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Singing in a little band called Joe Byrne, writing, reading , over-analysis of everything,innumerable cups of tea, things that don't concern me, avoiding the real world at all costs, bespectacled bedroom poets and other leaders of the revolution (excluding drunks with Lenin pin badges who sing misogynistic ditties), cake, cats, dead men, YOU, unhappy comedians, hats, drag,
'I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.'
I want to meet Emily. 'You're the one for me, fatty.'
Until such a glorious event occurs, please supply me with the following:
Morrissey,Peter Cook,Stephen Fry,Charles Chaplin,George Formby,Groucho Marx,Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, Kenneth Williams,Hugh Laurie,Woody Allen, Oscar Wilde, Bosie Douglas, WH Auden, Allen Ginsberg,Mick (The Only) Ronson,William Blake, Walt Whitman, , Shelagh Delaney, E.M Forster, Bob Dylan,Marc Bolan, Jobriath, Sonya Madan, David Johansen, Johnny Thunders, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Monty Clift,Michael Stipe, Buster Keaton,Gary Oldman, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray, Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Elizabeth Smart, Jean Cocteau, Andre Gide, Francois Truffaut, Luchino Visconti, Ronnie Kray, Ruth Ellis, Johnny Marr,Richard E. Grant, George Bernard Shaw, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Christopher Isherwood, the Marx brothers, Peter Sellers. That is not to say that they'd be terribly taken with me...
Morrissey, the Smiths, The Ordinary boys, Echobelly, Bolan, Bowie, Sparks, The New York Dolls, Jobriath, Sandie Shaw ('Hello Angel'), The Libertines, Babyshambles, Syd Barrett, Terrorvision, Arctic Monkeys, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Madness, REM, the Police, The pretenders, The Sundays, Leonard Cohen, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, Larrikin Love, Nancy Sinatra, Angelic Upstarts, Dusty Springfield, Half Man Half Biscuit, Latin Quarter, Xtc, Joe Jackson, The Beatles, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Nick Drake! The Only Ones, The Cars, The Kinks, Mick Ronson
adopt your own virtual pet!
Death of a Salesman,Educating Rita,Scum,Chaplin, My Own Private Idaho, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Prick Up Your Ears, The Krays, Dead Man, Wilde, My beautiful Launderette, Angels in America, Peter's Friends, The Naked Civil Servant, Bedazzled (1967), The adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Billy Liar, A taste of Honey, Room at the Top, Meantime, Made In Britain, Vincent and Theo, Amelie, Ed Wood, Limelight, The Circus, The Kid, The Gold Rush, Monsieur Verdoux, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, A Clockwork Orange, Withnail and I, Jack and Sarah, My Left Foot, The Wild One, Mr Holland's Opus, Midnight Cowboy, A cock and Bull story,
-'To say the least, oh, truly disappointed'... But there's HOUSE. There is HOUSE.
The Little Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pink, A taste of honey, Saint Morrissey, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Doctor Rat, James Dean Is Not Dead, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Why Kill for Food?, Maurice, My Left foot, oranges are not the only fruit, Lolita, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, L'Immoraliste, Leaves of Grass, Howl and other poems, Oscar Wilde, Bosie, The Gun Seller, Loot, Head to Toe, Prick Up Your Ears, The Orton Diaries, The Plays of Oscar Wilde, Auden in love, The Erpingham camp, The Ruffian on the stair, The good and Faithful Servant, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Tragically, i was an only twin.
Morrissey. Mr Tony Lonsdale, Oscar Wilde, James Dean, Charlie Chaplin,Joe Orton, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers,Dustin Hoffman,Woody Allen, Elvis Costello, Syd Barrett, Allen Ginsberg, Kevin Cadwallender, Dave Maughan, Beccy Owen.
I must also include in this section the People Who Will Save The World: Dorian, Biscuit, Oscar,Riss, EMILY,SOPHIE, all members of Joe Byrne, and Matt the splat (guitar god- also from Joe Byrne) my schizophrenic other half, who I would follow unquestioningly onto the tracks of an approaching train, and without whom I would not have got up this morning, or ever.