Life, crap football, Rock n Roll, Seaside towns, charity shops, Derelict buildings,Out of print books, pubs,Old lushes & queens, London Underground, people who aren't fakes...anyone who's 'having it', & anyone who's not...Anyone who still hopes/dreams of an alternative life to the rigmarole of Norwich union/ Plastics factory/ Starbucks..
Anyone who's 4 REAL,and absolutely NO ONE from Beccles..
Lads & ladies in tight slacks,proper punks (that means people who use it's spirit to break out & do their OWN thing),androgynous young & not so young things, paunced pop groups no longer popular,ANYONE who wears Leopard print and/or Polka Dot with/without white denim, Noisecore mentalists,Ladbroke Grove Dub lovers, People who still are living the Glam Punk/Gumby Metal/Happy Hardcore/Northern Soul/Rockabilly dream in the face of sneering oh-so-knowing home counties irony merchants...anything with half a brain or some nous, get my drift? Nothing that pretends to be something its not, no one the NME (enemy) tells me to like,no one whose ideology is used as the go point for a small town beat down & certainly NOT Oasis as they're fuggen sh*ite..and y'know it!
Too many really, but a few that spring to mind : Vanishing Point, Rudeboy, Decline of Western Civilization parts 1 & 2, Billy Liar, Dead Man's Shoes, Taxi Driver, Heat, La Haine, Easy Rider, Gumshoe, The Medusa Touch, This Sporting Life, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, Fandango, Apocalypse,That'll Be The Day, Don't Look Now, Full Time Work, Scarecrow, This Boy's Life, Kes, Poor Cow, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!, The Warriors (come out to pla-aay), Get Carter (the Original one), Yield to the Night, Bottle Rocket, & about a hundred others, not including Black Moon Rising which isn't very good at all...
Don't own a set at the moment, and lets be honest, its 99% crap. All I can say is I like anything that isnt spoonfed from THE MAN. As a distinguished alumni of the welfare state (four terms in office) I've already wasted far too much of my life watching soul corroding guff...
Orton, Sillitoe, Waterhouse, Selby, Exley,some Bukowski, Orwell, Larkin (not Pop),Cohn, Storey, Hamilton,Easton Ellis, Miller,Kirkwood ,H.S. Thompson, Kerouac, Osborne, Kennedy Toole, far too many auto/biographies...
Have been let down too many times, & dont go in for hero worship- but respect to: Joe Strummer, George Orwell, Brian Clough, Vincent Van Gough & Richey James for starters..