Drawing, painting and looking at pictures, making things and making a mess, dressing up and prancing around, dancing and disgracing myself, fairies and ghosts, castles and witches, viking and classical mythology, comics...
Publishers and those seeking an artist for hire, fellow artists, potential fairy models ( although I'm generally too skint to pay) and kindred spirited creatures.
Well...these are a few of my favourite things ( of the sonic variety ) - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Edgar Broughton Band, Jethro Tull, The Incredible String Band, Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, The Groundhogs, Fairport Convention, Trees, ACDC, Black Sabbath, Kate Bush, Marillion, Melanie, Donovan, The Kinks, Queens of The Stone Age, ZZ top, The White Stripes, Traffic, Pink Floyd, Blodwyn Pig, Frank Zappa, The Waterboys, Circulus, Supergrass, King Crimson, David Bowie, Ian Dury, X-ray Spex, Roy Harper, Deep Purple, Hawkwind, The Pretty Things, The Patti Smith Group, The Violent Femmes, The Pixies, Babes in Toyland...
Harold and Maude, Don't Look Now, The Haunting, The Innocents, Rosemary's Baby, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Time Bandits, Curse of the Cat People, Dance of The Vampires, Performance, If, Hammer/Amicus anthology films, especially From Beyond the Grave, Night of the Demon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, ...
Doctor Who ( proper stuff, not this modern rubbish ), Blakes Seven, Sapphire and steel, a lot of Seventies children's television; The Secret Garden, The Owl Service, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Enchanted Castle, Jackanory, Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, ...
I'm crazy about Dickens, yeah, Charlie is ma darlin'! My friend Dassini is a huge fan too and we've toyed with the idea of getting T-shirts printed with " I'm a total Dick-head", and our boy's portrait on them! Other favourite authors include; John Fowles, Mervyn Peake, J.R.R. Tolkein, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, John Irving, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Wilkie Collins, M.R James, Alan Garner and Douglas Adams... and a handfull of my best beloved books are; Dombey and Son, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Rabbits' Wedding, Farewell to Shady Glade, Peter Pan ( illustrated by Mabel Lucy Atwell ), The Lord Of The Rings, The Magus, Titus Groan...