Playing A Number of Instruments....Making music...Releasing said music and other peoples musics on my own record label: Quiet Records...Painting, badly...Talking...Drinking fine teas from around the world...Singing unaccompanied folk songs in the shower, badly...Drinking myself into another state of consciousness..Standing with a miserable look on my face...'Spaz' Dancing...editing the rude things out of my interests cause I'm worried that people I know are reading, like my parents...Considering the implications of writing such stupid stuff on my interests...Speculating at this point if anyone is still actually reading...Reading clever books on buses to appear clever...Discussing my record collection in relationship to the post-modern notion of the breakdown of meta narratives...Still remembering all my GCSE science revision...Listing the properties of metals...Having no real interest in drugs bar alcohol and caffine...The Periodic Table...Creating music based on the half-life of Uranium... Getting Bored...Harnassing my idiot energy...staying up all night, then sleeping all day...Wishing I had studied chemistry instead of sociology...Going on road trips and pretending I am Neal Cassidy...growing vegetables...
I'd like to meet:
Interesting people who like to talk about interesting things over a a nice cup of tea.
People who listen to Bach in the Bath.
Music:
Well, far to many to mention but here goes:Spector Girl Groups, Doo Wop, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Radiohead, REM, Joy Division, The Velvet Underground, Cage, Reich, Glass, Riley, Bowie, Springsteen, Lenny Cohen, Bob Dylan, Pharoah Sanders, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Jackson C. Frank, Will Oldham, Papa M, Miles Davis (again), The Beach Boys, Will Oldham, Jeff Buckey, The Band, Leadbelly, Taj Mahal, Lightin Hopkins, John Tavener, Faure, Mozart, Wilco, Sonic Yoof...
Movies:
I do like the odd film. I saw "The Beat that my Heart Skipped" recently. It was good. I like "Once upon a time in the West", too. Apocolypse Now...you know. I can't be arsed to do a list.
Television:
I use to like Newsnight in bed with porridge. I no longer have a TV in the bedroom. I watch all kinds of crap, then feel guilty about it afterwards.
Books:
I have read too many good books to remember them all. Hemmingway and Orwell float my boat at the moment. I'm abit of a Beats anorak too.Ask me to talk books, I'll talk all day.
Heroes:
I admire:Henry David Thoreau, Steve Reich, John Cage, John Coltrane, Jack Kerouac, Brian Eno, Monty Don.
