Visiting new places and hanging out in old ones. Spending time pottering, playing games or drinking. Inventing words. Hanging out with all the beautiful babies in my life. Eating beans and avoiding prawns.
heroes and villains. rick danko.
the blues on a monday, the band on a sunday; tom waits, stone roses, the stones. beefheart, the smiths, joni mitchell. nina, ella, aretha, alicia. the roots. elvis costello. sam cooke. the streets, dizee rascal. de la soul. lily allen. some of the new guitar stuff a la monkeys arctic. a bit of dolly, a bit of johnny. paul simon. james taylor. nick drake. enough.
i enjoyed the recent cash epic muchly; and brokeback mountain; am partial to a bit of rocky horror - "frankenfurter it's all over, you're mission is a failure, your lifestyle too extreeeeme...i return to transylvania, prepare the transit beeeam..."; withnail and i; a mike leigh delight or a bit of hitchy. but please, no star wars.
shameless is the only good drama to grace our tv sets. big brother destroys souls. as does gillian mcKeith - give the woman a life - alcohol and chocolate normally works wonders. anything by chris morris.
life of pi, women in love, wild sheep chase, dream tigers, saturday, child in time, william carlos williams' poems, marraiges between and other dark doris endeavours, orwell's masterpieces, pilger's politics and, let's be honest, anything set in or around the kilburn area.
my mum, my dad and rani, my beautiful sisters and brother, my nephew, my girls and, of course, enrique.