I am very lucky.
self loving
DIY
food
people
human relationships
animals
subversion of power
health
people who care
people who can talk fast
people who's eyes change colour
people with learning disabilities
migrants of all kinds
people who can communicate with animals
sexy people
velvets, the fiery furnaces, marrisa nadler, low, new fast automatic daffodils, kate bush, beastie boys, autechre, Ryoko, joy division, tindersticks, bonnie prince billy, smog, king creosote, baxter dury, carter family, devandra banhart, deerhoof, le tigre, chicks on speed, howe gelb, stina nordenstam, slowdive, ride, moose, the durutti column, bob and helen, the concretes, the clap you hands say yeahs, jens lekman, pixies, cure, laura cantrell, guillemots, iron and wine, isobel campbell, june carter, lee scratch perry, ladytron, laurie anderson, band of horses, sea and , jez and wendy doing jam, me and neil, marc fawcet, of montreal,the shins, sufjan stevens, the magnetic fields, daniel johnston, mudhoney, silverfish, the streets, devandra banhart, roy orbison, fine young cannibals, yazoo, woodie guthrie, papa m, tv on the radio, the organ, electrelane, billy childish, holly go lightly, the raveonetes, the wedding present, the pastels, cardiacs, the cranes, joanna newsom, can, PIL, nico, john cale, piano magic, felix da housecat, dj hell, labradford, gravenhurst, pan american, my bloody valentine, spacemen 3, sonic boom, sigur ros, sonic youth, the flying burrito brothers, the incredible string band, talking heads, the art of noise, silver jew, pan sonic, american analogue set, international airport, roxy music, brian eno, bowie, lou, iggy, blonde redhead, patti, helene, monogram, dinosaur jr, james yorkston, lone pigeon, echo and the bunnymen, siouxie, jesus and mary chain, dead can dance, appliance, weather report, faultline, arab strap, my bloody valentine, dot alison, gary numan, orange juice, teardrop explodes, robert wyatt, lush, jarvis for speaking some truth, bleach, teenage fanclub, mars, cabaret voltaire, aphex twin, everything mute, everything warp, everything 4ad, everything rocket girl, everything monika, everything fitzrovian phonographic, everything fence, everything sub pop, everything rocket girl.
breaking the waves, dancer in the dark, my life as a dog, magnolia, scene of the sea, cinema paradiso, il postino, the dish, dune, me you and everyone we know, midnight cowboy, nostalgia, ma vie en rose, happiness, the eel, akira, buffalo 66, the never ending story, hana bi, scent of green papaya, land of freedom
fraggle rock when the doozers are about, the first series of robin the hooded man, a mini series set in eastern europe about a mushroom collector and canibalism - no idea what it was called, really did'nt like juliet bravo it freaked me and i've just got over it.
frank herbert, gabriel garcia marquez, d h lawrence, Ian M Banks, albert camus, Frantz Fanon, the wonderful john berger, the nanny and the iceberg (great book, forgot the name of the author)The Perenial Philosphy - Aldous Huxley (the cleverest book ever), brian barret - the path of excess (primarily for its historicity), hannah arandt-particularly a book of letters she wrote through her life to a friend
i don't need another hero