No pissin around now, poodles, noodles, magna doodles, complete financial collapse or the second coming, M.C.F.C dog naming, tree climbing, roller skating, hair twiddling, coffee martini's, any type of cheese, live music, llamas, fire, and spiders.
Tom Waits, David "the Hoff" Hasslehoff, Bill Bailey, Dr Cox, Trent Reznor, Tallulah Bankhead, Mervyn Peake, the really tall boy with a girls name I met last year at the Nine Inch Nails gig, the person that shaved my head at a house party, Julliette lewis, Pandemonium and Jaws oooh and the Fabulous Reid Paley, and Frank Black, anyone who thinks they can keep me in line and the people I have lost touch with due to my inability to keep hold of a mobile phone.
Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster, Nine Inch Nails, Wolf Mother, Broken Family Band, Monster Magnet, I am Kloot, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Smashing Pumpkins, Jeff Buckley, P.J harvey, Elbow, Slinky Wizard, Growling Mad Scientists, Infected Mushroom, Bizet, Autechre, Steve Hillage(particularly mirror system) GnR, Indigo Jones, Prince (not the guiltiest of my guilty pleasures), The Datsuns, The Racounters, Kings of Leon, Oceansize for bouncing on the bed, Miles Davis for hoovering (try it!) Elvis with my mum, and Thunder when youre pissed off, (there is no harm in a little poodle rock once in a while) and, of course singing along to musicals when one has had one too many.
Half way through Don Quixote, I am finding it hard going, the language is beautiful, amazing translation, but I can only manage an hour at a time, a little out of my league, but I am a persistant fellow.
Finished the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo and got very upset by it,
Really enjoying Moby Dick at the minute, I found a bargain classic section in borders.
I need a good comedy, The real Elvis story was fucking hilarious, I have never found it's equal!
Just started to read Hunter S Thomson and Andy Warhol snippets simultaneously and it is having a rather bizzare effect on my ability to take anything or anyone seriously!
I am completley obsessed with Neil Gaiman at the moment, so the last books I've read are Coraline, American gods, Smoke and mirrors, Stardust, and I am gonna re-read Neverwhere, and Anansi Boys and hopefully I can get back to my normal everyday reading habits.
My favourite book of all time is Gormenghast, it is the epitome of literary escapism, and my friends are bored of me shitting on about that too!
Mervyn Peake was a very talented fellow, an amazing illustrator famous for the drawings in Lewis Carroll's "Through the looking glass" He was a great poet my favourite being,
The vastest things are those we may not learn.
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.
I have shamelessly tried to pass that off as one of mine on several occasions, and probably will again, I think it is beautiful.
I have just read Milean Kundera's The unbearable lightness of being, didn't like the ending much I felt cheated. Yann Martell's The Life of Pi is an absoloute corker making you feel lonley, loved, lost and found in turns and just a little seasick. The amazing story of Mabel Stark is one to look for, the first female lion tamer, it's a true story. will continue to add......
My friends V and Fluff, show me how it should be done, and are a constant source of amazement and inspiration.