fashion (see CollardManson blog/flyers) : film : books : gonzo journalism : writing : art : graffiti : DJing : hip hop : funk : breaks : electronika : all things sound - esp. those wierd noises that are quite eery & haunting.
Presently I can be mostly found researching the effects of quantum physics, while tumbling down a metaphysical rabbit hole !?!
Leonardo DiShadrio, funny though he is never in the same place as dj feyd !
Bit of a mixbag really...
Plaid; Autechre; Aphex Twin; SWAG; Nightmares on Wax; Prefuse 73 ... infact anything WARP'd (in name & nature) as it is the Steel City sound ! Aesop Rock; Cannibal Ox; dj 2Tall; insignificant Others; Robots In Disguise; Kraftwerk; Luke Vibert; Flevans; Cinematic Orchestra; Massive Attack; Stone Roses; Goldfrapp; Grandadbob; Quantic Soul Orchestra; Matthew Herbert; Hot Chip; Rilo Kiley; Edith Piaf; Betaband; Nowhereians; Herbaliser; James Taylor; Neil Diamond; Suzanne Vega; Wolfmother; The Crypt : see www.myspace.com/thecryptbelfast (my pops old band from the 60s)...
La Haine through to Last Tango in Paris, Logans Run to North by Northwest, The African Queen, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Withnail and I, Cool Hand Luke, The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Jacobs Ladder, Twelve Monkeys, Donnie Darko, Wild Style, The Ipcress File, Delicatessen, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Videodrome, Metropolis, Bladerunner, Midnight Cowboy, BMX Bandits, War Games, D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform),Taxi Driver, The Dead Zone, Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros, 21 grams, Live Flesh, Baise-Moi, Clubbed to Death, Lilja 4-ever, Show Me Love, Dark Days, The Shining, The Wicker Man, Blood Simple, Audition, Battle Royale, Dune, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Secretary - assume the position !
::: in no particular order and the original verisons of :::
:: The Boy From Space
:: Dark Towers
:: Battle of the Planets
:: Chocky
:: Star Fleet
:: Jamie & His Magic Torch
:: 'The Book of Disquiet'
Fernando Pessoa
:: 'Unbearable Lightness of Being'
Milan Kundera
:: 'Tao Te Ching'
Lao Tzu
:: 'Kingdom of Fear'
Hunter S.Thompson
:: 'Distant Voices'
John Pilger
:: 'The New York Trilogy'
Paul Auster
:: 'Success'
Martin Amis
:: 'Bolivian Diary'
Ernesto Che Guevara...
:: Ron English
:: Hunter S.Thompson
:: Salvador Dali
:: Inspecteur Canardo
plus anyone else who swims upstream...