art; music; literature; sex, drugs and rock n roll; subverting the system; gigs; thinking about stuff; pissfarting around; hangin out in the hammock reading; swimming; making up things to be interested in; hackysack; all sorts of stuff really - fuck man this bit could really go on! I like funny comedians - not the shitty slapsticky types but the one's who are incisively, acutely, darkly funny; treefrog green 76 holden hx panelvans; I'm interested in politics - although I've just given notice at my job as I'm finding the ego and politics involved just too too TOO fucking awful; I'm interested in handsome men, I'm also interested in men who aren't particularly handsome on the outside but have an inquiring and open mind about things; Staying up reeeeeeally late on a school night when you should be in bed sleeping and you KNOW you're going to regret it but you think fuck it and stay up anyways because after all I'M THE BOSS OF ME!!!; Chargers - tough!;sparkly stuff - really like sparkly stuff; thinking dismissively about vapid people; wishing ebola on a few special individuals I've come across in my lifetime; Having serious conversations with people about important stuff; Having excessively silly conversations with people about completely unimportant stuff; laughing alot and making other people laugh alot; saying completely inappropriate things on the radio and in the workplace to see if I can get away with it; random acts of complete insanity;words - I'm a TOTAL word-nerd and utterly unashamed of it - I mean I can totally tell you what paraskavedekatriaphobia is (fear of friday the 13th) and I can give you 3 words straight up that have all the vowels a,e,i,o,u in them and in that order: facetious (inappropriately jocular), anemious (used to describe something growing in windy conditions) and caesious (bluish or grayish green) and I just love collective nouns ( a charm of finches, a smack of jellyfish, a clowder of cats, a fist of apes, an exultation of larks, a knot of toads, a parliament of owls, a leap of leopards ... that sort've thing); pretending that I'm not scared of anything; language and linguistics;science and sciencey stuff; other cultures; The Turbojugend; did I mention rock? I REALLY love to rock! making up really silly haiku poems about stuff to amuse myself;people of all shapes, sizes, colours, descriptions etc...
I co-host the best little radio show on the airwaves: SUBTERREANEA on Brisbane's 4ZZZ 102.1FM - fridays 6-8pm with the one and only intergalactic go go dancing Judy Jetson. Ideally, fate and the gods willing of course, we will get around to meeting just about everyone, and maybe even get 'em in on the show to have a bit of a chat with us - you never know unless you give it a burl eh?Talented? Intelligent? Interesting? A fascinating combination of all three??? If you think this is YOU - then let me know, drop me a line or something - we'd love to hear from you!Cheers!!
Man music - this could be an even longer list than the books list!! What is life without music??? Let's give it a crack anyway - The BellRays - when I grow up I wanna be Lisa Kekaula BADLY;the Stooges;David Bowie (it's a love affair - mostly me, but some David, ever since I was 7);The Exploding White Mice - RADelaides finest hour?; The Ramones; Radio Birdman; Asteroid B612; The Now Time Delegation; The Stoneage Hearts; the Hoodoo Gurus; the Hellacopters; The Iron Sheiks; Turbonegro; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; The Birthday Party; Destroy All Monsters;Fu Manchu; Tool; Queens of the Stoneage - man I love stoner rock!; Mudhoney; the Dirtbombs; The Paybacks; The Crusaders; The Meatbeaters; Roadkill 66; Backseat Romeos; Mark of Cain; The Celibate Rifles; The Scientists; The Stems; The Church; El Borracho; The Beasts of Bourbon; Chubby Rae and the Elevators; Baby Woodrose; The Dictactors; The Visitors;Tori Amos (yes I LOVE her and her wild performance art); Bjork;the Sunnyboys; Kate Bush (again a deep and abiding love from a ridiculously young age); Dallas Frasca and her Gentlemen; the Lunachicks; Peaches; The M-16s; The Dead Kennedys; Dolly Parton; Sonic Rendezvous Band; The Lords of Gravity; Dinosaur Jnr;Big Band Jazz - like Billy HOliday and Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith and Lena Horne - and especially Nina Simone; I love glam rock from the likes of T-Rex, and the Spiders from Mars;when I was a kid I wanted to be Olivia Newton John fairly seriously for a few years - I personally blame my father for taking me to see Grease and then Xanadu as the first 2 movies I ever saw on the big screen - so I have to include Livvy; The Naked Eye; The Bloodsucking Freaks; Rolf Harris; Nobody's Fault But Mine; The Idea of North; The Satin Dolls; The Shimmy's; Motorhead;The Booby Traps; The Sure-Fire Midnights; Hell Crab City; The Fondelles; Coco's Lunch; Sinead O Connor; The Smiths; The The; Ian Rilen and the Love Addicts; The Bovines; The Lime Spiders; The Hard Ons; DAve Graney and every single one of his smooth incarnations;Magic Dirt; Clowns of Decadence; Nitocris; Gentle Ben and his Sensitive Side; The Onyas; The Flaming Sideburns; The Scientists; The D4; The Datsuns; King Khan and his Shrines; Blondie; Cosmic Psychos; Johnny Casino and the Easy Action; The Dead Set; The Psychotic Turnbuckles; The Saints; The Purple Hearts; The Coloured Balls (RIP Lobby); The Specimens; The Vegas Kings; The Sailors; The MC5; Kevin K; Texas Tea; The Gels; Dimi Dero Inc; The Gin Club; The Divinyls;Polly Jean Harvey; Died Pretty; The Pink Fits; The Dangermen; Tumbleweed; Moler; The Aampirellas; Suzi Q; The Spazzys; The Ramonettes; Southpoor; Rog and the Jamjets; Toecutta; Mark Lanegan; Jeff Dahl; Sixfthick; Sons of Lee Marvin; The Holy Curse; And last but not even remotely least - ACDC... clearly I'm well in touch with my inner bogan!!
Three Seasons; Big Wednesday; Sunday Too Far Away; anything by Pedro Almodovar; Holy Mountain; Run Lola Run; Wallace and Grommit - the Curse of the Were Rabbit; What the Bleep Do We Know; Salt, Sperm, Sweat, Saliva; The Goonies; All About Eve; Meet the Feebles; chinese kung fu films; Man Bites Dog;Rabbit Proof Fence; Chocolat - bugger it I'll be honest I dig anything with JOhnny Depp in it - at first because he always chose stuff that had a decent plotline or was interesting in some way, but now really just because he's a dirty great spunk and I quite like looking at him; Metropolis; Visitor Q; The Princess Bride; Santa Sangre; Wim Wenders films;Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - actually make that ANY Ang Lee film (except for the Hulk - aside from the funky montage work and interesting framing it was pretty ordinary); Old Boy; Puberty Blues;This Is Spinal Tap; Judou: Raise the Red Lantern; The Emperor and The Assassin; Lars von Trier films particularly Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark; Clerks (I & II... actually make that ANY Kevin Smith film (except for Jersey Girl - I haven't seen it but there's a reason for that... I haven't seen the latest Bruce Willis or Nicolas Cage flick either... for pretty much the same reasons); The Honeymoon Killers; Labyrinth; CAbin Fever; documentaries; rockumentaries; mockumentaries; Jim Jarmusch films; Coen Brother films; Love and Other Catastrophes; Radiance; Fast Food Nation; The Motorcycle Diaries;
Kath n Kim; Spicks n Specks; The Chasers War on Everything; The Mighty Boosh; Creature Comforts; League of Gentlemen; Search for an Australian Hero; Blackadder; Trailor Park Boys; To be honest with you I don't really watch much telly...
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladmimir Nabokov; Things Fall Apart - Chinue Achebe; The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran; The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Boton;An Imaginary Life - David Malouf; God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy; Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov; Indaba, My Children - Credo Mutwa; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa; One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Aphrodite - Isabelle Allende;Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak; The Wind in The Willows - Kenneth Grahame;The Bone People - Keri Hulme; The Barrytown Trilogy - Roddy Doyle; The Acid House - Irvine Welsh; Incest - Anais Nin; The Famished Road - Ben Okri; Women who run with the wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes;And the Ass saw the Angel - Nick Cave; Disgrace - J M Coetzee; An Equal Music - Vikram Seth; The Joys of Motherhood - Buchi Emecheta;The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally; The Riders - Tim Winton; Scarlet and Black - Stendhal; Women - Charles Bukowski; The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky;The Stories of Eva Luna - Isabelle Allende; As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner; The Poetry of Pablo Neruda; The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn; The Outsider - Albert Camus; Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse; To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee; Matilda - Roald Dahl; Monsignor Quixote - Graham Greene; In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
Lisa Kekaula; Bob Fossil; my mum; Margaret Bland; Greg Combet; Gustav Klimt; Isabelle Allende; Mahatma Ghandi; Noam Chomsky; Frida Kahlo; Robert Anton Wilson; Artemisia Gentileschi; Yang Zhimou; Chrissie Amphlett; Sinead O Connor...Kindness is loving people more than they deserve - Joseph Joubert, moralist and essayist (1754-1824):