ART... Kate moross, Antoine corbineau, Ye rin mok, Ben rayner, Erin barry, Anna glertz, John Bratby and 'kitchen realism'. The pop manifesto zine (www.thepopmanifesto.com) and www.tapedcopies.com ...... Making clothes to wear- pinning food wrappers and stationary on to dresses to 'accesorise'. 'I am electro girl...I am electro boy'...BIBA, MARY QUANT and twiggy... Vegetarians... Writing... being in LOVE... Knitting...Sewing...Making stencils and glove puppets...Putting a dress on and going out... Afghan hounds (who sometimes resemble Audrey hepburn), Owls, Chinchillas, sloths... The nineties- Big disco platforms with too tight dresses that were worn at the village disco... CHARITY SHOPS... FANCY DRESS SHOPS... Taking photos with an SLR. (sweet little rage). Photography- The work of Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Man Ray... Playing guitar and going 'wooraaah ah ha' in a band...Making up chords . Writing lyrics... 1960s beehive hair and new tack nailvarnish colour combos i.e. orange with blue glitter... Diane from Trainspotting... Plastic glass ashtrays and old souvenir mugs...Sunglasses and Glasses... Finding vintage clothes shops in isolated towns (lovely and under priced would be nice)... Cutting my hair every day... Going to the library...CREATING KITSCH DISPLAYS... Finding trinkets on the street i.e. plastic toy cars, plastic guitars, fake flowers and old letters... People who understand the need to be ironic... My huge 80's cd player from a car boot sale, My blue sony tape walkman from when i was 7... Making stencils to print on to dresses and learning how to screen print... Tea in reflections,no need for a cigarette though...just inhale... Hangover tea in asda... The 'bowl' hair cut phenomenon... The pop boutique... The elephant trunk dance late at night... Long in depth discussions about beaks (such as the one that took place last summer around the camp fire... My falling over clothes rack... Wigs... Dancing... Fake eyelashes to be kept on throughout hangover day... Hula girls and hawaii... Amsterdam... Skeleton suits... Debbie harry phases... Making scrap books and drawing in sketchbooks... Jewelery boxes to store old treasures... Pound shop finds (i.e miniature tea set)... Having a fringe... Ladybirds ... Living on a house boat... Living the dream,being young, Neil young... The 1980s- 'made in the 80s', electro boy/electro girl, synthesizer, keyboard, fluro... The 1970s... Bleach for the hair, bleach for the heart... PAINTING tshirts... Spray painting Tshirts...Typewriter.
Cody Critchloe and courtney love in one room.Jarvis cocker.NAN goldin...CORINNE day...
x PULP x Love is all... CSS... NEIL YOUNG... The knife... Hole and courtney... LOVE and arthur lee... Buddy holly... Bratmobile... katastrophy wife/babes in toyland... Jarvis cocker...(oh jarvis heart)... Bikini kill... SSION... Joy division... lydia lunch... The kinks... Velvet underground (ooh lou)... The slits... X-ray spex... Pixies... Nirvana... Sonic youth... YEAH YEAH YEAHs... L7... THE DANDY WARHOLS... Led zeppelin... THE SMITHS... The sparks... Roxy music... Siouxsie and the banshees... The clash... Sexy pistols... Black flag (henry rollins says 'whats this? fucking freebird?!')... The cramps... Canned heat... Romeo void... Polly jean h... Le tigre... Sandie shaw... Heaven 17... Radiohead... Dusty springfield... Mark lanegen ... David bowie ... The dresden dolls (plus amandas eyebrows)...lunachicks... meat puppets... De la soul...The Long Blondes....New york dolls... The doors... The adverts... BLONDIE... Weezer... The buzzcocks... T rex ... Heavens to betsy... Patti smith... Xtc... Squeeze... Peaches... Echo and the bunnymen... Wreckless eric... Polyphonic spree... Goldfrapp... Nick drake... John martyn... Elliot smith... The jam... Abc... Adam and the ants... Be your own pet... Belle and sebastian... Modest mouse... Jeff and Tim buckley...Cream and more. i really HATE the killers, keane and all the rest...its music for non-music people.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, Ghostworld, Clockwork orange, Almost famous, BETTY BLUE, Princess mononoke, Memento, Oldboy, American splendour, Thelma and louise, Me without you, Trainspotting, Erasurehead, Dig (dandy warhols documentary), The virgin suicides, Memoirs of a geisha, Quentin tarantino productions..Pulp Fiction, Sin city...and hellraiser (all),spinal tap...plus more
PEEP SHOW...THE CULTURE SHOW...DOCUMENTARIES (particularly nature)
-on the road by jack kerouc........ -courtneys love biography........ -veronica decides to die by paolo coelho........ -patti smith biography........ -the whispering smith by becky gilbey.she loves her novel!........ -vivienne westwood biography........ -japanese 'fruits' book/magazine........ plus ID,wonderland and POP for a bit of excitement within this cultural wasteland i live.
-COURTNEY LOVE........ -CLARISSA........ -michael flatley lord of the dance......... -karen o (for mingling music art and fashion)........ -morrisey (particularly for popularising vegetarianism in the 80s)........ -jarvis cocker -what a star(in love)........ -siouxsie sioux........ -francis farmer........ -cindy sherman........ -richard and judy (alcoholic and tourettes)........