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I like people who are interested in art and life but don't take themselves too seriously..who like to have fun and to whom arrogance is a word of an unknown tongue.Alternatively, in the words of Jack Kerouac:The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
Ryan Adams, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Amy Winehouse, Antony & the Johnsons, Interpol, Razorlight, the Smiths, the Cure, Arctic Monkeys, Nick Cave, Bloc Party, Libertines, Babyshambles, Raconteurs, Marvin Gaye, Prayerboat/Emmet Tinley, Whipping Boy, the Beatles, Radiohead, Nirvana, the Pixies, Arcade Fire, the Stone Roses, Blur, Pulp, Strokes, Kasabian, the Coral, Ian Brown, Morrissey, Al Green, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon, Editors, Smashing Pumpkins, Sex Pistols, Aretha Franklin, Undertones, Rufus Wainwright, Elliot Smith, Mercury Rev, the Flaming Lips, the Jam, the Kinks, the Charlatans, the Who, Bright Eyes, Devendra Banhart, Dusty Springfield and..ahem..Take That : )
Take the Money & Run, American Beauty, the Producers, Withnail & I, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Midnight Cowboy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Anchorman, Blazing Saddles, Bullets Over Broadway, Citizen Kane, Muppets' Christmas Carol, Sideways, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Spinal Tap, 300, Reality Bites, The Way We Were, Streetcar Named Desire, The Third Man
Sopranos, the Simpsons, the View, Who Wants to be a Millionaire Spongebob Squarepants, Six Feet Under, Blizzard of Odd, Black Books, Curb your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Dragons' Den
Henry & June by Anais Nin, Middlemarch, the Last Party, Anna Karenina, Great Expectations, a Short History of Nearly Everything, poetry of Yeats and Larkin, Middlesex, Lolita, Chronicles - Dylan biography, Lucky Jim, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Philadelphia Here I Come, everything by Beckett, Hamlet and King Lear, Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro, Wuthering Heights, Life of Pi, Heavier than Heaven biog of Cobain, Ray Coleman biog of Lennon, all of Austen's novels, Dracula, the Oresteia, the Master, the Way We Live Now - Trollope, Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
Anais Nin for sculpting passion out of words, and words into passion, Kennydoodledandy (that's you Dave), the poet laureate of text messages, and also the good, the true, the beautiful..Philip Larkin, for his combination of hope and cynicism, Yeats for transmuting unrequited love into an art form, Bob Dylan for his lyrical defiance, George Eliot for being the greatest novelist ever, Robert Smith for being the most eloquent idealist incarnate, Samuel Beckett for his life as much as his art, Einstein for his soul as much as his science..Dylan Moran for being devilishly funny and devilishly attractive..Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Kate Moss for their luminous, unignorable beauty...people who wear their greatness without a pinch of condescension