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I fucken love
Peaches. Also Buck Angel. Thom Yorke (not least because he makes it ok for me to dance like a mentalist ),
Amanda Palmer . And of course, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer ,
Lee and Herring , and Eddie Izzard .
There are quite a few people I'd like to meet for coffee. Many of them are listed below.
This was all getting a bit hectic, so I've decided to only list the things and stuff that make me chuckle like a four year old. So, for the music: Pitchshifter, Radiohead, Thom Yorke (The Eraser is... divine.), Biomechanical, Bjork, Pink Floyd, Aphex Twin, Zuul FX, Rabbit Junk, Five Horse Johnson, Faithless, Fear Factory, PEACHES, eXit wound, ISOR, Alec Empire, The Dresden Dolls, NIN, DJ Format, J5, Prodigy, SKINDRED, Atari Teenage Riot, Guano Apes, Missy Elliot, Die Toten Hosen, Solemn Camel Crew, Shetan, Otep, Psychostick...
I like films that make me go "oh." Current favourite is Inside I'm Dancing ... I've had quite a thing for James McAvoy since seeing this - and an even bigger thing since seeing him in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. There's definitely something about men with backwards goat legs. Other films I sometimes like to sit in front of are: Run Lola, Run, A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dancer in the Dark, Man on the Moon, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, all the (proper) Pink Panther films, Jurassic Park, the Back to the Future series, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Secretary, Death Bed, Rosemary's Baby, Shaun of the Dead, Dogma, Adaptation, Cemetary Man, SeSEVENen, Amelie, The Descent, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest ...
Eastenders! As well as all that tosh (which I love, so dearly), I have DVDs of Brass Eye, The Mighty Boosh, SPACED, Father Ted, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Futurama, Quantum Leap, Adam and Joe, Jam, King of the Hill, Home Movies, Dead Like Me, and The Chronicles of Narnia. When I'm watching actual telly, I like shows like Jeremy Kyle (the very heights of melodramatic beauty), Takeshi's Castle (it used to really cheer me up before having to leave for work on a Sunday morning), Scrapheap Challenge (it makes me want to make things out of other things, even if it is on a smaller scale), QI (which makes me feel immensely clever, especially when I watch repeats of it), and Harry Hill's TV Burp makes me laugh embarassingly loud, even if I haven't seen the programmes he's talking about. The Badger Parade! Oh Mr Harry. etc. I'm so old school.
American Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, anything by Douglas Adams, The Little Monsters Word Book (Mercer Mayer),anything by Germaine Greer, The Age of Reason, Cunt - a declaration of Independence, various biographies of bands and people I admire, textbooks on things I randomly find and think will be interesting (depression, psychology, publishing, feminism, gender and sexuality, etc) and uh... erotic fiction :)I'm currently re-re-re-reading AGAIN the Hitchikers' Guide trilogy (of five) books again. Love it.
There are some people that I look at and think, 'Yeah, well done you.' Want a list? Here you are then. Bjork, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, John Lydon, Thom Yorke, Eddie Izzard, Buck Angel, Peaches, Inga Muscio (EVERYONE needs to read her book, 'Cunt,' regardless of whether you own one or not), Amanda Palmer, Douglas Adams, and though they are not 'real' I love Tank Girl, Dave Lister, Daisy Steiner, Leela, Vince Noir, and Daria too. Anyone who's into doing what nobody else has done before, blurring the lines in music, comedy, writing and gender, or you're just plain kick-ass with great hair, yeah. You have earned my respect. Be proud of that achievement.