Music / Reckless drinking / Women / Surfing and especially surfing in a storm to relieve a hangover / Rugby / London / Svaha moments / The world of media / The beautiful Greek island of Alonissos / Seeing my friends band Ghosts become huge in 2007 / New York / Living for the bizarre moments in life, like being chased by Indonesian police round the backstreets of Kuta while just wearing my Calvins or saying hi to Noel Gallagher thinking he was a really good lookalike or accidentally assaulting a midget while going shopping at Tesco’s or burning down a… / Munich / Waking up in strange places / Paris / Being aloof / Playing psychological games with my flatmates / Pressing the snooze button / Bali / Things that seem like a good idea at the time…
I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.
Special mention to Ghosts who are great lads and will be tres grande in 2007! Generally just about every genre there is from Deep House to Ska via Disco-Punk, I love my beats and I love basslines you can feel in your chest.....at the moment I'm into Kidkanevil, The Rapture, !!!, Kid Koala, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Tommy Guerrero, Sia, Hot Chip, Bjork, Junior Boys, Ghosts, Thirteen Senses, RJD2, Gang Of Four, Tom Vek, Doves, Amy Winehouse, UNKLE, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Tokyo Police Club, Conor Oberst, We Are Scientists, Soul Position, J5, Artic Monkeys, Automato, LCD Soundsystem, Chemical Brothers, Ryan Adams, The Hilltop Hoods, CSS, Camera Obscura, The Roots, Interpol, Bloc Party, Sunshine Underground, Phones/Epicman, Dirty Pretty Things, The Libertines, Cold War Kids, Blur, Four Tet, Tom Vek, Elliot Smith, Pretty much anything on DFA Records or Hed Kandi records, Bacon Bits, Nuyorican Soul, Soul Position, edIT, Frou Frou, The National, Racine, Jamie T, Zero7, Guillemots, Bonobo, Sigur Ros, Dungen, Stateless, Bombay Bicycle Club....Just to name a few, but I could go on forever!
City Of God, Point Break, Big Wednesday, Don't Look Now, Stickmen, The Big Blue, Withnail & I, Office Space, Napoleon Dynamite, Rules Of Attraction, Fight Club, Memento, Mulholland Drive, Amelie, Virgin Suicides, The Big Lebowski, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, Battle Royale, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Television is the opiate of the masses. Find your niche. New Media is where it's at. That said I have a spurious love of all things surreal like Big Train, Green Wing, Blue Jam, Mighty Boosh, etc.
I read quite a bit as, along with my iPod, it takes my mind off the pasty munching commuters on the tube each morning. The ones I'd consider reading more than once are... The Magus - John Fowles, Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis, Perfume - Patrick Suskind, Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson, Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold, Choke - Chuck Palhniuk, Touching The Void - Joe Simpson, Mr. Nice - Howard Marks, The Diceman - Luke Rhinehart
Ollie Reed. Legend.