music, dancing, dressing up, telling bad jokes, art, books, shiny magazines and jewellary, mismatched clothing, decoration (home and cake), homemade cocktails, class tourism, real log fires, climbing trees, water fights, autumn mornings, summer evenings, sleep.
People with too many ideas and not enough time...
This list has got way too long... The Technique Crew... Anything released on the I Can Count Music label, lots of country music that i can slap my thigh to and shout wooooop! Laurent Garnier, Mr Richie Hawtin, Will Saul, Andy Wetherall, The Cleaners, DJ Assault, Stevie Wonder, The Who, The Cure, Blondie, Bowie, Beck, Blur, Bjork, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Billy Childish, Be Your Own Pet, The Flaming Lips, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bob Dylan, Suede, Velvet Underground, Stone Roses, New Order, Joy Division, The Clash, The Specials, The Smiths, The Charlatans, The Silver Jews, Har Mar, The Noisettes, The Knife, The Shins, Devo, Sigur Ros, Simple Kid, Dungen, Deerhoof, Gang of Four, Turin Brakes, Ralfe Band, Thom Yorke, Tom Vek, Bat For Lashes, Tilly & The Wall, Broken Social Scene, Broken Family Band, Belle & Sebastian, Brightblack Morning Light, St Etienne, Elliott Smith, Cat Power, Burt Jansch, King Creosote, Kawaii, The Wainwright family et al, Hal, Jim Noir, Joanna Newsom, David Sugar...oh, and lots of 60's soul, RnB and Motown blah blah blah... essentially I'm a musical slut, though quite a discerning one...
LA Story, The Linguini Incident, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spirited Away, The Goonies, The Hudsucker Proxy, Lethal Weapon (all of them), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Heathers and generally all 80's Teen Movies, Annie and Annie Hall, Rear Window, Breakfast at Tiffanys, City of God, Pump up the Volume, Ghost World, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Dig!, Candyman, Cape Fear and any film with Zombies in it...
Black Books, Peepshow, Nathan Barley, Kath n Kim, The Loveboat, Columbo, West Wing, Murder She Wrote and Quincy, Newsnight when i am feeling as though i don't know enough about the world and Channel 4 news if I'm home in time... Oh, and The OC but only on Sundays if I'm able to focus that early in the day and am being too lazy to go out and do something...
I literally will read anything and frequently do. I always have a book in my bag. Favourite ones found in there include... Under The Net, The Magus, The Corrections, The Accidental, Super Cannes, A Confederacy of Dunces, Surrender The Pink, Ham On Rye, Air by Geoff Ryman and anything by Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Stephen Fry, Tom Wolfe, Raymond Carver, Ian Rankin and Douglas Coupland. Also, for some reason the Reader's Digest fascinates me though I've never managed to read everything in one (probably because i only get to steal glimpses of them in waiting rooms)... and finally, the New Yorker Magazine is great.
Whoever invented hammocks. I love a good hammock.