Up Fors: Music, art, literature, music, food, sport, sex, music, drink, drugs, history, science, film, languages, music...
I'd like to meet:
Someone to convince me that there is a point to pointless things such as the crane-fly, roll-up trouser legs, those visor things emos wear, edible underwear etc.
Music:
DJ Shadow, Swervedriver, Slayer, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, MC5, The Stooges, Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Quannum, Nightmares On Wax, Bread, The Rolling Stones, Spiritualised, The Specials, The Jam, Madness, The Sex Pistols, Bitch Magnet, Nirvana, Tad, Mudhoney, MC Solaar, Air, Motörhead, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Eels, dEUS, Rage Against The Machine, early Metallica, Wes Mongomery, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, Marvin Gaye (& Tammi Terrell), Renegade Soundwave, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Supergrass, Big Squirrel, The DT's, Goldie, Soulwax, Love, New Order, The Wannadies, Kent, The Cardigans, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, The Black Keys, The Small Faces, Steppenwolf, Royksopp, Motown, Stax, Atlantic Soul, Velvet Underground, Howie B, Money Mark, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Prince, RJD2, Grandmaster Flash/Grandmaster Melle Mel, The Seeds, Can, Jurassic 5, Jeff Buckley, You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons, Daft Punk, The Doors, Presley and Costello, H2SO4, System Of A Down, The Cult, early Aerosmith, Radiohead, David Bowie, Ben Folds Five, Hüsker Dü, At The Drive-In, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Kills, Faith No More, Sonic Youth, Redd Kross, The Thrills, The Beach Boys, Rusty Sheriff, Phoenix, The Four Tops, The Creation, The Warlocks, The Carpenters, David Soul's "Silver Lady", "I.O.U" by Freeez, "Breakfast" by The Associates...
Movies:
Bladerunner, Star Wars, Magnolia, The Killers, Bullitt, Django, Man Bites Dog, Tarantino, Beat Takeshi films, Hong Kong films, Le diner du cons, Taxi, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Scorcese films, De Niro, Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon, Spinal Tap. Ingmar Bergman's films, especially Seventh Seal, Robert Bresson, 'Quatre cent coups' and other Traffaut. La haine. Apocalypse Now.
Television:
Why not. Bring coffee, cigarettes, weed, and I'll supply the TV.
Books:
Spike Milligan, Douglas Coupland, Tibor Fischer, Ernest Hemingway, Dr. Hunter S. Thomson, Anthony Burgess, J. D. Salinger, Iain Banks, William S. Burroughs, Karin Boye, Hjalmar Söderberg, Jonas Gardell, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Paluhniak, Che Guevara's "Motorcycle Diaries", Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, "Mr. Nice", "The Dirt" - Mötley Crüe, "Crazy From The Heat" - David Lee Roth, dictionaries, Irvine Welsh, Michel Houellebecq, Sylvia Plath - "The Bell-Jar", "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" - Jean-Dominique Bauby, Dostoevsky...histories, populist science, learn a language books etc.
