Love music...simple as. Love live music (really is there anything better?)Playing guitar(pretty badly though) writing poetry/lyric with music (not great either)listening watching..you get it! I love when I hear someone describing their day as fantastic or their life as truly happy! Love comedy shows and good stand up (me & Orla are seriously considering writing a sitcom...how hard could it be, just get a bottle of whiskey, pen, paper and a dictaphone right??...well that's if the folk duo thing doesn't work out for us!!). Love doodling and drawing, really like reading, movies (doing a english, media and cultural studies coarse so it's a good job!), being with the people I love and the feeling I get when I smile or see anyone else beamin!
I'd like to meet:
As many wild and wonderful people as possible please!
Music:
Too many to give a complete list but here's a taster.....Nizlopi (seriously quality band...go to see them live, leave all judgements at the door and you will forever be a fan!), Amy Winehouse, Editors, Mystery Jets, The Kooks, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Frank Zappa, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Van Morrison, The Guillemots, The Gossip, The Long Blondes, The Klaxons, Finn (Check him out), The Waterboys, Jason Mraz, Van Morrison, Ani Di Franco, Plan B, Led Zepplin, Immortal Technique, Kraftwerk, Run DMC, Robots In Disguise, Tom Waits, The Futureheads, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Kings of Leon, Flaming Lips, The Arcade Fire, Elliott Smith, Prince, Rick James, Dirty Pretty Things, The Subways, The Cribs, The Eighties Matchbox, Maximo Park, Snow Patrol, Queen, The Roots, The Strokes, Gary Dunne, Interpol, Pixies, The Vines, Razorlight, Jack Johnson, Arctic Monkeys, Rory Mc Leod, Lauren Hill, Old soul singers such as Otis Redding, James Brown, Percy Sledge. New on the horizon is a facinationation with all things 80s so I also have to mention Gary Numan, David Bowie (man's a genious), Blondie, Roxy Music, The Eurithmics, The Cure, The Rolling Stones, The Human League etc......... Like those who have something to say, are passionate and inspiring. That's what it's about isn't it?
Movies:
Shashank Redemption, Breakfast Club, Shaun Of The Dead, Back To The Future series, Wedding Crashers ("I'm too traumitised to have a scone"), Pretty In Pink, Fight Club, The Goonies (they just don't make 'em like that any more), Stand By Me, The Mighty Ducks movies (2 especially), Bad Boys (1, not 2),really bad chick flicks always (embarrassing as it may be)seem to be a favourite, I am, however, oblivious as to why!Oh yeah and getting back to Shaun Of The Dead..even though I was just forced to watch it about 96 times and do a presentation on it for college! Apologies Orla and Beck's....I'll stop quoting it eventually!"Prink!" OOOh and now I can add in Hot Fuzz...I was gonna add it before I even saw it...I was that confident...now I know...Love it!!!("Nutin like a bit of gurl on gurl!!")
Television:
Have been watching an unhealthy amount of Scrubs recently, and have just gotten into The Mighty Boosh (Noel Fielding is a genious and so cute...he's like a little boy whose full of rainbows and candy floss!! "I'm dark, You cut me open and I'm made of Black Jacks"..."You're Fruit Salad Vince, everybody knows that!" Not forgetting Julian...it just wouldn't work if it wasn't for the two lads together!)Family Guy, Green Wing, Peep Show, The IT Crowd, That 70s Show (the old ones though) Freaks and Geeks (come back to us!!), Watch clips from Mock The Week and Never Mind The Buzzcocks on youtube most days (often preventing my voyage into college...I am doin media though...it can count as homework right??), The OC, SPACED (LOVE IT!!), Garth Merengay (remember that?) Black books (anything with Bill Bailey or Simon Pegg really!) The Office...any pretty bad telly as well really...escapism is always good!But honestly, everyone needs to turn the tv off and start living your own lives instead of vicariously living through ficticious characters in Eastenders! I'm gonna give it a go...who's with me?...No...no one??Ok then...where's the remote??
Books:
Reading Blood Brothers Soul Sisters at the min (thanks Orla!) loved Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Album (just finished another of his 'Five People You Meet In Heaven' a really beautiful, simple story) and I have to say that I have gotten a wee bit obsessed with Rilke's poetry of late...well I suppose there could be worse vices!!
Heroes:
Anyone who says fuck what I don't want and let me get on with what I do. Love risk takers and anyone with passion...doesn't matter what in I just think that everyone needs something and/or someone to love. The people who you know in your real life and feel inspired by, I think always make the best heroes!
