Reading - be it books, newspapers, poetry or Jeff Buckley lyrics; playing guitar; writing music; singing loudly to music; occasionally actually listening to the bloody music; going to gigs; staying up until the sun rises playing classic 90s hits and then going for breakfast; dancing regardless of the time, place or circumstance; sitting on my own in beautiful places and having a cigarette; writing; picnics in unusual places; thumb war (extreme!); art; jewellery; black coffee; flying; pigeons; red wine; rowing in extreme weather conditions; festivals; pudding and more specifically, 'going for pudding'; wishing I could draw; Pancake Day
I'd like to meet:
Jack White, Salvador Dali, Nietzsche and Shirley Manson - we could have a tea party!
In a Past Life...
You Were: An Evil Assassin.
Where You Lived: Alaska.
How You Died: The Plague.
Music:
With the help of these artists I'm fairly sure we can rule the world:Metallica, The White Stripes, Garbage, Pantera, Jeff Buckley, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Nirvana, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Slayer, The Fall, Drowning Pool, Nick Cave, Jonny Cash, Throwing Muses, PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Pulp, Aphex Twin, Nina Simone, Faith No More, Soundgarden, Kristin Hersh, Yo La Tengo, Prodigy, Arcade Fire, Sepultura, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Skunk Ananse, Invasion
Movies:
A Clockwork Orange, Shallow Grave, Stand by Me, Schindler's List, The Pianist, The Green Mile, Garden State, Tarnation, Silence of the Lambs, Rainman, This Boy's Life, Nightmare Before Christmas, Good Will Hunting, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future, Saving Private Ryan, Bounty, Momento, Pulp Fiction, Some Like it Hot, Trainspotting, Reservoir Dogs, Shrek
Television:
Later with Jools Holland, Top Gear, Spaced, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Scrubs, Wife Swap, Knightmare, The Simpsons, Shameless, The Young Ones, Blackadder, The Crystal Maze, Louis Theroux, Parkinson, Question Time, Newsnight Review, Channel 4 documentaries
Books:
His Dark Materials, Beyond Good and Evil, The Green Mile, Othello, MacBeth, Paradise Lost, The Belgariad, The Crucible, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Satre, Moab is my Washpot (Stephen Fry's autobiography), Water Babies, Sherlock Holmes, London - the Biography, Trainspotting and Porno, Hard Times, Tom Jones, Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, Cloud Atlas, Anything Jake Arnott
Heroes:
Dali and Nietzsche, although to have Nietzsche as a hero is being entirely un-Nietzchian...
