Music, taxidermy and voodoo
r'n'b and rock'n'roll from the 40's 50's and 60's, voodoo blues, jive, dixieland, swing, calypso, ska, exotica, northern soul, garage rock, punk, cuban beebop and primitive jazz. Blimey! Favourite artists includde Little Richard, Screaming J. Hawkins, Big Joe Turner, Benny Goodman, Ray Charles, James Brown, Prince Buster, Louis Prima, Etta James, Phil Spector, The Violent Femmes, Willmouth Houdini, Count Basie, Peggy Sue and the Pirates, Howlin Wolf, Jimi Hendrix, Yma Sumac, Gal Costa, The Fabulous Penetrators, Iggy Pop, Nora Dean, Lee Perry, Little Willie John, Lightnin' Hopkins, Wynonie Harris, The Slits, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Molly, Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Top Cats, Cab Calloway, The Lord Invader
Buffalo 66, Measures of the Afternoon/Rituals in Transfugured Time (Mira Deren), Wizard of Oz, Wings of Desire, She's Gotta Have It, You, Me and Everyone We Know, The Player, Shortcuts, Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Citizen Kane
Television sucks, but Sir Richard Attenborough is cool, and Jon Snow is our idol. Keep telling it straight, Johnny Boy!
Moragavine by Blaise Cendrars, Black Spring by Henry Miller, The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf, Journey to the End of the Night by Celine, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Herzog by Saul Bellow, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chambon
Howlin Wolf, Spiderman, our mums, and John Snow, of course. Also, Adam Gardener; once a friend, who drifted away.