Doing plays, doing music, banging drums, watching films from the 1970's, watching Match of the Day, performing sexual intercourse with my girlfriend, drinking alcohol, drinking brandy, drinking port, drinking good ale, being around people who are on class a drugs but being toally sober myself, writing badly constructed short films, making fires [in fireplaces], talking to animals [dogs, cats, alpacas, cows and goats in particular], travelling on trains, going out with the intention of making at least one new friend, saying the wrong thing, avoiding small talk, putting the world to right, getting drunk and breaking the world down into very simple and solvable problems, occasionally shaving my head, letting my hair grow very long, councelling people on their life and career whilst leading the life of a waster, eating good cheese, the occasional action movie, tasteful soft pornography, seeing my friends, showing off, dancing [deliberately] badly in the middle of dancefloors of trendy clubs to see how quickly people move away, being in the front passenger seat of a car, reading the newspaper, checking teletext for football/sports headlines, spending five days watching cricket, reading books too quickly, going to gigs, getting into gigs free because i 'know' the band, talking to my family over stupidly long meal times, meeting my friends parents, gossip and thats about it..............
the sperm that made it through.sir alex ferguson.paddy considine.edmund kean [for a pint and a whore].George Benard ShawThe Earl of Sandwich
the beatles, foxes!, why?, clouddead, sufjan stevens, murry the hump, skiptracer, babybird, oasis, blur, gorillaz, tom waits, bob dylan, broken social scene, Danger Mouse, early weezer, sonic youth, slint, mogwai, godspeed you black emperor!, the easter project, wilco, alfie, loose fur, johnny cash, elliott smith, abba, j s bach, ravel, debussy, mozart, haydn, shostakovich, prokofiev, beck, eels, the rentals, 13 & God, fog, hymie's basement, sparklehorse, buck 65, television, blondie, the unicorns, radiohead, charlie mingus, john coltrane, oscar peterson, count basie, the delgados, the flaming lips, jesus and the mary chain, cast, the la's steve reich, john adams, terry riley, iggy and the stooges, neutral milk hotel, magnetic fields, kanye west, jim o rourke, shellac, american football, electric soft parade, the cure, clap your hands say yeah!, animal collective, the animals, sly & the family stone, ella fitzgerald, nina simone, joy division, new order, the smiths, stone roses, talking heads, charlie parr, guided by voices, the tenderfoot, totally bored, bis, the byrds, neil young, art blackey, miles davis, jeffry lewis, leonard cohen, glenn miller, spiritualized, primal scream, yo la tengo, DJ klay pigeon, the books, fridge,
anything directed by hitchcock, kubrick, lumet, truffaut, scorcese, shane meadows, hal ashby [the best of the lot], altman, lean, aronofski, p t anderson.........the best movie of all time is north by northwest the second best is the godfather pt 1 the third is the long goodbye the fourth is the shining the fifth is raging bull the sixth is midnight cowboy the seventh is 12 angry men the eighth is harvey the ninth is la peau douce the tenth is dead man's shoes
paid for my education
twenty thousand streets under the sky, the great gatsby, great expectations, the hotel new hampshire, heart of darkness, a portrait of the artist as a young man, murphy, the complete works of shakespeare, a clockwork orange, tess of the d'urbevilles, the life and times of tristram shandy: a gentleman, every ruddy word, the outsider, blessed..........
edmund kean, vsevolod meyerhold, alfred hitchcock, paul newman, robert armin, william shakespeare, aleksandr solzhenitsyn, thom yorke, bob dylan,