The usual - sex drugs rock n roll. music, gigs, festivals, politics, literature, autism, black n white movies, amnesty international, weird cults/religions, world affairs, seahorses, coco chanel, travel, clarice cliff ceramics, philosophy, art deco jewellery, russian graphics, glitter balls, the seaside, the countryside, gilbert & george, green & blacks organic chocolate, rioja, vintage clothes, vodka, mac eyeshadow, red kite, joe malone soap, pop art, people watching, red lipstick, candles, cool cities, family and friends.
A cute bricklayer that reads Marx and plays the guitar. Failin that, anyone else that has something to say - apart from the usual 'get your twat out for the lads princess, have you got a webcam'. I'll give that one a miss ta matey if its all the same to you.....
Clash, Buzzcocks, Crass, Killing Joke, Television, Joy Division, Primal Scream, Nick Cave, 23 skidoo, Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Throbbing Gristle, The The, Cocteau Twins, PIL, The Kills, Camera Obscura, Half Man Half Biscuit, Nina Simone, The Velevet Undeground, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slaughter & The Dogs, Husker Du, Gang of Four, Patti Smith, Pogues, Ramones, Cat Power, The Wall, Libertines, The Only Ones, Teenage Fanclub, Cramps, T Rex, early Roxy, early Bowie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Poison Girls, This Mortal Coil, Lou Reed, Pixies, Dusty Springfield, Discharge, Dory Previn, Stone Roses, Brokn Bones, Carter USM, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Concretes. Oh and a lots of Punk, Ska, Dance, Trance, Northern Soul, and Motown. Big up the local lads Coda, Fifth Action Shelter, Andy Gower et al. Also loving The Dirty Pretty Things, Artic Monkeys, Strokes etc. but want to give it a few years just to make sure it's not a phase I'm goin through lol. Oh and Radio 6 music.
Straw Dogs, Jubilee, Dont Look Now, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Blue Velvet, The Killing Of Sister George, Pulp Fiction, A Taste of Honey, Clockwork Orange, On the Waterfront, Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Wild At Heart, Withnail and I, Bowling For Columbine, City Of God, Gypsy, Natural Born Killers and just about anything that makes me laugh or cry.
Peep Show, The Office, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, Grand designs, Louis Theroux, Spaced, The Singing Ringing Tree, MTV2, Soccer AM, Question Time, The Biography Channel, Will & Grace and yes, loads of other crap as the fancy takes.
On The Road, Atonement, Ecstacy, Edie Sedgwick, Shackleton's Boat Journey, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita,The Bell Jar, Diary of a Drug Fiend, The ragged trousered philanthropist, Madame Bovary, The Big Man, The Colour Purple, Rebecca, Motorcycle Diaries, The Book of Lies, Love in a Time of Cholera, The Happy Prince, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Junkie, American Psycho, Biographies and Autobiographies galore, poetry, art history, serial killers, philosophy, BNF. Also reading all the books on kids abused by nuns or uncles, or kids with autism, or autistic kids abused by nuns and uncles, Bible, Quoran, Communist manifesto, Chairman Mao's little red book, Oh and the Argos catologue. Amongst others.
Ernest Shackleton, Tony Benn, Joe Strummer, Maya Angelou, John Peel, Lenin, Edie Sedgwick, Michael Collins, Simone de Beauvoir, Charles Rennie McIntosh, Dorothy Parker.