live music,festivals,Sessions, jamming, cooking, reading, arriving in a new city early in the morning and going for a coffee, baking the perfect cake, electric storms, mountains(but not climbing them,or only the easy bits) making the best falafels, laughing till it hurts.
Interesting and unusual people- musicians, artists and illustrators- people who are used to moving through life in a sideways zigzag sort of fashion usually clutching a pint!
Liz Carroll, Altan, Dervish, Lunasa, Flook, swap, La Chavanette, Blowzabella, Red dog Green Dog , Nancy Kerr, Kathryn Tickell, Stephan Grappelli, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Spiers and Boden, David Bowie, Prince, Bessie smith, Nina Simone, Billy Holliday,PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, T Gillian Welch.
Its been a long time since i've seen a good one! fave is probably La Strada or Blade runner.
I have a fuzzy telly and can only get 3 channels but i love peepshow although it makes me cringe, i like good comedy, and that planet series.
The case of curiosities by Maurice Katzen, The Magic Toyshop, Nights at the circus, The Infernal Desire Machines Of Dr Hoffman all by Angela Carter, The Gormenghast Trilogy-Mervyn Peak, Accordion Crimes-Annie Proulx, The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy, Draccula-Bram Stoker, Flap eared Lorna and the string thing, The Island of Nose, the night kitchen/where the wild things are- Maurice Sendak , Flat Stanley, Through the Looking glass- Lewis Carrol.
Mary woolstoncraft, Angela Carter, PJ Harvey, Liz Carrol.