Lolly gagging, polly woodling, the shimmy, the shake, doing the monkeyand the mashed potato. Searching for jewels in the trash. always keeping a diamond in your mind.
A tune you can whistle. Proper songs. Merry melodies. The sound of a stilleto on a guitar string. Flash bang wallop. Glam (a state of mind not just a time). The Stooges -dark and dirty blues. Baby needs new shoes. Tom Waits. accidents never happen in a perfect world. Blondie. Elvis in his prime. Nick Cave &The Bad Seeds. Murder ballads. Johnny Cash and the other men in black. The Shangri-la's. The Replacements in bars. Betty davis and nasty girls. Hot buttered Soul and uncut funk. Bacharach & David, Leiber & Stoller, Nancy & Lee. Morricone, Barry, Bernstein and Hermann. Les Baxter & Esquivel. Sixties garage and twisted soul- Aice Cooper the dagger in the heart of the love generation. Jane Birkin. Serge Gainsbourg. Louis Jordan.Elvis in decline. Ol Blue Eyes.
Sweet Smell of Success. My Favourite Year, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Nic Roeg , Performance , Bad Timing, Man who Fell To Earth, Walkabout. Santa Sangre, Requiem for A Dream, Barbarella, Faster Pussycat , Kill Kill Kill ! Ghost World, Royal Tannenbaums, Mean Streets, Edward G Robinson, Noir, Robert Mitchum, Night Of The Hunter, Baby Doll, Lee Marvin To Have & Have Not, Lost In Translation, Sam Fuller. Shock Corridor. The Bad & The Beautiful. Masque of the Red Death. Psyche-out. Danger Diabolik. Laurel & Hardy. Jimmy Stewart. Harvey, Mr Smith Goes To Washington etc Jim Jarmusch. Cronenberg. Videodrome. Heavy. Femme Fatales , Chumps ans suckers. Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard. A Touch Of Evil. Dietrich. Bacall. Lana turner. Gloria Graham.
Brasseye , Original Mod Squad and other 70's cop shows, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Phil Silvers Show. Steptoe & Son, Hancock, Rising Damp, Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin, Dennis Potter, Singing Detective. The Day Today. Popular.
Chuck Palahniuck, Denis Johnson, Jonathen Lethem, Joseph Conrad, The Hernandez Brothers, Charles Bukowski ( I can't help it he got fashionable) John Fante. John Kennedy Toole-Confederacy of Dunces. Nick Kent -The Dark Stuff. Victor Bockris and every book on the Stones written before the 90's -too many rock and film biogs. Although Barney Hoskyns, Please Kill Me, Edie, Fargo Rock City , Up & Down With the Rolling Stones are good. Amazing adventures Of Kavalier and Clay