The picture below pretty much sums it all up right now...
Bring your camera, take a photo of life on the margins, offer money in exchange for sex & then get a taxi home.
Faux intellectuals, aesthetes and artistes. Angelheaded hipsters. Fellow fops, dandies, dahlings and cads.
Some current favourites and some oldies but goldies... neu!, the monochrome set, colleen, nick cave and the bad seeds, scout niblett, the twilight sad, coco rosie, shannon wright, battles, von sudenfed, i'm from barcelona, deerhoof, richard hawley, joanna newsom, the national, chris clark, pj harvey, acid house kings, of montreal, einsterzende neubauten, joy division, camera obscura, espers, the field mice, a hawk and a hacksaw, pulp, lindstrom, los campesinos, the emperor machine, low, blonde redhead, velvet underground, the smiths, magnetic fields, kraftwerk, mccarthy, manics, lightning bolt, super furry animals, au revoir simone, the fall, galaxie 500, scott walker, bat for lashes, life without buildings, brian eno, dirty three, led zeppelin, roy orbison, nico, cocteau twins, alden tyrell, the cure, yo la tengo, portishead, human league, neil young, cat power, smog, radiohead, can, bjork, bob dylan, aphex twin, brian eno, can, tom waits. bits and bobs, odds and sods.
taxi driver, saturday night sunday morning, dr. strangelove, blue velvet, withnail & I, vertigo, spinal tap, a clockwork orange, funny face, kes, napoleon dynamite, the goonies, lost in translation, edward scissorhands, apocalypse now, a taste of honey, he loves me he loves me not, apocalypse now, the royal tenenbaums, brewster's millions, eraserhead, punch-drunk love, wicker man, whistle down the wind, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, vanishing point, if..., persona, weird science, the running man, weekend at bernie's, night of the hunter, dead man's shoes, jaws. cult films, 80's films (particularly of the John Hughes variety), classic films, kitchen sink films, gratuitously tacky 80s horror films, art house films, happy go lucky family films.
I'm Alan Partridge, curb your enthusiasm, twin peaks, brass eye, documentaries on egyptology/sharks/dinosaurs, 24, this morning with richard not judy, peep show, dark place, round the twist, game on, fist of fun, monkey dust, cheers, friends, seinfeld, marion & geoff, maid marian & her merry men, friday night armistice, room 101, the office, phoenix nights, family guy, eerie indiana, twilight zone, the day today, nathan barley, director's commentary, the simpsons, spaced, jam. I haven't watched TV in about three years, so I fear I may be lagging behind. It doesn't bother me awfully.
who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish...
Lord Byron (homeboy), T.E Lawrence (a homeboy of sorts), Oscar Wilde, Roy Orbison, George Orwell, Diogenes, Neil Young, Noel Coward. ..