Family & Friends, Music, Theatre, Art, Reading, Photography, Travel, Food, Drink... y'know, hedonism.
I'd like to meet:
John Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Keith Richards, Robert Wyatt
Music:
Billie Holiday, The Roches, Slipknot, Nick Harper, Charlie Parker, Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Band, Death Star 4, Emmylou Harris, Moondog, Townes Van Zandt, The Hook'n'Pull Gang, Nick Harper, Noel Coward, Grateful Dead, Mercedes Sosa, Rolling Stones, Coltrane, John Prine, Ramones, The Beatles, Wild Man Fisher, John Cale, Robert Wyatt, Mott the Hoople, Buddy Holly, Janacek, Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Doggerel Bank, Nick Cave, The Hook and Pull Gang, The Kinks, Ivor Cutler, Dr John, Roy Buchanan, Bob Dylan, Canned Heat, Muddy Waters, Hank Williams, Jonathan Richman, PJ Harvey, Bobby Fuller, Joan Baez, Bob Marley, Dan Hicks, Roxy Music, Nirvana, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pere Ubu, NRBQ, Arthur Lee/Love, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Mountain Goats, Chess Records, Loudon Wainwright III, Solomon Burke, Dr Ross, Death Star 4, Dave Alvin, R.E.M., Howlin' Wolf, Sun Ra, Big Star, Booker T, Robert Johnson, MC5, Randy Newman, Lowell Fulson, Rodney Crowell, Ray Davis, Otis Rush, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Townes Van Zandt, Peggy Seeger, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, Son House, The White Stripes, Steve Earle, Bobby Bland, The Bangles, Isaac Hayes, Thelonious Monk, The Strokes, Television, the Allman Brothers, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Charley Patton, RHCP, Bobby Womack, Nuggets, Led Zeppelin, Big Bill Broonzy, The Move, Delbert McClinton, Elmore James, The Monkees, T-Bone Walker, Big Mama Thornton, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Moby, Leroy Carr, Steve Goodman, Aerosmith, Allen Toussaint, Dan Penn, Nick Lowe, Junior Wells, Liz Phair, Guy Clark
Movies:
Fishermen, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1&2, Casablanca, Santa Sangre, Stranger Than Paradise, Marx Bros, Third Man, Woody Allen, Amelie, Ghost World, The Last Waltz, Straight Story, Barefoot gen, In The Heat of the Night, Battleship Potemkin, American Beauty, It's a Wonderful Life, Apocalypse Now, Once Upon a Time in America, Godfather I&II, Life and Times of Colonel Blimp, Cabaret, Man Bites Dog, Jon Jost, Babette's Feast, Buster Keaton, Citizen Kane, Harvey,
Television:
The West Wing, Trailer Park Boys, Skins, Green Wing, Frasier, Malcolm in the Middle, Shameless, Tutti Frutti, Rab C. Nesbitt, Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park, Blue Planet.
Books:
Any Steinbeck, Graham Greene, John Irving, Ken Kesey, HST, Restoration (Rosa Tremain), The Plague (Camus), Preacher and many other comics (sorry, graphic art books), Charles Bukowski, The Tin Drum, Unpopular Essays, e.e.cummings,
Heroes:
Jesus, Bill Hicks, Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Eric Morecambe, Eddie Izzard, James Cameron (the journalist, not the director), Bertrand Russell, Lenny Bruce, Keith Moon, John Prine, Charlie Parker, Jamie Oliver,
