My Granny, Rose, was a poet. That's what she was. She died unpublished. She wrote poems about Belfast... about being a child in Belfast...about the Mills and being a patient wife...a hopeful poem about me even when I was a just a baby. I hung out with her when I was 10 and 11 (her house was next to my school). Every lunch. She read to me. She had a real love for writing and the odd story. She didn't sit there with a book in her hand every day... but I knew she liked it...and I knew I liked her. She had a belief in it.I always try my best. And I try to let go. I believe you can have craft and also childish glee. I believe you can have it both ways. I still believe in the excitment of things.
Stiff Little Fingers on Top of the Pops.
SLF, New Model Army, Swervedriver, Killing Joke, Wings, Sparklehorse, Faith and the Muse, Frank Black, Dead Kennedy's, The Undertones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Adam and the Ants, Blaxsmyth, The Waterboys, The Receptacles, Watercress, Spier Mor, Pat Maguire Band, U.2., Phlegm, Government Issue, I.C., Bad Brains, The Defamed, Madhouse, Strange Boutique, Marginal Man, Elastica, Planxty, Macca B, Electric Light Orchestra, The Pogues, Love and Rockets, Eek-a-Mouse, Bauhaus, Scream, P.I.L., Dwight Yoakam, Mad Mexican music, Roy Orbison, 9353, Thin Lizzy
Once were Warriors, Blazing Saddles, Straw Dogs, Slapshot, The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover, Deer Hunter, 48 hours, Drowning by Numbers, Gregory's Girl, Comfort and Joy, Life is Beautiful, Chopper, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Avalon, My Left Foot, Carry On Nurse, Psycho 2, Deliverence, Raising Arizona, Eversmile New Jersey, The Shining, Breaking Glass, Dog Day Afternoon, Pulp Fiction, Night on Earth, The Dead Zone, Videodrome, It's a Wonderful Life, Wish You Were Here, Riff-Raff, The Commitments, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, Dear Frankie, Audition.
FSC, Daily Show, Conan O'Brien, Young Ones, Father Ted, Ali G, Twin Peaks, Dog the Bounty Hunter CNN. Sarah's friend gave us the first 2 seasons of Lost. We watched it all in a 3 week period. It's very good. Baaaaah.
Pinter, Beckett, Roddy Doyle. The Naked Ape, Belly of the Beast.
Colm McEvoy.