music, literature. films, art, photography, listening to people on the train, cricket, walking, pandas, chocolate, coffee..
tina weymouth....i think the bass playing on talking heads' "more songs about buildings and food" is complete perfection...her melodies are just genius...
DIF JUZ DIF JUZ DIF JUZ fleet foxes, sleeping states, jens lekman, peter von poehl, loney dear, st vincent, mugison, midlake, beach house, vetiver, lily electric, patti smith, under byen, port o'brien, our broken garden, Peter Borderick, Sarah Jaffe, clear tigers, animal collective, panda bear, grizzly bear, von sudenfeld, ohbijou, bowerbirds, the ACORN, television, birthday party, wire, magazine, prag vec, pop group, slits, PiL ( Metal Box period ), Robert Wyatt, Stevie Wonder, Associates, Stephanie Dosen, MBV, all Bella Union Recording Artists past and present, south san gabriel, Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, Elizabeth Fraser, Lee Perry, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Coltrane, Nico, Vashti Bunyan, Arvo Part, Gorecki, of montreal, menomena, stravinsky, always the runner, arcade fire, tristeza, south pacific, mogwai, everything on Ache Records, cabaret voltaire, centro-matic, early human league, black mountain, neil young, bright eyes, howling bells, ISLES, john coltrane, alice coltrane, godspeed, doris day, nina simone, eden ahbez, john cale, voice and drumming of karen carpenter, satie, eno, laura veirs, singers and players, a certain ratio, billy mackenzie, durutti column, generation x, orbidoig, jose gonzales, london underground, ar kane, rider, can, jah wobble, iron and wine, buck 65, sort sol, crispy ambulance, konono no.1, beastie boys, martin denny, clearlake, james yorkston, the duke spirit, go! team, cut copy, talking heads ( first 3 albums ), carl orff, jack dangers, bim sherman, noah house of dread, jane's addiction, low, henry mancini, clinic, smog, sufjan stevens, wolfgang press, abe vigoda, miles anthony benjamin robinson, j tillman, bon iver, wildbirds and peacedrums, our broken garden, ultra vivid scene, amon tobin, dj shadow, michael edwards, danny elfman, ennio morricone, frank sinatra, lust for life-period iggy pop, heroes-period bowie, early joy division, early clash, early buzzcocks, subway sect, the velvets, sufjan stevens, peter broderick, nancy sinatra, groucho marx, pere ubu, early scritti politti, the go-betweens, smith and mighty, postcard records-josef k, orange juice, fire engines, some primal scream, debussy, mahler, joan as policewoman, sex pistols, slint, fourtet, archie bronson outfit, the shortwave set, jeniferever, laura gibson, andrew bird, yndi halda, ohbijou, clear tigers, bowerbirds, papercuts, paperchase, paul marshall, birds on strings, heidi spencer,
The Misfits, cool hand luke, anatomy of a murder, fargo, kiss kiss bang bang, the third man, lost weekend, the jerk, broadway danny rose, midnight run, midnight express, midnight cowboy, night of the iguana, the glenn miller story, the philadelphia story, pi, the punch and judy man, stalker, duck soup, north by northwest, sabrina, touch of evil, big liebowski, la confidential, stalag 17, amelie, irma la douce, harvey, capote, jean de florette, magnolia, raging bull, casino, goodfellas, twelve angry men, pat and mike, the music of chance, bringing up baby, double indemnity, casablanca, night of the hunter, last american picture show, spinal tap, clerks, mirror, almost famous, the trial, pyscho, peeping tom, taxi driver, french connection, all the presidents men, carlitos way, dog day afternoon, the sting, in a lonely place, stalker, mirror, arsenic and old lace, stagecoach, it's a wonderful life, the stranger, the cincinatti kid, the godfather, a girl from trieste, annie hall, the red shoes ( amazing !) the life and death of colonel blimp, rushmore, withnail and i, sexy beast, meantime, goodbye lenin, my life as a dog, gilbert grape, once around ( most people hate this i think it's genius )
the sopranos, six feet under, the avengers, the prisoner, morecambe and wise, green wing, rob brydon, les dawson, shameless, nighty night, the mighty boosh, my name is earl, dead like me, BIG TRAIN, cricket on channel 4..
in cold blood by truman capote, the outsider by camus, the fight by norman mailer, on broadway by damon runyon, king of the world by david remnick, putin's russia by anna politkovskaya, the mayor of casterbridge by thomas hardy, anything by douglas coupland, hype and glory by william goldman, love all the people by bill hicks, seeing the blossom by dennis potter, morvern callar by alan warner, in the country of last things AND leviathan ,both by paul auster, the hawkline monster by richard brautigan, my indecision is final by jake eberts, making of The Misfits by James Goode. The Man Who Was Bilko by Phil Silvers, Legs That Dance to Elmers Tune (Elmer Batters) Without Feathers by Woody Allen
my late father...i don't mean his timekeeping. mohammed ali and all the members of the best band i ever saw DIF JUZ..the phrase 'if only..." was coined when DIF JUZ broke up...if i were rich i would pay them to play the whole of their catalogue of music at my funeral..well you know what i mean...i'd leave a sum in my will...