MUSIC!!! DJING, FILMS, COOKING, BIKE RIDING, DAYDREAMING, DANCING, COLLECTING VINTAGE OR HERITAGE ( BRITISH) STUFF, RECORD COLLECTING,TRAVELING, HANGING W/ FRIENDS.
IF YOU WANT TO BOWL, LAWN BOWL, BIKE RIDE, GO TO CONCERTS, LISTEN TO MUSIC, MOVIES, ROAD TRIPS, COOK SOME FOOD, DRINK SOME WINE, EAT SOME CHEESE, OR LAY IN THE GRASS AND LOOK AT THE STARS?
I HAVE A LONG LIST, BUT SINCE I SPENT THE TIME TO TYPE IT OUT YOU CAN JUST BROWSE:The Jam,Style Council, Paul Weller (I worship the ground he walks on!), Stereolab,Pram, Disco Inferno, Moonshake,Broadcast, Electrelane,Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, Pastels, Teenage Fanclub ,Aisler Set, The Delgados,The Disappointment, Landsing-Dreiden,Shermans ,Concretes,Charmparticles,Lucksmiths, Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars,Northern Picture Library, The Sea Urchins, The Fall, Slowdive,Mojove 3, Neil Halstad, Rachel Goswell,Ride,House of Love, Chapterhouse,Mahogany,Spiritualized,Spectrum,Spaceman 3, Sonic Boom,Vaselines,My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream,Orange Juice, Joseph K,Television Personalities, BMX Bandits, McTells,Shop Assistants,Siddleys, Wedding Present, Cinerama,Stereo Total,Dandy Warhols, LadyTron,Cato Salsa Experience,Libertines, Clinic,British Sea Power,Interpol,The Doves,Ravonettes,BMRC, ESG,The Slumber Party, The Del Monas, The Milk Shakes,Headcoates,Headcoatees,Madness, The (English) Beat,The Clash, Ramones,Wire, James Chance,Suicide,Clientele, Kings of Convenience, Notwist, Lali Puna, Stereo Total, M83,Broken Social Scene, Mogwai,Air,The Rachels,Tortoise, Tram,The Shins,Kingsbury Manx,FleetFoxes,Destroyer,Polyphonic Spree,the Gris Gris,Mum, Bjork,Sigur Ros, Go-Betweens,Red House Painters, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith,Pernice Brothers,Sonic Youth,Brian Jonestown Massacre, Warlocks, The High Dials, The Lovetones,The Situation, The Out Crowd, Rick Bain, The Upsidedown, The Black Angels,The Fausdots,The Tyde, The Mystic Chords of Memory,Lilys, The Bartlebees, Radio Dept., Hidden Cameras,Galaxie 500, The Chills,Luna, Dean & Britta covering Sonic Boom stuff and anything French,Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, Mouse on Mars, Talvin Singh, Boards of Canada,Thievery Corp.,Kid Loco, New Order, Joy Division, The Wake,The Smiths, Morrissey,Pulp, Suede,Tindersticks, Jesus & the Marychain, The Church (and all their solo stuff), The Cure, Love & Rockets, XTC,Cocteau Twins,Echo & the Bunnymen(and all that other new wave/indie stuff I am still listening to-some on original tapes even) Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, John Lurie, Lounge Lizards, Nikki Sudden stuff, Chamber Strings. Nick Drake,Marianne Faithful,Neu!, Electric Light Orchestra,Captain Beafheart, Booker T & the MG's, The Ventures,The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Yardbirds,Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett,Os Mutantes,13th Floor Elevators,The Sonics,Nuggets Collections, West Coast Pop Experiment Band,The Pretty Things,Beach Boys, Brian Wilson,Big Star,MC5,Nico,The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed,Animals,David Bowie, T.Rex,Brian Eno,Zombies,The Move,The Troggs,The Spence Davis Group,Traffic,Rolling Stones,The Creation,Small Faces, The Byrds,Tommy James & The Shondells, The Supremes, Shangri Las, Ronnettes,Standells,(and all those other girl groups),Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings,James Brown, Otis Redding,Elvis,Don Gibson, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons, Johny Cash, PatsyCline,Gene Clark,Frank Sinatra and lots of easy listening records/ movie soundtracks. Also like lot's of Psych, garage, surf rock,and anything before I was born.Love that 60's french stuff..Serge Gainsbourg!!!!Jacques Dutronc,Jane Birkin, Franoise Hardy, and Brigitte Bardot. Oh,yeah and I have a soft spot for Ravi Shankar. Most stuff on Sarah, Creation, Domino, Rough Trade,Matador Records,Bomp!, and little indie labels like my friends labels Bop Tart, Childstar, and Dirtnap Records. As well as Britpop, Shoegaze, c86,Twee,60's,Soul,Punk, Post Punk, Brazilian (especially bossa nova and tropicalia), Bollywood, Reggae,Ska,Blue Note & Verve Jazz and just a little bit of everything. It all depends on the song and my ever changing moods. I go by a song by song bases rather than a group sometimes.
Most independent film, French New Wave (Jules et Jim, Breathless, Belle de Jour, ect ( especially Jean-luc Godard Films), anything foreign,classic (anything on TMC), Sherlock Holmes, Hammer Films, The Thin Men series, cult classics, and some main stream stuff ( blockbusters).Blow up,Red Desert, La Notte ( and other Antonioni Films) The Hounds of Baskerville,Stairway to Heaven, The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom (and other Michael Powell Films)Miracle in Milan, 101 ReykjavÃk, My Man Godfrey, Topsey-Turvey ( Mike Leigh's films in general), Room with a View, Howards Inn (Merchant-Ivory Films), The Knack and Help! (Richard Lester Films), Georgy Girl, Billy Liar,To Sir With Love ( and other 1960 British Films about youth culture), Donnie Darko, Lost In Translation,CQ,With Nil & I,City of God, Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior,Velvet Goldmine, Quadrophenia,Say Anything, Chung King Express ( how do you spell this movie?), Amelie, High Fidelity, Bridget Jones Diary, Fever Pitch, About A Boy, The Van, The Commitments, (Almost anything Allen Parker has made) ( let's just say I am a sucker for British & Irish Film), Hal Hartley Films, Jim Jarmusch Films like Mystery Train, David Lynch Films,and most american independent film makers, (However political- a great document of the socialist revolution in Cuba) I am Cuba (haven't seen it?, you have to!), Man With A Movie Camera, And yeah, I do like Woody Allen.
EastEnders,The Office(british one), Ali G Show,Law & Order,A&E Biography,History Channel,BBC America,Anthony Bourdain:no reservations,Sundance, Independent Film Channel,Turner Movie Classics,Late night tele.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Catcher In the Rye, Absolute Beginners, Magazines, travel non-fiction, biographies, and history related books.
Paul Weller, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Brian Wilson,The Beatles,The Rolling Stones, Yardbirds,Ravi Shankar; and most early 60's groups and anything before that; Kevin Shields & Shoegaze bands in general; Billy Childish,James Brown, and every good girl group that has ever existed. Andy Warhol, Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Surrealists, Salvidor Dali, Serge Gainsbourg ( I know some of these people are dead), Abstract Expressionists, Woody Allen, and interesting creative! people in general. There are way too many to list.