Lets make, knit and sew!
Visiting new places. Visiting old friends. Photography. Making stuff. High Art. Low Culture. Fashion and ting and ting. Music. Moroccan mint tea poured from a great height. Trips down memory lane. The sea. The desert. Cooking and reading recipe books. Card games. Quizzes. Red wine. Slow gin. Fast cars. Funny looking men/ugly men (see below). Smoking (but I know it's bad for me). Music. Sleeping. Learning new things. Design. Laughing until it hurts or I need to piss. Leeds. Talking. Getting addicted to TV programmes. Going to the movies. Getting dressed up and spending ages on 'my face'. Being pampered. Painting. Celebrity gossip. Trains. Getting drunk with friends. Dancing until my feet hurt. Beautiful shoes and handbags. Cheese. Finding a great pair of jeans. Food and flower markets. Eating out. Making dinner parties. Planning trips. Spontanious trips. Making love in hot, faraway places. Banoffee pie. The smell of coconut on hot, summer skin. Doing new things that scare the hell out of me.
Paxo - yum yum
Larry David and Veronica Mars.
Erykah Badu. Nirvana. Eurythmics. The Dixie Chicks. D'Angelo. The Brand New Heavies. Jamiroquai. Roni Size. LTJ Bukem. Radio4. Janis Joplin. The Beatles. The Stones. Cream. Simon and Garfunkel. Masters at Work. Norman Jay. Bassment Jaxx. Bob Marley. Sizzla. Lamb. Morcheba. Portishead. Daft Punk. The Postal Service. Outkast. Common. Blondie. Bananarama. Kylie. The Beastie Boys. Blind Melon. Guns N Roses. Radiohead. Average White Band. Queen. Franz Ferdinand. Hall and Oates. Pulp. Scissor Sisters. Blur. Magic Numbers. The White Stripes. Rufus Wainwright. Michael Jackson (before Dangerous). Spice Girls. Arctic Monkeys. Ryiuchi Sakamoto. Madonna. Gorillaz. Bjork. Ella Fitzgerald. Miles Davis. Nina Simone. Al Green. Marvin Gaye. Frank Sinatra. Buena Vista Social Club. Stevie Wonder. Snoop Dogg. Mos Def. Kirsty MacColl. Massive Attack. Sade. Missy Elliot. Crowded House. Lauren Hill. Amy Winehouse. Lily Allen...Oh my... and much more.
La Haine. Hotel Rwanda. Goonies. Crash. Breakfast At Tiffanys. It's A Wonderful Life. Cinema Paradiso. Life Is Beautiful. The Producers (the original). Belleville Rendez Vous. Spirited Away. Three Colours Trilogy. Before Sunrise. After Sunset. The Graduate. Dumb and Dumber. The Devils. The Garden. The Last Unicorn. Pretty in Pink. When Harry Met Sally. The Breakfast Club. The Blair Witch Project. Leon. Dirty Dancing. Grease. Working Girl. Donny Darko. Bill and Ted. A Nun's Story. Festen. Plein de Soleil. Beetle Juice and anything else by Tim Burton starring Jonny Depp. Vertigo. Pirates of the Carribean. Husbands and Wives. Blade. Lost In Translation. Finding Nemo. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (the original). The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou and all other Coen Brothers Movies. Amelie. Battle Royale. Slackers. The Apartment. Some Like It Hot. Full Metal Jacket. Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Mary Poppins. Citizen Cain. Raising Cain. The Piano. Pieces of April. Munich. Spartacus. Moby Dick. The Ten Commandments. Desperado. Old Boy. Reservoir Dogs.
Veronice Mars. My So-Called Life. This Life. Neighbours. Kath and Kim. The City of Gold. Peepshow. Six Feet Under. Curb Your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld. Lost. Sex And The City. Question Time. Newsnight and University Challenge and anything else starring Paxo. Big Brother. Celebrity Big Brother. Quantum Leap. 'Enders. Friends. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Grand Designs. Location Location. Futurama. The Simpsons. Southpark. MTV in the early 90s. Twin Peeks. Shameless. Sugar Rush. Nip Tuck.
Anything by Isabelle Allende and Laura Esquivel, particularly Like Water For Chocolate. On Photography and anything else by Susan Sontag. Julia Kristeva. Angelina Ballerina. The Twits. Siddhartha. Anything by Claudia Roden, particularly The Book of Jewish Food. Any cookery books for that matter. The Old Testament. All travel books, especially Bagdad Without A Map. Any coffee table books on design, art, fashion, photography, and other such glossy yumminess - Taschen is super. Lolita. Jean de Flourette and Manon des Sources. The Handmaid's Tale. Meg and Mog. The Butterfly in the Diving Bell. The Diary of Anne Frank. Judy Blume rocks. Disobedience.
My boyfriend, my family, and my friends. People with incredibly good hearts and strong minds. And Larry David.