Love, laughter, friends, literature, travel, writing, poetry, autonomous lifestyles, snowboarding, red stuff (furniture, clothing, hair, bed linen), funny quirky people, Radio 4, positive political activism, egalitarianism, surfing, Art Deco, yoga, parties, chess, figs and prunes, green tea, peppermint tea, art: I spend a lot of time wandering around galleries, avocados, pears, kitch porcelain kitties (I have a growing collection), russian prison tattoos, satsumas, gin & tonic, silent movies, music, trees, film, vegetarian food, manga comic books, making badges, playing guitar & singing, mountains, feet, vegan sushi, the Royal Tenambaums soundtrack, white russians, talking about owning a pet and aspiring to do it one day, Thai cookery
I'd like to meet:
komodo dragons...they're DRAGONS!!
And Paul Dacre, so that I can scream at him for breeding hatred, xenophobia and fascism within the British psyche.
Music:
What do you want, a list of bands/artists?? Ok:
Bikini Kill, At the Drive-In, Fugazi, Constantines, The Pixies, Modest Mouse, PJ Harvey, Pavement, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Misfits, Suzanne Vega, Screaming Trees, CSS, Joanna Newsom, The Gossip, Rancid, QOTSA, The White Stripes, Janis Joplin, Explosions in the Sky, The Horrors, Smog, Dan Sartain, The Ramones, The Clash, The Mars Volta, Kings of Leon, Electrelane, The Rapture, The Cure, The International Noise Conspiracy, The Helacopters, Cat Power, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tiger Army, The Buzzcocks, The Roots Billy Bragg, 80s Matchbox, Dead ,Kennedys, Aim, Bat for Lashes, Dilated Peoples, Beastie Boys, Portishead, Johnny Cash, Regina Spectre, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Strokes, The Pogues, Blonde Redhead, Minor Threat, Devendra Barnhart, TV on the Radio, Soundgarden, Dropkick Murphys, Richard Hawley, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, Led Zep, Weezer, Kid Loco, Neil Young, Nirvana, Adem, Black Mountain, The Neutral Milk Hotel, Micah P Hinson..I have recently discovered Sparklehorse..I love them.
Movies:
Lolita, Withnail and I, The Deer Hunter, Goodbye Lenin, Napoleon Dynamite, Amelie, The first three Star Wars movies, every zombie movie ever made by George A Romero, Run Lola Run, Pi, The Edukators, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Last King od Scotland, Shawshank Redemption, Dig, Buffalo 66, Heavenly Creatures, Lord of the Rings, Donnie Darko, Apocalypse Now, Natural Born Killers, Labyrinth, Secretary, Old Boy, Battle Royale, In the Mood for Love, Spring Summer Autumn Winter Spring, Orphans of the Storm, Wings of Desire, TransAmerica, Babel, London to Brighton, Death Proof, Pans Labyrinth, Control (see it! If you love Joy Division it is absolutely necessary that you see this film!!).
You must also see No Coutry for Old Men, and hail the genius of the Coen Brothers.
Television:
I don't really watch TV. It is the opiate of the masses.
Well, I watch channel 4 news.
It is at this point that I should mention the embarrasingly potent nature of my new found penchant for watching Top Gear....
Books:
1984 (George Orwell), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami), The History of Love (Naomi Klauss), Mothernight (Kurt Vonnegut) Lonely Planet books, A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters (Julian Barnes), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen), Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City (Armistead Maupin), anything by Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Naomi Klein, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. My Summer of Love (Helen Cross), The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Tolkien), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers), This is Serbia Calling (Matthew Collins), American Psycho (Brett Easton Ellis), Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? (Steve Lowe & Alan Mcarthur), Post Office (the genuius that is Bukowski), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Johnny got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby), The Road (Cormac McCarthy), Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins) Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) comics!: Akira, Preacher, Lenore, Sanctuary
Heroes:
Morrissey, Stephen Fry, Oscar Wilde and Cedric Bixler-Zavala
