Subcultures, clothes, subcultural clothes, movies, pin-up art, pulp fiction cover art, pulp magazine cover art, movie posters, B-movie imagery, Catholic imagery and iconography, Greek mythology, 1980s LP covers, neon lights, music, music, music, old tat, seaside souvineers, archaeology, history, science, grim and gruesome historical facts, 8mm projection, old prison tattoos, the British seaside, live music, photography, old engravings, decaying buildings, charity shops, hair pommade.
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Some of my favourites: The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Smiths, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, The Cramps, Blondie, Suede, The Clash, The Stranglers, The Cure, Lush, St. Etienne, Stereolab, Elastica, Siouxie and the Banshees, B52s, Joy Division, Tindersticks, Depeche Mode, The Straycats, Carl Perkins over Elvis every time, PJ Harvey, Roxy Music, Japan, Duran Duran, 60s Girl Groups, Trashy Garage, 50s Lounge and Exotica, various stuff with the suffix "billy' , C86, New Wave, Italo Disco, Lots more...
JOHNNY SUEDE by Tom DiCillo (Brad Pitt's first starring role in which he surely has the biggest on screen quiff of all time) It's a complete triumph of style over substance, which is fine by me... In a similar vein: the work of directors Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch. Some fave films: Johnny Suede, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Something Wild, Revenge of the Nerds, Wings of Desire, Bringing up Baby, Fargo, Rebel Without a Cause, Pretty in Pink, Calamity Jane, Some Like it Hot, Clerks, Near Dark, Querelle, Les Valseurs, Aliens 2, Evil Dead 2, Braindead (all sorts of funny horror films and zombie flicks) Pulp Fiction, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo Rushmore, True Romance, Sin City, U-Turn, B-movies, silent movies, Lord of the Rings ...Blah de blah...
I don't have an aerial so thankfully little. Simpsons, various comedies, I'm obsessed with Twin Peaks. I adore old 40s Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery cartoons.
Wasp Factory, Perfume, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Sherlock Holmes, The Little Prince, Catcher in the Rye. Reference books for the images- Lots of tomes on pin-ups and old movie stars. . Italian comic book art like Dylan Dog, Skorpio and Lanciostory where the pulp tradition is very much alive.
MORRISSEY, Nick Cave, Johnny Suede, Sherlock Holmes, Agent Cooper (Twin Peaks) Joe Strummer, Paul Simmonen, Roberto Beningni, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Tom DiCillo, Dylan Dog, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, various studio era film stars, Vince Ray, TinTin, Rupert Bear, Sherilyn Fenn, Kevin Shields, Mark Kermode... whoever takes my biscuit.