I love going to Old Trafford to watch Lancashire play, studying each delivery intently, for six and a half hours - I saw Andy Flintoff hit thirty-four runs in seven balls, before he was famous.
I love listening to music properly through twenty-year-old Linn speakers; I own a stupid number of records and CDs. The first record I bought was 'Into The Valley' by The Skids on March 10th 1979; the latest record I bought is a split yellow single by Balor Knights and Scarlet Tuesday.
I don't read as much as I would like to because my concentration wanders - I am currently in the middle of 'Ignorance' by Milan Kundera, 'Discipline And Punish' by Michel Foucault, 'The Complete Oxford History Of Music' and 'Inez' by Carlos Fuentes.
My favourite film is 'Doctor Strangelove'; my favourite author is J. G. Ballard; my favourite album is 'Seventeen Seconds'; my favourite food is curry; my favourite drink is tea; my favourite current TV show is 'The Sky At Night'
I have never learnt to drive.
............................................. Favourites
LPs
John Lee Hooker - Sittin' Here Thinkin'
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Echo And The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Cabaret Voltaire -
.......... Red Mecca
.......... 2x45
.......... Microphonies
Marine Girls - Lazy Ways
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Joy Division -
.......... Unknown Pleasures
.......... Closer
Sonic Youth - Sister
Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump
Anne Clark - The Sitting Room
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Beatles - Revolver
Section 25 - Always Now
70 Gwen Party - Anti Blue Nazi
Mount Florida - Arrived Phoenix
James Brown - Live At The Apollo Volume 2
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension
The Undertones - The Undertones
Miles Davis - A Kind Of Blue
Misty In Roots - Live At Counter Eurovision
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate
Galaxie 500 - Today
Hydroplane - Hope Against Hope
Miss Mary - Hey Blue
Charlemagne Palestine - Schlongo!!!daLUVdrone
Pauline Oliveros - Primordial Lift
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band -
.......... Clear Spot
.......... Safe As Milk
.......... Trout Mask Replica
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Smoosh - She Like Electric
Muslimgauze - Baghdad
New Order - Technique
Nils Okland - Straum
Pink Industry - Low Technology
P J Harvey - Dry
SPK - Leichenshrei
Pole - Pole 3
X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents
Singles
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
Orange Juice - Simply Thrilled Honey
The Cure - A Forest
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Outcasts - Justa Nother Teenage Rebel
Damned - New Rose
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
James Brown - Super Bad
Buddy Holly And The Crickets - Peggy Sue
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part 1)
Tornadoes - Telstar
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Artic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Grandaddy - Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Boom
Broadcast - Echo's Answer
Girls At Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast
Fall - Totally Wired
Buzzcocks -
.......... What Do I Get
.......... You Say You Don't Love Me
.......... Ever Fallen In Love
Go-Betweens - Cattle And Cain
Galaxie 500 - Tugboat
X-Ray Spex - Oh! Bondage Up Yours!
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
A Certain Ratio - Do The Du
Birthday Party - Bad Seed
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Booker T And The MGs - Green Onions
Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
Four Tops - Reach Out
Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want
Beatles -
.......... Paperback Writer
.......... Here Comes The Sun
.......... She Loves You
.......... Can't Buy Me Love
.......... I Feel Fine
.......... Strawberry Fields Forever
.......... A Hard Day's Night