JAS

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Writing, music, film, art, the smell of old books, thunderstorms,red wine,the smell of new books,Belgian beer,the woods,the mountains,the beach,my mum’s cooking,DMTandthepineal gland,rain on concrete, cooking, telecommunications,travel,Buddhism,sticking knives in toasters, sex,metaphysics,Jungianarchetypes,shamanism,mythology,psycho logy,lucid dreaming,sleep paralysis,Alice in Wonderland Syndrome,reading on the toilet,hero’sand themonomyth,early morningstrollsin the city,a damn good stiff drink, epiphanous inspiration,sushi,cheep Spanishbrandy,paintingthings,a sneaky cigarette from time to time, technology,moules mariniere,Dadaism,human consciousness,forteana,extreme activities,tortilla española,Taoism,the I-Ching,PatronTequila,surrealism,listing things,trekking through the jungle,sacred geometry,thrashing mymountainbikeacross thecountryside,the numbers7,14, 21,23,42,waking up surrounded by dolphins on Milford Sound,single malt whisky,existentialism, gazing into roaring hearths, Thai beaches,magical realism,consciousnessandmicrotubules,chorizo española,synchronicity,meditation,my goldfish,my tortoise.my weird and slightly camp cat – Dan,spending quality time with my dogand best friend – Bonnie,long moody walks on the South Downs,discovering the mysteries behind the turning of the leaves…And generallyloving mygirlfriend to bits.

I enjoy writing, however, I regret spending too little time on the things I find important whilst whittling away the best part of my life fighting entropy and ennui in a day job I fuckcuntin detest! I spend too much time reading novels and not enough time writing them! I’m more creative during the low points in my life; however when I’m at my most creative I am too preoccupied with despondency to write!

Music ::

Ahh... El duende! Music, a sublime and a major part of my life…

Nick Cave, Les Savy Fav, Tom Waites, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Klaxons, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, CSS, X-Ray Specs, Thom Yorke, Cold War Kids, Goldfrapp, Stereolab, Patti Smith, P. J. Harvey, The Stones, Thievery Corporation, Sufjan Stevens, White Stripes, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Blonde Redhead, Nirvana, The Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, Graham Coxon, The Prodigy, Johnny Cash, The Happy Mondays, Manic Street Preachers, Faithless, The Sex Pistols, The Specials, Frank Black, Anne Pigalle, Dinosaur Jr, Venetian Snares, Arcade Fire, TV on the Radio, Beth Orton, The Sundays, Faun Fables, Bravery, Breeders, Peter Bjorn and John, Ivor Cutler, Portishead, Regina Spektor, Animal Collective, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Yo La Tengo, Paco de Lucía, The Earlies, The Cinematic Orchestra, Isobel Campbel, Bright Eyes, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Reindeer Section, Carmen Amaya, Pizzicato Five, Tricky, Pixies, José González, Natacha Atlas, The Killers, The Kills, Buzzcocks, Underworld, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clinic, Strokes, Belle and Sebastian, Death Cab For Cutie, Shitdisco, Massive Attack, Moloko, Concrete Blonde, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Jose Merce, Manitas de Plata, Francoise Hardy, Future Sounds Of London, Janes Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Stranglers, M83, Dears, Modest Mouse, La Paquera de Jerez, Sneaker Pimps, Hope Sandoval, Costa Sur, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Ravi Shankar, Telvin Sing, Orbital, Tanya Donelly (Belly), Velvet Underground, Animal Collective, Ibrahim Ferrer, Gotan Project, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bebel Gilberto, Martires del Compas, Electric Six, Nina Pastori, Broadcast, Nine Inch Nails, The Only Ones, Polyphonic Spree, Flaming Lips, Bloc Party, Future Kings of Spain, Stiff Little Fingers, Jose Guadalupe Posada, Smashing Pumpkins, Blur, Godspeed You Black Emperor, My Bloody Valentine, Gorillaz, Ojos De Brujo, Mystery Jets, Bowie, Mercury Rev, Chemical Brothers, Gogol Bordello, Kings of Leon, CocoRosie, Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses etc...), Faithless, Fat Boy Slim, Go! Team, Death In Vegas, We Are Scientists, Small Faces, The Cure, Sinéad O'Connor, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Graham Coxon, Boards of Canada, Blue States, Guillemots, Chavela Vargas, The Doors, Magnetic Fields, Liz Phair, Unkle, Lou Reed, Hope Of The States, Bob Marley, Sleater-Kinney, Howling Bells, Moloko, Ian Brown, Muse, Le Tigre, Low, Secret Machines, International Noise Conspiracy, Nirvana, Placebo, The Prodigy, Joy Division, Fugazi, Stone Roses…

The list is endless!

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Books ::

Much too many to mention, but here are a few authors and poets (in no particular order) that have made an impact on my life…

William Blake, Federico Garcia Lorca, Albert Camus, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Ben Okri, William S. Burroughs, Gabriel José García Márquez, Anthony Burgess, Iain Banks, Hunter S. Thompson, George Orwell, William Golding, Will Self, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, F.Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Haruki Murakami, Anghelos Sikelianos, Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, Romain Rolland, Kobo Abe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carlo Suarès, Kurt Vonnegut, Honoré de Balzac, Christopher Marlowe, James Joyce, Mikhail Bulgakov, Terence McKenna, Graham Greene, Octavio Paz, Arthur Rimbaud, John Betjeman, Shakespeare, Keri Hulme, Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Hermann Hesse, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Daniil Kharms, Giovanni Boccaccio, Zadie Smith, Kurt Vonnegut, Patrick Suskind, Nostrodamus, Thomas Mann, Anthony Burgess, André Breton, Philip K. Dick, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Lao-Tse, Bret Easton Ellis, J.T.Leroy (Laura Albert), Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki, Geoffrey Chaucer, J.D. Salinger, Dante Alighieri, Ovid, Aleister Crowley, Carl Jung, Lewis Carroll, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Noam Chomsky, John Steinbeck, Peter Kropotkin, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Robert M. Pirsig, Roald Dahl, Alfred Tennyson, Marcel Proust, François Rabelais, Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Bukowski, Ken Kesey, Joseph Campbell, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, W. B. Yeats, Tom Stoppard, Joe Orton, J.G. Ballard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Confucius, Petronius, Homer...

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Films ::

I could go on and on and on and on and on…

The Children Of Men, Wings of Desire, Pan's Labyrinth, V For Vendetta, Oldboy, Irreversible, Requiem for a Dream, Science of Sleep, Donnie Darko, Run Lola Run, Dr. Strangelove, House of Flying Daggers, Intacto, Amelie, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Rosemary's Baby, Sexy Beast, Braindead, The Hunger, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, The Cremaster Cycle, Mulholland Drive, Chungking Express, Dancer In The Dark, Los Olvidados, Memento, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Barton Fink, Lost Highway, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Nosferatu, Lost In Translation, La Dolce Vita, Fight Club, Los Amantes del Círculo Polar, Virgin Suicides, Amantes, Withnail And I, Communion, The Shining, Peeping Tom, City of Lost Children, Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios, Delicatessen, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Motorcycle Diaries, Evil Dead, Y Tu Mama Tambien, El Angel Exterminador, Pi, Volver, Wild at Heart, Pulp Fiction, Lunacy, El Espíritu de la Colmena, 2046, Down by Law, Battle Royale, Blue Velvet, Abre Los Ojos, Dead Man, Being John Malkovitch, Videodrome, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Amores Perros, Rear Window, 28 Days Later, My Neighbor Totoro, Seventh Seal, El Sol del Membrillo, Kill Bill, Apocalypse Now, Trainspotting, Tierra, Orlando, Babette's Feast, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mulholland Drive, Lekce Faust, Last Tango in Paris, Santa Sangre, Taxi Driver, Excalibur, Les Diaboliques, Jamón, Jamón, Hellraiser, Un Chien Andalou, Naked, Aguirre - Wrath Of God, Belle de Jour, La Ardilla Roja, Apocalypse Now, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Oldboy, A Clockwork Orange, Solaris, Lucía y el Sexo, The Wicker Man…

Anything by Julio Médem, David Lynch, Dennis Potter, Luis Buñuel, Argento, Jim Jarmusch, Michel Gondry, Jan ,,vankmajer, Peter Jackson, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Terry Gilliam, Brothers Quay, Bigas Luna, Joel and Ethan Coen, David Cronenberg, Lars Von Trier, Tim Burton, Sofia Coppola, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Víctor Erice, Alejandro Amenábar, Stanley Kubrick, Guillermo Del Toro, Pedro Almodovar, Hayao Miyazaki, Carlos Atanes, Quentin Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman, Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Wim Wenders…

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Art ::

Tracey Emin, Piero della Francesca, BANKSY, Egon Schiele, Modigliani, Salvador Dali, Jo Baer, Matthew Barney, Tobias Bernstrup, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Francisco Goya, Alex Grey, Antony Gormley, Félix González-Torres, Gilbert and George, H.R. Giger, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Aya Takano, Andy Warhol, Antoni Gaudí, Louise Bourgeois, Robert J Brawley, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Caravaggio, Francesco Clemente, Guy Denning…

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Television ::

The drug of the nation, breeding freaks and emitting radiation!

Twin Peeks, Lost, Blackadder, The League of Gentlemen, Spaced, Sugar Rush, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Black Books, The Office, Extras, The Prisoner...

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Heros ::

Better to say that these are people I respect:

Ernest Hemingway, Che Guevara, Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama)... My family and friends.

Oh and George W. Bush (Yeah, like fuckin fuck!).