snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, pining for lost things, wondering what will happen, relocating, making things more difficult that they need to be. buying art. writing press releases. listening to music. reading blogs. mess and noise. not necessarily in that order.
a fortune teller
zombies, arctic monkeys, matthew dear, kate nash, ned collette, spider vomit, deerhunter, little dragon, st. vincent, sufjan stevens, mark lanegan, cocorosie, the bad seeds, the triffids, the go betweens, the paradise motel, richard hawley, richard swift, jamie lidell, bat for lashes, crow, in fact most australian indie music between 1991-1996 and 1981-86, 'let go' by nada surf, gossip, sleater-kinney, wilco, james holden, jens lekman, four tet, caribou, prefuse 73, aimee mann, a hawk and a hacksaw, !!!, bill wells trio, chris abrahams, antony & the johnsons, bloc party, cass mccombs, broken social scene, cat power, elliott smith, feist, dusty springfield, jackson, joni mitchell, kelis, m.craft, neko case, shins, snout, sonic youth, 'blue valentine' by tom waits, m ward,
the lives of others
house, nevermind the buzzcocks (simon amstell-hosted), the mighty boosh, russell brand, chaser's war on everything, wilfred, spooks
franny & zooey, everything written by william boyd, 'kangaroo' by dh lawrence, peter carey, richard flanagan, evelyn waugh, 'wake in fright' by kenneth cook, 'the great world' by david malouf, amis, auster, kundera, carey, peter ackroyd, murakami, tim winton's 'dirt music', cesare pavese, joan didion
germaine greer, de chirico, the angry penguins, john & sunday reed, nick cave, david mccomb, sidney nolan, albert tucker, joy hester, arthur boyd, russell drysdale, ern malley, robert hughes, virgnia woolf, christopher isherwood, isadora duncan, yves saint laurent, karl lagerfeld, tom ford, mike chavez, blue poles