Anneke. Audio Production. Lexicology. Gags. Travelling. Making music. Swilling grog, especially Guinness. Listening to other people's music. Meat. Playing in shit-hot bands. Mixing kernts that are the jazz, such as Grey Daturas, Agents of Abhorrence, The Day Everything Became Nothing, Fuck I'm Dead, Sydonia, Peeping Tom, Resistica, Winterun. Going on tour with cool kernts. Scrabble. Recording bands. Drums. Football. Cooking. Voiceovers. Slang. Parties. Tough cars. Pool. Trivia. Acting. Driving. Nintendo. Reading. Writing. Arithmetic. Coffee.
Grog swilling pirates and wenches. And a whole lot of engineers. Andy Wallace, Steve Albini, Andy Sneap, Matt Bayles, Tomas Skogsberg and Billy Anderson all spring to mind. And see - Music. But especially the guys from Mastodon, High on Fire and Neurosis. And Kaki King. And Claire Adams.
My own - Cement Pig (vox), Agonhymn (strings/vox), Terrorust (bass), Suicide Bombers (bass), Oxen Constitution (?), State of Nought (drums/keys/bass/guitar/sax).
Jazz I like that isn't mine - Black Sabbath, Billy Joel, Faith No More, Mastodon, Neurosis, Isis, Primus, N.I.L, Electric Wizard, Kaki King, Death, AC/DC, Peeping Tom (Melbourne), Sydonia, Carcass, Meshuggah, Baroness, GG Allin, Yob, Helmet, Bodydogg, Stone Temple Pilots, ZZ Top, Sunn O))), Praxis, Grey Daturas, Bjork, Godflesh, Rise & Demise, Thin Lizzy, Pantera, Iron Monkey, Dillinger Escape Plan, Om, Fu Manchu, Sepultura, Slayer, Melechesh, Mistress, Weedeater, Mr Bungle, Deadguy, Charlie Hunter, Deftones, Kyuss, Carbomb, Morbid Angel, Unearthly Trance, Madonna, Gojira, Tom Waits, Diamanda Galas, Burst, BB King, Motorhead, The Legion, The Advantage, Oingo Boingo, Christbait, Ufomammut, Tal Wilkenfeld, Aphex Twin, Stinking Lizaveta, Eyehategod, John Zorn, Minsk, Blue Cheer, Pelican, Wesley Willis, Amon Duul II, Abramelin, Fantomas, Rollins Band, Swans, Dillinger Escape Plan, Tool, Whitehorse, Rabies Caste, Middian, Dysrhythmia, Lair of the Minotaur, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Merle Haggard, Entombed, Pink Floyd, Cathedral, Grief, Sleep, Larry Carlton, Soundgarden, Focus, Brutal Truth, Acid Bath, Destruktor, Goatwhore, Abominable Iron Sloth, Bill Frisell, The Police, Sig.Int, Philip Glass, Floor, Beanflipper, Suicidal Tendencies, Raunchous Brothers, Josh Pyke, Stravinsky, Secret Chiefs 3, Cannibal Ox, Farmer's Market, Gentle Giant, Dirty Three, Marduk, Lightning Bolt, The Mark of Cain, Weezer, Judas Priest, Tori Amos, Cornelius, Napalm Death, Mussorgsky, Opeth, Boris, Alice in Chains, 731, Bucketrider, Skeleton Key, System of a Down, Venetian Snares, Mountain, Vital Tech Tones, Koji Kondo, Hank Williams, Biohazard, Melvins, Today is the Day, Knut, Barry Adamson, Pentagram, Jimi Hendrix, Comets on Fire, Nirvana, Bartok, Wagon Christ, Ennio Morricone, Goatsnake, Jean-Claude Vannier, Pig Destroyer, Tad, Crowbar, Ry Cooder, Public Enemy, Tusk, High on Fire, Weird Al Yankovic, Clutch, Mogwai, Kill the Boss, Damaged. Heaps of other stuff. Heaps.
The Vidiot from UHF. Star Wars saga. Shawshank Redemption. Anything directed by Scorcese, especially Mafiosi jazz. Mystic River. Gloomy Sunday. Indiana Jones. Back to the Future. Two Hands. Brotherhood of the Wolf. Requiem for a Dream. Bad Boy Bubby. Violent westerns. Coen Brothers flicks. Charlie Kaufman flicks. John Waters flicks. Takeshi Miike jazz. Most crime flicks. Anything with Bill Murray/John Candy/Rodney Dangerfield. Documentaries. The Jerky Boys. Stand By Me. The Game. Peter Jackson splatter and many other horror jazzes. Anything with a good story. Anything with a great soundtrack. Anything clever. Anything really fucked up. Anything very stupid.
Still Game. The Shield. Deadwood. The Wire.
Stephen King, Confederacy of Dunces, dictionaries, encyclopaediae, Lawrence Block, ephemera, occult, esoterica, cookbooks, Jonathan Tropper, crime novels, true crime, textbooks, atlases (atli?), fiction/nonfiction, it doesn't matter. My bookshelves, they creaketh.
My family. Anthony Bourdain. Les Claypool.