When I'm not stumbling from party to party with Polly, trying to get her to tell me the GRITTY TRUTH about her life & not the soft soap version (I'm a serious writer you know), I'm working on my novel. But then, aren't we all?
MyGen Profile GeneratorEverything. I'm sad like that, I could get interested reading the phone book. All those different names...
Anyone for a good chat. I like to talk about anything from philosophy, the state of the nation to Neighbours. Especially Neighbours.
Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, The Darkness, Def Leppard, Fischerspooner, Peaches, Bauhaus, Rufus Wainwright, REM, The Smiths, The Hives, Guns N Roses, David Devant, Carter USM, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Manic Street Preachers, Dogs D'Amour, Shakira, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Pulp, Bonzo Dog, Blondie, Suede.
Dog Day Afternoon, The Birdcage, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Dr Strangelove, Lost in Translation, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, The Royal Tenenbaums, Space Odyssey, The Godfather, The Ice Storm, Get Carter, Abigail's Party, Star Wars, Heathers, The Lost Boys.
Spaced, The Goodies, Python, The Sweeney, terrible reality TV shows like X-Factor, series about art and history, and the hallowed institution that is Neighbours.
I wasn't one of those puking, dribbling babies, thank god, but I did used to dribble when confronted with a book. I don't anymore, I grew out of that when I was eighteen...Still have an occasional dribble for old time's sake on Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, anything by J G Ballard, Simon Raven's Alms for Oblivion series, Isherwood, Auden, E M Forster, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry, Dickens, photography books from the likes of Mick Rock and Nan Goldin, Bukowski, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Tom Wolf. Also read a lot of mags like ID.