my friends; vampires; nightmares; freakshows; the ocean; love; theatre as a vehicle to help others understand things that they might find difficult; music; movies; parties; what lies at the end of the rainbow...
sasha, brian jones, will oldham, laura palmer, jimmy page, eddie vedder, robert smith, rev hammer, a real life vampire and the people who live upstairs
Dance music that makes me wanna; at the moment that includes Sasha; Stanton Warriors; Justin Robertson; Kid Kenobi; Lottie; Way Out West; Nick Warren; Laurent Garnier; Marky; Krafty Kuts; Rex the Dog; Rennie Pilgrem; Darren Emerson; Layo & Bushwacka!; Ali B; Steve Lawler.
Bands that ROCK!; Right now that means Led Zeppelin; New Model Army; Tool; Smashing Pumpkins; Zwan; Pearl Jam; Faith No More; Skunk Anansie; Pop Will Eat Itself; Rolling Stones; Foo Fighters; Mother Love Bone; White Zombie; Placebo; Nine Inch Nails; Pink Floyd & let me give a plug here to the mighty Atikus who rock very hard indeed.
People who sing great songs very well; amongst whom are Sandy Denny; June Tabor; Johnny Cash; Maddy Prior; Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (or whatever he wants to call himself, I don't care, he's really good); Joanna Newsom; Joni Mitchell; Justin Sullivan; Simon Friend; Bruce Springsteen; Jack Johnson; Rev Hammer.
Music that interests my ears and doesn't fit the categories above; Lamb; Fingathing (it's all about the superhero music!); Richard Cheese (thank you Jo, my life is now complete); Souvaris; EMF; Levellers; Wonderstuff; J5; Go! Team; The Cure... the list goes on
The Breakfast Club; The Lost Boys; St Elmo's Fire; Weird Science; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Stand By Me; My Own Private Idaho; Tombstone; Big Wednesday; Young Guns 1&2; The Crow; Near Dark; Wayne's World 1&2; Rocky Horror Picture Show; Blade; Batman 1,3&5; Spiderman 1&2; X-Men 1,2&3 (maybe); Endless Summer; Riding Giants; Don't Look Now; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Shining; Pirates of the Caribbean; Sleepy Hollow; Audition; Motorcycle Diaries; Talk To Her; Deuce Bigalow; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Withnail & I; Amores Perros; Footloose; Death To Smoochy; The Wonder Boys; A History of Violence; The Fast & The Furious; Mulholland Drive; Wild At Heart; True Romance; Kill Bill 1&2; Lost Highway; Angels In America; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and so many more. This feels like a pointless exercise.
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Twin Peaks; Mary Whitehouse Experience; Sex And The City; Shameless; Northern Exposure; Cracker; Queer As Folk; Batfink; The Moomins. Have there been any other good TV programmes?
Oh come on! Here are a few gooduns from the last year... John Irving: The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany; Kem Nunn: The Dogs of Winter and Tijuana Straits; Carlos Casteneda: The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality; Edward Bunker: The Animal Factory; Joolz Denby: Billie Morgan; Jim Dodge: Fupp; James Sallis: Drive.