I live in a lovely flat in Rochester with my good friends Jo and Kerry (more commonly known as Tits Mcgee). I work in the library at KIAD and am back in Medway after 5 years at uni in Brighton.
Beards, men with beards, Red wine, Baggins book shop, coffee and the Saturday papers, VW Beetles (old style), camping, London, Brighton, books, libraries, cooking, art, photography, drawing, Broadstairs, nostalgia, whisky, eating out, sociology, literature, the idea (perhaps not the reality) of living in New York, reading, Reeses pieces, the arts in Medway, blue jeans, Rochester High Street, the 60s, 70s & 80s, travelling (not that I've done much, but hope to in the future), . .
Friends on my space!
Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Neil Young, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Pavement, Herman Dune, Wilco, Joanna Newsom, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Stevie Wonder, Blur, The Smiths, Leonard Cohen, Low, John Martyn, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Sundays, Bowie, Roxy Music, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Tom Waits, Belle and Sebastian, Van Morrison, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, Velvet Underground, Elliott Smith, Interpol, Stereolab, Sigur Ros, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, Kinks, Motown, Kings of Convenience, Cat Power, The Magnetic Fields, Grandaddy, Will Oldham, Iron and Wine, Smokey Robinson, Human League, Ian Dury, Otis Redding, The Magnetic Fields, The Kinks, ELO, Beck, Joy Division, Queen, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens, Peter Bjorn and John, Prince, Pink Floyd, Television, Steve Malkmus, The Cure, Midlake, Lambchop, Smog. . .
Boogie Nights, The Graduate, Lost in Translation, Early Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters), When Harry met Sally, The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, ,O Brother Where Art Thou?, Fargo, Barton Fink), Mike Leigh (Career Girls, Abigail's party, Secrets and Lies),Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghostbusters, No Direction Home, The Beatles Anthology, You and Me and Everyone We Know, Mulholland Drive (anything by David Lynch), the Back to the Future Trilogy, Wisonsin Death Trip . . .
Six Feet Under, The Day Today, Cracker, Black Books, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spaced, The Office, Look Around You (series 1 only), mind-blowing and illuminating documentaries (and I'm partial to a bit of Corrie).
WG Sebald, Ian McEwan, Philip Roth, Don Dellilo, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Graham Greene, Art Spiegelman, AS Byatt, Beth Nugent, Douglas Coupland, 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, Harvey Pekar, . .
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