anarchism, anarcho-dandyism, apocalypse, apocalyptic skies, art, art terrorism, barcelona, bdsm, becoming obsessed, being in charge, being shown who's boss, berlin, bittersweet, blood, boys in braces, breaking you, breath control, cacophony society, charming men, charming snakes, chris morris, climbing, comics, copenhagen, corsets, crossing roads recklessly, cruelty, cyberpunk, dadaism, decadence, dischordianism, disfnordia, drugs, dynamism, evil, existentialism, fascist imagery, fetish, fire, flesh, flirtation, freedom, futurism, games, george orwell, glistening boys, grotesque, hallucinations, high five, history, honoursville, hoodoo, improper behaviour, incarceration, interesting underwear, japanese culture, jareth, k, la nausée, latex, liberty, limerance, love, lydia lunch, military chic, moral absolutes, moral ambiguities, mouths, movies, neo-victorianism, nouveau louche, outsider literature, pain, paradigm shifts, paris, passion, perversion, philosophy, pleasure, pornography, power, psi, purity, ray caesar, sadism, sarcastic men, scarlet mews, schadenfreude, sexy parties, slacklining, socialism, spanish civil war, spontaneity, squealing flappers, static trapeze, stillhouse orchestra, stone carved as fabric, strong women, switching, tango, the flaming doo dits, the night porter, the sherrif of badtown, things that live, travelling, trevor brown, tyranny, undeserved arrogance, vengence, victory, vorticism, wax trax, wednesday night specials, wierd stuff.
I'd like to meet:
Like-minded individuals, filmmakers, writers, designers, photographers, performers, club promoters, you know the drill.
Subs can add me if you like but I'm not going to do anything especially Dommey, and I'm certainly not going to respond to any speculative messages. Save that for Pedestal.
Music:
At the moment? mainly...
The McCarricks,
Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Marlene Dietrich, Cab Calloway, Flaming Doo Dits, Stillhouse Orchestra, Fantasmagoria, Gogol Bordello, Dresden Dolls, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Nina Simone, Fats Waller, Humanwine, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, The Dead Brothers, The Tiger Lillies
Of course I have very eclectic tastes and at any given time I might be listening to any other of the random musical stylings left over from my previous incarnations, such as Lydia Lunch, Bjork, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Miranda Sex Garden, Mediaeval Bæbes, Autechre, Orbital, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, FM Einheit, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, New Model Army, David Bowie, The Cramps, Foetus, The Pogues, The Damned, Godspeed you Black Emperor, Cubanate, Revolting Cocks, Sheep on Drugs, Senser, Nirvana, Therapy? Complusion, Alice In Chains, Faith No More, Curve, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Swans, The Cure, The Cranes, Depeche Mode, Relaxed Muscle, Pulp, Blur, Gorillaz, Aesop Rock, Saul Williams, Recoil, Meg Lee Chin, Underworld
Favourite Composers: Michael Nyman, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Prokofiev, Bizet, Mozart
Movies:
The Night Porter
Night of the Hunter
Audition
Blue Velvet
Bleeder
Man bites Dog
Brazil
Bad Boy Bubby
Requiem for a dream
Pi
American Beauty
Apocalypse Now
Fight Club
Barton Fink
Elizabeth
Blade Runner
Delicatessen
Videodrome
Dangerous Liaisons.
The Cook, The Thief, His wife and her Lover
Richard III.
In the Company of Wolves
Donnie Darko
Happiness
Ridicule
Cabaret
Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil's Backbone
O Brother where art Thou
Ran
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Big Sleep
Betty Blue
The Libertine
The Idiots
The Pillow Book
La Reine Margot
Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead
Un Chein Andalou
Favourite directors: Cohen Brothers, Cronenberg, Lynch, Del Toro, Aronofski, Greenaway, Kurosawa.
Television:
Chris Morris, Black Books, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, Green Wing
Books:
Illuminatus trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson
Principia Dischordia, Malaclypse the Younger
Bigot Hall, Steve Aylett
The Dice Man, Luke Rinehart
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, Neal Stevenson
1984, Animal Farm, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
True romance, Helen Zahavi
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Days of Hope, Andre Malreaux
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemmingway
V for Vendetta, Alan Moore
A hundred years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Junior
And the Ass saw the Angel, Nick Cave
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Outsider, Albert Camus
Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
The Blue of Noon, Georges Bataille
Favourite writers: Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Jim Thompson, Franz Kafka, Maupassant, Voltaire
Heroes:
No more heroes anymore