Comedy, both performing and just spectating, restaurants (everything from Hard Rock Cafe to Pizza Express), time with friends...lots. I love writing, be it poetry, short stories, developing my novel as part of my MA course or comedy. I love words. I also love cats, especially really vocal ones, and Dachsund dogs, but can't have one where i'm living at the moment. I'm really into researching things for my course - aside from my novel and RE:Verberate, I'm looking into podcasting and Hentai for my course aswell. I want to do a PhD over the next few years, depending on funding and make more music. I still write lyrics, but feel like I need to get my bum in gear and really collaborate on some stuff with musicians.
Martin Amis, Jack Nicholson, Dita Von Teese, Joe Ezsterhas, Tony Wilson and Amy Winehouse....weird mix isn't it?! I'd like to meet comedians, writers and people who have something to say.:-)
Rock stuff mostly, with some indie. I tend to like certain songs rather than worshipping a band completely - like 'laid' by James, 'There She Goes' by The La's, 'Unfinished Sympathy' by Massive Attack and 'Mr Brightside' by The Killers. I like Velvet Revolver, Jane's Addiction, New Order, Iron Maiden, INME, Guns n Roses, Fleetwood Mac (get in!!), Nelly Furtardo, Kate Bush, BOWIE!, The Kooks, MuteMath, THE GOSSIP, Plain White Tee's, Daughtry, Nerina Pallot, Enya, KT Tunstall, Sheryl Crow. I love My Vitriol's first album, but no one's heard of them! :-) Amy Winehouse is brilliant and I'm going to see her in concert in november!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, V for Vendetta, Ghostbusters, Donnie Darko, Goodfellas, Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street series, Shaun of the Dead, Drop Dead Fred, Good Night and Good Luck, Kate and Leopold, the Wedding Date, Trainspotting, Nikita, Aeon Flux, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Dead Babies, Fright Night, Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, Secretary, Lock Stock, Snatch, Twenty Four Hour Party People, Nine Songs, Irreversible, Etre et Evoir, Subway, Betty Blue, Ring, The Ring (but not The Ring 2 remake!), Rome and Juliet, Don't Look Now, The Entity, Breakfast on Pluto, The Departed, The Last King of Scotland, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dangerous Liasons, Hard Candy, Perfume, Little Children, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Broken Glass, Sid and Nancy, The Terminator...i could go on for ages!
Barely watch telly these days! When I do I tend to watch Desperate Housewives and sitcoms. I like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spaced, The Smoking Room, Lead Balloon, The Comedy Store, Jam, Peep Show, family Guy, American Dad, Beavis and Butthead, Nip/Tuck, Big Train and Black Books.
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, anything by Sartre, Nabokov and Borroughs. i love A Clockwork Orange. I'm a big fan of graphic novels and love the work of Craig Thompson, Roman Dirge (even though I used to hate it), Jhonen Vasquez and Jeffrey Brown. Check them out, especially Craig Thompson. Everyone should read Martin Amis - either The Rachel Papers or Dead Babies - brilliant, and have a look at a Chuck Palahnuik novel.
Dylan Moran, Jo Caulfield, The Two Ronnies, Dave Allen, The cast of The Comic Strip Presents.....comics, really. Some musicians - I love Nick Drake's sorrow but there's something beautifully optimistic about his music aswell. I'm a big Prince fan - a funky little dude who can talk about everything from diseases and death to sex and money - a legend. Hue Hefner is a god - he's managed to make an empire out of boobs - brilliant. Arthur Rimbaud and Martin Amis's work is brilliant.