People with substance. Errmmmm...Music, film, art, various shutter speeds, super 8, 16 mm, Polaroid, old typewriters, rain when i'm indoors, sun when i'm outdoors, playing bass, YOSHITOMO NARA artwork! Giving two cold fingers to the establishment. Better living through chemistry.
Heroes and villains, scallywags and malcontents, artists, street urchins, drunks, music lovers and hot chicks with a general disregard for the man. All the fucked up children of the world.
The Kills, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, LCD Soundsystem, Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, primal scream, Death in Vegas, David Holmes, the Jesus And Mary Chain, The Verve, Viva K, Lupine Howl, joy division, new order, broadcast, Add n to X, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, BRMC, The Charlatans, Clinic, Raveonettes suicide, royal trux/RTX, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders/Heartbreakers, The Rolling Stones, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Warlocks, Division of Laura lee, The Duke spirit, Archie Bronson outfit, Television personalities, Patti Smith, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Dead boys, the Cramps, The Cars, The Pixies, the birthday party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three, the misfits, the gun club, Television, Iggy and the Stooges, Beatles/Lennon, MC5, The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces, The faces, Electric Prunes, 13th Floor Elevators, The Sonics, The Action, The Creation, T Rex, The Make Up, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, The Fall, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Oasis, gang of four, wire, blur, Graham Coxon, Will Oldham, The Rakes, Dirty Pretty Things, slowdive, Ride, super furry animals, Supergrass, Electrelane, Elastica, Ikara Colt, Stereolab, Mogwai, Liars, Can, neu, Kraftwerk, Faust, Silver Apples, the clash, syd barrett, P.I.L, sex pistols, the Libertines, The Slits, ESG, James Chance and the contortions, gram parsons, Belle and Sebastian, Bowie, Eno, Arthur Lee/love, stone roses, james brown, Massive Attack, Portishead, GoGoGo Airheart, Tussle, Black Lips, Xerox Teens, These new Puritans, Sly and the family stone, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Funkadelic, Isaac Hayes, Miles Davis, John Coltrane 60's 70's soundtrack shit, ennio morricone, lalo schifrin, street sounds electro 1 - 9, good old school hip hop - Tribe, Black Sheep, De La Soul, Mobb Deep, Gangstarr, Jeru, Wu Tang.
Some of my favourites are...A Clockwork orange, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Wings of Desire, Chunking Express, Dead or Alive, Oldboy, Maelstrom, Dirty Pretty Things, 400 Blows, Breathless, The beat that my heart skipped, Battle Royale, Daughters of Darkness, Zombie movies, George A. Romero - everything, Sam Raimi, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness. 28 days later, Shaun of the dead, The Lost Boys, Performance, out of the blue, The good the bad and the ugly, Once upon a time in the west, Django, Spaghetti westerns, El Topo, Repo Man, Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny, Kids, Gummo, Another day in paradise, Bully, The panic in needle park, Giallo cinema - Four Flies on grey Velvet, The bird with the crystal plumage, Deep Red, Cat o' nine tails, Play misty for me, Dirty Harry, Walkabout, Jesus' Son, One flew over the cuckoos nest, Easy rider, Midnight Cowboy, Romeo is bleeding, Sid and Nancy, Leon, Meantime, Trainspotting, Scarface, Carlito's way, Vanishing point, Blow up, Blow out, Alfie, Italian Job, Quadrophenia, mean streets, Goodfellas, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Death Proof, old John Carpenter stuff, The Thing, Escape from New York, the Fog, Big trouble in little china, Blue Velvet, Wild at heart, Mulholland Drive, Raising Arizona, Bruce Lee shit! Sin City, 24 hour party people, Amores Perros, lost in translation, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Ghost Dog way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes. Trees Lounge, Cassavettes - minnie and moskovitz, killing of a chinese bookie, a woman under the influence e.t.c And too many others to list or that I can't think of right now.
The Mighty Boosh, The office, Extras...oh yeah and that one with the little yellow people who live in springfield. Seinfeld. Curb your enthusiasm. Various Documentary films.
jim carroll, hunter s thompson, Please kill me, Popism -Andy Warhol, Touching from a distance, william s burroughs, Philip K. Dick, jack keroak, j.d salinger. Chuck muthafuckin' Palahniuk! Irvine Welsh, Sartre, Orwell and whatever you'll lend me to read that's any good.
Ian Curtis, God bless Arthur and Syd. Iggy, J Spaceman, John Lydon (before the sex pistols reunions), Richard Hell, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Jah Wobble.