I am nuts about 60s music, fashion, culture, art, films, books, interior design and icons...J'adore watching live bands. I love being creative, learning, reading, Spinnin' groovy 60s choones cause I is a DJ don't you know? , sherbet fountains, designing and making 60s inspired clothes - here are some I made earlier
, talking about tailoring, collecting kitsch random object d'art from car boot/Jumble sales to decorate my treasure trove room , ugly/beautiful people, dancing, being loyal, kind and considerate, my patented happy snappy crackers, having a crush, Victorian seasides, being inspired, eating green thai curry, hats, big hair, writing lists, thinking up money making schemes, fairytales, being passionate, London, camping it up, e bay, painting op art canvasses , bumble bees, driving in the country, collecting vinyl, dressing up, reading the Sunday papers, discovering a great new (to me) old band, the summer, nature, northern accents, girly clothes or boyish clothes (nothing in between), swimming in the sea, people who are sincere, trying to play my keyboard, being switched on, vintage cars, teaching kids to be individuals, kitchen sink dramas, Lynch prints, 60s dolls , drawing psychedelic/art nouveau/art deco inspired 60s style posters ,
crazy 60s fabrics, co-ordinating my assesories with my white Mayfair menthol ciggies.
I'd like to meet:
Tinkers, Tailors, Soldiers, Sailors, Pixies, Pirates, Time Travellers, Goblins, Mermaids, Groovy guys and Girls.Be great to meet a cross between David Bowie (for the glamour and spunk) , Peter Cook (for the Lobster) , Malcolm McDowell (for the caddishness - ultra violence, nah he was a cheeky chappy!) , John Lennon (goes without saying), Sean Bonniwell and Sky Saxon (for the dirty garage) Ronnie Wood (for the charm), , Richard E Grant (cause I wanna drink the finest wines known to humanity with him now!) , Russell Brand (for the ball bags) and Noel Fielding (for the groovy moves) .
Music:
I love a wide variety of music genres from the 60s, my fave is garage/ psych/beat of which I collect a shed load of rare/obscure vinyl. I also love folk, country,pop, soul, rock, R+B and hammond. Bands that get my juices flowing are; Music Machine href="http://imageshack.us"The Seeds, The Sonics ,Buffalo Springfield , The Pretty Things , Shocking Blue , The Strawberry Alarm Clock , The Byrds , The Chocolate Watchband , The Blues Magoos, Tomorrow , The Wailers, The Rattles,The Shadows of Knight ,Pink Floyd, The Idle Race, The Gruesomes The Golden Earrings, Wimple Winch , Iron Butterfly13th Floor Elevators, The Outsiders, ? and the Mysterians, The Chesterfield Kings, The Trashwomen, The Monks, Cat Stevens, Lulu , Dionne Warwick , Marianne Faithfull , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , David Bowie , The Kinks, The Who, The Small Faces, Status Quo, Billie Davis, Pentangle, The Electric Prunes, Circulus Melanie , Jefferson Airplane , The Moody Blues, Deep Purple, The Soft Machine, Traffic, The Spencer Davis Group, Leonard Cohen , Nick Drake, Scott Walker, The Walker Brothers, Jethro Tull , Nazz, Joan Baez
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, The Velvet Underground , The Stooges , The Cramps , The Shangri las , Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Hollies, Love, MC5 , Jacques Dutronc, The Grass Roots, The Doors, The Ramones , The Bonzo Dog Band , Syd Barrett , The Zombies, The Animals, Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity, Fairport Convention, Serge Gainsborg , T-Rex, Astrud Gilberto, Joni Mitchell , Janis Joplin , The Yardbirds , Dusty Springfield, The Monkees , Francoise Hardy, Os Mutantes, France Gall , 5th Dimension, The Action, The Mamas and Papas , Johnny Cash, Donovan and Mary Hopkin. I collect Rubble albums, Pebbles albums, Nuggets comps, Girls in the Garage albums and lots of other random 60s comps, I also love the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls soundtrack.. width="425" height="350" ... Oh and I still have a soft spot for Suede (very early stuff mainly)
Movies:
I love Kitchen Sink dramas from the 60s as well as the later swinging more trippy films. I like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls , Here we go round the mulberry Bush , The Touchables, Billy Liar, The Rutles , Help , A Hard Days Night , Yellow submarine , Magical Mystery Tour, The Wicker Man, A Clockwork Orange , Derek and Clive get the horn , Withnail and I , Barbarella, The L Shaped Room, Cathy Come Home, A Taste of Honey, the Family Way, Up the Junction, Poor Cow, A Kind of Loving, Blow up, Wonderwall, Alfie, The Italian Job, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Georgie Girl, Quadrophenia, The shinning, Christiane f, The man who fell to earth , Cracked actor, One Flew Over a Cukoos Nest, Easy Rider, The Trip, Riot on Sunset Strip, Don't Look Now , Bedazzled , Girl on a motorcycle, Modesty Blaise, Performance , Head , Night of the living dead Who's afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, The Rocky Horror picture show, Faster Pussy Cat Kill Kill , To Sir with Love, Spinal Tap , Psych out and Masculine- Feminine .
Television:
I really like comedy programmes e.g. Nighty Night, Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh, The Office. I also like Art/Music documentaries. Anything with Jonathon Ross in (oh I love listening to him on radio 2 on Saturday mornings). Love the Monkees TV prog too.
Books:
I love The Outsider- Albert Camus , Animal Farm- George Orwell, Consciousness Explained - Daniel C Dennet, Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde , On the Road - Jack kerouac, Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne , Double Feature - Terence Stamp, Go Ask Alice - Anon , The L Shaped Room - Lynn Reid Banks, Love Story -Erich Segal, A kind of Loving - Stan Barstow, Here we go round the Mulberry Bush - Hunter Davies, Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier, Faithfull - Marianne Faithfull, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll, Paul McCartney- Barry Miles, John Lennon - Ray Coleman, Back Stage Passes - Angie Bowie, X Ray -Ray Davies, Peter Cook a biography - Harry Thompson, Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess .
Drop City - T C Boyle
Fashion/Music/Art books I like are; The Sixties - Lesley Jackson, Sixties Source Book- Nigel Cawthorne, Collecting the sixties - Madelene Marsh, A Hard Days Write - Steve Turner, Beatles at the Movies - Roy Carr, The Beatles illustrated Lyrics, Mod - Terry Rawlings, Boutique - Marnie Fogg, Swinging Chicks of the Sixties - Chris Strodder, The Sixties, A decade In Vogue and Hippie - Barry Miles...
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Heroes:
David Bowie, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Mary Quant, Malcolm Mcdowell, Oscar Wilde, Jack Nicholson, Terence Stamp, Micheal Caine, Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Jonathon Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Terry Thomas, Woody Allen, Penelope Tree, Ray Davies, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Cooke, Peter Sellers, David Bailey, Peter Blake, Jean Luc Godard, Barbara Hulanicki, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Oliver Reed, Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol, Lulu, Andrew Loog Oldham, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Keith Richards, Ronnie wood.
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