Art. That's a capital A. AAAAAAAArt.
But also: the floor; creating physical space; smoothed concrete; slight angles; the unity of a World Cup; profound superficiality; the headlight warning tone from a 1993 Ford Mondeo; detail; Baroque; debate; the mythology of the naïf; neckerchiefs; manners; the Howling Terror; puzzles and treasure hunts and trivia quizzes; fig rolls; absurdity; economy of truth; surface glitches; theology; glaucous-fringed light; ruffs; miscellany and anomaly; Arabic architecture that reveals its manifold aspects as the visitor explores it; Arabic architecture that seems to be an extension of the streets; medinas; falling over; familiar objects scaled to extraordinary proportions; a Mk IV Escort painted matt white; a Mk III Transit with a quiet, Radiant Red gloss; personalisation; ellipsis; ellipses; hyperellipses; Microgramma; big fish eating little ones; vast spaces, derelict or just empty of people; Arial; incongruity; ghosts and angels; labels and tables and functional diagrams; radio transmissions; the dusty corners of human experience; the lonely, blue-green glow of an AndalusÃan town at night; nubs; early-morning abandonment of home for abroad; Braeburn apples; playing along; the lone bugle on the Deep Impact soundtrack; Frank Wolff photographs and Reid Miles album covers; urban legends that bring eerie to a frame of innocuous bathos; malt loaf; attics; interference; electric fans; freebies; the smell of petrol; a long, low rectangle, floating in the landscape; cults; self-loathing; playful badinage; hoaxes; art touched by darkness ahead of its time; physics; putting art where it is least expected; seeing art in universal bugbears; visual puns; wordplay; novelty; heavy rain on a city afternoon; universally-unreasonable expectation; graph paper; perfectionism; consistency; Socialism; the harbour at Bosham; the cat family; words, arcane language and etymology; art that ignores conventional means of dispersal; art disguised as the commonplace; pastiche; memory; Situationism; coincidence; synchronicity; the Liberal Democrats; three-way crossroads; manners; folk tales; folk songs; multiple choice questions (from the Government); number stations; digital imperfections; data; non-sequiturs; cars; idioms of language; oscilloscopes; Esperanto; when electronic music was concocted in laboratories by physicists; codes; unique identifiers; Wonderland; ghost towns; signs and symbols; procrastination; human flaws (but not human emotion); humility; taking slack; theme parks and film sets; the BBC; strong sunlight thrown sideways onto particles of dust; surprise exposition of secret toil; damning with faint praise; prasing with faint damns; damning with faint damns; secret maps; creation, destruction and re-creation from memory; Existentialism; hyperrealism; surrealism; magical realism; subconscious self-analysis; unexplained phenomena; the long view; gentle outsidership in a tight-knit group; noncommercialism; scale models; pointing at things; pointing at things with a specially-designed stick; profound æsthetics; synæsthesia; straightening the tie of Resolve and addressing myself to the elephant in the sitting-room; now, HTML code.
I'm not actively looking for conversations, but if anyone feels like losing track of time I'm a very nice-mannered person who would make a delightful addition to any dinner party.
Art Brut; Radiohead; the Libertines; the Smiths; Kraftwerk; Muse; the Go! Team; Scott Walker; Michael Wookey; Suzanne Andrade; Fumio Itabashi; Ladytron; Kasabian; capital D and the Molemen; Boards Of Canada; Deathprod; rs-232; the Cooper Temple Clause; Die Haut; Luxembourg; Pink Riot; Shimmy Rivers And And Canal; Ciccone; Cass McCombs; the Crimea; the Mountain Goats; the Golden Virgins; Bright Eyes; Calla; Mother And The Addicts; the Avalanches; Pepe Delux; the Electric Soft Parade; Starsailor; the Vines; Ryksopp; Rob Dougan; Fischerspooner; Wire; Ultravox; Gang Of Four;Sparks; the No-Fi Soul Rebellion; Ratatat; Eberg; DK; Jacques Lu Cont; Ils; Lamb; Pendulum; Brockie and Ed Solo; Fresh; Tes; Moogus; the Black Dog; Keith Cohen; Screech; Guapo; Nodern; Tlpopmusik; UNKLE; Groove Armada; Massive Attack; the Aloof; Portishead; Asa-Chang and Junray; Ikon; Slomo; Bronze Age Fox; Jakatta; M83; Le Tigre; Barth; Tom Middleton; Death In Vegas; Hybrid; Psychid; Idia; Schneider TM; FC Kahuna; Diefenbach; Stereolab; Adrian Sherwood; FortDax; Adam Freeland; Colder; Paul Jackson; Chris Girand; RJD2; Futureshock; Agoria; Moby; Vive La Fte; Air;Linda Jones; Otis Redding; Nina Simone; James Brown; the Johnny Otis Show; Johnny Jones and the King Casuals; the Masqueraders; Booker T And The MGs; Aretha Franklin; James Carr;Public Enemy; Dr Dre; A Tribe Called Quest; Non-Phixion; Gravediggaz; DJ Shadow; DJ Format; Dangermouse; Atmosphere; Roots Manuva; Boom Bip; Aesop Rock; Ammoncontact; 13 & God; cLOUDDEAD; Subtle; Sole; Sage Francis; MC Sharkey; Mark Ronson; Spooks; Run DMC; Jurassic 5; De La Soul; Killa Kela; Pitman; Paddy McAloon; Wevie Stonder; Kidz With Toyz; Bendy Toy; Moped; Kid Koala; DJ Yoda; Songs; They Might Be Giants; Me First & The Gimme Gimmes; Bingo Gazingo; BJ Snowden; I, Ludicrous; Half Man Half Biscuit; Gilbert and Sullivan;Kim Wilde; tATu; Girls Aloud; Alicia Keys; Dwele; Emiliana Torrini; Jaga; Lars Horntveth; Floris; Faya Combo; Virgin Souls; the Rebirth; awayTEAM; Lucky Pierre; Mice Parade; the Dining Rooms; the Deadly Avenger; David Holmes; Dusted; 2 Banks Of 4; 4Hero; Zero 7; Prefuse 73; Nostalgia 77; Jamie Lidell; Oren Marshall; John Scofield; Steve Reid; Homelife; Stratus; the Bollywood Brass Band; Irfane; Max Sedgely; St Germain; the Bad Plus; the Esbjrn Svensson Trio; Gilad Atzmon And The Orient House Ensemble; the Heritage Orchestra; Broadway Project; Sebastian Tellier; Abdullah Ibrahim; the Masaru Imada Trio; the Matthew Herbert Big Band; the Five Corners Quintet; Sudden Ensemble; the Pharoah Sanders Quartet; Jazzanova; the Cinematic Orchestra; the Mahavishnu Orchestra; Roy Ayers; Gil Scott-Heron; Oscar Brown, Jr; Esther Phillips; Marlena Shaw; Flora Purim; Bobby Hutcherson; Sandy Nelson; Louis Bellson; Tubby Hayes; Miles Davis; Charles Mingus; John Coltrane; Archie Shepp;the Harry J All Stars; King Tubby; Jimmy Cliff; Peter Tosh; Dawn Penn; John Holt;Simon Russell; Buchanan, Holmes & Webster; Low Ego; Mia; Bomb Da Bass; Bjrk; K Formation; Shivaree; Loose Fur; Add N To (X); Wang Feng; Crossover; Takako Minekawa; Reynolds; Soul Lifters; Party Of One; Akatombo; Sphyr; Bonobo; Seen; Brassy; Future Sound Of London; Ming; Pulseprogramming; .22 The Worker; Edmund Meisel; Subversion; Enslaved; Munit; Guillamino; STATE:LESS; Twinemen; Fupper; Model Fighter; Number One Fan; Pedro; the Rip-Off Artist; Paul The Girl; Neulander; Dougal & Gamma; Bloke; Black Dice; the Koreans; Stazi; Jumbo; Mushi Mushi; David Claman; the Digital Intervention; Thursday; the Secret Hairdresser; Freddy Fresh; Lillienthal; Jakob Cale; Pendle Coven; the Hells; Chris Clark; Richard Devine; Culprit One; Parlour; Dez Williams; Brand New; the Boredoms; D Radio; Liquid Liquid; Isan; Stanislav Kreitchi; Trapist; Lisa Walker; the Constantines; the Unisex; Tobiah; Tracer AMC; Capricorn; Cathode; AGF; An Pierl; Lapsed Pacifist; Dynamo Dresden; Eavesdropper; Datz Cold; the USA Is A Monster; the Hindi Guns; Jack Rose; Paul Murphy; I/Dex; Hood; the Room; Exist; Cord; Sketchie; Black Wire; Radio Slave; Marble Sheep; Thought Universe; Magnum 38; Mugstar; Skyphone; MC Solaar; Trans Am; Bardo Pond; Soiled; Sixtoo; Picastro; Sleep Walker; Apparat; Boy Robot; the Peaks; Heather Jones; New Grenada; Chora; Scotty Karate; Hangedup; Ludvig Elblaus; Orphax; Clambon; Noxagt; TBA; Face For Radio; JFB; DJ Krush; Triosk; Wide Open Cage; bigdad; Jen; Magoo; Holkham; Signer; Das Bierbeben; the Flying Dutchman; the Double; Toog; Wonder; Dosh; Oriole; Phoebe; Remigo Ducross; Ommm; Khonnor; the Books; PS Stamps Back; the Deadpan Rangers; Libor Spacek; Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band;Superqueens; Tom Waits; Jacques Brel; the Clash; Kirsty MacColl; Pulp; Elastica; Gordon Lightfoot; the Golinski Brothers; the Fall; the Undertones; Buzzcocks; John Barry; Talking Heads; Inspiral Carpets; the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra; the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; Desmond Leslie; Dead Kennedys; Refused; Nick Cave; Mudhoney; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; Joy Division; Laurie Anderson; Dick Dale; Elvis Presley; Harry Chapin; Jimmy Webb; Kurt Weill; Cole Porter; George Gershwin; the Jam; David Bowie; Leonard Bernstein; Duane Eddy; Supergrass;Muddy Waters; Robert Johnson; Leadbelly; Bo Diddley; Woody Guthrie;Pixies; the Jesus & Mary Chain; My Bloody Valentine; Sonic Youth; Screaming Trees; Dinosaur Jr; Spacemen 3; Soundgarden; Mogwai; Fe-Mail; Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Sigur Rs; Explosions In The Sky; Oceansize; the Boxer Rebellion; Growing; Sunn-o))); 65daysofstatic; Cove; Ambulance Ltd; Amplifier; Mono; Clearlake; the Walkmen; Electrelane; Mugison; the Exiles; Ballboy; Corrigan; the French; Of Arrowe Hill; the Magnetic Fields; Saloon; Dsormais; the Decemberists; Marjorie Fair; Belle & Sebastian; UNPOC; Madrugada; Adem; Phoenix; Mew; Martin Grech; Barney Pinny; Avrocar; the Cranebuilders; Low-Flying Owls; Clor; the Research; Fotomoto; Home Video; Modey Lemon; Keith; Coti; David Jack; the Sadies; McLusky; Sufjan Stevens; the Samurai Seven; Arlo; the Needles; Appliance; the Dresden Dolls; Rasputina; the Beta Band; the Container Drivers; the Blue White Stones; the Faint; Brendan Benson; the Little Flames; Persil; Broadcast; Field Music; My Vitriol; Aereogramme; the Shining; Pram; David Hallyday; Black Panther; Tang Dynasty; Sperm Bank; Hoover Over; Hirameka Hi-Fi; Hyperkinako; Johnny Boy; Teddybears STHLM; Spiritualized; Dawn Of The Replicants; Easyworld; Coin-Op; Yo La Tengo; Micah P Hinson; Robert Plant; the Seahorses; Ikara Colt; the Duke Spirit; Graham Coxon; Grover; the Workhouse; the Early Years; Electrelane; iLiKETRAiNS; the Factory; Pretty Girls Make Graves; the Album Leaf; John Vanderslice; Matthew Rose; Michael Werckle; Mahumodo; the Dawn Parade; Locus; Marlow; the Belles; the Transplants; Earlymart; Aeon Spoke; Serafin; Echelon; Thee More Shallows; Dead Meadow; Escanna; Mainline; Stellastarr*; Editors; Interpol; Beck; the Long Blondes; the Arctic Monkeys; the Grates; Stiltskin; Seafood; Slinkyhead; Alfie; Clinic; Maxmo Park; the Dandy Warhols; Thirteen Senses; Turin Brakes; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; Bloc Party; the White Stripes; the Arcade Fire; the Black Keys; Queens Of The Stone Age; All-American Rejects; Auf Der Maur; Linkin Park; Sludgefest; Alice In Chains; Cave In; Bad Religion; Dillinger Escape Plan; Goldfinger; the Alkaline Trio; Deftones; dEUS; Adema; System Of A Down;Claude Vasori; Frank Zappa; Soft Machine; Caleb; Cream; the Beatles; the Steve Miller Band; the Misunderstood; the Nice; the Doors; the Who; the Kinks; the Family; the 23rd Turnoff; the Velvet Underground; Jimi Hendrix; Valentin Mehler; Earth, The Californian Love Dream; the Bees; the Concretes; the Raveonettes;Edgar Varse; Desmond Leslie; Krzysztof Penderecki; Karlheinz Stockhausen; Neu!; Can; Cluster; Sixto Rodriguez; Paul Lansky; John Cage; Andr Perry; Brian Eno; Arne Nordheim; Throbbing Gristle; Carter Tutti; Suicide; Gary Numan; the Human League; Ulrich Schnauss; Andrew Hodson; Aphex Twin; Amon Tobin; Autechre; Squarepusher; Christ; the Caretaker; Efterklang; Murcof; Eight Frozen Modules; Aarktica; Domingo Castillo; AC Acoustics; Mitchell Akiyama; Papercut Homicide; Edit; OOIOO; Kschzt; Cricket Engine; Voicst; David Toop; Gelg; He Can Jog; Hwyl Nofio; Colditz; Fennesz; Xploding Plastix; Andrew Bird; Bill Frisell; Circle; Fog; Nobukazu Takemura; Prhizzm; Xela; Les Idiots; Coleen; Four Tet; Tunng; Kuryakin; Matmos; the Red Army Choir; the Yonder Mountain String Band; Show Of Hands; Janet Feder; John Dowland; Thomas Tallis; Claudio Monteverdi; Johann Sebastian Bach; Franz Xaver Sssmayr; Ludwig Van Beethoven; Gabriel Faur; Claude Debussy; Erik Satie; Ceslovas Sasnauskas; Sergei Rachmaninov; Arnold Schnberg; Aram Il'yich Khachaturian; Max Reger; Frank Bretschneider; Iannis Xenakis; Peteris Vasks; Henryk Grecki; Russian and eastern-European devotional music; Russian and eastern-European folk music; American folk music; English folk music.
Les Quatre Cents Coups; Donnie Darko; The Third Man; Crash; Metropolis; Metoroporisu; Man With A Movie Camera; De Fem Benspænd; Bullitt; The French Connection; Where's Jack?; The Lavender Hill Mob; The Spy Who Loved Me; Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid; Bowfinger; Galaxy Quest; Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie; The Big Bus; *batteries not included.
South Park; Have I Got News For You; Shooting Stars; Brass Eye; The Day Today; Fist Of Fun; This Morning With Richard Not Judy; The Friday Night Armistice; The League Of Gentlemen; Spaced; Black Books; Blackadder; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Q; The Imaginatively Titled Punt And Dennis Show; The Adam And Joe Show; The Harry Hill Show (when he was on Channel 4); Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons; The Crystal Maze; Aquila; The Krypton Factor; How Do They Do That?; Top Gear; The Power Of Nightmares; Newsnight Review.
John Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems; Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations; Sir Thomas Malory, La Mort D'Arthur; Roland Barthes, Mythologies; Guy Debord, La Société Du Spectacle; Alvin Toffler, Future Shock; Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography; William Gibson, Pattern Recognition; Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle; Will Self, Great Apes; Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes; Marcel Pagnol, Le Château De Ma Mère; Marcel Proust, À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu; James Joyce, Ulysses; Jack Kerouac, On The Road; Nicholson Baker, Mezzanine; Joris-Karl Huysmans, À Rebours; Mark Ford, Raymond Roussel And The Republic Of Dreams; John Peel, Margrave Of The Marshes; Laurence Sterne, The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; George and Weedon Grossmith, The Diary Of A Nobody; Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden; Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland; Peter Bowler and Jonathon Green, What A Way To Go; The Reverend Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, LL.D., Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable; William Rose Benét, The Reader's Encyclopædia; Ben Schott, Schott's Original Miscellany; Jo Swinnerton, The London Companion; Henry Root's World Of Knowledge; The Usborne Book Of Ghost Puzzle Adventures.
Tristram Shandy; Charles Pooter; Henry Root; Professor Stanley Unwin; Raymond Box; Count Arthur Strong; Harry Hill; Dylan Moran; Emo Phillips; Richard Herring; Chris Morris; Bill Hicks; Scott Walker; John Martin; Dame Laura Knight; Desmond Leslie; Giovanni Battista Piranesi; William Blake; Salvator Rosa; Jean Cocteau; Billy Childish; Desmond Leslie; Daniel Libeskind; Robert Rauschenberg; Mike Nelson; Buckminster Fuller; Iannis Xenakis; Noam Chomsky; Professor Andrew Murray; Margaret Hassan; Georg Hegel; Karl Marx; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Ulrike Meinhof; Howard Marks; Niccolò Machiavelli; John Peel; Professor Stephen Hawking; Thom Yorke; Pete Doherty; Craig Nicholls; Sid Vicious; Ian Curtis; Hamlet; Donnie Darko; le grand Meaulnes; John, the Witch Boy; Kid A; Patrick Wolf; Antoine Doinel; Thomas Chatterton; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Arthur Rimbaud; Mark E Smith; Eddie Argos; Eddie Stobart ; Morrissey; JM Bradley-Lewin; Nicholson Baker; Archilocus; Peter Blegvad; Will Self; Dylan Thomas; Flann O'Brien; James Joyce; John Keats; Raymond Roussel; Laurence Sterne.