Things I like: Wit, laughter, fabulous shoes, rock n roll, LA, elegant living, running wild, going to gigs, my lovely friends, working out, running, swimming naked in lakes, creating, nature, animals, wild places, dancing in thunderstorms, travel and seeing new places, being silly, learning new things.
Purveyors of wit, all manner of creative folks, burlesque enthusiasts and performers, and anyone else who'd like to stop by and say hello!
I like all sorts of stuff a small sample being: Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, Deep Purple, The Cramps, Detroit Cobras, Joan Jett, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Cult, Aerosmith, Stone Temple Pilots, Ministry, The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Faces, The Kinks, The Who, Stone Roses, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Reverend Horton Heat, Brides of Destruction, Happy Mondays, Quireboys, The Jam, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Damned, The Ramones, Clash, Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Half Man Half Biscuit, Eagles of Death Metal, The Sweet, Wolfmother, Hanoi Rocks, Iggy Pop, Bowie, King Kurt, Guns 'n' Roses, Motley Crue, Motorhead, White Stripes, Nirvana, Dead Kennedys, The Velvet Underground, The Specials, Henry Mancini, Dolly Parton......Nina Simone, Blondie, Goldfrapp, Madness, Adam Ant, Billie Holliday, Tom Waits, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Abba, Muppet Show Band (??!) The Starfuckers on a Thursday night at the Cat Club (ah - memories!)!! Classical music - particularly 17th & 18th century chamber and harpsichord music, Offenbach, smutty 17th century songs, Danny Elfman, Micheal Nyman. All sorts of everything as long as it's good.
Motley Crue Wild Side
Alice Cooper
The Wrong Box, Monte Carlo or Bust, Some Like it Hot, The Big Sleep, Pirates of the Carribean, Sleepy Hollow - (actually anything with Johnny Depp), Bringing Up Baby,The Philadelphia Story, Performance, La Reine Margot, Spinal Tap, Life of Brian, Withnail and I, A Scanner Darkly, L4yer Cake, The Great Ziegfeld, Pulp Fiction,A Few Dollars More and most Eastwood movies .. Rebecca, Ealing Comedies, Gone With the Wind.
Jeeves and Wooster, Shameless, Mighty Boosh, Porridge, The Open All Hours, Ab Fab, Monty Python, Family Guy. I listen to Radio 4 a disturbing amount.
Another great passion of mine, I lecture at BA and MA level and have about 2500 books so this could take a while, ...Byron's letters are a fave, as is P G Wodehouse-that master of the English language! the poetry and letters of John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester, The Wrong Box. I love reading biographies of genuinely remarkable and interesting people and have a passion for history.
Charles II John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester, Barbara Palmer, P G Wodehouse, Lauren Bacall, Captain Jack Sparrow, Eddie Izzard, Peter Cook, Stewie Griffin, Terry Thomas.