I like: rain and kittens; avocados, asparagus, avocados, artichoke, avocados, raspberries, avocados, oatmeal batch bread, good food in general (kittens were not part of the food list by the way!), freshly squeezed lemon, Red Bull, smoothies; bass, voices, bass, balloons; voices, necks, forearms, voices, eyes, short hair, voices; black t-shirts, red t-shirts; polite people, reserved people, outspoken people, honest people, approachable people, reliable people, crazy people, and people from Inverness.
I do not like: heat, dogs (apart from the nice ones, but I don't normally trust dogs otherwise); celery (most evil veg), cucumber (most pointless veg), prawns, fizzy drinks and other soft sugary drinks (apart from Red Bull), hot drinks in general; reggae; tattoos, piercings, dreadlocks; men who shave their chests; people who wear leather; colourful shirts or trousers; rude people, over-confident people, people who try to feed you whatever bullshit they think you want to hear, dishonest people, arrogant people, fickle people, narrow-minded people, and Spaniards (joke, but some of them really do my head in).
RAIN...
No myspace friend-whores, I'll only add you if you're someone I like to spend time with (or would like to) in real life, or if we have friends and/or interests in common and you have a good reason to contact me.
Don't be upset if I've met you in real life and don't recognize you though, it took me like 4 years to even notice someone who is now one of my best friends (despite him talking to me regularly whenever he saw me at gigs etc), so I guess there's always hope...
No bands, unless you've got a sexy bassist, or you jumped into rivers with me, or we got so pished together that we can't remember what actually happened, or you gave me half of your pizza or something. Ya ken what I mean. Those who are already in my friends list are generally there for a reason, and I not only like them as a band, but also as people.
I've now blocked all friend requests from bands, had enough of receiving half a dozen requests everyday from random shit bands I don't even want to know about. If you're a band and you happen to be one of my "legitimate" friends, then you'll have to send me a message first for me to add you, sorry for the hassle... Other bands who want gigs, etc, please do not contact me via my personal profile, but use the Henry's Myspace instead.
The Residents, Carla Bozulich, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Residents, US Maple, Hint (the French one), Sweep the Leg Johnny, Monster Party, Alleschwindel, The Mass, Zu, The Boredoms, Eunoia, but more particularly all things The Residents and Will Oldham have ever done and will ever do (and that's a lot on both counts!). SINALOA are my newest favourite.
Jim Jarmusch films in general but more specifically Down By Law and Night On Earth, a lot of Lars Von Triers' stuff but more particularly my all-time favourite film The Idiots and Epidemic, films by Sharunas Bartas but mostly my joint all-time favourite Few Of Us, Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Harmony Korine's Gummo, Theo Angelopoulos's Eternity and a Day, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen, Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, Thomas Vinterberg's Festen, Benoit Mariage's The Carriers Are Waiting, Christopher Nolan's Memento.
As a rule the films I like best tend to be really thought-provoking, sometimes even disturbing, the kind of thing that's meant to fuck up with your brain and sometimes leave you with mixed feelings. I also enjoy really good comedy (which I don't come across often enough unfortunately) and dark humour a lot.
TVs are great to chuck out of windows from the first floor or higher (higher obviously better, see how far away you can throw it). Feel free to ask me about my therapeutic TV removal services. I can relieve you from the slavery of television, all it will cost you is a few cans of cider to get me drunk (or even less sometimes, depends what mood I'm in).
I haven't had a telly or watched telly since 1996, when I moved out of my parents' house, apart from when I was sharing a flat with telly-watching people a few years ago and just couldn't resist watching Are You Dave Gorman? and Chewing The Fat.
Otherwise I've never missed television at all, I just don't even think about it, having my own telly and switching it on is an unknown concept for me, some flats I rented had a telly there but it just never occurred to me to try and switch it on, and whenever I was sharing flats before or visiting other people, the fact that they switched on the telly just for the sake of it rather than because they wanted to watch something in particular really made me sick.
I'm not saying everything that's on telly is necessarily bad, but just that there's so much crap it's not worth the hassle and just watching TV cos you're bored is the worst thing ever, I'd rather watch lentils soaking instead.
Over the past couple of years I've discovered a few TV programs which were worth watching but thankfully I didn't need a telly for them, I just watched them online: Still Game, Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look and Look Around You.
Oooh this needs a little bit of an update too. My current big favourite is Geoff Nicholson, especially "Bleeding London", but I recently read "The Food Chain" and it was exceptional too. I don't recommend starting one of his books if you have stuff to do though, it's highly compulsive reading! I really love Haruki Murakami and "Dance Dance Dance" is well possibly my all-time favourite book. Don DeLillo's "The Body Artist" was probably the best book I read last year (but I'd need to double-check, I may have forgotten others). I also really enjoyed Eliot Perlman's "Seven Types of Ambiguity". And "Self" by what's his name again? I really like Milena Jesenska's writings. And I'm still convinced I was Jean-Rene Huguenin in my previous life, or at least that it was me who wrote his "Journal".
Geoff Nicholson, Ralph Waldo Flathead, Carla Bozulich, Jean-Rene Huguenin, Jim Carstairs, p6, Ricky White, Matt Thompson, Dave Gorman, Sharunas Bartas.
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