playing music (see www.myspace.com/gasgiant), the sea, books, motor vehicles, fireworks, alcohol and CONNECTING. Beltane, Samhuinn and the quarter days that mark the change of seasons and give me an excuse to DRUM!!!! I also enjoy Deep thinking, making a mess, making a noise and making people smile, or breathe that little bit quicker. If you want to see some of my pictures of stuff click here
Old friends, new friends, magicians, musicians and drinkers of fine liquor: roll up if you like, rock, post-rock, electronic tunes, folk, classical, quirky, interesting, random, loud-quiet-loud, soul ripping, heart swelling (you get the picture) music, good old fashioned wordplay, horseplay, play for today, Radio 7, gigs, roast pigs, bonfires, pirates, fire, dark water, big waves, small waves, sound waves, pylons, nylon and other things that only exist on Earth. Sense of adventure mandatory.
arcade fire, gasgiant, godspeed you! black emperor, thee silver mount zion memorial orchestra and tra-la-la band, troubles, do make say think, audrey, final fantasy aka owen pallett, molia falls, the cure, sans trauma, kroke, nick cave, leonard cohen, fairport convention, sixtyfive days of static, north atlantic oscillation, badger drummers, the decemberists, neutral milk hotel, explosions in the sky, sigur ros, mono, andyouwillknowusbythetrailofdead, hope of the states, david bowie, echo and the bunnymen, siouxsie, valley of the giants, suede, ramones, shostakovich, saint saens, prokofiev, beethoven, tchaikovsky and anything else that makes me want to run/cry/die/kiss/ scream or all of those at once.
Tarnation, Kontroll, Run Lola Run, Mary Poppins, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Secretary, Donnie Darko, Requiem For a Dream, Gegen Die Wand, Box of Moonlight, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mulholland Drive, The Princess and The Warrior, Whistle Down the Wind, Logan's Run, Y tu Mama Tambien, Star Wars trilogy, Aimee Und Jaguar, Citizen Kane, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, A Clockwork Orange, If..., O Lucky Man, Britannia Hospital, Billy Liar, Crash, Belle de Jour, The Red Balloon, Spinal Tap, Withnail and I, The Breakfast Club, Fight Club, AI, Microcosmos, Papillon, Anatomy, Fargo, Labyrinth, Halloween, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Magnolia, The Man with the Golden Arm, Leon, and really countless others.
Top Gear, Twin Peaks, old comedy shows like The Good Life, Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies, decent dramas, The Mighty Boosh - generally not a massive TV fan... like old radio stuff, The Goon Show, Round the Horne etc
Chocky (John Wyndham), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), everything by DOUGLAS COUPLAND, Human Croquet (Kate Atkinson), The Pornographer's Poem (Michael Turner), Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut), The Famous Five Series (Enid Blyton), The Machine Gunners (Robert Westall), The Little Prince (Antoine de St Exupery, Exile and the Kingdom (Albert Camus) Diary of a Drug Fiend (Aleister Crowley), The Age of Reason (JP Sartre), The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger, The Apprentices (Leon Garfield, On The Flip Side (Nicholas Fisk), Time Trap (Nicholas Fisk), The Box of Delights (John Masefield) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Alan Sillitoe)And The Ass Saw The Angel (Nick Cave)POEMS AND PLAYS BY RM Rilke, Philip Larkin, John Masefield, William Shakespeare, John Keats, William Blake - oh God this list is hard to finish!
The crews of every manned space flight, everyone who lives their life the way they want to, in a peaceful and fulfilling way and whoever the hell invented the electric guitarART: Gerhardt Richter, Horace Vernet, Rosenquist, Josef Albers, Ed Ruscha, Dalziel and Scullion, Sam Taylor Wood, Arthur "WeeGee" Fellig, Lee Muir, Douglas Coupland, Roy Lichtenstein, James Turrell, The Bauhaus, Rankin, Dali