writing, reading, poker, magick, music, travel, films, friends, parties, the 'occasional' mash up
nice people / friendly extraterrestrials / people with too much money for their own good who'd like to lose some of it to me in a game of poker / our world leaders to give them either a piece of my mind or a punch on the nose
currently into Bromheads Jacket, The Crimea, Hard Fi, Babyshambles, Libertines, Maximo Park, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, White Stripes, The Zutons. Favourite songs: Sunday Morning by The Velvet Underground, Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones, I Am A Madman by Lee Perry. Into tekno, drum and bass and that if at a good party on good enhancers. Still dig the global choonz of Whirl-Y-Gig (Transglobal Underground, Joi, Astralasia, etc) - the first music that I got to hear 'enhanced'.
my top 23 at present time in no particular order read as follows: Nuts In May, Taxi Driver, I Heart Huckabees, Tape, Waking Life (best watched on acid), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Outsiders, Rumblefish, Easy Rider, Bad Taste, Breakfast Of Champions, Stranger Than Paradise, Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai, Simple Men, The Book Of Life, La Haine, The King Of Comedy, Jacob's Ladder, Enduring Love, An American Werewolf In London, Buffalo 66, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Barfly
Spaced, Shameless, Peep Show, The Office (UK original and the USA version pretty funny too), Lost, Boys From The Black Stuff, Twin Peaks, V, Nathan Barley, Brass Eye, The Day Today, The Incredible Hulk, Six Feet Under, 24, The Sopranos, World Series of Poker, The Simpsons, The Young Ones, Ali G, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Invaders, Bod
A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Poker Without Cards by Ben Mack, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, On The Road and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, The Yes Man by Danny Wallace, The Outsiders and Rumblefish by S E Hinton, The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, Breakfast Of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, A New Life by Bernard Malamud, The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Monster On The Bus
Bill Hicks