"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex" - Oscar Wilde.
People who believe in the life-affirming power of music as much as I do.
In no particular order: Sludgefeast, Do Me Bad Things, Guided By Voices, Campag Velocet, Buff Medways, !!!, Galaxie 500, Low, Ladytron, By Coastal Cafe, Beachbuggy, Love, Melt Banana, Joy Division, Pernice Brothers, Roxy Music, Velvet Underground, Prefab Sprout, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, Husker Du, The Replacements, Jonathan Richman, Big Star, The Raveonettes, Bob Log III, Sonic Youth, The Shaggs, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Ween, Yo La Tengo, mAKE uP, Royal Trux, Pavement, Superchunk, Belle and Sebastian, The Delgadoes, Talking Heads, Scritti Politti, The Pixies, New Order, The Blue Nile.
Toxic Avenger, Wings of Desire, La Dolce Vita, Battle Royale, The Cube, Clerks, Schindler's List, Breaking the Waves, Bad Taste, The Underground, Goodfellas, Mad Max 2, Boys in the Hood, Braindead, 28 Days Later, Paperhouse, The Castle, Kikujiro, La Haine, Warriors, The Ring 2, Hana Bi, The Exorcist, Eraserhead, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dancer in the Dark, Evil Dead 3.
Anything by any one of the following:Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Joseph Conrad, P.G.Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, Gustave Flaubert, Spike Milligan, Franz Kafka, Henrik Ibsen, Philip Pullman, Guy de Maupassant, Ian McEwan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.D.Salinger, Haruki Murakami, J.G.Ballard.