I like chips as plump as my right thigh. Not my left as it is a little withered. I love comedy, dark films, music of intelligence and wit, and beautiful, beautiful writing.
Directors of particularly exquisite films. And splendid types in general.
The Smiths, David Bowie, Roxy Music, New York Dolls, The Fall, Kate Bush, Hole, Morrissey, Iggy P, Marianne Faithful, T-Rex, Abba, Suede, Dusty Springfield, PiL, The Kinks, Nico, The Ramones, Dresden Dolls, Klaus Nomi, Diamanda Galas, Joy Division, Patti Smith, Pulp, Kraftwerk, Sparks, Blondie, Rachmaninov, The Cure, Sandie Shaw, Patti Page, Doris Day, Nick Cave, Neil Young, Queen, The Monkees, Polly Harvey, Marilyn Monroe, Dolly Parton, Thomas Tallis. And The Black Tulips.
Brief Encounter, Withnail and I, Death in Venice, A Clockwork Orange, Cabaret, Buffalo 66, Flash Gordon, Edward Scissorhands, The Big Sleep, The Red Shoes, Carnival of Souls, North by Northwest, Nosferatu, The Masque of the Red Death, Brighton Rock, Ealing comedies, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Princess Bride, Carnival of Souls, Clue, Hard Day's Night, Gilda, Carry Ons, Bernard and the Genie, British 60s Horror with heaving, teeming, squealing, practically peeling bozooms.
The League of Gentlemen, Nighty Night, Black Books, Mighty Boosh, Twin Peaks, Dr Who, Kenny Everett, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Catterick, Spaced, Columbo, Monty Python, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Neighbours,The Goons, The Goodies, Question Time, Prisoner, The Prisoner, Top Gear, This Week, Murder She Wrote, Green WIng, Peep Show, The Good Life, I'm Alan Partridge, The Royle Family.
Perfume, London Fields, Money, The Infernal Desire Machine of Doctor Hoffman, To the Lighthouse, Lolita, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Famished Road, The Sea, The Sea, The Cement Garden, Death in Venice, Coraline, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Master and Margarita, Brighton Rock, The Wasteland.
Morrissey, Dickens and Lauren Bacall. And this dead woman in St Leonards.