reading: walking in the countryside with my dogs: watching the little birdies : wildlife : sleeping: music: gigs: record collecting: dogs: charity shops; sniggering: eating cheese : rudity : films: inappropriate behaviour: red wine: witches : pointing at people: keeping reptiles and spiders: ruins : naughty girls : history (especially English Civil War, the reformation and Egyptian): surrealism : art; Dali, Magritte, De Chirico, Tanguy, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Trevor Brown, Gilbert and George, outre art such as; Austin Osman Spare and the stuff you can find here http://www.occultartgallery.com, schadenfreude: naughty girls with long dark hair : big things : little things : eating fish ; my futbol teams; liverpool fc, ajax amsterdam, penarol, boca juniors, colo-colo, celtic; private time : sporadic bouts of debauchery : dancing in my head : snuff movies, analingus and Val Doonican. CURRENT MOON lunar phase
I'd like to meet:
No-one. Clear-off, there's nothing to see here. Unless your name is Katie Holmes or Kate Beckinsale. Anyone called Kate or Katie.
Music:
the damned (still going strong: http://www.officialdamned.com/ )whitehouse, coil, consumer electronics, nurse with wound, nick cave and the bad seeds, the sisters of mercy, john cale, alvin lucier, smell and quim, danielle dax,contagious orgasm, leonard cohen, nick drake, current 93, buzzcocks, the stranglers, heaps of old uk punk, goldblade ; arthur lee and love, garage punk like the electric prunes, the litter, the collectors, fire, the seeds, we the people, the open mind, the left banke, ? and the Mysterians, the fuzztones, jordan tarlow, the monks; the kinks ; the bonzo dog band ; gothabilly stuff like ghoultown, the memphis morticians,can, neu!, faust, amon duul ii, cosmic jokers, knifeladder, brighter death now, lustmord, radiosonde, navicon torture technologies, sieben, raison d'etre, nocturnal emissions doddodo, xenakis, ligeti, etc. ; the vincent razorbacks , the cramps , rocket from the crypt, reverend horton heat, mazzy starr, scott walker, wall of voodoo, dead kennedys, nomeansno, d.o.a, the subhumans, alice donut, calabrese, serge gainsbourg, lots of world music, the march violets, james ray, the bolshoi, ministry, revolting cocks, killing joke, ramleh, skullflower, laibach, juno reactor, delerium, dark ambient stuff, skinny puppy, kmfdm, wall of voodoo, stan ridgway.......... beethoven, bruckner, sibelius, brahms, schubert, hummel, bach, hildegard of bingen, the hilliard ensemble, anonymous 4; more classical music than you can wave a baton at.
Movies:
the wicker man, withnail and i, mario bava, jess franco, jean rollin, dario argento (when he used to be good), walerian borowczyk, sergio leone, spaghetti westerns, edward d. wood jr, andy milligan, sixties exploitation, seventies porn, the 'something weird' collection, italian gothic, asian horror, barbara steele, euro-trash, giallos, val lewton, coffin joe, universal horror, hammer horror, world cinema, luis bunuel, werner herzog, john waters, monty python, tarantino, carl dreyer, laurel and hardy, get carter, apocalypse now, irreversible, the image, north by northwest, last year in marienbad, zatoichi, the godfather, if, oh lucky man, goodfellas, the battle of algiers, witchfinder general, spider baby, the curious dr humpp, the evil dead trilogy, the george romero 'living dead' series, the haunting (original b&w one; never fails to scare me), dead of night,
Television:
brass eye, green wing, have i got news for you, the office, extras, q.i, black books, the i.t crowd, i'm alan partridge, saxondale, time trumpet, the day today, jam, father ted, charlie brooker's screen wipe, steptoe and son.... wildlife documentaries, history programmes, restoration, the sopranos, six feet under, bbc news24, live football...
Books:
It's a very intimate experience, reading a book. You're as close as you get to anyone - except in bed. No, closer."
- J. G. Ballardauthors: j k huysmans, joseph conrad, louis ferdinand celine, j g ballard, gabriel garcia marquez, stewart home, will self, iain sinclair, malcolm lowry, flann o'brien, b.s johnson, shakespeare, isabel allende, albert camus, alain robbe-grillet, m.r james, de Sade, louis aragon, andre breton, benjamin peret, kenneth grant, aleister crowley, hunter s thompson, georges bataille, benjamin peret, karl marx, h.p lovecraft...books: Q (Luther Blissett), Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch 22, The Story of O, The Master and Margarita...
Heroes:
beethoven, kenny dalglish, scooby doo, the Kallikak Family...
