Well, I love to: dream day and night (but I've got it under control now!); to smell nice smells; to read about physics (in a very light-hearted manner!); to promote shamanism (we need it!); yn paratoi'n am chwyldro* (we need it!); to love (we need it!); to eat ital food (we need it too!); to hear music; to remember herbal remedies; to try out creativity; to look for UFOs; to watch total football; to write; to hope for evolution; to appreciate wild animals (including snakes, scorpions and spiders cos they don't deserve to be killed just because they CAN kill us!); to learn about fungi; to ride my bike; to see colours; to drink water (and stronger, on occasion); to watch birds (but I don't properly go out to spot them! I just like to look at them and know what I'm looking at. My favourites are lovely collared doves); to fall off wagons (rolling as I go!); to support Queen's Park Rangers FC; to visit Spiller's, Derek's, Andy's, Intoxica, The Exchange, Dub Vendor, Camden Market, charity shops... just about any record shop in the world! I love vinyl! Didn't I mention that I love to go to gigs? Shame on me! I do! x (* 'achos Ni Yw y Byd': Gruff Rhys)
Extraterrestrials, and everyone in my friends space too! (Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens because I don't think they have MySpace pages...)
(just a list)Super Furry Animals, Acid Casuals, Love with Arthur Lee, The Beatles, Grandaddy, King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry and The Upsetters, Althea and Donna (onest!), Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Clarke, TROJAN RECORDS!, The Mighty Diamonds, Junior Reid, Black Uhuru, University of Dub Sound System (at Notting Hill Carnival), Kraftwerk, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cansei de ser Sexy, Spankrock, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, New York Dolls, The Zombies (well, Rod Argent mostly), Lou Reed, The Clash, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Sex Pistols, The Damned, MC5, Dead Kennedy's, Anti-Nowhere League, Stiff Little Fingers, Iggy and the The Stooges, Ian Brown, John Lennon, The Doors, Public Enemy, Asian Dub Foundation, Can, Damian Marley, Bob Marley, Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr, The Orb, Leftfield, Linton Kwesi Johnson (Poet and the Roots), Benjamin Zephaniah, Jesus and Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, Augustus Pablo, Niney & The Soul Syndicate, Aggrovators, Sly & The Revolutionaries, Rupie Edwards, The Roots Radics, Linval Thompson, Beach Boys, Stone Roses, The Stones, The Small Faces, The Kinks, The Who, Happy Mondays, Steel Pulse, Velvet Underground and Nico, Beganifs (I've got one tape...oops no it's Hanner Pei 'Vibroslap' in a Beganifs cassette case!), Money Mark, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, The Flying Burrito Brothers (the beautiful Gram Parsons), George Harrison (also beautiful), Gil Scott Heron, Primal Scream, Euros Childs, Richard James, Alun Tan Lan, MC Mabon, Pep Le Pew, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Psychedelia and techno, harmonies and freakouts and anyting I can dance to (beats and basslines!), beautiful lyrics or a mindfuck stageshow...all this and more
I'd choose to watch: The Future Is Unwritten (Julien Temple), Love Story (Chris Hall and Mike Kerry), Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles), The Tit and the Moon, Jamon Jamon (JJ Bigas Luna), Faraway So Close, Wings of Desire, Paris Texas (Wim Wenders), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorcese), Kill Bill Vol 1 (Tarantino), Gill Scott Heron: The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Punk: Attitude(Don Letts), The Proposition (John Hillcoat; screenplay and a scorching score by Nick Cave), Help!, A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester), The Devil's Backbone/ El Espinazo del Diablo (Guillermo Del Torro), Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius), Twin Town(Kevin Allen), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (Peter Hyman)... Ooooh loads more including The Exorcist, Vanishing Point, Easy Rider, Trainspotting, Rude Boy (for the Clash scenes), Quadrophenia (for scenes filmed in Shepherd's Bush...and the music!), Grosse Point Blank (Strummer score), Performance (James Fox tripping out of his socks), Woodstock (for Ritchie Havens!), Cheech and Chong (still smoking)...
as it is in my dreams... by/gan TheBearIsAngry; music/cerddoriaeth: Super Furry Animals
'Do you really think I care, what you read or what you wear? I want you to join together with the band' (Pete Townshend)
"Don't talk to me about heroes" (Shaun Ryder)