polaroid photos, unlikely friendships, mudlarking, good or bad attention, book learning, small kittens, modern-day ghost towns, knife fights, moaning about shoreditch, nosebleeds, succeeding against the odds, anything with hilarious consequences, bottling it up, peering, revelling in hangovers, having no horror stories about brixton, other people's old stuff, good oldfashioned hard work
will oldham, so i can ask about his fledgling stand up comedy career. him out of the mountain goats. a dulux dog.
art brut, beulah, bishop allen, cake, can, carter usm, chixdiggit, clor, creedence clearwater revival, dinosaur jr, fountains of wayne, frank zappa, gbv, half man half biscuit, hawksley workman, hefner, hockey night, the indelicates, jeffrey lewis, jesse dayton, kleenexgirlwonder, lou barlow, luke haines, mbv, mclusky, my sad captains, neil young, neutral milk hotel, nick cave, pavement, roland shanks, royal gun, skatalites, songs:ohia, sonic youth, superchunk, the doors, the research, the smiths, the weakerthans, tom petty, wilco.
american indie films by numbers, you know, the ones about disenfranchised suburbanites forming unlikely friendships and middle class 16-25s acting out.
peep show, the west wing, america's next top model, ross kemp on gangs, life on mars
paul auster, john irving, saki, jd salinger, bret easton ellis, the power of the dog, bright lights big city, some christopher brookmyre, arthur miller, the led zep biog