lots of em!...shame you can only list em in a 1-dimensional way though isnt it? my interests change from day to day but things i keep coming back to are.... my friends,family,motorbikes (and scooters tho i dont own one....yet!),cricket,motorcycle racing/trials,riding mountainbikes (XC/freeride/trials/street),scouring charity/vintage shops for cool clothes,good food/wine/ales/single malt whiskey's,"progressive" left-wing politics,woodland ecology,dancing... that'll do for now!
movers,makers,shimmy-shakers...
all sorts MAINLY-60's SOUL,Hammond-drenched R'n'B,SKA,BOOGALOO and freaky,fuzzy GARAGE! (and bands influenced by the 60's)so artists such as Martha Reeves,Gloria Jones,Georgie Fame,Chris Farlowe,Wilson Picket,Bobby "blue" Bland,The Creation,The Moving Sidewalks, ? and the Mysterians,13th Floor Elevators,Alton Ellis,The (MIGHTY MIGHTY!) Skatalites,Marvelletes,Mary Love,Don Gardner,Small Faces,Kinks,The Birds,Linda Jones,Rose Batiste,The Seeds,Sir Toots Hibberd and his Maytals,the ORIGINAL UPSETTER Lee (scratch) Perry....i could go on...but not exclusively:too discount other genres/decades would be short-sighted right?... So also 70's punk/new-wave-The Ruts/Jam/Buzzcocks/Clash/Wire/SpyzenergiReggae/a little dub-Linton Kwesi Johnnson/Macca B/On-u-Sound System/Dub Syndicate/Dub Scientist/U-RoyBig beat/techno?-Meat Beat Manifesto/Dub Pistols/Propellorheads/Consolidatedcurrent indie-shit-Maximo Park/Futureheads/Arcade Fireso lots of stuff really (cant stand country and western tho!)todays fave has got to be Candie Payne...yesterdays was Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings...BUT DEFINITELY NOT EMO! ;)
not a huge film fan but ones i like include 2001,Twelve Monkeys,Italian job,Wicker Man,City of God, Sarauna Warrior Queen (bound to have spelt that wrong),Cite de l'Enfants Perdu,Blow Up,A Scanner Darkly,ALL Python /Gilliam films!
SUCKS....(nuff said)
i dont read as much as i should/used too.....theres allways music to play around with,right?...but..... Ian M Banks....awesome Scottish sci-fi/fucked up fiction writer/Jean M Auel/Heinlein/Philip K Dick/Orwell/Huxley/Margeret Atwood/nonfiction..politics/ecology...really should read more
John Surtees,Carl Fogarty,The Tolpuddle Martyrs,Phil Tuffnell,Billy Bragg,The Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King,all brave enough to oppose Fascism