Blahdy blah blah drink blah blah music blah film blah blah more drink blah blah blah mates blah same old shit blah blah ........ blah!
I really wish John Lennon was still alive, I would like to have met him. Otherwise, I'd like to meet people who can make me laugh till I cry.
The Beatles(all time favourite), Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Supertramp, The Kinks, Led Zep, T Rex, Jeff Buckley, Blur, Ocean Colour Scene, Fleetwood Mac, The Velvet Underground, Ben Harper, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, Dave Matthews Band, REM, The Band, Sigur Ros, The Doors, The Postal Service, Lemonjelly, Roy Harper, Gomez, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Tom Vek, RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, SOAD, The Libertines, Captain Beefheart, Kate Bush, Calexico, Joseph Arthur, The Stone Roses, The Smiths, The Shins, Weezer, Lionel Richie(All night long!), Ron Sexsmith, Ryan Adams, Ambulance Ltd, Mando Diao, Interpol, Ciro(My wee-big cusins band), Spoon, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Travelling Wilburys, Wagon Christ, Clinic, Bob Dylan, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab For Cutie, Curtis Mayfield, Dave Brubeck, Counting Crows, Portishead, The Chemical Bros, They Might Be Giants, The Dissociatives, Seu Jorge, Bright Eyes, Bloc Party, The Music, Mogwai, Pearl Jam, Ryan Adams, The New Pornographers, Beck, The Police, Ry Cooder, The Eels, Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Levellers, Amiee Mann, Arcade Fire, Squeeze, Rufus Wainwright, Avalanches, RATM, Audioslave, Jose Gonzalez(I discovered him before he was famous!), Doves, Electric Light Orchestra, Gogol Bordello(awesome live!), Thievery Corporation, Jean Michel Jarre, Felix Da Housecat, LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Barclay James Harvest, Aphrodites Child, OK Go, Supergrass, Verve, Badly Drawn Boy, Kasabian, James, The Beta Band, Silver Jews, Nada Surf, Giant Sand, The Mars Volta, Remy Zero, St. Germain, The Groundhogs, Fine Young Cannibals, Biffy Clyro, The Thrills, Blanche, David Gray, Pink Martini, Willy Mason and many many more. But I can not recommend PATRICK WOLF(this guy is a genius) enough. If you have never heard of him find his music and listen to it. If we lived in world were commericalism didn't own music then this guy would be King!
The Shawshank Redemption! my favourite film of all time. I am into foreign films in a big way, (because most of what america produces is utter garbage). Any film by Pedro Almodovar or Alejandro Amenabar are great. Sideways, American History X, American Beauty, Ususal Suspects, Crash, Chopper, Sexy Beast, Fargo, Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Beetlejucie, Wicker Man, Se7en, Garden State, Back to the Future(123) are just some other favs.
The best programme of all time: Peter Kay's Pheonix Nights. It's just soooo damn funny, I must have watched each series about a hundred times, so much in fact the tape for series 1 has started to go fuzzy :( Will eventually upgrade to DVD when I've got money to burn. To quote Brian Potter "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you can see its arse!"
I change style of books all the time. I like crime- Jeffery Deaver or John Grisham stuff; sci-fi- Philip K Dick(of Blade Runner fame) is my all time favourite but one of my top books is the Forever War by Joe Haldeman(an absolute classic). Other books I love are Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Vernon God Little, the Secret History and another all time fav The Five People You Meet in Heaven ---- A must read for all. When i'm feeling a little highbrow and can be bothered (not very often) I give one of the classics a go. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is another fav.
Peter Kay!:)