MY TRANSIT VAN! Charity shops, jumble sales, roadtrips, spontaneity, live performance, arts and culture, camping around, making and creating. Leigh Bowery, Vivienne Westwood artstylefashion. Going out and dancing all night. Yoga, but only in a class. I get hopelesly distracted at home. Small flat. Many things. Radio 4 (have done for years...HATE Radio 1 and that type of thing)
People who get excited by words, music, art, costume. Who love what they do, and are happy to express themselves using all/some of the above. Good chaps who can banter and surprise me. I would really like to find a man who will be a dance partner too. I had to give up learning tango last year as I couldn't find a dance partner to commit, and it's something that needs regular practice. I'd like to learn Lindyhop, and there's an excellent class near here, plus a Winter Ball on February 13th. If you fancy the dance part of this equation and you are local to me, contact me
Tom Waits, The Dead Brothers, The Bays, Tango, Country & Western, Gotan Project, Mudlow, soundtracks, and anything I can dance to (which covers quite a lot of possiilities) in a venue, in a field, on a moonlit beach (yes, mainly in Sussex so far, but warmer and more exotic climes sound enticing). Love to sit in a warm bed and listen to Late Junction on Radio 3, Andy Kershaw, Mixing It.
Breakfast on Pluto, Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Howls Moving Castle, Hedwig and the angry Inch, Tidelands, The saddest music in the World (I think that was the title. Mad, wierd b/w but recent film). There's an independent cinema in my town and I mostly enjoy the less mainstream independent stuff, and black and white Hollywood classics, and ALL MUSICALS. Most things by Pedro Almodavar, Quay Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Cohen Brothers, John Waters AND most recently, the documentary about 'The Cockettes'. A wild troupe of mainly gay cross dressing performers, living on Welfare in a communial squat, covered in slap and glitter, dropping quantites of acid, dressing in wild 40's clothes in a glam rock style and putting on extraordinarily camp shows at the Palace Cinema in San Francisco in the 70's. Divine and Sylvester both put in an appearance, and of course John Waters. Revving myself up to see Volver at the Electric Palace from 15th Feb.
Don't have one, but watch the boxed sets of friends dvds Little Britain, Green Wing, League of Gentlemen, or any wierd films of course, if I'm around at their house. I'm wistful for the days when Twin Peaks was on, also Tales of the City. The volume of utter TRASH on the telly is over whelming.
Tom Robbins (all of his, but Jitterbug perfume is favourite), Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, biographies and auto biogs of artists, writers, fashion designers. Current;Donna Tartt-'The Little Friend', and Infinite Variety - 'The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati'. Read Grayson Perry- 'Portrait of the artist as a young girl' pretty much overnight. A slim but fascinating volume. LOVE his pottery and technique. Moomintroll series, Nurse Matilda by Christina Brand