same old s***
bessie smith, billie holiday, sister rosetta tharpe, ella fitzgerald, tiny topsy, Betty Everett, blondie, erykah badu, lauryn hill, bjork, missy elliot (yeah so what??!!). leadbelly, skip james, frank sinatra, dion & the belmonts, Frankie Lymon, john lee hooker, charles mingus, the hormonas. beatles or rolling stones? Rolling Stones thank you.
musicals (jesus christ superstar -touch me touch me jesus-, all that jazz, hair, the blues brothers, rocky horror picture show); almost all Fellini, all Billy Wilder, all Howard Hawks, anything with Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti, almost all tim burton, sophisticated comedies, the odd couple, Herzog, almost all Scorsese, terry gilliam, truffaut. NEVER a horror movie...
raymond chandler, f.s. fitzgerald, john fante, white teeth - zadie smith, buddah of suburbia - hanif kureishi, james herriot, jonathan coe, luigi meneghello, karen blixen, angela carter, anthony burgess, isaac asimov, ray bradbury
Don't need heroes