Agitation, Porn Motorcycling and the colour Green..
Music:
..In chronological order and by no means extensive:Mascagni, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Leadbelly, Bukka White, Son House, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Howlin Wolf, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, early Mac, Van Morrison, Who, MC5, Kinks, Hendrix Experience, Love, Byrds, Otis Redding, Doors, Velvet Underground, Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, John Barry, Cream, The Creation, Kaleidoscope, 13th Floor Elevators, The Zodiac, Incredible String Band, Polyphonic Sound, Pink Floyd, White Lightning, Chet Baker, Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Led Zepp, John Fucking Lennon, ELO, Dayayvid Baweee, Big Star, Patti Smith Group, Tom Waits, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Christy Moore, Ennio Moricone, Stooges, Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Magazine, Joy Division, Fall, PIL, Jam, Smiths, Pogues, Cult, New Order, Echo & The Bunnymen, Jacqueline Du Pre, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Public Enemy, NWA, Wedding Present, Inspiral Carpets, House of Love, Stone Roses, The La's, World of Twist, Guns & Roses, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, My Bloody Valentine, Paul Weller, Tindersticks, Bjork, Charlatans, Black Grape, PitchShifter, Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Oasis, Verve, Blur, Jeff Buckley, The Prodigy, Rage Against The Machine, Paco de Lucia, Massive Attack, Portishead, Wu-Tang Clan, Tricky, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub, Gene, Radiohead, Placebo, Spiritualised, Puressence, Gomez, Foo Fighters, Underworld, Silverchair, Coldplay, Ian Brown, Muse, Badly Drawn Boy, White Stripes, Rammstein, Libertines, 65 Days of Static, The Coral, The Hives, Doves, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Nine Black Alps, Cooper Temple Clause, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, My Chemical Romance, Editors, Rhythm Rogues, Raconteurs. Secret Machines. Regression. I love it.
Movies:
Raging Bull, Ciudade de Deus, Fear & Loathing, Se7en, Cinema Paradiso, Unbreakable, Jess Franco, Hammer House of Horror, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Man Bites Dog, Cyrano de Bergerac, A Company of Wolves, Delicatessen, La Retour de Martin Guerre, The Rutles, Magical Mystery Tour, Godfather Trilogy, The Big Lebowski, Millers Crossing, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Hour of the Pig, Memento, L.A. Confidential, Donnie Darko, Un Coeur En Hiver, Hilary & Jackie, Breaking The Waves, The Idiots, Bad Lieutenant, Mean Streets, Fight Club, Leon The Pig Farmer, Requiem For A Dream, The Wall, A Clockwork Orange, Les Nuits Sauvages, all Monty Python, The Killing, On The Waterfront, Reservoir Dogs, African Queen, Fargo, Taxi Driver, The Devil's Rejects, Dr Strangelove, Star Wars I-VI, Chinatown, Strangers On A Train, Last Tango In Paris, Trainspotting, Easy Rider, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Full Metal Jacket, Cool Hand Luke, Le Mans, The Shining, Leolo, Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Monkeys, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, Twin Peaks, Snatch, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Jean de Florette, Les Valseuses, George of the Fucking Jungle, any of my Uncle Jack's fuck fillums apart from the Tom Cruise Hawaiian Muscle Fuck as that's just going too far in my view. Taste the fear and er, Embrace the Horror (if you have a minute).
Books:
William S. Burroughs, Edgar Allen Poe, Homer, Aldous Huxley, Lewis Carroll, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Philip Larkin, T.S. Elliot, W.B. Yeats, Brendan Behan, James Ellroy, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Silvia Plath, Lord Byron, Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Francis Stewart, Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, Henry Miller, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Heller, James Joyce, Fred Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevski, Gogol, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, Emile Zola, Palden Gyatso, Sun Tzu, Saul Landau, Charles Dickens, Gabriel Kolko, Colin Wilson, Rabelais, Simon Schama, John Rechy, Andrei Kurkov, Brett Easton Ellis, James M. Cain, Christy Brown, Karl Marx, John Fante, Charles Baudelaire, William Blume, Victor Hugo, Richard Farina, Cyril Collard, Alexandre Dumas, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Knut Hamsen, George Orwell, Milan Kundera, William Blake, Kurt Vonnegut. Any Atlas or crusty reference book is the only proven method of shutting me up.
