Spontaneity, passionate, sincere and honest people, the word HOBO, writing, cheese - both dairy and sentimental, midnight jaunts to the beach (preferably with both types of cheese), Frangelico, my nutbaw friends, reading words, writing words, building snow thrones, winklepickers, staying up till the wee small hours drinking and talk-talk-talking, cheesy ornamental glass animals, icing cakes, drinking White Russians, drinking Bloody Marys with my Russian, sketching Barry Manilow wearing a negligee (him, not me), froggiesnoozin', dancing like a feckin' eejit, licking salt blocks, putting the world to rights, surrounded by those I love and they're all jolly, pickling things in cider vinegar, ruddy winter cheeks - brrrrrrrrisk!, doughy-toast + baby-tea, swearing in front of children and priests, whittling wood, organic/biomechanical art, snowglobes, intelligent rock, ridiculously unintelligent rock, watching Carry-on films with my brother, mmmmmarzipan, walking under ladders, falling asleep on a warm, willing tummy, comically shaped root vegetables, being surprised by people you thought you knew inside out, the profound nonsense my nieces and nephews come out with...they've got it sussed.
I don't like. . . . .
Pimp My ProfilePeople that tell me I 'think too much', over authority (yes, I do have a massive and often quite aggravating rebellious streak), liars, sycophants and generally people that take themselves far too seriously! salt and vinegar crisps, pedancy, bloody 80's revivals!! animal print clothing - eee boke, dreaming that you've woken up when you quite clearly haven't, cats that relentlessly thrust their arse in your face in a provocative manner, gold jewellery, green peppers, red Aftershock and the truly awful moment when you stand on a plug and you don't know if it's gone all the way through...
David Bellamy - we'd go rooting around under some hedge, hunting for worms or other such amusements or he could just cup my face in his unnaturally large hands. In a fatherly way, mind. Comforted? Rat-her.
Milan Kundera - because he seems to know what's going on...
Gene Wilder - Sweet man. A sweet, sweet man. And he looks like a bit of a deviant.
YOU; if you are the type of person that tends to impulsively follow their whims, appreciates their loved ones, good music, random conversations about unimportant things, random conversations about very important things and has never uttered the words: "Cheer up love, it might never happen".
PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, NIN, Tool, Vitalic, Elvis Costello, Nathan Fake, Martha Wainwright, Devo, The Damned, The Misfits, Nirvana, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave, Daft Punk, Faith No More, Boards of Canada, Eagles of Death Metal, Porno for Pyros, Agoria, GBV, Android Lust, The Juan Maclean, Bloc Party, Aphex Twin, The Beach Boys, Tony Joe White, Metallica, A Perfect Circle, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, The Arcade Fire, Idlewild, The Cars, David Bowie, Soundgarden, Associates, Kyuss, Death in Vegas, Talk Talk, B52s, Smashing Pumpkins, PIL, The Dandy Warhols, Q.O.T.S.A., Asian Dub Foundation, Mazzy Star, Tom Waits, Millimetric, Crass, Fugazi, MBV, Squarepusher, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, UNKLE, DJ Shadow, Black Flag, Arab Strap, Queen Adreena, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Yo La Tengo, ATR, The Pixies, Hot Chip, Bjork, AC/DC, Primal Scream, Death From Above 1979, Luke Slater, Adult., Planetary Assault Systems, White Stripes, The Cure, Underground Resistance, Dave Clarke, Black Strobe, The Smiths, Smashing Pumpkins, The Beta Band, Orbital
The Eternal Sunshine, Life is Beautiful, Lost Highway, Dead Ringers, Scanners, The Fly - well really anything by David Cronenberg, Oldboy, Jules et Jim, SPARTACUS, Dr. Zhivago, Duel, Alien, V for Vendetta....big fan of the scary stuff, the kind of films that get under your skin and stay for days....mwahaHAHAHAHAAA!
Spaced, Red Dwarf, Metalocalypse, The X-Files, Family Guy, Frasier, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Takeshi's Castle, *Most Haunted* (shh), animal documentaries, cookery programmes (sad, but oh so true)
Invisible Monsters, Choke (Chuck Palahniuk) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Innocence, (Milan Kundera) Shooting an Elephant, 1984 (George Orwell), The Picture of Dorian Gray and every one of his plays (Oscar Wilde) On The Road, (Jack Kerouac) Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, (Ernest Hemmingway) Steppenwolf (Herman Hesse) Beat Poetry, Plath, HP Lovecraft, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Pinter.Crazy Irish Plays bout alcoholism, incest and bad luck in general ; )
Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, the Barra.