playing guitar, listening to music, playing gigs, going to gigs, meeting nice people
I'd like to meet:
People who appreciate the finer things in life; music, guitars, me, booze... Erm, people with good taste in music... you?
Music:
A DAY AT THE RACES
My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr., Mogwai, Mclusky, The Smiths, Placebo, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, New Order, Suede, The Hives, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 30 Seconds To Mars, Pavement, Silversun Pickups, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Maccabees, The Libertines, Klaxons, The Kinks, The Flaming Lips, The Fratellis, Team Sleep, Deftones, The Avalanches, Taking Back Sunday, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, The Pixies, Nirvana, Bush, Reuben, Rise Against, My Chemical Romance, The Jam, David Bowie, T-Rex, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Dirty Pretty Things, Wes Montgomery, Prince, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, The Cure, OMD, Gary Numan, We Are Scientists, The Xcerts, Toots and the Maytalls, The Specials, Dub From Atlantis, LoveTeam, Kotki Dwa, The Strokes, Supergrass, The Stone Roses, The Datsuns, Sparks, Soulfly, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Black Light Burns, Refused, Queens of The Stone Age, Pulp, Portishead, Paramore, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Messhugah, OK go, Oasis, Mastodon, Link Wray, Korn, Kasabian, Jose Gonsalez, Wolfmother, Aphex Twin, Velvet Acid Christ, Funkadelic, Beastie Boys, Biffy Clyro, Foo Fighters, Ben Kweller, Blur, CSS, Faith No More, Fightstar, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Underworld, Friendly Fires, Reuben, Tomahawk, Pendulum, Silverchair, Talking Heads, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye
Movies:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - because johhny depp manages to look hot even when he's baldKill Bill volume 1 and 2 - cos they're fantastically directedFight Club - cos it's just aceLost in Translation - so melancholy.. soundtrack by Kevin Shields, what's not to love about that?Anchorman - Insanely funny and infinitely quotableNapolean Dynamite - Because it's a great film.. and he sure can dance.. and because Uncle Rico looks like Dave Grohl as the pilot in the Learn to Fly videoBack to the Future - it's just a classicTron - So eighties.. I love it.. the only film that you can rave to if you watched it with the lights out and drum and bass music playingTerminator 2 - just a great film.. arnie is so fantastically shitThe Big Lebowski - The second film in this rather brief list to feature a cameo from Flea, who, incidentally can't act for shit. Great and random movie.24 Hour Party People - Mad.For.ItEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - A 2 hour journey through somebody's mind as it's wiped of a past girlfriend. brilliantTrainspotting - Choose lifeClockwork Orange - Ultraviolence.. fantasticThe Shining - Stanley Kubrick IS overrated but the shining is rather prettyAnything by Baz Luhrman.. it's not gay, shut up!Spirited Away - Fucking awexome!Porco Rosso - Another great Studio Ghibli movie
Television:
Brass Eye, The Day Today, Nathan Barley, the IT crowd, Black Books, The Mighty Boosh, Green Wing, Family Guy, Futurama, the Daily Show, Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You, Neighbours, Spongebob Squarepants, Top Gear, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Billy and Mandy, That 70's Show, M*A*S*H, Some Mother Do 'Ave 'Em, Mork and Mindy, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Scrubs, Friends, Two and a Half Men, QI, Babar, The Moomins, Brum, Pingu.. i'm not ashamed to admit i like children's TV..
Books:
Fight Club by Chuck PallahnuikFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Heroes:
Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Kevin Shields, Prince, Matt Bellamy, J Mascis, Andy Falcous, Robert Smith, Johnny Marr, John Squire, Mick Ronson, Steph Carpenter, Nikolaus Arson, Russell Lissack, Frank Black, Nick Drake, Trent Reznor, Wayne CoyneNon-musically, my heroes are Chris Morris, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Robert Newman, anyone who's trying to seek out the truth from the lies and bring them to the attention of the mainstream media
