"When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You Know That You're Right."
anybody who can play a decent game of chess. or a panda
anything that provides a sumptuous feast for my hungry little ears - interesting noises, bleeps and bloops, guitars (twangy or beautiful), piano piano piano, obscure indie b sides, clever words and cleverer concepts, people who make records dance with their fingers and the room dance with their records, & david bowie
recently lots of:
the Cardigans, Soundgarden, Pigface, Jehst, Bjork, Vangelis, Nightmares on Wax, Cold War Kids, the Velvet Underground, Eels.
I'm always up for hearing new and stuff so feel free to throw a few suggestions at me but a word to the wise, nothing kills enthusiasm quite like over exposure
(in no sparticalular order)Leon, Natural Born Killers, Requiem for a Dream, Mean Girls, Amores Perros, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Serenity, Beetlejuice, The Girl Next Door, Being John Malkovich, Versus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Spun, Spirited Away, La Haine, Back to the Future trilogy, Old Boy, I ♥ huckabees, Chocolat, The Anchorman, American History X, Princess Mononoke, layercake, Dark City, Dead Mans Shoes, Azumi, Uzumaki, Happiness, Almost Famous, DISNEY. A Clockwork Orange, My Sassy Girl, The Cats Meow, Beetlejuice, Human Traffic, The Hot Chick, Old Boy, Dead Leaves, the royal tennenbaums, the life aquatic, Primer, Mulholland Drive, Party Monster, Human Traffic, dazed and confused, the omen, videodrome, the rules of attraction, x men, the batman films, that's all i can remember without thinking too hard. I like 70s horror films, films about people with superpowers, under the sea, gratuitous tit shots, violence and swearing.
Arrested Development, Top Buzzer, Spaced, Buffy, Smallville, Family Guy, The simple life, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Futurama, Shameless, Firefly, Malcolm in the Middle, Round the Twist, Sealab & Aqua Team Hunger Force, Weeds, Trailer Park Boys, Skins, The Lost Room, Day Break, The Crystal Maze, anything about sharks, pandas, dinosaurs, squids or general aquatic life, or space, good adverts!
In no order whatsoever, Harry Potter and the [insert every single Harry Potter book title here], Platform by Michel Houellebecq, Generation X, any good old Hunter s - sparticularly the Rum Diary and his Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson story, the fantastic Haruki Murakami, who imbues his books - Dance Dance Dance, Sputnik Sweetheart, Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Norwegian Wood, The Elephant Vanishes and so on) with an eerie sense of stillness, an all pervading feeling that something is on the verge of happening, Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland, JT Leroy's Sarah, How the Dead Live by Will Self, house of leaves, camus, Martin Amis, anything about DINOSAURS, Tart noir, Angela Carter, JG Ballard, Madame Bovary, bit of HG Wells, George Orwell (I have a love hate relationship with him) Buffy the vampire slayer books, Thomas Pynchon, chick-oriented coming of age tales - see: The Dark Part of Me by Belinda Burns, Brass by Kate Atkinson, Sugar Rush by Julie Birchill, Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen etc etc etc. A series of Unfortunate Events, William Golding - The pyramid, Greek mythology, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, James Joyce's Dubliners, Antony Burgess's Clockwork Orange, trashy jolly hockey sticks Enid Blyton like Malory Towers and the Twins at Saint Claires, Tony Strong - The Decoy, most Chuck Palahniuk, Trainspotting/Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh, Occidental mythology, Nathaniel West, books about trashy Hollywood stars like Paris Hilton, Junko Mizuno's fabulously twisted manga, Clockwork by Philip Pullman, In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (fabulously pulpy, like neon colours and murder) Neil Gaiman, Natsuo Kirino - Out, any fairy tales but especially the Grimm ones, The Handmaids tale, Dirty Blonde - Courtney Love, NANCY FUCKING DREW, Alice in Wonderland & through the looking glass, How to eat fried worms/How to kiss a girl by Thomas Rockwell, Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub, bit of Grisham, Uzumaki (excellent manga about a town haunted by spirals - the film is also mint) Bambi and her Pink Gun (RAD), Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath (I fought against this one for a while but I have inevitably come to accept that I like her poetry. i am morally opposed to the Bell Jar, however) Mr Nice - Howard Marks (LEGEND), The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann, The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, Ian McEwan's Amsterdam, Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 (although I'm not quite sure how to take him.. interesting rather than amazingly good) The Rise and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy, Brett Easton Ellis - The rules of attraction, A Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone, The Lady Killer by Masako Tagawa, Elizabeth Wurtzel but particularly Bitch - in praise of difficult women because my transition into adulthood has given me the sinking feeling that I probably am one, it is also becoming apparent that I probably read way too much, thankyou&goodnight.
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