poetry, cinema, art, theatre, cats, history, learning, new york, my old fanzine "cheesy", viz, cartoons, animation, walking, kerrang, sight and sound magazine, writing(lyrics,poetry,comedy sketches - words), listening to music, creating, thinking, grumpy cynicism and hopeless optimism.
Daniel Peacock, John Lydon, Emma Ridley, Emma Forrest and Perry the Cat, Keith Allen, Julie Burchill, Lee Ving, Brian Trueman (creator of Dangermouse), Vinny Stigma, Harley Flanagan, Shane Meadows, Phillip Ridley, Kathy Burke, Ken Russell, Raymond Farmer, Harry Batt, Kat Shea Rubin, Allison Anders, The Chuckle Brothers,The Pepsi Twins (if they're still alive) Harmony Korine and Ian McKaye(so I can kiss the laces of his vegan trainers). That's all for now folks.
tsol, samiam, the fall, social distortion, motorhead, the ronettes, the blasters, black flag, agnostic front, understand, hundred reasons, faith no more, mike patton (tomahawk), fabric, sick of it all, bad brains, butthole surfers, jesse mallin, the cars, cheap trick, pixies, reagan youth, john doe, husker du, minutemen, pj harvey, sex pistols, public image ltd, roy orbison, metallica, judas priest, ac/dc, the jam, madness, terry hall, slayer, the go gos, blondie, hole, the who, johnny cash, the carter family, rainbow, bessie smith, tom petty, xtc, iggy pop, fear, dead kennedys, hank williams, lucinda williams, billy bob thornton, the germs, joan jett, fugazi, dischord, hank williams and alt country.
Gummo, Julian Donkey Boy, The Plague, Night of the Hunter, The Plague, La Luna, Old Mother Riley films, Powell and Pressburger,Terence Davies, The Getting of Wisdom, Picnic on Hanging Rock,Out of the Blue, Foxes, Blue Collar, St. Elmo's Fire, Bronco Bullfrog, Bloody Kids, Slade in Flame, The General, Hobson's Choice, Life is Sweet, High Hopes, Career Girls, My Own Private Idaho, Do The Right Thing, A Room for Romeo Brass, Annie Hall, DW Griffith and Marx Bros.
The Royle Family, Everybody Hates Chris, Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow, Catherine Tate Show, Married with Children, The Mighty Boosh, Nighty Night, Chucklevision, The Office, Monty Python's Flying Circus, That Peter Kay Thing, Coronation Street, Question Time, ..aries (science, history, etc) Current Affairs and Satire.
Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis, Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson, Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte, The Ballad Of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark, Namedropper and Thin Skin - Emma Forrest, Fuel Injected Dreams and Tim & Pete - James Robert Baker, Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger, ScribbleBoy - Phillip Ridley, My Part in Hitler's Downfall - Spike Milligan, Dorian - Will Self, Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.
No but I do have the anti-heroes such as: John Lydon, Penelope Spheeris, Keith Allen, my cousin Grant Fleming, Victor Lewis Smith, Charlie Brooker, william Morris, Johnny Cash, Whoopi Goldberg, Spike Milligan, Kathy Burke, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ian MacKaye, Mike Watt, Julie Burchill (although I don't agree with her views on public executions. No missus.)