"The Oliver Twist Manifesto"
Professional cynic. Misanthrope. Insomniac. I can't walk past a second hand book shop without going inside. Likewise, record shops. Intrigued by absurdities, oddities & quirks. I like snow, printed material, boots, dancing, drawing, libraries, good food, museums, wine, my bed, dresses, green tea, eyeliner, dj-ing, art galleries, well worn t-shirts, vinyl, photography, snow leopards, words, synths & graffiti. I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass.
You'll have to give me some time to think about that.
"So unplug the jukebox..."
Barry Adamson, Adverts, As Mercenarias, Adam & The Ants, The Barracudas, Blondie, Big Star, David Bowie, Blonde Redhead, Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Angelo Badalamenti, John Cale, Can, Captain Beefheart, Birthday Party /Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Grinderman, Leonard Cohen, The Colourfield, Chicks On Speed, Bobby Conn, Clinic, Elvis Costello, CSS, Dead Kennedys, Deaf School, Destroy All Monsters, Dexys Midnight Runners, Devo, Dirty Three, Duran Duran, Durutti Column, Ian Dury, Echo & The Bunnymen, Eno, ESG, Elastica, The Faint, The Fall, Felt, Fun Boy Three, Gang Of Four, Gary Numan, The Go Betweens, God Speed You Black Emperor!, Goldfrapp, Human League, Ideal, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Japan, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Lene Lovich, Leiber & Stoller, Les Rythmes Digitales, The Long Blondes, Soft Cell, Luke Haines/The Auteurs/Baader Meinhof/BBR, New Order, Marianne Faithfull, John Foxx, Magazine, Martha & the Muffins, My Bloody Valentine, Mission Of Burma, The Only Ones, Os Mutantes, Nick Drake, Orange Juice, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, The Sound, Patrick Wolf, Peter Schilling, The Pop Group, Propoganda, PJ Harvey, PIL, Primitives, Astor Piazzolla, Psychedelic Furs, Prince, Jonathan Richman /Modern Lovers, The Raincoats, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Roxy Music, The Runaways, The Ramones, The Slits, Sparks, The Specials, Sonic Youth, The Smiths /Moz, Scritti Politti, Soft Cell, Squeeze, T Rex, Talking Heads, Teardrop Explodes, Television, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, Trost, Scott Walker, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Townes Van Zandt, Visage, X, Wire, XTC, Zoot Woman, those that appreciate the majesty of hand-claps and tambourines in pop music.
"Give me a good film noir and a bottle of gin..."
Talk To Her, Ed Wood, Pretty In Pink [even if the ending is all wrong], The Big Sleep, Lost Boys, All About My Mother, Edward Scissorhands, Of Kind Hearts & Coronets, Grosse Point Blank, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Nightmare Before Christmas, Casablanca, Passport To Pimlico, Secretary, Ghostworld, Music Of Chance, Blow Up, Manhattan, Velvet Goldmine, Bad Education, Fargo, Clerks, The Apartment, Withnail & I, Broken Flowers, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Death In Venice, The Maltese Falcon, Shaun Of The Dead, The Grifters, Little Shop Of Horrors, Seance On A Wet Afternoon, Vertigo, Night Of The Hunter, M, Annie Hall, Science Of Sleep, Secrets & Lies, Wisconsin Death Trip, In Cold Blood, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Mystery Train, Brick
"And everything is real..."
Rising Damp, Spaced, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Buffy, Boston Legal, The Fall And Rise Of Reggie Perrin, Porridge, The Likely Lads, Our Friends In The North, House, Black Books, The Secret Life Of Us, Threads, Doctor Who, Green Wing, Hancock's Half Hour
"All my books are on loan..."
BS Johnson, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, AL Kennedy, F Scott Fitzgerald, Toby Litt, Douglas Coupland, John Fowles, Jonathan Coe, Louise Welsh, JG Ballard, Haruki Murakami, Muriel Spark, Donna Tartt, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Christopher Isherwood, Graham Greene, Alan Warner, also history, music, travel, food, art and film type things.
"Though nothing will drive them away..."
Lauren Bacall, Luke Haines, Alan Shore, Humphrey Bogart, Tony Hancock, Cindy Sherman