drugstore Cowboy, A taste of honey, Prick up your ears, Dougal and the blue cat, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, 'Paris, Texas', Dogville, Gummo, Performance, Being there, most Shane Meadows
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Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita', Nabokov's 'Lolita', Beaudelaire's 'Les fleurs du mal', Bukowski's 'What matters most is how well you walk through the fire', Orwell's books and essays; everything Wildean and 'The Tin Drum' - Gunter Grass, T.S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joe Orton's plays, 'I, Fatty'...
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