film, music, literature, david lynch, manic street preachers, zombies, live music, doctor who, 1970s, the fall, festivals, horror films, art and architecture, anything geeky, writing in lower case evidently.
I'd like to meet:
David Lynch and Mark E Smith. That is all.
'Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.'
- Dag Hammarskjold
Music:
music that made me:
nick cave, the clash, depeche mode, echo and the bunnymen, the fall, fugazi, jane's addiction, joy division, manic street preachers, mccarthy, new order, oasis, pavement, primal scream, radiohead, smashing pumpkins, the smiths, u2, tom waits.
but recently i've enjoyed old favourites revisted and new releases:
!!!, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, aim, blonde redhead, bad brains, blur, bright eyes, battles, beck, bill callahan, cat power, chris clark, cocorosie, cocteau twins, the decemberists, the dirty three, thomas dolby, einstuerzende neubauten, brian eno, espers, girls against boys, grinderman, herman dune, hole, holy fuck, chris issak, jaga jazzist, june brides, les savy fav, life without buildings, lightning bolt, the locust, magazine, stephen malkmus, melt banana, modest mouse, nine inch nails, portishead, prince, pulp, raymonde, ritterskamp, the shins, smog, sonic youth, suede, von sudenfed, saul williams, wire, patrick wolf, wolfhounds
this and that.
for a full list, ask me to bore you.
Movies:
david lynch is my sugar daddy, john carpenter is my ghastly uncle, zombies, horror, stanley kubrick is my predictable grandad, 70s cinema, star wars, takashi miike, lyndsay lohan, john hughes, 1980s cheese and family entertainment
particular favourites: alien: director's cut, apocalypse now, assault on precinct 13, back to the future, batman, battle royale, blue velvet, the breakfast club, bubba ho-tep, clerks, a clockwork orange, dawn of the dead, dead man's shoes, delicatessen, duel, the empire strikes back, eraserhead, evil dead, the godfather parts I & II, goodfellas, if..., indiana jones, inland empire, jaws, king of comedy, mulholland drive, pan's labyrinth, the producers, requiem for a dream, rocky horror picture show, saturday night fever, taxi driver, videodrome, withnail and i
there are more.
Television:
angel, armando iannucci, buffy the vampire slayer (1996-1999), curb your enthusiasm, the day today, doctor who, fist of fun, seinfeld, the sopranos, south park, spaced, this morning with richard not judy, 24, twin peaks.
Books:
nineteen eighty-four, last exit to brooklyn, are you dave gorman?, animal farm, harold pinter: plays, torture garden, bill hicks: love all the people, t.s.eliot, music biographies
Heroes:
those mute icons you serve so well. where are they now?
