PEOPLE and the weird and wonderful and sometimes downright crazy things they do, films, books, writing, drinking, laughing, music, dancing, arts events - being at and being involved in
Please check out my creative forum The Social Party in my Top8 and if you like a bit of top quality live music from local bands and out of town wonders come down to the Jericho Music Box nights at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford. It's in Jericho. COINCIDENCE?!?!?!?!x
Rattlesnake Remedy (see top8), Tori Amos, Rock as in anything they play at Eddies, sexy choons from Mrs Badcrumble, girly girls with guitars a la Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt "fame", Damien Rice, Guns n Roses (yes it is possible to like both of those!), Goldfrapp, Interpol, Air, The Caesars, Joy Zipper, Led Zeppelin, Letters To Cleo, The Killers, Beth Orton, Jewel, John Lee Hooker, PJ Harvey, Free, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cream, The White Stripes, Aerosmith, Patti Smith, AC/DC, Velvet Revolver, Fun Lovin Criminals, Massive Attack, Portishead, Lemon Jelly, Nikka Costa, Paula Cole, Imogen Heap, Joan Osbourne, the satisfying sounds of Def Leppard, ridiculousness such as The Donnas, Jet, Curve, Suzanne Vega, Snake River Conspiracy, Dressy Bessy, Fatboy Slim, Radiohead, The Cardigans, The Sundays, Skunk Anansie, Beastie Boys, My Bloody Valentine, Counting Crows, Death in Vegas, Marilyn Manson, Garbage, Hole, Racine, Kasabian, Muse, The Bangles, Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Lizzie West, The Pretenders, The Beta Band, Gorillaz, Placebo, The Zutons, Mazzy Star, Electrolane, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Prince, the Stones, and of course Simon Mastrantone and the wonderful people on the live music scene in Oxford - check out my top8! x
Basically I will only watch films where nothing happens and people have some sort of understated drama involving long looks. A few exceptions only. Awesomeness can be found in SIN CITY , Closer, Confessions of A Dangerous Mind, Angels in America, Lost in Translation, Japanese Story, SECRETARY, The Virgin Suicides, Casino, Scarface, All the Real Girls, Carlitos Way, The Godfather, anything with Patricia Clarkson in except The Untouchables, The Safety of Objects, Spiderman 2 (!!!), Threesome , Bound, My Dinner with Andre, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amores Perros, 5 x 2, Fight Club, Memento, Spinal Tap, Annie Hall, Mannequin, Gia, Heathers, A Life Less Ordinary, 9 Songs, The Godfather, Crash, Sideways, The Dreamers.
24 is genius and Jack Bauer is a legend of our time. I don't watch any tv so my credit card cries with box-set pain.
On the Road, anything by MAYA ANGELOU, anything by RILKE, anything by Milan Kundera, Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet, good old Michael Ondaatje, Nabakov, Jane Austen, Robbe-Grillet, Camus, Capote, Keroauc, Jean Cocteau, Virginia Woolf...too many..ahh...brain explosion. I have decided to read nothing but short stories for the next few months to get my head into short fiction, so then I can write some again and bore people into reading it.
I am 62% Tortured Artist.
.. Art is significant in my life, people are scum but I have the capicity to deal with it. Give it a few more years and I will either forget about art or hate the world. Take the
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