other people's cats, drawing and writing, records, zines, travelling, staying put, learning guitar, my big bike, my little brother, fimo, local old men and taggers, mornings, trying to work out a non-condescending way to find emo kids fascinating, chalk marker, haagen gold, lego, making stuff, finding things, op shops, plastic figurines of cricket players, wondering just how pejorative the word 'twee' really is
GENERALLY:fairly good scrabble players, bad pool players, terrible bowlers, moderately skilled bubble bobble players who are good at the JUMP level(green or blue dragon is fine),very patient drummers, zine traders of all sorts, tape traders of most sorts, any cute teenage girls i process holds on manga for, scrumpy/chardon aficionados, anyone with ghostwriter episodes, slow walkers, sandringham locals, people who will phone me up and say HEY let's go to the beach in my hot car and spend the whole journey rocking out like losers and talking like girls(fully knowing i'll return the favour when i can drive) and rich people who need proofreading donealso pets belonging to any of the aforementionedRIGHT NOW: anyone interested in friendly hot rivalry against this band i haven't really formed yet but i just like the idea of pop rivalry.also right now:
the aislers set, belle and sebastian, the magnetic fields, jens lekman, the go-betweens, syd barrett, the zombies, camera obscura, gorky's zygotic mynci, the ruby suns, tocotronic, the kinks, the slits, the buzzcocks, young marble giants, le tigre, blonde redhead, blumfeld, girls at our best, the searchers, kleenex, early rough trade stuff, sleater-kinney, horn sections, go sailor, bits of riot grrl, jonathan richman and/or the modern lovers, the go! team, dusty springfield, the siddeleys, the gladeyes, the smiths, the lucksmiths, elliott smith, patti smith, television personalities, chicks on speed, mia, the shop assistants, orange juice, the byrds, fleetwood mac, love is all, the hidden cameras, wire, the smashing pumpkins, the stone roses, felt, etc etc
harold and maude, daisies, amelie, my neighbour totoro, things with blue sky and skateboards. i am very open to movie suggestions, am somewhat undereducated as to actual movies but overexposed to movie geekery.
home and away, shortland street, coronation street, every single infomercial ever, that cat food ad with the lesbians fighting for thomas the cat's affection, calum playing playstation, that ad for the 'sad songs' compilation, the wild dynasty mini-series currently being produced by the bbc, the rich list, eurovision.
DTWOF and FUN HOME, norwegian wood, for esme with love and squalor, hard love!, the wayward bus, goodbye to berlin, catcher in the obvious rye, brighton rock, two girls fat and thin, 'there is no war here', little yellowed paperbacks in general and also squat hardbacks that are easy to shelve.