Music, Reading, Dreaming. In any combination
Bertie Basset and his multi coloured chums.
Teenage Fanclub, Beach Boys, The Byrds,Gram Parsons,The Jam, Big Star, Small Faces, Edwyn Collins, Spiritualized, The Beatles, Gigolo Aunts, Love, Wilco, The Aliens, Pernice Brothers, Golden Smog, Ronnie Lane, Superstar, Orange Juice, The Jayhawks, Primal Scream, XTC, Aztec Camera, Johnny Cash, World Party, Badfinger, The Thorns, Wings, My Morning Jacket, Velvet Crush, The Faces. Look, if you know me, you'll know the sort of stuff I like. I'm not going to waste my time listing a thousand and one bands so some stranger may or may not think I'm cool. just imagine I've put loads and loads of cool stuff here. Go on. Knock yerself out!
Big Wednesday, Withnail & I, Lost In Translation, The Wicker man, A Hard Day's Night, Bedazzled, Amelie, Dig!, Casablanca,Old Boy, Scooby Doo meets the Loch Ness Monster, Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room, Head!,Brazil, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, That'll Be The Day, Tideland, Stardust, Adaptation and anything starring the Marx Brothers.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, Mighty Boosh, CSI, Cheers, Hancock's Half Hour, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, Life On Mars, King Of The Hill, Family Guy, Shameless,The Monkees, Not Only But Also, The Rockford Files.
Lights Out For The Territory, The Shadow Of The Wind, anything by Frank Richards, The Magus, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Crow Road, Lies and The Lying Liars, Under The Skin by Michel Faber, Not Fade Away or any of the works of Jim Dodge, all of Frank Richards but especially Billy Bunter, anything by Haruki Murakami, Peter Ackroyd, Alisdair Gray, Iain Sinclair, Hunter S Thompson, Richmal Crompton, Tom Wolfe or Ken Kesey.
Peter Cook, Tony Hancock and Brian Wilson. But definitely not the rat face fuck of a bin man who knocked down the wall at the front of my house last week and then twatted off without saying anything about it. Not him. No.