Moorish dignity, sarcasm, teaching kids tricks their parents rather I didn't, arguing about politics, right thinking comrades, sunken living rooms.
The Stooges, MC5, The Clash, Spoon, Television, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Who, The Small Faces, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clientele, Tapes 'n Tapes, Desmond Dekker, The Smiths, The Jam, The Kinks, Destroyer, Stars, Los Campesinos, Joy Division, The Stills, Belle and Sebastian, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Vaselines, Blur, Otis Redding, Spirtualized, Beulah, The Specials, Phoenix, Vue, The i Spies, The Velvet Underground, M.Ward
Factotum (Bukowski), Sword of Honour trilogy (Evelyn Waugh), Flashman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dispatches (Michael Herr), The Rachel Papers (Martin Amis), A Confederacy Of Dunces (J.K. Toole), Sherston's Progress (S. Sassoon)