Lego, Triang, Santa Claus, Mk 1 Zephyrs, Painting sumbarines, Sky Diving at Night, Tooth Football, Flange pruning, Bacchanalia, Dogs, Tropical Fish, Golf (I have rekindled my love for the game - used to have a 16 handicap), Tiny things and definitely not wedding rings anymore, Gardening (we have nearly 40 acres, so I am kept busy!), Fine wine and fine dining - Scallops and Lobster are my faves, Transcendental masturbation, Ladies with glasses and big chests, Spotty bots, Booze (of any description - just check out my stomach for the proof!), Classic cars and Hot Rods,
I'd like to meet:
The Usual Suspects...Anybody who is a tad "different" who likes Rochee and the Sarnos, has a prediliction for classical music, impressionist art, trees.Anyone who remembers the halcyon days of late 1970s/1980s Rockabilly and wants to "go back home"...
Music:
Rochee and the Sarnos, Alan Vega, The legendary stardust cowboy, DAG, Soundgarden, Subway Sect, The Musical Linn Twins, The Smiths, David Cassidy, Led Zeppelin, Vashti Bunyan, Elvis, Johnny Burnette, Chuck Berry, Nick Drake, Kasbian, The Moonlighters, The Phantom, Sex Pistols, Tom Schwoll (The King of Rock n Roll), Bo Diddley, The Clash, Pink Floyd, Love, Jimi Hendrix, Wild Rockabilly (check out www.nohitrecords.co.uk for some absolute monsters!), Herbie Duncan (the king!), Pavarotti, Marc Bolan, W.L. Horning, Tom Waits, The Cure, Talking Heads, Little Richard, Cream, Bread, Iggy Pop, Simon & Garfunkel, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Big Audio Dynamite, Billy Jenkins (the undisputed Genius), Le Chat Noir (so fabulous, I can hardly believe it), The Cure, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Trümmelschlager !!! (pur sang!)
Movies:
Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Genevieve, Eraserhead, Goodfellas, M, Les yeux sans Visage, The Godfather, 8 and a half, Captains Corageous, Lost Horizon, The Spirit of the Beehive, Peeping Tom, A matter of Life and Death, Taxi Driver, Seven Samurai, Vanishing Point, Gone to Earth, An American in Paris, The Band Wagon, Funny Face, A streetcar named Desire, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, The Pawnbroker, Yojimbo, The life and death of Colonel Blimp, Planet of the Apes, La Strada, Cinema Paradiso, Il postino, Waterloo, The Servant, Tin Drum, Aguirre, Wrath of God (any Herzog, naturlich), Greed, Le testament du Dr Cordelier, La Grande Illusion, El topo, Freaks, Branded to Kill, Battleship Potemkin, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Cape Fear (both), Night of the Hunter
Television:
No, not at all, it sucks out your brain and flushes your hope down the toilet.Apart from Coronation Street, oh, and Eastenders, and Family Man and Fur TV and early 1970s sitcoms - anyone remember The Lovers? - Geoffrey Bobbles Bon Bon.
Books:
The Bible, Moby Dick, The seven pillars of Wisdom, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Hobbit, In Cold Blood, Wuthering Heights (because you've got to have a bit of romance in your life), In cold blood, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Heroes:
Elvis, El Presidente!, Gary Cooper, James Dean, Alec Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Van Gogh, Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro, The Queen, Sir Richard Attenborough, Dali, Nick Drake, Robert Plant, Degas, Druschba, Johnny Rotten, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Marlon Brando, Mother Theresa, Wildcat Bjorn, Him!, Her, Them!, The Batmos, Spark,
