The Moon and the Stars
Hand grenades of love
Elaborate nun-revenge fantasies
Having staring competitions with Sammi
Chopping wood
Mythology and storytelling
Radical drag
Drawing comics and writing things
The lives of the Saints
Boo hiss to pointless consumerism and brand worship(click)
Monkeys, owls, bees and generally creatures
Alchemists, shamen and witches, oh my!
Trying to do that "peuuung peuuunng-peeunng" electronic disco sound effect with my voice
Competitive speed hoovering
Really great old records
Really great old record covers
Picking at sticky out bits of wallpaper (wood chip...mmmm)It is good practice for dismantling the state bit by tiny bit. No, really.
Comix
Talking woo with people who get the woo
Writing musicals in my head
Senseless acts of beauty
Art - DaDism, Folk Art, Symbolism, Absurdism, visionary art, bizarre and random craft stuff
Sniffing new books and things in stationery shops
Avocados
I'd like to meet:
Disco pirates of love and wonder
Queer Zinesters
Anyone who can provide me with a seaworthy ship, a talking monkey and a crew who are prepared to perform Esther Williams aqua-routines for my pleasure at short notice
People making interesting things
Doris Day
Flouncy go-go dancing witches
People who feel giddy when they see this...
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Music:
Yes sir, they can boogie......but also 60's girl garage, anything with brilliantly unnecessary drama/orchestration/trumpets/timpani, The Gossip, The Shangri Las, Dolly Parton, The Smiths, Dusty Springfield, Antony & the Johnsons, Malvina Reynolds,Nina Simone, Electrelane, live onstage lady punk, Pixies, Jonathan Richman, Pulp, Neko Case, Ivor Cutler, Sly and the Family Stone, Patti Smith, Momus, Millimetre, Rae Spoon, Aretha Franklin, Lee Hazelwood, Buffy Saint Marie, Sparks, Peggy Lee, Bonnie Prince Billy, LCD Soundsystem, Lydia Lunch, Lianne Hall, Tindersticks, Donna Summer, Bikini Kill, Icelandic Pop, French pop, The Slits, Cat Power, Klaus Nomi, The Breeders, Nancy Sinatra, Iron & Wine, Moldy Peaches, Lesbo Pig, Petula Clark, Stevie Wonder, Stereolab, Laurie Anderson, Eartha Kitt, Handsome Family, Carmen Miranda, Leonard Cohen, ELO, Sonic Youth, Jayne County, Carl Orff, Le Tigre, Dory Previn, Lesley Gore, Otis Redding, The Flaming Lips, Soft Cell/Marc Almond, Melanie Safka, Curtis Mayfield, The Carpenters, Wanda Jackson, Marine Girls, Serge Gainsbourg, Geoff Berner, Francoise Hardy, Bowie, Nick Cave, ESG, Loretta Lynn, Rachmaninov, right proper disco like, Jewish and Russian folk music. Tiny Tim is lovely.
I love mix tapes. Make me one and I am your friend forever.
Mix CDs will do to :)
Movies:
Harold and Maude, Waiting for Guffman, Brief Encounter,Hairspray, made for TV movies staring Meredith Baxter, Volver, Screaming Masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, Clash of the Titans , A Mighty Wind, Henry Fool, The Killing of Sister George, Ed Wood, disaster movies staring Shelly Winters, The Muppet Movie, Female Trouble, Pillow Talk, Naked, Spirited Away, Star Wars, Secretary, Fargo, Showgirls, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, Whistle Down the Wind, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Bellville Rendezvous, Dancer in the Dark, Annie Hall, The Wizard of Oz, Fightclub, My Neighbour Totoro, Happiness, Clerks, Capote, Bring it On, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Pecker, West Side Story, Magnolia, Junebug, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Calamity Jane, pretty much anything by John Waters /Pedro Almodovar/Woody Allen/ Lars von Trier/ PT Anderson/ Mike Leigh/ Busby Berkeley
Television:
I watched some TV the other day and in the space of 10 minutes I was told my thighs are too big, my house is too shabby, I need shinier hair and I'm using the wrong brand of toothpaste to ever have interesting friends. So I'm thinking why pay for a TV licence when I could just call my mother?
Books:
Bedtime Reading of the Now:
ALSO and forever: Immediatism - Hakim Bey, The Power of Myth- Joseph Campbell, Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman, Macho Sluts - Pat Califa, Aesops' Fables, Heaven and Hell- Aldous Huxley, Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut, V for Vendetta - Alan Moore, The Collected Dorothy Parker, Hans Christian Anderson Stories, The Art of Looking Sideways, The Colour Purple - Alice Walker, The Fall- Albert Camus, Oh the Places You'll Go! - Dr. Seuss, everything by James Kochalka, Sweaterweather - Sara Varon, Howl - Allen Ginsberg, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, Beloved - Toni Morrison, lots and lots and lots of zines and some of those "...for Beginners" books so I can pretend to know stuff. Except I got Chomsky for Beginners and would like someone to now write Chomsky for Beginners for Beginners. Academic headspins are nobody's friend.
Heroes:
Zine writers, radical queers, activists, DIY event organisers, lo-fi artists, imaginative and witty shit stirrers - I love you.
Marius in Cork
Rosie in Bristol
Siobhan in Dublin
Tyler in Portland
Larry Bob in San Fransisco
David Hoyle (the Artist Formerly Known As Divine David) in Manchester
Women who aren't afraid to call themselves feminists (you can give me your post-feminist bullshit when you're earning the same as men and don't have presumptions, sexual or otherwise, made about you because of your gender)
Anyone who's ever punched Bono
