Avoiding being declared destitute and thrown to the wild dogs. Staring at people in the street, bars, clubs and in supermarkets. Bonkers arthouse cinema. Modernist architecture. Making a nuisance of myself at Duckie on a Saturday night. Dogs. Otters. Bears. Beards. Travel.
Already met the Queen, so it's downhill from there...
Eclectic but mostly retro... Nina Simone - Bowie - Grace Jones - Mama Cass - Neil Young - Altered Images - Fleetwood Mac - Bjork - Joni Mitchell - Carole King - Salif Keita - Rufus Wainwright - Suede - Candi Staton - The Smiths - Motown - 1920s jazz - 1930s/40s big-band
Filmmakers inc. John Waters - Catherine Breillat - François Ozon - Alberto Cavalcanti - Hitchcock - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Susanne Bier - Billy Wilder... Films inc. Sunset Boulevard - Brief Encounter - Twelve Monkeys - Anatomy of Hell - Downfall - Blackmail - Mamma Roma - Salò - The Women - A Cottage on Dartmoor - Female Trouble - 5x2 - Basic Instinct 2 (!) - Mildred Pierce
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Nighty Night - Kath & Kim - Property Ladder - Any WWII doc with dodgy archive footage
Donna Tartt - The Secret History, The Little Friend; Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children; Sarah Waters - The Night Watch; George Orwell; Philip Larkin; historical biogs, most recent ones of Eva Braun and Lee Miller - film-related autobiogs esp. trashy ones.
Grace Jones - John Waters - Sharon Stone - Sarah Beeny -Angela Carter - Oliver Reed - Derek Jarman - Pasolini