The HATTEN song
I'll have the veal in Kriek. Foie gras to start. Human hearts for dessert.
I love a good rhombus and coke.
Oh Yeah, Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!
Outside the realm of dreams, faded photographs and a possible afterlife, I would like to meet my sister.
Also this guy, as often as possible. He is my hero:
This is so frustrating... Umm. Recent listenings include Jeremy Enigk, Xela, Fotomaker, Crooked Fingers, The Minus 5, Nieminen & Litmanen, Oranger, 'Anthems in Eden', Liekki, Calexico, The Posies, The Figgs, Tiger Mountain, Ken Stringfellow, Astrid Swan, Michael J. Sheehy, Tom Waits, Kings of Convenience, Velvet Underground, Lou Barlow, Sufjan Stevens, old Scottish ballads, Twilight Singers, Throwing Muses, Silvio Rodriguez, Midlake, Tundramatiks, James Brown, Two Dollar Hooker...
Some Saturday night tunes: Fotomaker's 'The Other Side', Porno For Pyros' Tahitian Moon, Oranger's Light Machine, The Motors' Airport, The Buzzcocks' Why Can't I Touch It?, Moustaki's Bahia, Jane's Addiction's Mountain Song
Some Sunday morning tunes: Fotomaker's 'The Other Side', Jessie Baylin's Contradicting Words, Calexico's Cruel, Oranger's A View of the City From an Airplane, Teenage Fanclub's Only With You, Crooked Fingers' Sleep All Summer, Tori Amos' cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart, absolutely any Cohen song...
Hmmm... Withnail and I, Jesus' Son, Rushmore, Ghost Dog, The Wall, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Cache, Dear Wendy, The Party, Comfort of Strangers, Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties), Once Upon A Time in America, The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Leon, C'est Arrive Pres de Chez Vous (Man Bites Dog), Being There, the first Pink Panther movie, Lilja 4ever, Dr Strangelove, St Elmo's Fire and every other brat pack movie you could think of, To Catch A Thief, Mulholland Drive, Closer, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Le Grand Bleu, The Red Psalm... Tons more...And ... IZO!
The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, anything on BBCFood!, Freaks and Geeks, State of Play, Sopranos, Twin Peaks, The Office, The Fast Show, Brideshead Revisited, Shooting Stars, The Crow Road, Have I Got News for You, Father Ted, A Bit of Fry & Laurie...
A couple of faves:
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem,
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan,
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh,
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi,
Another Country by James Baldwin,
The Fierce People by Dirk Wittenborn,
Ice Storm by Rick Moody,
Neruda's memoirs,
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving,
I Knew I Was Right - Julie Burchill's Memoirs,
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde,
The Secret History by Donna Tartt,
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis,
Moomin books by Tove Jansson,
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers,
Suicide Bridge by Iain Sinclair
-Whatever books I'm working on...
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