songwriting, playing gigs, jamming, drinking, mushrooms, reading, losing myself, festivals, psychology, buddhism, alchemy, travelling, walking round strange cities, floating in boats, chess, running, football, coffee, eating, inventing food, watching films, france, finland, china, cats, climbing trees, dancing, churches, sunbathing, mountains, saunas, watrching people, Beltane, love-fuelled paganism, dressing up in bright colours, hats
people who aren't cynics, who think this world could be a hell of a lot better but also a hell of a lot worse, who want to shake things up, who want to cut loose and free their mind, who dance and drink until the sun comes up, people who show their love, who haven't sold out and abandoned their dreams, who talk to themselves and have more to share than they do
Manu Chao, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Toots and the Maytals, Sigur Ros, Devendra Barnhart, Queen, Supergrass, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, The Small Faces, Koko Rosie, Jeff Buckley, Desmond Dekker, Percy Sledge, Ben E King, NOFX, Rancid, James, Guns and Roses, Lakatos, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The killers, Scissor Sisters, Arcade Fire, Elton John, The Ruffness, The Hustlers, Bombskare, The Stones, Supertramp, The Paragons, The Specials, Bob Marley, Jack Johnston, The Longpigs, The Guillemots, Ben Harper, The Kinks, Radiohead, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Rufus Wainwright, Al Green, Madness, James Brown, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Gomez, Lauren Hill, U2, Suede, Dresden Dolls, Cherry Poppin Daddies, The Stone Roses, Elvis
leon, jaws, spring summer autumn winter and spring, the return, the thin red line, schindlers list, the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, o brother where art thou, the big lebowski, the man who knew too little, groundhog day, back to the future, pi, requiem for a dream, taxi driver, meet the parents, the big blue, sprited away, zatoichi, taxi, the scent of a woman,
steppenwolf, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, the dharma bums, siddartha, the glass bead game, you shall know our velocity, the outsider, on the road, the magic mountain, franny and zooey, the catcher in the rye, catch 22, the plague, the rebel, memories dreams and reflections, essays in zen buddhism, tales of the unexpected, the trial, the brothers karamozov, lila, demain, auto da fe, herzog, hunger, mysteries, if this is a man, the truce, foucault's pendulum, the name of the rose, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, the virtues of the solitary bird, nauseathe catsle, the outsider (Wilson), ancient evenings
Hermann Hesse, Robert Pirsig, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, Rumi, Albert Camus, Andrew Harvey, Khalil Gibran, Eckhart, Fritjof Capra, Primo Levi, JeanPaul Sartre, Ken Livingston, Jose Morinho, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Owen Wilson, St. John, Michael Moore, DT Suzuki, Manu Chao, JD Salinger, The Dalai Lama, Dave Eggers, Umberto Eco, Steven Gerrard, Thich Nhat Hanh, Kack Kerouac, Derren Brown