Art and music mostly, but I write quite a lot too. Other things that interest me include the colours of puddles when you spill things in them, tall factory chimneys and shiny guitars. Being cheap 'n' cheerful. Getting into a flap about things and later forgetting what I'm flapping about, then flapping on regardless.
2 arms, 2 legs and a head? You're in. But if you carry pencils behind your ears, have a guitar strapped to your back and laugh fairly often you get special treatment. Extra points for being able to fit an entire digestive biscuit in your mouth. Someone with even smaller hands than myself so I can mock them mercilessly as I so often am.
A small slice of my listening habits:
22-20s,
9 BLACK ALPS,
AIR
ARCADE FIRE,
ART BRUT,
ASH,
BABYSHAMBLES,
BE YOUR OWN PET,
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN,
BERNARD BUTLER,
BLACK DICE,
BLACK WIRE,
BLOC PARTY,
BLONDIE,
BLUR,
DAVID BOWIE,
BOY KILL BOY,
BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
BRITISH SEA POWER,
CANSEI DE SER SEXY
GRAHAM COXON,
COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE,
CUT COPY,
DANDY WARHOLS,
DEPECHE MODE,
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS,
NICK DRAKE,
DUELS,
EDITORS,
ELASTICA,
FOO FIGHTERS,
FRANZ FERDINAND,
GARBAGE,
GOLDFRAPP,
GORILLAZ,
HARD FI PRIMARILY JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE FROM STAINES,
FRANCOISE HARDY
CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY
HOT HOT HEAT,
HUSHPUPPIES,
iFORWARD RUSSIA!,
JOY DIVISION,
KAISER CHIEFS,
KASABIAN,
MADNESS,
MANIC STREET PREACHERS,
MANSUN,
MAXIMO PARK,
MORRISSEY,
MUSE,
MYSTERY JETS,
TAISHI NAGASAKA
NEIL'S CHILDREN,
NIRVANA,
JIM NOIR
OF MONTREAL
PAVEMENT
PINK GREASE,
PULP,
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE,
RAMONES,
RAZORLIGHT,
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS,
RELAXED MUSCLE,
REUNION SQUARE
RICHARD ASHCROFT,
SEX PISTOLS,
SHAM 69
SLEEPER,
SPRING HEELED JIM
STONE ROSES,
SUEDE,
SUNNY DAY SETS FIRE,
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS,
THE AUTOMATIC,
THE BLUETONES,
THE CLASH,
THE CRIBS,
THE FRATELLIS,
THE FUTUREHEADS,
THE GO! TEAM,
THE JAM!!!,
THE KILLERS,
THE KINKS,
KLAXONS,
THE KOOKS,
THE LAS,
THE LIBERTINES,
THE LONG BLONDES,
THE MAGIC NUMBERS,
NO BRA
THE ORDINARY BOYS,
THE OTHERS,
THE PRETENDERS,
THE PRODIGY,
THE SMITHS,
THE SPECIALS,
THE STONE ROSES,
THE STROKES,
THE TEARS,
THE VASELINES,
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND,
THE VERVE,
VETROPLACH
PAUL WELLER
THE WHITE STRIPES,
THE WHO,
PATRICK WOLF,
THE ZUTONS,
WE ARE SCIENTISTS,
WHITE ROSE MOVEMENT,
WHITE RUSSIANS
YEAH YEAH YEAHS,
YOUNG KNIVES
and the rest of it.
Especially this selection that last.fm compiled by spying on me, cheeky gits.
Well, I've finally decided to knuckle down and do one of these "Bands Wot I 'Ave Seen Live And That" lists, rather begrudgingly. Please note this list probably isn't exhaustive but it's close enough, and if it's not on there I have forgotten and therefore they probably weren't that enjoyable anyway (or they could have been absolutely mesmerising and my memory's just bag of mush). This list includes bands that I've seen at festivals as well by the way.
Graham Coxon x5 (1 Acoustic)
Kaiser Chiefs x2
Yeah Yeah Yeahs x1
The Long Blondes x4
The Fratellis x2
The Cribs x3
Jeff Lewis x1
Dirty Pretty Things x2
Juliette and the Licks x2
The Subways x1
The Rakes x2
Maximo Park x2
The Research x1
Franz Ferdinand x1
The Kooks x1
The Automatic x1
The Hat x1
Mystery Jets x1
The Futureheads x1
Art Brut x2
Hot Puppies x1
Shrag x1
The Stranglers x1
The Boy Least Likely To x1
Paul Weller x1
Foo Fighters x1
The Killers x1
Goldie Lookin Chain x1(LOLZ)
Lady Sovereign (BRAP) x1
Common with DJ Dummy x1 (ALSO BRAP, oh Rise festival, how I love you)
Do Me Bad Things x1
White Rose Movement x1
Kings of Leon x1
Razorlight x1
The Checks x1
Queens of the Stone Age x1
Kasabian x1
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club x1
The Others x2
Nine Black Alps x1
Hot Hot Heat x1
Intervurt x2
the Bluetones x1
Duels x3
HushPuppies x1
The Departure x1
The Pistolas x1
Reunion Square x4
Spring Heeled Jim x1
Boy Who Cried Wolf x1
Gogol Bordello x1
Larrikin Love x1
Muse x1
Peaches x1
Humanzi x1
The Lodge x1
1990s x2
The Hitchcock Rules x 1
Magic 8 Ball x1
City Bowl Mizers x1
The Grates x1
Fortune Drive x1
The Young Knives x1
The Vichy Government x1
The Rifles x1
Brakes x1
Stuffy/the fuses x1
CSS x1
Wet Dog x1
Patrick Wolf x1
No Bra x1
Ratatat x1
The Lodger x1
erm, and it's changing all the time as I go to gigs and remember things.
Eep, I like a lot of films... Favourites include Quadrophenia, King Kong (the original one like), Live Forever, Wayne's World and Kevin and Perry Go Large. And anything else which is rubbish really. I'll watch anything though really as long as it hasn't got teenage girls going "OH MY GAWD!" too often in it. No rom coms.MY NEW FAVOURITE FILM IS FINIAN'S RAINBOW. It is basically amazing (read: the funniest thing ever) and made me fall even further in love with Channel 5. It has Fred Astaire in it looking like this:
And leprechauns. In what other film do you get people dancing around in tweed with cheesy grins? This is why it's amazing.
distracts me. I tend to watch a lot of comedy or music stuff. Though you don't really get much being on the old terrestrial as the freeview's a bit temperamental.
Biographies, anything by Oscar Wilde,Dean Koontz, Dickens, books of obscure eastern european poetry found on trains, notebooks, Argos catalogue. Quentin Crisp's a favourite also.
Graham Coxon
Jarvis Cocker
Brett Anderson
Bernard Butler
Damon Albarn
Carl Barat
Justine Frischmann
Louise Wener
Toby MacFarlaine
Nick Drake
David Hockney
Andy Warhol
Edvard Munch
Oscar Wilde.
Patrick Wolf
Lovefoxxx
Oh, and this lot:
PRETTY PRINCESS PETRA
Dave
Alex
Luke
The yellow thing from the Boy Least Likely to
Mr Henley
Whoever invented Just Juice.
The Balalaika
Leon Theremin
Emi and Nozomi, my two dear friends from Japan