having stupidly long hair, listening to stuff, talking to squirrels, pigeons and other incidental animals, the numbers 8, 1, 143, 43, 26, 28, and 3, dreaming about transport...mainly trains, jetsetting, ladybird collecting, climbing the stairs two at a time, riding my bike, playing frisbee, eating chestnuts, playing scrabble, watching movies that make me bawl, trampolining, thunderstorms, driving and singing at the same time, writing songs, breaking into my old house, being cheeky and getting away with it, laughing when I am not sure why I am laughing any more, dancing badly on purpose, keeping calm, waking up without a hangover, good live music, my i-Pod, playing my drums / djembe / congas / xylophone / whatever's handy, getting out of the house more, sipping champagne, guzzling beer, getting there late, acting aloof, pulling out my own fur with my teeth, teddy bear wrestling in the middle of the night, making stupid faces at bad drivers, leaving everything until the last minute. Forgetting stuff.
This man...
Antibalas, Arctic Monkeys, Awek, Adam Ant, Lily Allen, Brendan Benson, The Bandinis, Binky Griptite, The Bees, Buzzcocks, Blondie, Bad Brains, Budos Band, The Clash, The Cribs, Color Plates, Graham Coxon, Elvis Costello, The Datsuns, Dead Kennedys, Dirty Pretty Things, The Dears, The Doors, Donovan, Desmond Dekker, Doves, Evan Dando, The Ethiopians, Alton Ellis, Fairport Convention, French Kicks, The Futureheads, The Flaming Lips, GoodBooks, Albert Hammond jr, Ed Harcourt, Horsebox, Human League, Happy Mondays, Interpol, The Kills, The Kinks, Klaxons, Kings of Leon, Let's Go Bowling, Lincoln Brown, Longwave, My Luminaries, The Moldy Peaches, Modey Lemon, Musical Youth, Mystic Chords of Memory, Curtis Mayfield, The Mighty Imperials, Maximo Park, Misfits, The Mooney Suzuki, Magnetic Fields, The Noisettes, New Young Pony Club, Nirvana, The Outside Royalty, Pete and The Pirates, Peter and The Wolf, The Pierces, Plain English, Pavement, The Paragons, Pure Reason Revolution, Pablo, The Postal Service, Robbers On High Street, The Ramones, Lou Reed, The Rolling Stones, Mark Ronson, The Raconteurs, Radio 4, The Rakes, The Realistics, Rjd2, The Specials, The Stranglers, DJ Shadow, Shade, Soledad Brothers, The Shins, Sharon van Etten, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, The Strokes, Silicon Kid, The Skatalites, Sonic Youth, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub, The Undertones, Wire Jesus, The Will, The White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, The Young Knives, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Zombies. Plenty of others - lots of Trojan Ska.
Whale Rider, The Goonies, The Outsiders, Shawshank Redemption, Garden State, Little Voice, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, KES, Raising Victor Vargas, High Fidelity, Withnail and I, Karate Kid, Back To The Future, ET, (original) Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Jackie Brown (& its wonderful soundtrack)
The Office (UK version), Extras, EastEnders, FAQ U, Peep Show, Look Around You, Little Britain, QI, TOTP2, Garth Marenghi, The Flumps, Life on Mars, Morph, Countdown, Channel 4 News, Deal Or No Deal, nature documentaries like Earth Story, Later with Jools Holland, Soul Britannia, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Lord of The Flies (William Golding), Choke (Chuck Palahniuk), A Kestrel for a Knave (Barry Hines), ones with nice pictures, music mags, the NME.
Spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can... Terry Hall. Ronnie Barker. David Mitchell. Trevor MacDonald. Richard Beckinsale. David Attenborough. Tina Turner. Casablancas. Jagger. Sharon Jones. Seckou Keita. Wilbur Gimli Bruce(RIP). The Karate Kid. Maria & Donna Catamero. My hairbrush. .......and....