Reading amazing books, listening to music...all kinds and appreciating what magic goes into creating it! Travelling....meeting new people and hanging with friends, filming my friends dances, writing for Groove Guide, interviewing, organising petitions.....new one on the way!
I already met them
The Cure, Jim Moray, Matt Yearbook, Tones on Tail, Primal Scream, IAMX, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat, The Rapture, The Checks, The Electric Confectionaires, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mesh, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Duran Duran, OMD, Ray LaMontagne, The Killers, Echo & the Bunnymen, M83, Sigur Ros, A-ha, Suede, The Tears, Shart Noveau, Arcadia, My Bloody Valentine, VHS or Beta, The Faint, Gang of Four Placebo, Bloc Party, Morrissey, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Ryan Adams, The Church, Love and Rockets, Tori Amos, The Mint Chicks, The Psychedelic Furs, Sisters of Mercy, The Tutts, Fiona Apple, Kapital, The Batwing Sleeves, Placebo, Beth Orton, The Cribs, Tom Waits, Editors, Pluto, The Octopus Project, Gomez, Scarling, Madonna, Goldfrapp, Grant Lee Phillips, Mansun, Bright Eyes, The Strokes, Manic Street Preachers, AFI, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Love and Rockets, The Veils, Prince, The Sneaker Pimps, Neko Case, The Arcade Fire, The Fall, Julia Darling, Little Bushmen, Richard Swift.
Woody Allen Films - but primarily, 'Husbands and Wifes', 'Zelig', 'Annie Hall', 'Manhattan', 'Sleeper', 'Another Woman', 'Love and Death', 'Hannah and her Sisters'& 'Stardust Memories' David Lynch obviously all of 'Twin Peaks' even the extremely trippy bits like the phone receiver twisting and Joan Chens face appearing in it, 'Mulholland Drive', 'Wild at Heart' 'Blue Velvet' & 'Mulholland Drive' 'Heathers', 'The Breakfast Club', 'Pretty In Pink' (generally all of the classic 80's teen flicks) 'Halloween', 'Donnie Darko', 'Capote', 'Henry and June','Pollock', 'Play Misty For Me', 'Dirty Harry' films, 'The Prince of Central Park' cos it reminds me of being young and playing in a park, 'Say Anything', 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari', 'C.R.A.Z.Y', 'Lovely and Amazing', Jim Jarmusch films, 'Lost in Tranlation'.....if I keep adding their will be a list so long it will kill you with boredom to read it........and thanks to youtube a film i adored as a 12 yr old "Raise the Titanic" Thank god for Southeby!
Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Outrageous Fortune, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Later with Jools Holland, Carnivale, Melrose Place, Flight of the Conchords, Dexter.
John Fante, Chad Taylor, Henry Miller, Simone De Beauvoir, Douglas Coupland, Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jim Crace, John Fowles, Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, Anais Nin, Billy Collins, Iain Banks (but not the sci-fi stuff), Don Delillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Charlaine Harris, David Sedaris, James Frey, Augusten Burroughs....
Wilbur, Weeble, Jo and Laura.