Writing lyrics, stories, screenplays, scripts and poems...hence the studying imaginative writing. Music...I own two bass guitars and a clarinet and I used to be able to vaguely play them. I love music: rock, country, punk, indie. Read...particularly rock star biographies and anything by Margaret Atwood. Buying CDs. Gigs...have recently seen Cave In, Ryan Adams, Beth Orton, HIM, Placebo...etc Art: Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Elizabeth Peyton... Vampires and gothic fashion
Anyone who is passionate about something
AFI, biffy clyro, ryan adams, gram parsons, jesse malin, gorky's zygotic mynci (Euros Childs), BRMC, the strokes, red hot chili peppers, auf der maur, hole, nirvana, pearl jam, joan jett and the blackhearts, rolling stones, the used, head automatica, hell is for heroes, glassjaw, funeral for a friend, thrice, thursday, the smiths, the cooper temple clause, kane, whiskeytown, rage against the machine, the ramones, the sex pistols, InMe, incubus, roxy saint, scissor sisters, kappernicus, laconia, courtney love, the distillers, your code name is: milo, the zutons, the music, the mars volta, placebo, jet, razorlight, HIM, amplifier, patti smith, beth orton, the boxer rebellion, bikini kill, emmylou harris, idlewild, kinesis, evan dando, johnny cash, bob dylan, eva cassidy, the doors, dashboard confessional, joni mitchell, holly golightly, jefferson airplane, the raconteurs, dirty pretty things, brendon benson, joy division, iggy pop
Velvet goldmine; c.r.a.z.y; breakfast at tiffanys; donnie darko; lord of the rings; fight club; almost famous; girl, interrupted; cruel intentions; finding nemo; shrek; charlie and the chocolate factory; the crow; walk the line; finding neverland; chocolat; amelie; angel-a; pirates of the carribean; gossip; chasing amy; brick; mulholland drive; nightmare before christmas; corpse bride; edward scissorhands; big fish; from hell; what's eating gilbert grape; benny and joon; delicatessen...etc
will and grace, black books, spaced, buffy, angel, 24, prison break, csi, law and order... and i admit i watch the australian soaps, sad as that is.
Maragret Atwood: the Handmaid's Tale, Cat's eye, bodily harm, lady oracle, the blind assassin, the robber bride, the penelopiad, Alias Grace. George Orwell: 1984, down and out in paris and london, animal farm. Alex Garland: the beach, the tesseract, coma. Jonathan Coe: house of sleep, what a carve up, dwarves of death, the rotter's club, the closed circle. We need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver. The bell jar by sylvia plath. Junky by William Buroughs. On the road by Jack kerouac. Nick Hornby: high fidelity, how to be good, a long way down. Own many books on Kurt Cobain and love rock star biographies: johnny cash, dave grohl, ryan adams...etc.
Gram parsons, Kurt Cobain, Ryan Adams...my sister...