Tea, staying up till dawn, being late, cooking up a feast, romanticism, red wine, 'getting involved', boys in skinny jeans, Foreign Films, scuzzy boozers, monkeys, cheeky smiles, singing in the shower, word of the week, not wanting to go home, being smug, old books, old music, new music, loud music, music music music, Gin, cigarettes, drunken chats, Bangkok, London, arsenal fc, fizzy sour sweets,rain, sunshine, theatre, people who would like to take me to the theatre, old record shops, cooking, Slimane suits, Men in Slimane suits, NTU memories (Stealth) antiques, finding out the name of a tune i've been endlessly searching for, hearing a tune I haven't heard in ages, costume dramas (pride & prejudice box set is my guilty pleasure!!) Banter (if you don't have it then JOG ON!!) believing in fate, being half English, Comme 2, day dreaming, my new CDJ's, my battered belt drives, discovering the wonders of a Keytar, dancing on tables in Catch, 80's slang, wanting to be Hugh Fernly Whittingstall, thunder storms, antiques, electronic noises, whiskey and ginger beer, wooly hats, disco balls, cheese and biscuits, jokes, hula hooping, dressing up, wearing heels and jumping in puddles........thats it really.NOT interested in......... Moths, Spurs, admitting i'm wrong, an empty fridge, people who don't tip, turning 25.oh and this place, I love this place...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall- The man lives off the land. Amazing!!!!I like spontaneity and surprise and if you are odd and interesting I'm likely to hang on to your every word.Creative, musical, intellegent, entertaining, sarcastic, crude and funny people, cowboys, pirates. Ian Curtis. Fred Astaire. Vincent gallo. Hedi Slimani. Terry Richardson. Thierry Henry. Ron Burgundy"I have many leather bound books........"
..........Joy Division, The Smiths, The Fall, Black Strobe, Black dice, !!! Chk Chk Chk, The Gossip, Sebastien Tellier, TV on the Radio, The Black Dog, The Bad Plus, Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y, Dj T, (Get Physical), International Dj gigolos, Radio 4, The Arcade Fire, Ivan Smagghe, (Factory Records) Caberet Voltaire, The Durruti Column, section 25, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus, A Certain Ratio, OMD, 80s matchbox...Warp records, Andrew Weatherall, Radioactive man, Trentmoller, Morgan Geist, Thomas Fehlmann, Jamie Lidell, Two Lone Swordsmen,Erol Alkan, Fugiya and Miyagi, CSS, Magda, Villalobos, Tiga, Le Tigre, CYHSY, The Strokes, The Libertines, Larrikin Love, Babyshambles, DPT, Olympus Mons, Whitey, Gil Scot Heron, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Bob Dylan, The Band, The Ramones, Spinto Band, Dolly Parton, Cazals, The Black Keys, Death cab for cutie, Postal service, Client, Broken Social Scene, Kings of Leon,The Jam, Ulterior, Arctic monkeys, Bowie, The stooges, Happy Mondays,Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, A.R.E weapons,Interpol, New Order, The Sonics, Mars Volta, Gang of four, Shriekback, The modern lovers, Low pop suicide, The doors, Kraftwerk, Sonic youth, Jeff/Tim Buckley, Jeffrey Lewis, Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Rolling Stones, The Who, The kinks, Pink Floyd, nightmares on wax, velvet underground, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Television, The Clash, Talking Heads, Miss Kitten and the Hacker, Peaches, Earth, Wind and Fire, Etienne De crecy, Temposhark,The Juan Maclean, DFA, Richie Hawtin, Plasticman, Playgroup, Hot Chip, Sasha, Digweed, Swayzak, Danny Tenaglia, Steve Lawler, Paul Woolford, Luciano, Jeff Mills, Derrick Carter, Damien Lazarus, Steve Bug, Alex Smoke, Nic Fanciulli, Clor, Jo Jo de Freq, (the lovely)jonjo, Abe Duqe, Plaid, Autechre, Squarepusher, Aphex twin, Vincent Gallo, Felix da Housecat, The faint, Zongamin, Secret machines, Pavement, Underworld, Filthy Dukes, Justice, Riotious rockers, Dj Hell, Sven Vath, Les Rythmes Digitales, Zoot Woman, Jacque lu Cont, the Knife, LCD soundsystem, The Rapture, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, The YYYs, William Besson, Glimmers,The Kills, The Killers, Primal scream, The Coral, Selfish Cunt, Stone roses, the doors, Simian, Tiefschwarz, FC kahuna, Gorillaz, De la Soul, BRMC, QOTSA, Roxy music, Brain Eno, David Carretta,Vitalic, White stripes, The Go team, Bloc Party, The Klaxons, Unkle, Faithless, The streets, Miles Davies, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, George Gershwin, Serge Gainsbourg, The Rapture, Jimi Hendrix, Tangerine Dream,Jack Penate, The Cleft Palettes, Oneself, The Pixies, Nick Drake, Parliament, Laurent Garnier, The Paddingtons, We Are Scientists, Tom Waits, Elvis ... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
True Romance, La Haine, punch drunk love, Some like it hot, Dancer in the dark, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Lost in Translation, A very long Engagement, Cinema Paradiso,The Red Balloon, City of God, Top Hat, Swing time, Shall we dance, Flashdance, Sweet Charity, Dirty Dancing, (infact most films with dancing or singing!!!) Dazed and Confused, Empire Records, Goodfellas, Usual Suspects, Zoolander, belleville rendezvous, Classic 80's teen movies ie, Swingers, Teen Wolf, Back to the Future, Anchorman, Big Fish, Motor Cycle Diaries, Y tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, Goodbye Lenin, Run lola Run, Top Gun(obviously!!) Buffalo 66, Spirited Away, Garden State, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Akira Kurasawa, Larry Clark and all things Pedro Almodovar.
Planet Earth, River Cottage, Soccer am, Costume dramas, Peep show, Nathan Barley, Top Gear, Mighty Boosh, travel documentarys, anything Attenborough and most things on channel 4! I want to start watching 24, i've heard its very good.
The Melancholy Death of the Oyster Boy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lolita, The Gormenghast Trilogy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Alchemist, The Catcher in The Rye 1984,...Bukowski, Blake, Dante, Nabokov, J.T Leroy and Michel Houellebecq,...and at the moment i'm loving the 'Very short introduction to...' books, they are brilliant and make you clever (if like me, you spent most of your time at school doodling and staring out the window) oh and lots and lots of magazines!
George Gershwin, Ian Curtis, Morrissey, Hedi Slimane, Rei kawakubo, Kraftwerk, Fred Astaire, Margot Fontaine, Peter Saville, Terry Richardson, David Attenborough, Thierry Henry and me ol' Ma and Pa...oh and anyone that can do the cracker challenge, thats a true hero in my eyes!..