Writing, reading, wittering, playing dictionary games, playing Scrabble, sticking things into a scrapbook, Michel Gondry, taking b/w pictures on my Dad's old Canon A1, taking photos in general and putting them up on flickr , Alan Bennett, finding things on the floor, Dave Gorman, Olive magazine, gin and tonic, cleaning my glasses, Antoni + Alison, that bit when Clementine pushes up the sash window and it starts snowing, playing guitar, making up my own recipes, listening to Radio 4 and according to my sister being 'haughty', a word which I only usually associate with Fleur Delacour.
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
You will drink too much gin. Not the worst way to die, but you won't remember too much of your life. Hey, at least you made some people laugh!
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Joni Mitchell, Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom, Midlake, The National, Cold War Kids, Jenny Lewis, KT Tunstall, Amplifico, Neil Young, Joy Division, Alberta Cross, Bob Dylan, Kings of Leon, My Bloody Valentine, Chopin, Air, Mogwai, Pearl Jam, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, Rachmaninov, Pulp, Tegan and Sara, Richmond Fontaine, any of the Wainwrights, Lou Reed, anything that my friends put on compilations that persuade me to put them on repeat, and songs I can sing really loudly while drying my hair. Lots more, but I can't fit them all in.
Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Donnie Darko,
Motorcycle Diaries, High Hopes, Garden State,
Manhattan, Nuts In May, Metropolis, Withnail and I,
City of God,
Confetti, Little Miss Sunshine, Etre et Avoir, The Science of Sleep,
Thirteen,
Butterfly's Tongue,
Romeo + Juliet,
Moulin Rouge!
Strictly Ballroom,
Dead Man,
To Kill a Mockingbird,
American Beauty,
Ghost World,
Lost in Translation,
Shaun of the Dead,
Enigma, Sense and Sensibility,
Life of David Gale, Delicatessen,
Nightmare before Christmas,
Being John Malkovich,Jane Eyre,
Iris,
Heavenly Creatures,
the first two Home Alones,
Vera Drake,
Casablanca,
Brief Encounter,
Secrets and Lies,
Fight Club,
Shaun of the Dead,
Gosford Park,Road to Perdition,
The Big Lebowski,
Fargo,
Hook ("PEE-TAH!"),
Howard's End,
The Remains of the Day,
The Shining,
O Brother Where art Thou?
Abigail's Party,A Series of Unfortunate Events,
Jurassic Park,
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources,
Mulholland Drive,
Rebecca. And pretty much anything that Jove lends me is gold.
"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.
Ones about intensely complicated family histories, witty Americans abroad or returning to their home country, unfortunate orphans, record obsessives, British debutantes in the 1920s, rainy Paris streets, and home-schooling in Wolverhampton in the 1990s.
Also, poetry like American verse (it makes me want to write all day on a typewriter with coffee (I don't even drink coffee) and a cynical view on things), or comic poetry by people like John Hegley, OOH or haiku by Matsuo Basho. And William Carlos Williams writes exactly how things should be written. You should read more. I know I should.
Oh, and have you read anything by Jover Field? She's great at nailing the comic in the everyday.
People like Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson because they just wrote about themselves and what they were into and it was genius. Stephen Fry, the man is amazing. My family of course, for bringing me up to appreciate good food and great books and Mike Leigh, and my Gran who was the coolest gal around. And my heroes are also my jolly good pals because they know me super well, and they love board games, which is pretty much all I want from life.