My Amazing Friends. Music. Loving. Laughing. Taking the Piss. Passion. Opinions. Eating. Football (THFC). Photography. Festivals. My Ipod. Ebay. Junk Shops. Fancy Dressing Up and Dressing Up Fancy. Dixieland. Road Trips. New Places. Swimming in Ponds. Diving the Deep Blue Sea. Haybales at Sunrise. Willesden Junction Sunsets. Super 8. Leapfrog. Smiley Eyes. Skin (especially unexpected sensitive bits). Scars, Moles + Birthmarks. Underwear. My Bed. Champagne + Oysters. Cheese. Sushi. Meat. Borough Market. Trees. Mountains. Maps. Lists. Learning Stuff. No Regrets. High Jinks. States of Bliss. Random Adventures. Thoughtful Gestures. Magic Moments. 3 hour phone calls. Butterflies + Goosebumps. Romancing. Dancing. Kissing. Running Away. Coming Home.
Funny naughty girls. Charismatic deviant boys. Dancers. Romancers. Someone who dreams of Dixie road trips. Honky Tonk Heroes like me.
Mr Jerry Lee Lewis. Bob Dylan. Charlie Rich. Merle Haggard. George Jones. Willie 'n' Waylon. Gram/Burritos. Townes Van Zandt. Hank Williams. Lefty Frizell. Bob Wills. John Prine. Kristofferson. Johnny Cash. Dan Penn. Dion. Gene Vincent. Buddy Holly. Aretha. Dusty. Dolly. Joni. John Phillips. Lee Hazlewood. Leonard Cohen. Everley Bros. Allen Toussaint. Willie Tee. James Booker. Fess. Snooks Eaglin. Clarence Carter. Otis Redding. Bobby 'Blue' Bland. Muddy. Wolf. Bessie Smith. Chet Baker. Duke Ellington. Sinatra. Billie Holliday. Louis Armstrong. Jelly Roll Morton. Fats Waller. Curtis. Prince. The Clash. Dexys. The Stooges. Johnny Thunders. The New York Dolls. Velvet Underground. Patti Smith. Blondie. New Order. Primal Scream. Happy Mondays. GnR. Rolling Stones. The Beach Boys. Bowie. Love. "Rumours". Arcade Fire. Midlake. the Rumble Strips. SFA. Doves. Jenny Lewis+the Watson Twins. Belle+Sebastian. Kitty, Daisy+Lewis. Sons+Daughters. Dirty basslines. Dirty harmonica solos. Heartbreaking fiddle solos. Sweet old Doo Wop 7s. Lyrics that make me cry. Soaring vocal melodies. Bob Harris on Radio 2. The radio in general. And so so much more...
Badlands. The Godfathers. La Reine Margot. Chinatown. The Shining. Rosemary's Baby. It's A Wonderful Life. Imitation of Life. In the Mood for Love. North By Northwest. An Affair to Remember. The Apartment. Paper Moon. Harold+Maude. Annie Hall. Sweet+Lowdown. Straight Story. When Harry Met Sally. Arthur. New York New York. La Cage aux Folles. Willie Wonka+the Chocolate Factory. Don't Look Now. Don't Look Back. Cocksucker Blues...and that scene in the Detroit hotel bar in Out of Sight.
Sopranos. Seinfeld. Larry Sanders. Diff'rent Strokes. The Muppet Show. Antiques Roadshow. Coast. The dulcet tones of David Attenborough. Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's River Cottage. And the football, especially lovely Adrian Chiles on MOTD2.
Any Peter Guralnick+Stanley Booth. Nick Tosches 'Hellfire'. John Phillips 'Papa John'. Legs McNeil 'Please Kill Me'. John Kennedy Toole 'Confederacy of Dunces'. Richard Yates 'Revolutionary Road'. William Faulkner 'Sanctuary'. Carson McCuller 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'. Sam Shepard shorts. Flannery O'Connor shorts. John Berendt 'Midnight in the Garden of Good+Evil'. Donna Tartt 'Secret History'. George Orwell '1984'. Mikhael Bulgakov 'The Master+Margarita'. Jerry Stahl 'Permanent Midnight'. Bret Easton Ellis 'American Psycho'. John Fowles 'The Collector'. Roald Dahl 'Kiss Kiss'. Nancy Friday 'My Secret Garden'. Anais Nin's Diaries. Bill Brandt's Nudes. Eggleston's '2+1/4'. Joseph Szabo's 'Teenage'. Pennie Smith's 'Before+After'.
Holding out for a hero.