Art, collage, music, photography, writing, hiking, pointing out trees and naming them - but really easy ones like London Plane, doing the same with shrubs and heather when out on the hills with chums, and again with geology and birds, going grey - getting rather good at it, Hermaphrodites (not actual Intersex people but the Hermaphrodite as a symbol), Moustachioed women and just lately I've developed an interest in leading Ladies in films made before my time.
Mary Tamm (about the time she made The Odessa File), Ingrid Pitt (Where Eagles dare) and Sophia Loren. The three of them all at once.
Django Reinhardt through to Pig Destroyer. Back In Black - AC/DC, Window Licker - Aphex Twin, Darlin' - Beach Boys, Shadrach - Beastie Boys, Julia - Beatles, Punchbag - The Bees, B + A - The Beta Band, Black Moon Creeping - Black Crowes, Sixtyten - Boards Of Canada, Subterranian Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan, Jollity Farm - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Magoo Opening - Cornelius, Say No Go - De La Soul, Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie, Man With The Dogs - Dead Kennedys, Indian Summer - The Doors, East St Lois Toodle-oo - Duke Ellington, The Ballad Of Queen Bee And baby Duck - Eagles Of Death Metal, Searching For Madge - Fleetwood Mac, Wonderful Wino - Frank Zappa, Fat Man - G-Love And Special Sauce, Sunny - Bobby Hebb (this is playing at my funeral!), Moanin' At Midnight - Howlin' Wolf, Razzle In My Pocket - Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Job's Tears - Incredible String band, Killer Diller - Jackie Mittoo, Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix, Don't Want To Know - John Martyn, Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash, Shoot The Runner - Kasabian, All Of My Friends Were There - the Kinks, North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem, Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin, Where Eagles Dare - Misfits, Fish - Mr Scruff, Supermassive Blackhole - Muse, Passing Me By - The Pharcyde, Towering Flesh - Pig Destroyer, Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd, Cowboys - Portishead, Lump - The Presidents Of The United Stated Of America, Killer Queen - Queen, Skin On Skin - Queens Of The Stone Age, Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead, Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis - Vaughan Williams, Coffee Shop - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reason To Believe - Rod Stewart, Mother's Little Helper - Rolling Stones, Witness - Roots Manuva, Dance Of The Knights - Prokofiev, Threshold - Slayer, The Universal - Small Faces, Zero - Smashing Pumpkins, Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden, Big Brother - Stevie Wonder, We're Not Supposed to - Supergrass, Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks, Here Comes the Night - Them, After Hours - Velvet Underground, Starship Trooper - Yes, She's Attracted To - The Young Knives, STEPHEN AND THE STICKS.........and stuff like that
The Life Aquatic, Kes, The Seventh Seal, The Proposition, Evil Dead 1,2,3, Star Wars (obviously) Indiana Jones (duh), Lord of the Rings (though can't watch them anymore - actually, thats much the same with Star wars too, seen them that many times), Life Is Beautiful, Lord of War, Hammer Horror, The Fly (original version), Pan's Labyrinth, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Billy Liar, Blow-up, The Wicker Man, The Ipcress File, Rosemary's Baby, Tess, The Ninth Gate, The Fearless Vampire Killers (never seen a Roman Polanski film I didn't like), Lords of Dogtown, Dog Soldiers, saw Bed and Board the other night - lovely, .........I like stories basically.
The Mighty Boosh, Monty Python, used to like watching Adventure One but it kind of disappeared, Wildlife docs, The Culture Show (more so now that Lauren Laverne presents it), ummm.... The Two Ronnies (my Grandad used to do routines whilst serving drinks at his bar in the best room), Doctor Who (!), Robin Of Sherwood (the old one - it had devil worshipping in it and everything!). AND, seeing as I'm mid thirties now, I have gone into type and become a regular viewer of WWII documentaries on the History Channel. NOT THAT I WATCH ALL THAT MUCH TV blah blah blah
At the moment reading Beowulf, Dancers At The End Of Time (was about to give up on it after the first few pages but flicked through and fell upon the line "he noticed he had grown a beard quite unvoluntarily and it itched") and Life Is Elsewhere. I'm a HUGE Michael Moorcock fan - mainly the Jerry Cornelius stories. When my brain starts feeling mushy I like to read Art History books. If you want a recommendation how about "Autobiography" by Benvenuto Cellini. If you have an urge to learn about the exploits of a 16th century Italian goldsmith/sycophant/murderer/all round cheeky monkey, then this is for you!
Jerry Cornelius, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Eduardo Paolozzi, Monty Python, Terry Gilliam, The Two Ronnies, Marshall Law (the Pat Mills Kev O'Niel comic strip that is!), Hundertwasser (not as into his artwork as I was, but the man is still an inspiration), Ian Green (the guy who taught me to paint every saturday morning back when I was nipper and while all my mates were at home watching Swap Shop), Baudrillard (more so if I could understand him after only one read), Bruce Lee, Jimi hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Jim Morrison, Roger McGough, Tom Courtenay............many