I am (sporadic) hermit, a melting pot of narcissism and self-loathing, hiding in Dorset. I'm a philophobe and subscribe to The Wire magazine. Mended.
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self-obsession, disinformation, strange music, collecting vinyl, repression, badger-baiting, telling lies, sarcasm, karma, books, tree-hugging, isolation, Neighbours, falling asleep on the grass to the sound of grasshoppers, enjoying the countryside without killing anything.
My maker. Hayley Mills. Soledad Miranda (in the afterlife). 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress' cover girl. Penelope Keith in 'The Good Life' or 'To The Manor Born'. Chan Marshall. Hope Sandoval. Ike Reiko. Christina Ricci. Vincent Gallo.
Oh, and Mia Farrow & Jean Shrimpton. In 1968.
And...
Anything that provokes a violent emotion of some description.
For Example:
Ariel Pink
Buddy Holly
Sleep
Bjork
Serge Gainsbourg
Kathryn Williams
Tunng
Charlie Parker
Leaf Records
Fantomas
Shuggie Otis
Cex
Boris
Warp Records
Psych rock
Arcade Fire
The Make Up
The Fence Collective
Slint
Trees
The Lovers
NoahJohn
Elliott Smith
Bob Dylan
Francoise Hardy
cLOUDDEAD
Jackie Mittoo
Secondsmile
Pavement
Susumu Yokota
Jan Jelinek
Satwa
Basil Kirchin
Shrimp Boat
The Meters
60's Garage
60's Beat
Clayhill
13th Floor Elevators
Trunk Records
Planet Mu Records
Finders Keepers Records
Tigerbeat6 records
The many manifestations of Richard D. James
Marvin Gaye
JOMF
Animal Collective
Robert Johnson
Manitoba
Kid606
Deathprod
Richard D. James
Marsen Jules
Khonnor
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Library Music
Freakbeat
Boards Of Canada
Goblin
Broadcast
Country Joe & The Fish
Belle & Sebastian
Sparklehorse
Yo La Tengo
Krzysztof Komeda
Tortoise
Quasimoto
Liars
Goldmund
Pole
Roy Budd
Angelo Badalamenti
Prefuse 73
Movietone
Ghost Box Records
Love
Rothko
Bertrand Burgalat
Freddie Hubbard
David Pajo
The For Carnation
Static Caravan Records
Type Records
MDK
Joanna Newsom
Roy Orbison
Cocorosie
Antony and The Johnsons
Susumu Yokota
Miles Davis
Gene Vincent
Django Reinhardt
Do Make Say Think
Squarepusher
Vashti Bunyan
Wooden Wand and The Vanishing Voice
Charalambides
Acid Folk
Improv
Adem
Sonic Youth
The Belbury Poly
Beta Band
The Cure
The many manifestations of Mike Paradinas
Buzzcocks
Tom Waits
Nick Drake
Magik Markers
Fursaxa
Comus
Funkadelic
Ginnungagap
The Memory Band
James Yorkston
The Clash
The Slits
Talk Talk
Kim Hiorthoy
Will Oldham
Stereolab
Forest
Herbie Hancock
Dr. John
Twisted Nerve Records
Sublime Frequencies
Deserted Village Records
Ones that preferably make me feel like I'm plummeting from a cliff. Or something else.
Most films by: Lynch, Polanski, Cronenberg, Roeg, Kubrick, Solondz, Goddard, Chabrol, Truffaut, Lindsay Anderson, Shane Meadows, Argento, Jodorowsky, Hitchcock, Scorcese, Jarmusch, Wenders, Carpenter, Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Wes Anderson, Coens, any zombie/Voodoo-based hi-jinks
Night Of The Hunter, Gummo, If... The Wicker Man, Morvern Callar, Belleville Rendez-Vous, River's Edge, Before Sunset, Repo Man, Heathers, The Princess Bride, Sky West & Crooked, Whistle Down The Wind, Tiger Bay, That Darned Cat, Drugstore Cowboy, E.T., Jaws, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, Badlands, Dogme films, Brighton Rock, Virgin Suicides, Slacker, Julien Donkey Boy, Dazed and Confused, The Cooler, Evil Dead, Haute Tension, Sedmikransky, Valerie y tyden divu, Dead Man's Shoes, A Room For Romeo Brass, Harold and Maude, Being There, Oldboy, The Woodsman, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blood On Satan's Claw, Spirited Away, Blade Runner, Caddyshack, Jerry & Tom, Bad Boy Bubby, American Movie, American Splendor, Amelie, Diva, Dancer in the Dark, Festen, Crumb, Lawn Dogs, Ghost World, Jerry & Tom, Buffalo 66, Breakfast Club, Say Anything, The Sure Thing, Goonies, Grosse Point Blank, Gosford Park (for the ambience), Get Carter, Phantasm, Gregory's Girl.
I'll watch anything that mooooves! (to paraphrase Dennis Hopper). Twin Peaks. Neighbours. 'Stenders. Anything Chris Morris-related. News Night. Question Time. Monk. League Of Gentlemen. The Mighty Boosh. Six Feet Under. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. My Name Is Earl. Anything Attenborough-related. Tribe. Kath & Kim. Nigel Kneale has become a strong favourite. Beasts. Children Of The Stones. The Day Of The Triffids. BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas. Thriller. Hammer House Of Horror. Any 60's/70's vaguely occult/esoteric stuff.
Ones with lots of pretty pictures, anything regarded as pretentious.
Auster, Bukowski, Burroughs, Byron, Camus, Clowes, Coupland, Fowles, Gallico, Gifford, Ginsberg, Golding, Greene, Herge, Hill, Hines, Hughes, Huxley, James (MR), Kafka, Kerouac, Litt, Mailer, Mauriac, Miller, Moore (Alan), Morrisson (Grant), Murakami, Plath, Pynchon, Salinger, Sartre, Vonnegut, Wilde, Wyndham, Zola.
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Mahatma Gandhi, MR James, Jack Kerouac and his cat, John Cusack William Burroughs and his laconic drawl, Chris Morris, Bjork. Oh and I always wanted to be Matt Dillon in Drugstore Cowboy, minus the debilitating addictions.