FUN. All-nighters, Baroque, Biba, Buddhism, Camden Town, Cecil Beaton, Chanel, CHAOS, Couture, Dali, Dancing, dear Birmingham, Dior, Drunken acoustic sessions, Escher, French dog blues, Genet, Henri Cartier Bresson, In-jokes, Inventing cocktails, Ireland I miss it lots, Kicking against the pricks, Klimt, Latin music, London in general but especially Embankment, Lorca, LSF baby ah ah ah, Mannerism, Miro, My sidekicks, Nectar nights, Northern soul, Palmistry, People with stories to tell, Pernod, Poetry, Poncing drinks off of people, Pop star army fatigues, Psychedeeelia, Real STYLE as opposed to fashion, Reggae and more reggae, Renaissance, Rimbaud, ROCK & ROLL, Romanticists, Roxy Music, Sh-boom sh-boom yadadadadadadadadada, Shamelessness, Singing like an angel, Spain & the Spanish, Sunglasses, Sunshine, Tantra, Tarot, Thrifting, Thunderstorms, Vintage gear I wear lots, Vinyl, Vogue, Yeats, Yoga.
I'd like to meet:
Dandies, hellraisers, poets, charmers, bastards, piss artists, mods, grifters, cads, posers, champagne charlies, storytellers, rockers, rioters, Robert Shaw for stories, flamenco guitarists, people who just GET IT, Ollie Reed for drinks, degenerates, recreationists of life, bounders, Keith Moon for escapades, Gian Maria Volonte for smokes, the beautiful, the damned and bona-fide nutjobs. And the man who smiles back at death.
Music:
Lots.
The Adored, Babyshambles, Baxter Dury, The Beatles, Bedouin Soundclash, Big Bill Broonzy, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Blondie, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, The Boxer Rebellion, Brian Eno, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brigitte Bardot, BRYAN FERRY, Buzzcocks, Captain Beefheart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chuck Berry, THE CLASH, The Cooper Temple Clause, Courtney Love, THE DANDY WARHOLS, DAVID BOWIE, The Divine Comedy, The Doors, EDDIE COCHRAN, Elvis Presley, Ennio Morricone, Escobar, FATS DOMINO, FRANCOISE HARDY, Franz Ferdinand, Grinderman, HUMAN LEAGUE, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, IGGY AND THE STOOGES, Jacques Brel, Jack Arel, Jacques Dutronc, Jane Birkin, Jayne County, Jefferson Airplane, Jeffrey & Jack Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, John Cooper Clarke, JOHNNY CASH, JOHNNY THUNDERS AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, Juliette Greco, KASABIAN, THE KILLS, Killcity, KINGS OF LEON, THE KINKS, Kirsty MacColl, Lancaster Bombers, Led Zeppelin, Les Reed, Les Rita Mitsouko, Le Tigre, THE LIBERTINES, Louis XIV, Los Locos Cubanos, Lou Reed, M.I.A, Mando Diao, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE MIGHTY STEF, The Mohawks, Nancy Sinatra, New Order, New York Dolls, NICK CAVE (& the Bad Seeds), Nico, The Nips, Okkervil River, PATTI SMITH, Peter Doherty, PJ Harvey, The Platters, THE POGUES, PRIMAL SCREAM, Public Image Limited, The Rakes, The Ramones, Richard Hell, Robert Palmer, THE ROLLING STONES, Rosanne Cash, ROXY MUSIC, Rufus Wainwright, Sandy Nelson, Scott Walker, Seasick Steve, Serge Gainsbourg, The Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Slits, The Smiths, Snorkie, The Specials, Spider Stacy, Squeeze, Stars, The Stranglers, Switches, SYD BARRETT, Television, Thin Lizzy, Thomas Dutronc, TOM WAITS, Tom Verlaine, T-Rex, The Undertones, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, Vincent Vincent and the Villians, Vince Taylor, The Who, WOODY GUTHRIE, THE YARDBIRDS, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.font
Movies:
Boys films. Jaws, The Sting (how brilliant are Robert Redford's clothes), PERFORMANCE, Once Upon A Time In America, Girl On A Motorcycle, anything in which Clint Eastwood wears a poncho, Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now, Help!, Ryan's Daughter, Amelie, Betty Blue, Velvet Goldmine, The Field, Rumblefish, Hell W10, American Psycho, Rude Boy, Beat Girl, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Le Cercle Rouge. Robert Shaw, Richard Harris and Ollie Reed are the best actors EVER. I'm not patient enough to watch many films. Although I'll watch it if it's filth.
Television:
Doesn't interest me. Unless it's HAPPY DAYS or The Prisoner...or Rising Damp or Fawlty Towers.
Books:
Nice little parables, preferably debauched and gin-soaked. And I Don't Want To Live This Life, Illuminations, Lolita, Faithfull, Please Kill Me, More Pricks Than Kicks, Backstage Passes, Betty Blue, Macbeth, Poet in New York, Borstal Boy, Ulysses, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Evil Sprits, Bardot: An Intimate Portrait, Seasons in Granada, Blood Wedding, Gypsy Ballads, Tarry Flynn, On the Road, The Naked Lunch, The Master & Margarita, Cheap Date Guide To Style, Malone Dies, Prisoner of Love, The Thrill of It All, Our Lady of the Flowers, A Season In Hell, A'Rebours, Edie, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Riot of Our Own and so on. Generally anything that falls from the hand of Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Behan, Beckett, Lorca, Sartre, e.e cummings, Genet, Yeats, Ferlenghetti, the Marquis or Richard Hell, amongst others.
Heroes:
Other than myself...
Joe Strummer
Robert Shaw
Johnny T
Nancy Spungen
Mr Ferry
Marianne Faithfull
Anita Pallenberg
Mr Bowie
Oliver Reed
VV
Woody Guthrie
Julie Christie
Arthur Rimbaud
Richard Beckinsale
Bay Garnett
Richard Harris
Bateman
Patrick McGoohan
Chloe Sevigny.
I should be yours.
