spontaneous tapdancing, stargazing, reading, mooning, swimming, kissing, teaching, travelling, drinking tea, drinking gin, taking baths, making secret surprises, watching programs on sharks.
theee Prime Minister of Silly Walks
tori amos nine inch nails massive attack tricky portishead pink floyd ian dury & the blockheads the pharcyde the prodigy the beatles the wonder stuff THE LEVELLERS nick drake bjork beck beasties david bowie m.i.a. nina hagen the olivia tremor control neutral milk hotel death cab for cutie kula shaker the orchid highway the tomorrows!
Delicatessen, Microcosmos, When the Wind Blows, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Wallace and Gromit (especially) in The Wrong Trousers, Edward Scissorhands, Kdo Chce Zabit Jessii?, The Crow, Blue Planet, The Wicker Man, Withnail and I, The Cremaster Cycle, Barbarella, Lord of the Rings, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Casablanca, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Watership Down, Whale Rider, Napoleon Dynamite
Coronation Street, Monty Python's Flying Circus, South Park, Red Dwarf (especially the backwards episode), Blackadder, Connections with James Burke, The Catherine Tate Show, Black Books, My So-Called Life, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lonely Planet with Ian Wright, Blue Peter, Dr. Who.
Catherine Storr's Marianne Dreams, Roald Dahl especially Switch Bitch, Skin and Other Stories, and My Uncle Oswald...and all his children's books especially Danny the Champion of the World and the BFG; Diana Wynne Jones esp. Witch Week, Archer's Goon, and Hexwood; Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson, all of Gwendolyn MacEwen's poetry, all of Al Purdy's poetry especially Sex and Death and Roblins' Mills, Ted Hughes' poetry and The Iron Man; Stig of the Dump by Clive King, The Foxbusters by Dick King-Smith, Antigrav by Nicholas Fisk, Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Whispering Mountain, Nightbirds on Nantucket, Black Hearts in Battersea, Midnight is a Place; The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (also Over Sea, Under Stone, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree etc), Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, The Owl Service by Alan Garner, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, the Amber Spyglass, the Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, Kurt Vonnegut Jr's Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds, Anne Holm's I Am David, A.S. Byatt's Babel Tower, Carol Shields' Unless, Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, W.G. Sebald, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Michel Foucault, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Briggs, Leo Bersani, Julia Kristeva
Zeus, with the power of thunderbolts! , and
The Master of Exquisite Timing