Music, film, books, politics, walking and travelling
Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder....if I need to explain we shouldn't be talking.
From the National to Nouvelle Vague. Curtis Ellers, the world's angriest banjo player, rocked my boat at the 12 Bar; Langholme Slim made me jump for joy at Borderline; and The National made me cry, again, at Koko. What is rocking my boat at the moment? Sufjan Stevens, the Loose Collective, Ryan Adams, the Raconteurs, the Editors....Like I say, so little time..... The Smiths always top my chart. Top of my Hate Parade: people who talk at gigs. SHUT UP AND LISTEN!!!!!
The Appartment, Some Like it Hot, Sunset Boulevard, Days of Wine and Rose, Rear Window, Matter of Life and Death, Now Voyager, the Red Shoes, Night of the Hunter, Seven Samurai, Drunken Angel, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Gene Kelly, Fred Astair, City of God, The Constant Gardener, Mary Poppins, Good Night, and Good Luck, Brick, Donnie Darko, M Hire, Amelie...these are a few of my fabourite things....
no time to watch car crash trash, though I will always find an hour for Oddiewatch
Mukarami, the Moomins, Patrick Neate, John Banville, Ian Rankin, Ray Bradbury, Philip Pullman, Douglas Kennedy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Molesworth, Jake Arnott, Antony Beevor, Thackery, Wilkie Collins and Hoskins's The Making of the English Landscape.
Mslexia, me mum, Steven Patrick Morissey, Billy Wilder, Nelson Mandela (I shook his hand!), George Clooney, JK Rowling, Any artist, especially those without money or connections, who keeps going and breaks through.