pleasure, pain, travels, water in its many guises, fine food and mental experimentation; making music, playing piano, photography, fixed wheel bikes, eclectic dj-ing, bars, beaches, sailboats, trackstands, loud sounds and earplugs.
Thierry Henry..
brought up on classical at school, has to be mozart as a fav - surely the first pop artist, then fell for 50s rock n roll, elvis is the man... "in a bunker under graceland the king sits on his throne..." Now into anything from radioactiveman to loudon wainwright III via professor longhair, tom waits and 40s swing..... ..
Donnie Darko, Close Encounters, City Of God, Coen Brothers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bullit, Amelie, The Incredibles, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Goodfellas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Some Like It Hot, The Great Escape, Blade Runner,
see it as a waste of time mostly, but twin peaks was fun, TNG worth a look; South Park, Futurama and Family Guy (which i was introduced to recently) all pretty funny. Ahhh and Arsenal if i can find them on... The past holds horrors like The A Team, Knightrider, Neighbours(i can hardly believe that i watched it), V, Doctor Who, Hong Kong Phooey,Tiswas, Basil Brush( the original 70s version), Roobarb and Custard, Ren and Stimpy, and now Prison Break...
love em... so much better than tv... so classics like Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy all the way through LOTR, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Philip K Dick's many novels of genius, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vunnegut, The Glass Bead Game and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; most of his novels really, Catch22, THHGTTG, Iain M Banks, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland , Catcher in the Rye, On the Road, To Kill A Mockingbird, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Homer's Odyssey, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson (wentoutwithabang!), John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, William Burroughs' Nova Express, Virtual Light by William Gibson and Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons.
Spike Milligan - "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." Seem to be disappointed by most people, but have always admired those who have talent and really go for it, so - Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Lance Armstrong, Ellen MacArthur, Madonna and John McEnroe