Faffing. Laughter. Breaking things. Cardigans. Mayhem. Watering cans. Documentary and ethnographic film. Typewriters. Wheelbarrows. Microscopes. Reification. Old books. New books. Old suitcases. Musty things in general. Fairy tales. Hand waving. Tat. Dictionaries. Manuscripts. Cake.
Anyone who inspires me. Like Bren, who inspired me to steal his "Who I'd like to meet" comment. Awe-inspiring would also be good. Capes can be quite effective in this regard.
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Au Revoir Simone, Belle and Sebastian, Björk, Blonde Redhead, Bikini Kill, Jane Birkin, David Bowie, Georges Brassens, Carla Bruni, Kate Bush, Camille, Cat Power, Chopin, Miles Davis, Deerhoof, Devo, Marlene Dietrich, Jacques Dutronc, Bob Dylan, Dvorák, Erase Errata, Erasure(!), Four Tet, Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, LCD Soundsystem, Les Georges Leningrad, Le Tigre, Mahler, My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Newsom, Nico, Nouvelle Vague, Édith Piaf, Lou Reed, Fionn Regan, Shostakovich, Sleater-Kinney, Patti Smith, Smog, Sonic Youth, Regina Spektor, Stereolab, Sugarcubes, Suprême NTM, Sufjan Stevens, Talking Heads, The Clash, The Cramps, The Cure, The Duke Spirit, The Gossip, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, Yann Tiersen, Charles Trenet, Tom Waits, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young...
Woody Allen. Almodóvar. Wes Anderson. D.A. Pennebaker. Billy Wilder. Roman Polanski. Jeunet. Godard. Truffaut. Most Nouvelle Vague stuff, really. And anything featuring Anna Karina (sob!). Un Coeur en Hiver. Sirk. Terrence Malick. McCabe and Mrs Miller. Dr. Strangelove. La Haine. The Passenger. Les Amants du Pont Neuf. Harlan County, U.S.A. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Vertigo. Kieslowski. David Lynch. Kim Longinotto. Merchant Ivory. Tennessee Williams adaptations in general.
Dispatches. Storyville. Any of those appallingly-titled-yet-tastefully-executed Channel 4 documentaries. Anything featuring Stephen Fry or Jeremy Paxman. Ooh, or John Bowman. Poirot. Miss Marple. Bleak House. Pride and Prejudice.
Margaret Atwood. Jane Austen. John Banville. Saul Bellow. Peter Carey. Charles Dickens. John Donne. E.M. Forster. Edgar Allen Poe. Salman Rushdie. J.D. Salinger. Virginia Woolf. Brideshead Revisited. Middlemarch. Rebecca. The Black Prince. The End of the Affair. The God of Small Things. The Name of the Rose. The Shipping News. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. To The North. Wuthering Heights. Anything published by Virago. I want to meet more people who don't roll their eyes when talking about Judith Butler.
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