My friends interest me greatly. Alan Partridge, holding books and reading them, cravattes, braces, banjos, pianos, poets, ale, fringes, birds, fields, bats, frogs and the versitility of the potato.
Bill Oddie, Dan Cruickshank and Adam Hart - Davis. Lycra clad, no less. I would like to have lunch with Boris Johnson and spend 24hrs with Stephen Fry, on a weekly basis. More if they like. We would talk about socks, tricycles and the joys of the party buffet. I'd also like to meet Ernesto Guevara, but sadly he is deceased. I shall have to be sustained on his ephemeral presence. Sigh. Mourn.
Radiohead, Robert Zimmerman, Idlewild, Bright Eyes, Joanna Newsom, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pulp, Hooowlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Biffy Clyro, Amos Lee, Aretha Franklin, Dive Dive, Songs:Ohia, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Hendrix, Supergrass, Fionn Regan, Modest Mouse, Rachael Dadd, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Stephen Fretwell, Willy Mason, Thom Yorke, Sufjan Stevens, Jenny Lewis, Shouting Myke (why did it end?!), New Radicals, Where I'm Calling From. I do love Joanna Newsom's new album, and that's no lie.
Rushmore; that is all. Cinematography at its best. Fantastic script. Never will I spend another such intense 90 minutes of hilarity, in my existance, again.
Ceefax. Neighbours holds a special place in my heart, alongside What The Victorians Did For Us and Late Night Poker. Also Jeremy Kyle...'cause he tells it straight.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, Jude The Obscure, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Clockwork Orange, Riddley Walker, Birthday Letters, Notes From Underground, The Beano Annual '96, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Women In Love, The Rainbow, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, The Bell Jar, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Anna Karenina, Nineteen Eighty Four, Down And Out In Paris And London, Animal Farm, The Magic Faraway Tree, Far From the Madding Crowd, Birdsong, Voyeur in the Attic, Lolita (hhmmm fire of my loins), D H Lawrence, Blake and Sylvia Plath, mostly and a bit.
Roddy Woomble. Not because of his worldly achievements, merely as I want to ravish him. Also, Lizzie Finch and anyone who might wear a cravatte.