Boys, hair, music, boots, handbags, puppets. There is no more to life.
I'd like to meet:
The man in the camel overcoat in this:
I own this song on 7inch vinyl. It was on Epic. It IS Epic.
Music:
It all went horribly wrong from the age of 1 when I was given a Woolworths portable record player. Every monday I perused the singles in HMV from the comfort of my pram and I learnt to read thanks to the stickers in the middle of my 7inch collection.
Rod Stewart will be forever associated with a RAK sailboat, ABBA with the original orange Epic logo and the Bee Gees with the red RSO cow. Don't get me started on my Slade/Mr Pickwick collection....
Aged 6, I became obsessed with the cover of Duran Duran's "Rio" album and my mother can be blamed for allowing me to grow up with the notion that I would one day look just like that Nagel painting. I didn't. I am gutted.
Aged 13, I decided to pour my gothic depression into what I would call a thoroughly healthy obsession with Depeche Mode, which put me on the slippery path of rock via Skid Row and - ashamedly - Extreme. Thank God I got MTV earlier than most and was saved from a life of James Blunt and Coldplay by my weekly teenage exposure to Headbangers Ball. I still own a VHS of their 3 hour Seattle special. If I hadn't caught the European premiere of the "Alive" video, or seen Chris Cornell in his woolly tights/big boots combo I could well be working in IT recruitment right now....and who wants that??
Movies:
Some Like It Hot
Send Me No Flowers
Flash Gordon
For Your Consideration
The Philadelphia Story
Wag The Dog
Annie Hall
Small Time Crooks
Spinal Tap
Goodfellas
Leon
Play It Again Sam
Ed Wood
Bringing Up Baby
Television:
Boston Legal
Entourage
30 Rock
Arrested Development
Californication
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Family Guy
The Hills, especially if there is a 5 hour marathon on
E News
Coronation Street
re-runs of The Larry Sanders Show and Seinfeld
Pipkins (below. Hartley is my hero)
Books:
Chris Donald's hilarious autobiography, where he talks about going to do an interview and Robert Plant is a fellow guest. He asks the receptionist where the toilet is and Chris's brother Simon shouts "off to drop off a Big Log are you, Robert?"
