'These musty old books have a great deal more to say than in any of your... fabulous web pages.'
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Music, films, books, archaeology and Egyptology, basses and guitars, Coffee, wine, misanthropy, Vintage hairstyles and makeup, fully fashioned stockings,pencil skirts, old vinyl, macintosh computers, lots of random crap.
The cat's mother.
The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Beatnik Termites, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band, Beck , Blondie, Blood Red Shoes, Bob Dylan, Catatonia , Cerys Mathews, CocoRosie, Courtney Love, The Cure, David Bowie, Devendra Banhart, The Divine Comedy, Elvis Presley, The Flaming Lips, Flamingo 50, Fugazi, Gackt, George Harrison,Gruff Rhys, Hole, James Iha, Jeff Buckley, Joan Baez, John Jacob Niles King Crimson, The Kinks , L7, Le Tigre, Lou Reed, The Mars Volta, Martha Wainwright, Ms Dynamite, My Latest Novel, My Way My Love, Nirvana, No Doubt, Noël Coward, The Noisettes, Of Montreal, OutKast, Pixies, The Pop Group, Pulp, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Sonic Youth , Space, Spïnal Tap, Suede, Tratchenburg Family Slideshow Players, Travelling Willburys, The Vaselines, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, Veruca Salt, Vetiver, We All Have Hooks For Hands, Woody Guthrie, The Zombies, Zombina and the Skeletones.
In the Mood for Love , Breakfast at Tiffany's , The life of Brian , Pink panther films, Dr Strangelove, 'once upon a time in china' series , Infernal affairs , Spirited Away , Fist of Fury (indeed anything in Bruce Lee's tragically short career) , Shaolin Soccer , Spring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring , Edward Scissorhands, Some Like it Hot , Hardboiled , Indiana Jones trilogy, Being John Malkovich (or any indie John Cusak stuff, 'grosse point blank' etc) , Spinal Tap , Pirates of the Carribean , The Big Lebowski, Old Ealing comedies such as 'Kind hearts and coronets' and 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', 50's b movies such as 'Attack of the 50ft woman, 'Forbidden Planet' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', Ye olde stuff 'Metropolise' ' the Blue angel', 'Nosferatu', 1950s government public information films,
Dr Who , time team ,curb your enthusiam , Monty Python , Fawlty Towers , the IT crowd , Black Books , Buffy the vampire Slayer, Father Ted,
a small selection of dear favourites: unbearable lightness of being, nausea, winnie the pooh, wuthering heights, A room of one's own, 1984, name of the rose, 100 years of solitude, a smattering of poetry here and there (Dickinson , Plath, yevtushekno, ol' will) gilgamesh, daphnis and chloë, and many more I don't have the inclination to remember I've actually read/ or will admit to.
Indiana Jones.