Music, Music, Music, Travel (big wide world out there and I want to see as much of it as I can before I shuffle off this mortal coil...), movies, art (love pin-up artists of 40's, 50's & 60's), all things Tiki, creative pursuits (making clothes, soft furnishings and stuff), photojournalism - especially Weegee, singing (...mostly only in the bath these days...), the weird and the wonderful, the strange and the surreal, misfits and mavericks; lounge lizards and lunatics; Daydreaming, adventures...
I'd like to meet:
A whole host of people who are six feet under. Already met some of my heroes and other great people in the living world.
Music:
Music is my biggest passion in life.
Love: Rockabilly, Western Swing, Surf, 60's garage, Wild & Sleazy Rock n Roll, Blues, Exotica, Hillbilly, RnB (original meaning of the term not what passes for RnB today)
Also love songwriting of: Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Tindersticks, Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Richard Hawley, Tom Waits
Also love vocal talents of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Bessie Smith, Etta James, Laura Lopez Castro, Madeleine Peyroux
Also Composers: Angelo Badalamenti, Ennio Morricone, John Barry; Ryuichi Sakamoto, Joseph Canteloube, Claude Debussy
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"THE BEAST IN ME IS CAGED BY FRAIL AND FRAGILE BARS" Johnny Cash
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Movies:
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Mad about Film Noir. Love the movies of David Lynch, Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, John Walters, Tim Burton, Elia Kazan, Mike Leigh, Nicholas Roeg, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, David Lean, Martin Scorcese, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick. Love B-movies of 50's and 60's and The Loveless, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Trouble Every Day, The Vanishing (original Dutch 1986 version...cos it scares the bejaysus out of me), Cinema Paradiso, Bon Bon, The Motorcycle Diaries, 2000 Miles to Graceland, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Betty Blue, Lolita, Mystery Train, Nenette et Boni; Leaving Las Vegas, Jacob's Ladder, Belle du Jour, Ryan's Daughter, Jean de Florette, Manon des Source, Music Box, Sexy Beast, Walk the Line, West Side Story, An American in Paris, Breakfast at Tiffany's, LA Confidential, Black Dahlia, Amelie, A Kind of Loving, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, On The Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, 10 Rillington Place, The Girl Can't Help It, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Swingers, Christiane F, L'Homme du Train, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Honeymoon in Vegas, This Boy's Life, Once Upon a Time in America, Get Shorty, Carry on Screaming (for Oddbod and Oddbod junior) and many, many others too numerous to mention...
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Television:
All time fave TV programmes are Twin Peaks, The Sopranos and The Buddha of Suburbia. Also love Black Books, My Name is Earl, Extras, Shameless, Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, Teachers, Rome
Books:
An exhaustive list...but favourite books are 'To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway'. Among many others, I also love the following authors - John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, James Ellroy, Jake Arnott, J.D. Salinger, Charles Bukowski, Douglas Coupland, Boris Pasternak, Truman Capote, Roald Dahl and the wit of Oscar Wilde. Also love photojournalism/news photography, landscape and portrait photography - esp. Henri Cartier Bresson, Weegee, Diane Keaton, Margaret Bourke-White, Man Ray, David Seymour, Ansel Adams, Michael Melford & Arthur Tress; love travelogues, biographies and auto-biographies (but only of people who’ve led interesting/exciting/ meaningful lives – i.e. not Chavs, Wags, z-list celebrities or any other such non-entities
Heroes:
Mavericks. My ma and pa (aaaaah...) Some of my friends (names withheld to protect their modesty!). Hugely admire (and in some cases have an unhealthy obsession for) all of the musicians listed above. People with integrity and principles.
