Music, art, good friends and fine wine......
special and unique people - you know who you are
Echo, Bugge Wesseltoft, The Faint, The Presets, Angus & Julia, Prodigy, anything from the Trojan catalogue, Boom Boom Satellites, Detroit grand Pubahs, FSOL, Killing Joke, Goldfrapp, David Bowie, The Ramones, E.S.T., BMD, KLF, Michael Nyman, Klaxons, The Ruts, Kraftwerk, The Creatures, NIN, Tipper, Bob Marley, Freq Nasty, Mos Def, Hardknox, Depeche Mode, Tool, Lamb, The Balanescu Quartet, Vandalism, TV on Radio, Tom Vek, PIL, MC5, Peaches, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ludovico Einaudi, Masive Attack, Cut Copy, Andrew Weatherall, Roxy Music, Heaven 17, Iggy Pop, Craig Armstrong, The Melvins, Telefon Tel Aviv, The White Stripes, Beck + numerous more.....
Anything by David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Jane Campion, Peter Greenaway, Chan-Wook Park, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorcese, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenneth Anger, Alan Parker. Favourite has to be "Phamton of the Paradise". Props to Chris Cunningham, Hammer & Tongs and Jonas Ackerlund too...
Bring back the Oblongs
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks), Slaugherhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut), Geek Love (Katherine Dunn), Running With Scissors (Augusten Burroughs), American Psycho (Brett Easton Ellis), An Unquiet Mind (Kay Redfield Jamison), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), You'll never Eat Lunch In This Town Again (Julia Phillips), and many many more...
Diane Arbus, Bill Viola, Christian Boltanski, Lee Groves, Anselm Keifer, Eikoh Hosoe, Quentin Crisp, Nancy Burson, Francis Bacon, Joel Peter Witkin, Kathy Acker, Peter Beard, Jim Henson......