Mind yo biznez! Lover not a fighter (unless provoked), the who, what, why and when of everything, achievement against all odds, motto quotes ("Ain't nothing to it but to do it!" - Joe Spinell), time travel, cold toast, the smell of basil (not Fawlty), outsiders on the inside, dreaming vs doing, self-created mythologies, salt + vinegar Pringles, the New Piccadilly (RIP), the person next to you, cover versions, New World Disorder and all things Jodorowsky
I'd like to meet:
Handy Warmhole. Buffalo 'Lotion' Bill. And this little fella...
Music:
Goblin, Homosapien (Pete Shelley), Major Swellings (Assquake), Skatt Bros - Walk the Night, Goodbye Horses (Q Lazarus), NEU!/La Dusseldorf - Pipi AA (Klaus Dinger), The Cramps (New Kind of Kick), Purple Knif Show (Radio Cramps July 84), A Mountain of One, Dawn Rider (Mum+Dad), Disco Undead, King Tubby (Scorpion Granny), Dancing in the Dark (Mike Mareen), Silver Apples, Van Der Graaf Generator (Killer), E2-E4 (Manuel Gottsching), I And I Dub (Version), Prince, Vanity 6, Are You Loving? (Brand Image), Yes, Monster Mash, The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night/Miss You/Heaven, Giorgio Moroder (Knights In White Satin), Don Ray, Cerrone, Mutant Disco (ZE Records) - Kid Creole, Cristina, Lizzy Mercier Descloux + No Time To Stop Believing In Love (Daisy Chain), Black Devil Disco Club, Andy Arthur (Rabbit's Moon), The Voidoids, I-F, Papa Oom Mow Mow, Heard It Through The Grapevine (The Slits), Blue Bob (Lynch + Neff), Lucifer Rising (Beausoleil), Relax (Frankie's Sex Mix), Kiss Me Again and Again (Arthur Russell), Link Wray, I Eat Cannibals, Nucleo Antirapina - Bixio/Frizzi/Tempera (Beretta 70), Queen, Larry Levan + Shep Pettibone remixes, Vivien Goldman - Private Armies (dub), The Koln Concert (Keith Jarrett), Aural Exciters - My Boy Lollipop
Movies:
The Holy Mountain (Jodo), El Topo, Lost Highway, Euro-sleaze, Z-grades, De Palma - Sisters/Phantom of the Paradise, Roughies, Altman - 3 Women/The Long Goodbye, Midnight Movies, Private Parts (Bartel), Videodrome, The American Dreamer, What Is It?, Nudie Cuties, Eyes Without a Face, Margheriti - The Last Hunter/Cannibal Apocalypse, Liquid Sky, WIP, Magick Lantern Cycle, Gialli (Martino & Lenzi), Manhunter, 3-D, Ganja and Hess, Ed Wood, Bone (aka Dial Rat for Terror), Zabriskie Point, Mondo Movies, Blue Sunshine, Go Go Second Time Virgin, Maniac and Narcotic (Esper), Bad Timing, Hellman - The Shooting/ Two-Lane Blacktop/ Cockfighter, Fata Morgana (Herzog), Starship Troopers, Viy or Spirit of Evil, More (Schroeder), Bava - Black Sabbath/Black Sunday/ Hercules in the Haunted World/Danger: Diabolik, Grey Gardens, The Fruits of Passion, Sins of the Fleshapoids, Milligan - The Ghastly Ones/Seeds of Sin, Poliziotteschi (Sollima & Castellari), Django Kill, Man on the Moon, Mister Freedom, Paul Morrissey - Trash/Flesh/Heat/B4D & F4F, Salo, Harold and Maude, HGL's The Gore-Gore Girls, Deodato - The House on the Edge of the Park/Cannibal Holocaust, Michael Haneke (Glacial Trilogy), Master of the Flying Guillotine, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital, Fulci - The Beyond/Four of the Apocalypse, Out of the Blue, Sympathy for the Devil, Zulawski's Possession, Jack Hill - Spider Baby/Switchblade Sisters, Death Laid an Egg, Polanski - Repulsion/Cul-de-Sac/The Tenant, Night Tide, Love is the Devil, Demme - Silence of the Lambs/Something Wild, Argento - Tenebre/ Suspiria/Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Dreamers, The Beast, Carnival of Souls, JW (The Pope of Trash) - Pink Flamingos/Female Trouble/Serial Mom, Ze do Caixao (Jose Mojica Marins), Japanese Pinks 'n' Guinea Pigs, Ferrara - Driller Killer/Bad Lieutenant/Ms.45, Astro-zombies
Television:
I prefer not to. But do. Biker Build-Off on Discovery anyone?
Books:
Psychotronic (RIP), The Ghastly One (Andy Milligan), Psychotic Reactions (Lester Bangs), The Book of the Law, Frederic Brown, Andy Warhol Diaries, Please Kill Me, Playing The Field (Mamie Van Doren), Bizarre Sinema!, Hollywood Babylon, Inside Linda Lovelace, Dark Carnival (Tod Browning), Mondo Macabro, Edgar Allan Poe, John Wyndham, Richard Matheson, Laid Bare (John Gilmore), J.G. Ballard
Heroes:
"We could be... Just for one day." The Four Horsemen (from L to R): Donald Cammell, Dennis Hopper, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Kenneth Anger.
