•McSweeney's - READ IT NOW, go on, google it (then email me back thanking me for changing your life for the better.)•Collar bones. •Photography, and lots of it.•Kissing and sleeping.•Nicking the good bits of Ms Moore's personality (sorry my Leeds based lovely.) •Drinking dr pepper, or drinking orange and cranberry juice with vodka.•Cleaning my teeth whilst looking out over the rooftops of Cambridge late at night.•Wearing red lipstick yet not giving a fuck about the rest of my apparance (I wish).•TO STOP USING IRONY AS AN EXCUSE.•Trying to read everything I want to read and everything I need to read for Uni (why don't those two lists merge more often?)•Ugly shoes.•Taking the piss out of people who are more successful and better looking than me.•Making lists.•Being early for everything ... (insert filth.)•Being drunk and sounding increasingly northern.•Trying not to make a twat of myself (failing miserably).•Meeting new people.•Trying to be 'soooo fucking rock and roll, motherfucker'. •Being loved only by children under 7 (you should hear me read 'The very hungry caterpillar' or sing 'Old McDonald').
2007 - People who would enjoy writing my dissertation - I could pay you in dirty, sexy nastiness.2008 - People who like a pint, and who didn't know me during my difficult period a year ago when I was prostituting myself for academic favours.
Adam And The Ants, All is Love, Audioslave, At the Drive-In, A Perfect Circle, AFI, Bad Religion, Beach Boys, Beck, The Beta Band, Bjork, Black Flag, Blondie, Jeff Buckley, Brendan Benson, Bright Eyes, Buzzcocks, Cake, Clash, Leonard Cohen, Cranberries, Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Devandra Banhart, Dead Kennedys, Deus, Distillers, Do Me Bad Thing, The Elected, Eels, The Faint, Fiery Furnaces, Fugazi, George Harrison, P J Harvey, Hole, Husker Du, Interpol, Joy Divison, The Kills, Lou Reed, Louis XIV, Melissa auf der Maur, Mercury Rev, Nine Inch Nails, Olivia Tremor Control, Orange Juice, Operation Ivy, Dolly Parton, Pixies, Propaghandi, The Rapture, Queens of the Stone Age, Rancid (early stuff mind), Soic Youth, Regina Spektor, Sonic Youth, Dusty Springfield, Emiliana Torrini, Le Tigre, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Smashing Pumpkins, Velvet Underground, Weezer, We are Scientists, Patrick Wolf, X-Ray Spex, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Labyrinth, Tank Girl, Happiness, Lost in Translation, American Beauty, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Heathers, Amelie, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Blade Runner, The Inn of the Sixth Hapiness, 9 to 5, The first Police Academy, Alien, Ghost World, Trees Lounge, Airheads, The City of Lost Children, Edward Scissor Hands, Pump Up The Volume, Beetlejuice, Garden State, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Spirited Away, Beautiful Girls, The Ice Storm, Buffalo '66, The Opposite of Sex, Benny and Joon, The Ninth Gate, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Leon, Dogma, Quills, The Village, American Beauty, Broken Flowers, Ghostbusters, The Pianist, Harrison's Flowers, Dummy.
Fuck off.Oh, hang on, Twin Peaks was good... (I share a birthday with David Lynch, born on the cusp, so we're both crazy fuckers.)Oooh, and Knightmare (I promise to love you if you can give me video evidence that you were ever 'under the helmet'.)
Alice in Wonderland, Chronicles of Narnia, Finn Family Moomin Troll, The Gruffalo, Gormenghast, Fight Club, Choke, Survivor (all Chuck Palahniuk really), The Stones of Venice, Crash (J. G. Ballard) The Rules of Attraction, Paradise Lost, Margery Kempe, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Blake,11th century French Romantic literature (fuck it, I don't care that's pretentious, I'm reading it translation, so that's still working class), Anais Nin, Tennyson, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Ian Sinclair, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Middlesex, Crime and Punishment, The End of the Affair, Women (Bukowski), Anna Karenina, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, On The Road
•W.B. Yeats
•Julia Margaret Cameron
•David LaChapelle
•Dorothea Lange
•Aubrey Beardsley...