*Pocket Wordsearch
*stylophones
*Marimekko, Cath Kidston and Lisbeth Dahl
*Doing newspaper prize crosswords
*50 Book Challenge
*Bookmooch
*walking to music and imagining things (I always have headphones on)
*live music
*photography
*Writing my zine
*Reading other people's zines
*anatomical/taxidermy drawings
*Dr.Sketchy's anti-art-school
*Cheesecake at Capitol
*Anything burlesque
*getting letters!
*horror and schlock horror
*film&music journalism
*full-blown exquisite beards
*art appreciation - from pop art to Art Nouveau to low brow pop surrealism.
*dressing up
*modelling (mostly pin-up style and burlesque)
*drawing (obscene) cartoons and general sketching
*found art
*foreign/cult/arthouse film - French and German cinema are favourites.
*rockabilly style
*feminism
*Dia De Los Muertos
*Special effects/zombie/horror makeup
*Being a zombie impersonator
*naps, usually while reading
*lunch-dates in vegetarian/vegan eateries (love Mono,Stereo, 13th Note and Tchai Ovna!)
*piercings & tattoos (Sailor Jerry and old skool) the only addictions I have
*Club Noir
*being taught guitar properly at last
*men of few words and many thoughts
*writing down dreams
*reading and book-hunting
*making swap parcels and mixtapes for friends
*dumpster diving
*gaming especially The Sims
*smells. I am very perceptive of different smells and can dissect them into their various components as I process them.
*Cthulhu
*exciting diseases and making lists of them
*schadenfreude
*the sea
*anything nautical
*Edinburgh
*morbid discussions
*misanthropy
*forensics
*writing like it's film noir
*charity shops and vintage junk-shopping
*ebay and thriftstoreuk
*museums
*wit and reparte
*Mulder-and-Scully style sexual tension
*Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab for bottling the true scent of zombies that happened to be rather nice
*the intarnets (Something Awful, lj, teen girl squad etc)
*sleazy dressing gowns
*mspaint abominations
*gambling/Vegas/50s style/tiki paraphernalia and kitsch
*playing pool
*playing with other people's snakes
*boardgames (monopoly and scrabble!)
*roadtrips
*making the best pancakes you will ever taste
*drinking tea
*over-analysing
*looting - it's the Viking in me.
*abandoned buildings
*toilet wall graffiti
*pirates
*cowboys
*ten pin bowling
*mourning the death of romance
*general disenchantment
I'd like to meet:
People who create.
Burlesque beauties!
People with guts and passion with their heart and soul in the right place.
People that want to start a fire.
People that will grab a stick and help me scratch my way out of here.
People that will hiss and spit and leer with me.
The "beautiful and feral".
No more schizotypal breadknife wielding stalkers please.
"They like me like flies on stinking meat."
Nobody who could potentially validate my inherent mistrust of strangers. If this is you (and statistically, in these dark days it probably is) then in the words of newg, "you'd better have a really good excuse for taking up my precious time".
WRITE LIKE NOBODY'S READING
Music:
A
Acid Bath
A Day In Black & White
Against Me!
....and you will know us by the trail of dead
Aphex Twin
Army of Flying Robots
Atari Teenage Riot
At the Drive-In
B
Bad Brains
Baroness
Bat For Lashes
Bathory
Beecher
Be Your Own Pet
Big Black
Bikini Kill
Bjork
Black Flag
Black Sabbath
Bon Iver
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Boris
Bright eyes
Built to spill
Burning Witch
Burzum
C
Capricorns
The Capricorns
Johnny Cash
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Cease upon the capitol
Circle Jerks
circle takes the square
City of Caterpillar
cocorosie
combatwoundedveteran
Converge
Crass
CSS
The Cure
D
Darkthrone
Kimya Dawson
Dead Kennedys
Deerhoof
Defiance Ohio
Dinosaur Jr.
D.O.A
E
Earth
Electric Wizard
Embrace (the Dischord one)
Emperor
The Evens
Explosions in the sky
F
The Fall of Efrafa
Fugazi
G
Gang of Four
Ghost Buffalo
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (ritually, in the dark under the covers)
Grails
H
His Hero Is Gone
Hot Cross
Husker Du
I
Iggy and the stooges
Iron & Wine
Iron Lung
Isis
J
jawbreaker
Jesu
Joy Division
Justice
K
Kaddish
Kaospilot
Kayo Dot
Khanate
Kylesa
L
Lamb of God
La Quiete
Les Savy Fav
Le Tigre
LIFELOVER (loves Kim Carlsson)
L7
The Lunachicks
Lurker of Chalice
M
Malady
Mastodon
MDC
Melt Banana
Melvins
Meshuggah
Metallica (old)
MIA
Mika Miko
Minor Threat
Minutemen
Misery
Misfits
The Moldy Peaches
Mono
The Mountain Goats
Mudhoney
Mum
Municipal waste
Murder City Devils
My Bloody Valentine
N
Nachtmystium
Native Nod
Neurosis
Joanna Newsom
Nouvelle Vague
O
Oi Polloi
Oldseed
Orchid
Oxbow
P
Peaches
Pelican
Pg.99
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Poison Idea
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Q
Q & Not U
R
Racebannon
Raein
Ramones
Red Harvest
Red Sparowes
Refused
Reversal of Man
Rites of Spring
S
Saetia
Sebadoh
Send more paramedics
Shudder to Think
Sigur Ros
Sleater-kinney
Slint
Small Brown Bike
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Social Distortion
Sonic Youth
Strapping Young Lad
SunnO)))
Sunny Day Real Estate
Superchunk
T
Teen Ctulhu
Tegan and Sara
The Thermals
this bike is a pipe bomb
Tiger Army
Transistor Transistor
Turbonegro
Twelve Hour Turn
U
Ulver
V
Velvet Underground
Venetian Snares
W
William E Whitmore
Wolf Eyes
Wolves in the Throne Room
X
Xiu Xiu
X-Ray Spex
Y
Yage
Yaphet Kotto
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yo La Tengo
Most Dischord and Sub Pop bands.
I'll stop now... but there are probably loads more I've missed...
Movies:
PAN'S LABYRINTH
Romero's Trilogy of the Dead, but especially Dawn of the Dead.
The Science of Sleep
Empire Records
The Edukators
No Cunt Country For Old Men
Spirited Away and most Ghibli films
American Beauty
Terminator 1&2 (but more 2!)
Sunshine
Planet Terror
Star Wars
Control
Ghost World
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Das Experiment
The Proposition
Goodbye Lenin!
The Big Lebowski ("Eight year olds, Dude!")
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pi
Battle Royale
Amelie
28 Days Later
Napoleon Dynamite
Fight Club
Anything David Lynch, except the brain-scouring incubus that was Inland Empire. I think he had a stroke before filming that one.
I pretty much watch any horror going, the older and more Hammer-esque the better.
Dancer In The Dark made me cry till my head hurt.
Television:
I hardly watch it!
*CSI
*Heroes
*Family Guy
*The simpsons (old episodes only)
*Twin Peaks
*South park
*Red Dwarf
*Black Books
*MTV2 - 120 Minutes
*Peep Show
*Mary Queen of Shops
*Dragon's Den
*How Clean Is Your House?
*Spendaholics
*Mysterious Cities of Gold
Books:
I read voraciously. By no means exhaustive:
*Chuck Palahniuk
*Cormac McCarthy
*Bukowski
*H.P. Lovecraft
*"Get in the van"
*Graphic novels like Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and Craig Thompson's "Blankets".
*Jeffrey Brown. COMIC BOOK SEX. HELL YES. "Clumsy", "Unlikely", "Every girl is the end of the world for me".
*Ryu Murakami
*Audrey Niffeneger- "The Time Traveler's Wife"
*Haruki Murakami- "Norwegian Wood".
*Douglas Coupland - "Girlfriend in a Coma"
*J.D Salinger - "Catcher in the Rye"
*Hunter S - "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
*Chbosky - "The Perks of Being A Wallflower"
*Pullman's "His Dark Materials"
*Francesca Lia Block
*Angela Carter
*Miranda July - "No one belongs here more than you"
*Tartt
*Camus
*Hemingway
*Steinbeck
*Kafka
*Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*"American Hardcore" by Steven Blush
*I like books about music and crafts as well as fiction. :)
*The "Teach Yourself" series
*Bitch and BUST - the best feminist magazines ever! But mostly I read zines!
Heroes:
*Kim Gordon
*Ian Mackaye
*Jeffrey Brown
*Karen O. A style icon.
*Henry Rollins - met him now! My dad's scarier!
*"Brett Bretterson" :D
*Kathleen Hanna
*Corin Tucker
*Banksy
*Maddox
*Kim Carlsson
*Lara Croft
*George.A.Romero
*Dita Von Teese
*Miranda July
*I'd like to look like Bettie Page I guess.
*Sailor Jerry Collins
*Oscar Deutsch!
*Thor Heyerdahl
*Tore Hund - for leading his peasant army to kill the crusading King Olav. Mmm, I got barbarian blood. What a beard!
*The Black Rabbit of Inle
