Kind, creative, generous and true in love, according to the weighing machine in Delhi railway station anyway. But you could say I paid it to say
that.
Playing the guitar badly, to the extent that my neighbours bang on the wall even when it's not amplified. Sitting on the roof terrace of the apartment block I live in, flying my kite and drinking gin or whiskey, preferably all at the same time. Trying not to get funny and trying to hang on in there.
Anyone who can explain "Nansen kills a cat, Joshu wears his sandals on his head". Or at least has an entertaining take on it.
The rest of my not-that-great photos of the BJM, other bands and places I've been on holiday can be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giascala/collections
But there are much better photos out there, taken by other people. For instance, try Bob Underexposed or Sakura Photogirl . For some reason, MySpace doesn't like the link to Bob's page (underexposed.org.uk). Shame... he has some cracking photos of the Lionheart Brothers on there at the moment.
My Bloody Valentine, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lilys, Super Furry Animals, Spindrift, Elliott Smith, Blues Explosion, The Lionheart Brothers, The Morning After Girls, The Tamborines, Serena Maneesh, The Asteroid #4, Windy and Carl, The Clientele, The Lovetones, Engineers, The Left Outsides... song of the moment for me is "Blue Clouds Red Sky" by the Lionheart Brothers.
Le Confessionnal, Amateur, Happy Together, Rashomon, Enjo (Conflagration), Sunna no Onna (Woman of the Dunes), Kind Hearts and Coronets, El Topo, Syndromes and a Century, and Aparijito (The Unvanquished). The best film I ever saw was Napoleon (1927) but, at five and a half hours long, I doubt I could ever sit through it again.
News, the Mighty Boosh, Lost, Deadwood and anything half decent after 1am when I can't sleep.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Mishima), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami), Blood Meridian (McCarthy). Currently reading "The Physics of Super-Heroes". Yes, I realise that marks me out as an uber-geek.
Valentina Tereshkova - the only person I have ever ambushed for an autograph. Anton Newcombe, Caravaggio and Robert Lepage for making music, art and theatre that transports me out of my tedious life and reminds me I still actually have a soul. Yves Klein for International Klein Blue and for managing to sell Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. Jerry Sadowitz, because I am a woman and therefore overly impressed by the spongey ball magic trick.