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Piracy, amateur anatomy, pipe smoking, freemasonry, the lost tribes of the south pacific, cemeteries, composing waltzes, Bed and Breakfasts with faded wallpaper.
King Charles II and Henry Miller. Preferably together, in a cosy pub in Soho.
The Clash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jacques Brel, Gogol Bordello, The Scientist, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Ukranians, Mercury Rev, Billie Holiday, Joy Division, Edith Piaf, The Cramps, The Fall,British Sea Power, M.I.A.,the Pixies, Lee Scratch Perry, Depeche Mode, The Specials, !!!, The Beta Band, Dusty Springfield, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Peaches, Le Tigre, Scott Walker, Flaming Lips, Roy Orbison, Django Reinhardt, The deity that is Tom Waits, Tricky, the Slits,Echo and the Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, Dresden Dolls, Arcade Fire, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Apocalypse Now, Grease, Mullholland Drive, The Servant, Gilda, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Lost Boys, La Reine Margot, Brighton Rock, Kung Fu Hustle, Colours, 2046, Cache, Secretary, Comme une Image, The Third Man, House of Fools, Withnail & I, My Fair Lady, The Misfits, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cabaret, Shaun of the Dead, Letter to Brezhnev, My Summer of Love, School for Scoundrels
Question Time and anything with John Snow
Novels set beside the seaside, novels with lots of rain in them, novels with miserable male anti-heroes, grand over the top epics, lost masterpieces, McGinn's colour atlas of human anatomy, anything to do with London, anything to do with the Spanish Civil War,anything with lots of blood and guts, Dostoevsky, Patrick Hamilton, Julian McClaren Ross, EM Forster, Iceberg Slim, Roy Porter, Henry Miller, F Scott Fitgerald, Allan Sillitoe, Peter Ackroyd, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Bukowski, Boris Pasternak, Graeme Greene, G K Chesterton, George Orwell, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Iain Banks, vampire porn and French filth.
Joe Strummer for his service to popular culture; Tony Benn for his service to the British political system; the Earl of Sandwich for services rendered to my stomach; Dirk Bogarde.