i love: sharing an interest in the strange with my wife Amanda, music, food and cooking, travel, history, the mystique of the dark underbelly of mankind throughout history, eastern europe, design, architecture, art, melancholy, subtlety, slow stressless days, japan, fast european cars, good conversation, formula 1, brainstorming for fresh ideas, autumn and winter, '60s mod culture, animals, smart people (or at least people with soul and a bit of sense), people with a story, airports, analog tape, reverb, bananafishbones
All of these people. This is truly beautiful. Hipsters make me want to vomit - but this, this is something else. It's fun as hell, it's clever without trying to smash anyone's face in and it reminds me of a time when 'great' meant something. It kind of gives me hope that America isn't totally futureless and incapable of innovation and beauty and vision. One take, one shot. Reading into it too much? Whatever. This is great. And we all work at the wrong fuckin' place.
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo
Old Greg & The Mighty Boosh
And I want Japan circa 1981 to play in my living room;
Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Clash, Mahogany, X, The Fall, Clem Snide, Big Star, Happy Mondays, Mott the Hoople, The Band, Harold Budd, Dead Can Dance, The Cure, Brian Eno, Vangelis, Boards of Canada, Neil Young, Let's Active, The Divine Comedy, The Beatles, Robert Charlebois, Spiritualized, Roger Miller, Clinic, Stereolab, Bread, Kraftwerk, Zoot Woman, Buzzcocks, The Kinks, The Who, AC/DC, Depeche Mode, Interpol, Sonic Youth, Coaltar of The Deepers, Bauhaus, My Bloody Valentine, Mercury Rev, Ole Mossy Face, The Delfonics, Stevie Wonder, Ride, Swervedriver, Siouxsie and the Banshees, T Rex, The Jam, J.J. Cale, Dave Cloud, Teenage Fanclub, The Boo Radleys, Ben Folds, The New Pornographers, Hugo Largo, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Slayer, Big Black, Scratch Acid, Suede, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Pixies, Slowdive, Tones On Tail, This Mortal Coil, The Jesus and Mary Chain
lost in translation, withnail and i, a clockwork orange, control, 24 hour party people, the unbearable lightness of being, bram stoker's dracula, 2001, le mans, rushmore, alfie, ishtar, donnie darko, suspiria, the deer hunter, bullitt, velvet goldmine, frantic, the razor's edge, dr. strangelove, trainspotting, bottle rocket, the shining, amelie, blade runner, quadrophenia, blue, the hunger, brazil, roman holiday, the pianist, harold and maude, raising arizona, punch-drunk love, the bourne films, no country for old men
Amanda, Ian Curtis, Ivo Watts-Russell, The Beatles, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Jackie Stewart, Mies Van Der Rohe, Pele', Levon Helm, Tinker, All the freaky kids from way back