Usual things- music, film, taking (bad) photo's, reading a good book whilst drinking a nice cup of coffee. Gigs and festivals, good food, cold beer, and weekend lie-ins. Generally being lazy, really.
I'd like to meet:
Scraggy dogs wearing bandanas.... Or fluffy pomeranians..
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Music:
Electrelane, Arcade Fire, Pulp, Joy Division, The White Stripes, Radiohead, Dusty Springfield, Hairspray soundtrack, The Fall, Joanna Newsom, Iggy Pop, Petra Jean Philipson, Yann Tierson, Johnny Cash, Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins, Isobel Campbell, Broken Social Scene, The Mamas and The Papas, Le Tigre, Dot Allison, Sons and Daughters, Interpol, Catatonia, Buffalo Springfield, Beirut, The Gossip, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Patsy Cline, Nick Cave, The Moldy Peaches, Blondie, Neu!, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pixies, Portishead, Roy Orbison, David Holmes And The Free Association, Deerhoof, Beth Orton, Otis Redding, Patti Smith, Primal Scream, Sigur Ros, Au Pairs, Belle and Sebastian, The Cure, Nina Simone, Mogwai, Bjork, The Concretes, Laura Veirs, Valerie, The Doors, Antony and The Johnsons, Babybird, Death In Vegas, The Raveonettes, Simon And Garfunkel, The Beta Band, Kenickie, The Rolling Stones, The Coral, Elastica, Aretha Franklin, The Sugarcubes, The Rapture, The Beatles, Elbow, The Decemberists, Super Furry Animals, Scout Niblett, Ladytron, The Organ, PJ.Harvey, The Futureheads, The Long Blondes, Ray Rumours, Vera November, The Early Years, Archie Bronson Outfit etc, Greenspace, etc- i could go on for ever :)
Movies:
Hairspray, The Shining, Beautiful Thing, Letter To Brezhnev, Rear Window, May, Japanese Story, 24 Hour Party People, Carrie, Amelie, Little Darlings, Leon, Secrets And Lies, Pulp Fiction, An American Werewolf In London, The Breakfast Club, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Freaky Friday, The Wedding Singer, Kill Bill, Naked Gun, Goodbye, Lenin, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Run Lola Run, Carandiru, Lost In Translation, Ghost World, Napoleon Dynamite, Trainspotting, The Wizard Of Oz, Old Boy, Mask, Life Is Sweet, Labyrinth, Sexy Beast, The Royal Tenenbaums, In The Name Of The Father, The Goonies, Psycho, The Lost Boys, Finding Nemo, Fargo, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, A Nightmare On Elm Street Parts 1&3, Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe, Shaun Of the dead, Edward Scissorhands... Oh and anything with Johnny Depp/Anna Faris in...
Television:
Current telly is rubbish, but i do like these: The League Of Gentlemen, Extras (esp. the Les Dennis one!), Anne Of Green Gables (that's Ann, with an 'e'), Spaced, Gimme Gimme Gimme, The Pink Panther (for he's as plain as your nose?!), Game On, French And Saunders, The first series of Ellen (before it became crap),E.R, Sesame Street, Only Fools And Horses, South Park, Kath and Kim, The Royle Family, Pigeon Street. My obsession with Deal Or No Deal is now over.....
Books:
*To Be Someone- Louise Voss
*Animal farm- George Orwell.
*All quiet on the orient express- Magnus Mills.
*Touching from a distance- Deborah Curtis.
*All families are psychotic- Douglas Coupland.
*The dumb house- John Burnside.
*Papillon- Henri Charriere
*Glastonbury festival tales- Crispin Aubrey and John Shearlaw.
*My summer of love- Helen Cross.
*Staying Alive (Real Poems For Unreal Times).
*Maximum Diner- Christopher Nye.
*Mr.Rabbit and the lovely present- Charlotte Zolotow.
*Memoirs Of A Geisha- Arthur Golden.
*My Left Foot- Christy Brown.
*Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl.
*Mandy Annuals.
Heroes:
Jarvis Cocker, Electrelane, Dusty Springfield, Ian Curtis, Daisy Steiner, Tracey Turnblad, My Mum :)
