I'm slowly weaning myself off Top Fives, I'm against artificial hierarchies of all kinds. All kinds of hierarchies are artificial.I wish I had more time to read. Other than that, my life is complete, though there's no higher pleasure than mutuality. I really, really like Vignotte and I find injustice more than a little distasteful.
Other people who cry at Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. People who are willing to read to me or spend time in the "Free From" aisle in Waitrose. A geek with a lovely shirt. Anyone who agrees that time is a tool of social control and profoundly damaging to human happiness. Anyone who will watch Spanish films with me and introduce me to new ones. Those with a natural sense of justice. Tim's cousin. Mainly Tim's cousin.
Antonioni. All Almovodar films. Lars Von Trier. Stanley Kubrick. Napoleon Dynamite. Bitter Moon. A Bout de Souffle. Cronicas de Una Fuga. Rebecca. Sexy Beast. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Hairspray. 8 Women.
Love in A Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde, Incest - Marquis de Sade. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy, The Kite Runner. The Beauty Myth. What a Carve Up! (I wouldn't normally use an exclamation mark, but it is in the title). The Little Friend - Donna Tart. Sex Work - Writings by Women in The Sex Industry and I think I am about to like Ghostwritten, but I'll keep you posted.
The invisible people who change the world through their toil and everyday resistance. And Kylie.