drawing, design, art, food & drink, music, new or vintage clothes, motorcycles. travel, food, junk shops, fleamarkets, Ebay, obsessing about tiny details, in a corner of England that is forever Southern Caledonia.
Edward Burra, Howling Wolf, Bo Diddley, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Niki de St. Phalle, W.C. Fields, Hank Williams, Mikhail Bulgakov, Tom Waits, the Red Baron, Charles Perrault, Stanley Mackie, Omobono Tenni, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Laurie Anderson.
Dave's show on WFMU is good. 60s R&B, soul, ska, dub, roots country, rockabilly, instro, folk, punk, electronica, cynical manufactured pap, etc.
Delicatessen, Nosferatu, Two Lane Blacktop, Whisky Galore, the Bicycle Thieves, Breaking Away, Kiss Me Deadly, Mean Streets, Down by Law, the Loveless, Small Faces.
The best thing I ever saw on TV was "The Madness Museum" - a tour around a Victorian asylum revealing genuine and terrifying treatments starring Ken Campbell. "Meantime" Mike Leigh play starring Tim Roth, Gary Oldman & Phil Daniels. Also Rocky and Bullwinkle series 1 and of course anything with Fred Dibnah knocking down chimneys.
Illustration by Richard Scarry, Sendak - Wild Things, Jim Flora, Molesworth books by Ronald Searle and G. Willans, anything printed by Le Dernier Cri, Yves Chaland, Edward Gorey, Gary Panter, Ogri, KAz, jonny hannah, Lorna Miller, Marc Baines.Graphic design / art such as "Readymades" "Raw" "Blab" "D&Q" "Typographica" "Moto Guzzi Workshop Manual"Most recent novel, "Small Island" Andrea Levy, Short stories "close range" annie proulx, Poetry "Into the Blue wavelengths" Roderick Watson.