Music, the press, history, people, drinking, film, photography, popular culture, books, fast-living, fast-dying trends, cities, politics, comedy, magazines, religion, transport,games, retail (as an entity), brands, drainage systems and clay soil, model railways, Cheese and Onion falvoured chrisps, comedy, guide dogs (what a job...)...
I'd like to meet:
Jools Holland for starters...and then Gordon Brown could come in the room with his little red briefcase and make my day.Mr Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. He's very attractive but apparently a tad short!
Music:
Late 70's-early 80's mainly, but I'm always up to date with new bands etc. I love Depeche Mode,Inxs,U2,The The,
Neneh Cherry, The Smiths, The Clash,The Velvet Underground, Joy Division and New Order, Talk Talk, Ryan Adams,Blondie, Pink Floyd, The Arcade Fire,Richard Hawley, P J Harvey, Duran Duran, Crowded House (and Split Enz for that matter),Echo & The Bunnymen, ABC, The Cranberries, Bruce Springsteen (!), The Waterboys,The Human League, Suede, Madonna, China Crisis, Kate Bush, Mental As Anything, Orange Juice, Japan,The Fall, Franz Ferdinand, Pulp, The Specials, The Beat, The Police,I hope I don't start repeating myself... Adam and the Ants, Air, The Beta Band, The Beatles, The Pretenders,Blondie, XTC, Loose Ends, The Strokes, Utah Saints, The Pixies, The Happy Mondays,The Editors, Miss Kitten, Ladytron, Goldfrapp, Everything But The Girl, Suzanne Vega,The Primitives, Fischerspooner, Pulp, Ian Brown, House of Love, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,Fiction Fcatory, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Kinks, The Cult,Janes Addiction,Propaganda, Massive Attack, Cocteau Twins, Prince, Chaka Khan, Daft Punk, The Departure,Maximo Park, Supergrass, Felt, Mansun, Embrace, Mary Lou Lord, Peter Gabriel,Squarepusher, Comsat Angels, The Teadrop Explodes, Sandoz, Oasis, PWEI, Alexander O'Neil,Yazoo, The Wedding Present, Ordinary Boys, The Beloved, Bomb the Bass, Kasabian, Kevin Shields,Transvision Vamp,Johnny Clegg, Icehouse, Hall and Oates, Lorraine, Strawberry Switchblade, The Killers,Kayne West, Haircut 100, The Breeders, Doves, Gwen Stefani, Girls Aloud, Tony Di Bart, Delays, Klaxons,Baz, George Michael, Go-Betweens, My Morning Jacket, The Sleepy Jackson, Hipsway, Bananarama, Tom Tom Club, Funk D'Void, Nick Cave, Nightcrawlers, Passions, B52's, Client, 101er's, Third Bardo, Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang, Seelenluft, Stands, Cyndi Lauper, Dannii Minogue, Dot Allison, Planet Funk, PopGuns, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, We Are Scientists, Radio 4, Let Loose, Chicane, Orbital, John Barry, Angelfish, Hot Chip, Daniel Diamond, Adult, Cashflow, Stephanie Mills, Stefan Dennis (!), Rene and Angela, The Guillemotts (spelling?), The Spinto Band, Womack and Womack, The Small Faces, The Moody Blues...AYE.
Movies:
'Dumb & Dumber' is my favourite film of all time. It's fantastic. I love comedy. Other favourites include; Forest Gump, The Party, Anchorman, Startsky and Hutch, Jack & Sarah, Three Men and a Baby films (I'm serious!), Schindler's List, In The Name of the Father, Dirty Dancing, The Cable Guy, Kingpin, Working Girl, This is Spinal Tap, The Assasination of Richard Nixon, The Breakfast Club, Dogs in Space, All the Star Wars Films, ET, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Starsky & Hutch, Clerks, Blow, Rude Boy, The Princess Bride, Ghostbusters 1&2, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tennebaums...
Television:
I love big brother, despite how 'sad' people say it is! I love a good sitcom and comedy. My current favourite programmes at the moment are Curb Your Enthusiasm and the documentary Big Red Bus...and those of you who know me will undertstand why that is. Ha.
Books:
'Freaky Dancin' by Bez, Passion is a fashion - story of the Clash by Pat Gilbert - so good. 'Charlotte's Web' was a great book, plus all the Roald Dahl and Enid Blytons that I could lay my mitts on. 'What Katie did' et al were good books. Plus, I love a bit of Dickens, as so many of his books are brilliant social commentaries. Arabella Weir is a good author too, and Tony Parsons, Nick Hornby and finally...my favourite books of all time are the Susan Townsend, Adrian Mole diaries. Just brilliant, fantastically funny, mesmerisingly accurate and socially poignant. Great!
Heroes:
Matt Johnson (The The), Martin L Gore, Neil and Tim Finn, Bono, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, David Baily, Anton Corbijn, Karl Marx (shame it don't work in practice eh?) John Cusack, John Prezza Prescott (he likes curry sauce on his chips for fucksake!), Larry David, Trev & Simon, Nick Logan, Ricky Gervais, Vic and Bob, Harry Beck, Harry Ramsden (ha!), Tom, Dick and Harry...Tom Tit...
