Wrestling with alcoholsim, washing up, making the bed, going down stairs on my front, fighting crime, endorsing local recycling programmes, playing poker, acting out entire scenes of The Office with Liam (and working on our own sit-com), occasional mouthing off, grade-A banter with Mikes, discovering new fruits. I stand against: never ending ads on digital TV, sunburn, Zane Lowe, morning radio (if Hell's lifts had muzak it would be Chris Tarrants cunting voice), mornings in general (I'm a night bird). But there's nothing worse than a scratched disc!
Currently: She Wants Revenge, Be Yr Own Pet, Regina Spektor, Atreyu..........Forever: Arab Strap, Aphex Twin, BIG BLACK, Blackalicious, Boards of Canada, Bardo Pond, Boom Bip, Billy Mahonie, Blonde Redhead, Beck, CocoRosie, Clinic, Chris Clark, Do Make Say Think, Don Cab, Dungen, Dose One, Deerhoof, Enon, Explosions in the Sky, four tet, Fridge, Fugazi, Faun Fables, Godspeed!, Gang of Four, Imogen Heap, Iron and Wine, Jesus Lizard, June of '44, The Knife, Karate, Labradford, LAPSUS LINGUAE, Lightning Bolt, Mogwai, Modest Mouse, Naked Raygun, Oxes, Palace, PJ Harvey, Pinback, Prefuse 73, Plan B, Rodan, Radiohead, Rapeman, Rachels, SHELLAC, SLINT, SONGS OHIA, Shipping News, Silver Jews, Sigur Ros, Saul Williams, Sage Francis, Squirrel Bait, Smog, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Tom Vek, Unwound, Zeni Geva,.........................Never: Razorlight, The Strokes
The French Connection, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, Jaws, Trainspotting, City of God, Dr Strngelove...all spring to mind when someone asks what my favourites are. There are millions more. I like dark humour and there's nothin wrong with a bit of good old violence. I can be a sucker for sentiment as well. I like William Friedkin, Wong Kar Wai, Sam Pekinpah, Scorsese, Coppola, Luc Besson, Jack Nicholson (especially as Billy 'Badass' Buddusky), Christian Bale, Tarantino, Staley Kubrick, Uma Thurman, Ed Norton, Robert Duvall as Col Kilgore (one of the best performances ever), Andy Lau and Tony Leung, Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Ridley Scott, what I've seen of Todd Solondz (despite the cum flying everywhere), Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle, undercover cop films, realism, Monica Belluci and Vincent Cassell, Spinal Tap, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill! Blade Runner, John Turturro. I don't care much for namechecking obscure directors, even if I don't like them, to sound cool.
Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, THE MIGHTY BOOSH, PEEP SHOW, Nathan Barley, 15 Storeys High, Brass Eye, Jam, Alan Patridge, The Office, Family Guy, American Dad, Spaced, Monkey Dust, GREEN WING.................the classics: Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Only Fools, This Life
Brett Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahnuik, Philip K. Dick, Sven Hassel, Chuck Buck...bits of this bits of that. Recently got my snout into: Kafka's 'Metamorphosis', Albert Camus - 'The Outsider', Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'
Mark Heap, Jason Molina, Dennis Bergkamp, Dose One, Sean Penn, Richard Aeyode, Steve Albini