Love death soda streams reading in cemeteries dusk travelling music art reading plinths plinths pliths alcohol film alternative comedy meat strangely coloured skies threatening clouds vivid green on a summers day comical irony inappropriate body language accidents that people deserve woods jumping out of a plane dreams noticing insects taking a back seat walking bare foot on grass being rude watching people from a bench turning over in bed for an extended sleep zzzzz laughing hearing brave explanations of minority points of view shouting watering plants cooking listening to people who can touch type composing writing observing photographing listing swimming watching TV without the sound on staring out of my office window logging the development of the one tree I can see as it progresses through the seasons ............................................................
....and badminton.
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I once met David Bowie. It didn't go as well as planned. After standing in a cue for 3 hours on the Champs Elysees, my voice failed to project, instead of the witty exchange I'd imagined, I was only able to croak weakly. My second vocal attempt was also decidedly croaky. I decided that actions would produce better results, so I held out my hand (for ages) and re-croaked 'you were good at Glastonbury.' Bowie in his credit did well to take me seriously. Call me a 'Kilroy' but I find meeting famous people a bit of a let down. I don't want to meet people who pretend to be important by talking loudly; those people irritate me, Christ I was stuck next to a real attention seeker at an airport the other day. It's only worth talking to the converted, it's regressive to try and incite an audiance with inane conversation. Egotists are dangerous, but then again so are unpitted olives. Honesty sometimes takes a back seat, in order to make our lives easier. You gain a 'like to meet' status be (A) boring and honest or (B), so awful that you must arrange your words into synchronised melee of delinquent schisms, deciminated by your technicolour truisms and wit. Divide the heavens with the spit of rage. Don't even dare to converse in boring honesty. Go forth, speak lies, blend them recklessly with the hideous truth. Don't generalise on me. Love and hate yourself, come on and appal me; I'm already disgusted with you. (... the sound of breaking glass)
Music:
Guided by Voices... Stephin Merritt -(The Magnetic Fields)...My Bloody Valentine...Bobby Conn...Sparklehorse...Jeff Buckley...The Smiths...David Bowie...Boards of Canada...Lou Reed...Belle and Sebastian...Super Furry Animals...The Afghan Whigs...The Beach Boys...The Beta Band...Prolapse...Pluto Monkey...Captain Beefheart...John Cale...Nirvana...PJ Harvey..,.Arcade Fire...Robert Wyatt...Kevin Ayres...Royal Trux...Stephen Malkmus...Viva Voce...Suede...Dawn of the Replicants...Stereolab...Ween...Mogwai...Pajo...The Delgados...Daniel Johnston...Nick Cave...Pavement...Gorky's Zygotic Mynci...Teenage Fanclub...Brian Eno...Supergrass...My Morning Jacket...The John Spencer Blues Explosion... Elliot Smith...Beck...The High Llamas...Sebadoh...Gene Clarke...The Byrds...Can...The 13th Floor Elevators...Espers...Broken Social Scene...The Pixies...Frank Black...Iggy Pop...Sonic Youth...Scott Walker...The Fall...Robert Pollard...Neil Young...The Flaming Lips...Radiohead...Roxy Music...REM...The Yeah Yeah Yeahs...Early Pink Floyd...Syd Barratt...The Divine Comedy...Joy Division...Dinosaur Jr...Aphex Twin...Magoo...Nick Drake...The White Stripes...Blur...Andre Williams...The Velvet Underground...The Rolling Stones...The Auteurs...Bill Fay...Tindersticks...Pulp...Queens of the Stone Age...Eels...Bjork...Mansun... Talking Heads...Babylon Quiche
Movies:
(A mix of old and new) Taxi Driver...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Badlands... 2001... The Big Lebowski... Being John Malkhovich... Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me... The Elephant Man... Betty Blue... Blade Runner... Amadeus... Amelie... Stroyzek... Donnie Darko... Cool Hand Luke...Apocalypse Now ...Don't Look Now ...Spinal Tap...The Three Colours...Le Boucher... Trilogy...L'Appartement...Raising Arizona ...The Wickerman...Eraserhead...The Man With Two Brains...Tremors...The Evil Dead Trilogy...The Lost Boys...Weird Science...Blue Velvet...The Tenant...An American Werewolf in London...Flash Gordon...Ferris Bueller's Day Off...Bladerunner...Repo Man...Airplane...Dr Strangelove...Napoleon Dynamite...The Godfather...Rosemary's Baby...Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure...Rear Window...Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...Chinatown...Raging Bull...Amadeus...Jaws...Fargo...The Deer Hunter(minus the wedding scene)...Back to the Future...Punchdrunk Love...The Big Lebowski...Ed Wood...Doctor Zhivago...Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Television:
(...the best place to find good British comedy...haven't got much time for the rest of it)...The Day Today, Spaced, Black Books, Father Ted, Big Train, Jam, Brass Eye, The League of Gentlemen, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Blackadder (2-4), I'm Alan Partridge, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Look Around You.
Books:
The Magus... The Collector... A Confederacy of Dunces ... The Affirmation... The Prestige... Carter Beats the Devil... A Prayer for Owen Meany... What a Carve Up! ... The House of Sleep ... Ham on Rye... The Trial... Memoirs of a Geisha... The Master and Margarita... The Outsider... To Kill a Mockingbird... The Secret History... Catch 22... Bonfire of the Vanities... Lolita... The Twits... Crime and Punishment... Post Office... Matilda
Heroes:
David Lynch... Chris Morris... Werner Herzog ...Mark E Smith... Thurston Moore...Kinsky... Beck Hansen... David Icke ...Chevy Chase... Stanley Kubrick ...Michel Gondry... too many people I admire to include here.
