European Son (aka Bantha)

I'd like to meet:

Music:

I am a massive DURAN DURAN fan, ive been since 1983 and I think I will be for the rest of my life, they are the band with the greatest influence on my life. Maybe they are not the greatest band in the world for some, but some people listen to Queen and Radiohead so... nobody's perfect! Anyway, between 1975 and 2007 most of the following bands have been playing on my ghettoblaster / cd playerCURE // DEPECHE MODE // JAPAN // SUEDE-THE TEARS-BRETT solo // The Beatles // The Who // The Kinks // The Small Faces // T-Rex // Abba // Boney M // David Bowie // Roxy Music // Prince // U2 // Simple Minds // The Psychdelic Furs // Spandau Ballet // Wham // Culture Club // Paul Young // Matt Bianco // Swing Out Sister // Blow Monkeys // The Thompson Twins // Madonna // Guns N Roses // Iron Maiden // Megadeth // D.A.D. // Billy Idol // The Stone Roses // Happy Mondays // Ride // The Charlatans // Swervedriver // My Bloody Valentine // Slowdive // Manic Street Preachers // Blur // Oasis // New Order // Joy Division // The MaryOnettes // Ghosts // Editors // Ladytron // All About Eve // A Certain Ratio // Cocteau Twins // Damned // The Cult // The Mission // PFM // Banco // Area // Denovo // Bluvertigo // SubsOnicA // Marlene Kuntz // Franco Battiato // Mina // Loredana Berte // Alberto Camerini // Ivan Cattaneo // Moda // Negazione // Garbo // Diaframma // Litfiba (prima di El Diablo) // GazNevada // Giorgio Moroder // Donna Summer // Amii Stewart // Madreblu // Soon // Prozac + // DDinARM // Everything But The Girl-Tracey Thorn // Bauhaus // Pulp (and Jarvis) // Travis // Coldplay // Idlewild // Gene // THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES // Bon Jovi // POISON // Motley Crue // Warrant // Cinderella // REO Speedwagon // Pet Shop Boys // The Smiths-Morrissey // The Pale Fountains-Shack // Lloyd Cole and The Commotions // China Crisis // Wham!- George solo // STEREOLAB // DAVE MATTHEWS BAND // The Police // Paul Weller-The Jam-Style Council // Shed Seven // Primal Scream // Sleeper // The Wedding Present // Carter USM // Echobelly // Theaudience-Sophie Ellis Bextor // Menswe@r // Mansun // THE BRITPOP PHENOMENON BETWEEN 1993 AND 1999 // Massive Attack // Morcheeba // Razorlight // Upper Room // Placebo // The Killers // Ash // Muse // Sigur Ros // The Feeling // Adorable // Strangelove // Joni Mitchell // Soft Cell // The Cooper Temple Clause // Afterhours // Verdena // Nine Inch Nails // Marilyn Manson // Lacuna Coil // 3 Doors Down // Third Eye Blind // Bush // PORCUPINE TREE / BLACKFIELD // Band Of Horses // Jimmy Eat World // Garbage // Pavement // Pixies // Grandaddy // Cake // Aztec Camera // The Associates // Elvis Costello // Teenage Fanclub // Belle and Sebastian // Lambchop // Client-Dubstar // Erasure // The Human League // Propaganda-Act-OneTwo // Robbie Williams // KENT // ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN // KRAFTWERK // The Verve // Kula Shaker // Delays // The Ark // Feeder // Cut-Copy // Shout Out Louds // Your Vegas // Daysleepers ... and the list can go on and on and onI also love everything between 1982 and 1989, all the one hit wonders, Italo Dance, Baby Records (Gazebo, Novecento, Ryan Paris, Scotch, Den Harrow, Ken Laszlo, Finzi Contini, Valerie Dore...)

Movies:

American History X // Volver (and all of Pedro's... he is MY FAVOURITE) // Gladiator // Schindler's List // L'Ultimo Bacio // Le Fate Ignoranti // La Famiglia // Roma Citta'Aperta // Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo (and the whole Spencer/Hill filmography) // La Finestra di Fronte // Romanzo Criminale // Now Voyager // Whatever happened to Baby Jane // Spirited Away (and the Studio Ghibli collection) // The Life Aquatic // Lost in Translation // Goodbye Lenin // 101 Reykjavik // My life is a dog // Cars, Finding Nemo, Monsters & Co, Toy Story, A Bug's Life (PIXAR RULES) //

Television:

Books:

Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini // Catcher in the Rye // To Kill a Mockingbird // Fontamara // High Fidelity // Norwegian Wood // The Wrong Boy // the Shopaholic collection ;)

Heroes:

My dad // My mum // John Lennon // Nick Rhodes