i'm much cooler than you
daydreaming, binge drinking, chain smoking, having heated debates, talking rubbish til the small hours of the morning, trashy pop music, angsty long-haired metal bands, singing along badly, dancing like there's no one watching, giggling, having drunk conversations about politics and literature, skiing all day and then drinking all night, going to the gym for an hour and stuffing my face for the rest of the day, being lazy.
ken livingstone. i have many strong words to have with that man.
in no particular order - maximo park, gossip, cold war kids, system of a down, oasis, machinehead, green day, god forbid, lily allen, clap your hands say yeah, nirvana, killswitch, tool, we are scientists, smashing pumpkins, kaiser chiefs, rage against the machine, the kooks, red hot chili peppers, prodigy, blur, placebo, amy winehouse, the long blondes, taking back sunday, the subways, the streets, bloc party, garbage, everclear, franz ferdinand, offspring, editors, goldfrapp, deftones, massive attack, manic street preachers, kasabian, funeral for a friend, radiohead, queens of the stone age, miocene, rancid, (hed)pe, glassjaw, the ataris, idlewild... and other stuff like that
all time favourites - american history x, lock stock, snatch, fight club, high fidelity, lord of the rings, shaun of the dead, snatch, the royal tenenbaums, a beautiful mind, disney stuff
when bored i will watch almost anything. especially ER, house, desperate housewives, no angels... i have an unhealthy obsession with 24. during those few short weeks it takes me to get through the dvd boxset i think of little else. i will never say no to a bit of mulder and scully action. i despise reality tv in all its many forms. i also quite enjoy channel 4 news, john snow rocks.
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird should be compulsory reading for everyone on this planet, Oscar Wilde's plays are amazing, anything and everything by Jasper Fforde, love High Fidelity but a bit disappointed by Nick Hornby's recent stuff, Alain de Botton's Essays in Love was just so true, even if it was a bit too philisophical for my liking, I keep planning to read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment but i may just have to accept that it's never going to happen, the occaisional Ian McEwan or Margaret Atwood gets me thinking, George Eliot annoys me a lot, I don't relate to Jane Eyre or anyone who does relate to her, although i can just about tolerate the other brontes. Anybody who 'can't' read shakespeare is seriously missing out. Barbara Kingsolver, Donna Tartt, and John Fowles are all worth a mosey. I can read Lord of the Rings and Gone with the Wind over and over. Zadie Smith on beauty was also pretty fab. Not big on poetry but i do have soft spots for Pope, Keats and Coleridge, as well as an unusual partiality to Paradise Lost.Currently reading Ali Smith - The Accidental and have yet to decide whether it's any good.oh i do love reading.