Outdoor partying, seeing my friends, making things out of other things, reading books and being cosy in my room, writing random pieces in my journal, spending time with my family and having 'put the world to rights' discussions, being inspired by all the beautiful people that I meet every day in my life, dancing in crazy natural places and kissing the man in my life, laughing lots and being silly and annoying my brother, eating and cooking healthy and tasty food, drinking lots of wine and ouzo, being melancholy and holing myself up with incense and candles when the sky is grey, going for long walks in the woods or by the sea,
No one in particular, I just want to keep in touch with old friends and new people that I've met in the real world.
Listening at the moment to mostly psychedelic trance, I just can't get enough of it!!!However it was an interesting route that got me there, so in some sort of timeline: Capercaillie, Christy Moore, The Cranberries, Joni Mitchell, The Waterboys, Nirvana, Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins, White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Rancid, Goldfinger, Nofx, Bush, Weezer, Deckard, Muse, Baby Chaos, Mansun, Mogwai, Veruca Salt, The Offspring, Fluffy, Metallica, Machine Head, Placebo, Puressence, Sepultura, System of a Down, L7, The Lunachicks, Babes in Toyland, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Patti Smith, Melanie, Deftones, The Pixies, The Breeders, Korn, Metallica, PJ Harvey, REM, Skunk Anansie, James, Fiona Apple, Angelo Badalementti, and then artists like Garbage, Pitchshifter, Bjork and especially NIN whose eclectic rock/electronic sounds led me on to all sorts of dance music, again in some sort of time-line: Roots Manuva, The Herbaliser, Amon Tobin, Mr Scruff, Neotropic, all the Ninja Tunes stuff (Sarah Jones has the best lyrics!), some old rave stuff like LFO, System 7, Age of Love, Scanner, Aphex Twin and the Reflexions artists like Plaid and D'Arcangelo, Squarepusher, Autechre, DMX, Leftfield, a spoonful of industrial gabba, a twist of D&B like Grooverider (the Bodyrock track!), a pinch of electro like Fischerspooner and Ladytron and a sprinkling of Crass, and then a really random mish-mash of electronic music that I love: Massive Attack, Infected Mushroom (yes only the old stuff is any good), GMS (that Requiem for a Dream mix!), Alien Project, Raja Ram, Logic Bomb, Shitmatt, Venetian Snares, Bogdan Racynski, Why?, Bola, Edit, Cloudead, Soft Pink Truth (the Do they owe us a living? mix especially!), Dave the Drummer (One Night in Hackney), Chris Liberator, Future Sound of London, Sigur Ros, M83, Bamboo Forest, Younger Brother, DJ Krush, Ozric Tentacles, Astral Projection, Asterix, Cosmosis, Shift (love that Closer remix!), Xenomorph, Scorb, Younger Brother, Deviant Species, EVP, Error Corrective, Hoodwink, in fact most artists on Ambivalent recs/Wildthings recs/MDM recs. I also like things like The Gathering, Martha Tilston, Jeff Buckley and Bob Marley to try and balance out my addiction to mind-expanding hardcore dance!!!
Spirited Away, Into the West, Requiem for a Dream, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Lord of the Rings, Baraka, The Snowman, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Black Stallion, Mary Poppins, The Crow, The Constant Gardener,
Most of it is shit, but there are some good things: Planet Earth, Life in the Undergrowth, Twin Peaks (The series!!), Lost (for a while until it went on too long), Heroes (don't think its out here yet but just wait!!), River Cottage, Round the Twist, Foster's home for imaginary friends,
Sky Burial - Xinran (beautiful, true and spiritually uplifting); The Zahir, The Alchemist, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept, The Valkyries - Paulo Coelho (easy to read and full of hope); Girlfriend in a Coma, Life After God - Douglas Copeland (perfectly describes our generation); House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski; The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks; Morvern Callar - Alan Warner; The Virgin Suicides; 101 Dalmations - Dodie Smith; The Lord of the Rings; Altered State; Captain Correlli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres;
My family, friends and all the amazing people who have touched my life.