I love making stuff, making friends, drawing cartoons, animation, music, art, design, movies, robots, Doctor Who, Moomins, scones, comics, festivals, inflatables, vegetarian food, root beer, Astroboy, Doraemon, parties, toys, Lomo, science fiction, fairy tales, silent movies, super 8 films, BBC7, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Sir John Soane's House, 18 Folgate Street, country walks, serendipity
I love Kinder eggs too...
fellow travellers on the lost highway... and Amelie...
If you're open-minded, free-spirited, considerate and fun, i'm always up for meeting up with my myspace friends... keep me informed about any gigs or if you are going out or are doing anything remotely fun... and I'll do the same...
catch you later on down the trail..
My musical tastes are very eclectic...
MY FABULOUS MUSICAL FRIENDS
OFF GROUND TOUCH
NIZLOPI
MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE
FLIPRON
HUSH THE MANY
DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE
MILK KAN
EMMY THE GREAT
OTHER FRIENDS OF MOONDOG:
Grandmaster Gareth,
JJ Crash,
Sgt. Buzfuz,
SohoDolls,
Hafdis Huld, , Emaline Delapaix,
Jeffrey Lewis,
Jack Lewis,
KateGoes,
Thomas Truax,
Paul Hawkins,
The Sways,
Trouble Over Tokyo,
Russell Joslin,
Sara Schiralli,
Joan Coffey,
Horsebox, Gary Dunne,
Thee Intolerable Kidd , The Bobby McGees, The Budda Cakes,
Eberg,
Brody and Quint,
Breadfoot,
Anton Barbeau,
Bobby Baby,
Paul The Girl, Kari Kleiv , You+Me, Gold Sounds, Tallulah Rendall and the wonderful Paloma Faith
OTHER MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS:
Bjork , Pulp, The Polyphonic Spree, The Dresden Dolls, Tori Amos, The Go! Team, Shea Seger, Billie The Vision and The Dancers, I'm From Barcelona, The Memory Band, Ed Harcourt, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Arlo Guthrie, Goldfrapp, Joanna Newsom, Feist, Juana Molina, Tujiko Noriko, Jimmy Cliff, Emiliana Torrini, Stacey Kent, Lisa Ekdahl, Belle and Sebastian, Imogen Heap, Aidan Smith, The Tiger-Lillies, Ben Folds, Sigur Ros, Frou Frou, Sleeper, Grand Drive, Shostakovich, Moondog, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Vashti Bunyan, Taj Mahal, Mel Torme, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhart, Tilly and The Wall, and the legendary Jarvis Cocker (of course)
A Matter of Life and Death ,
Brazil , It's A Wonderful Life , Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, The Big Lebowski, Amelie, Dreams That Money Can Buy, The Science of Sleep, Wings of Desire, Blue Velvet, L'Atalante, The Piano, La Belle et La Bete, Tideland, Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, Vertigo, Singin' In The Rain, Star Wars, Joe Versus The Volcano, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chungking Express, Ghost World, Alphaville, A Bout de Souffle, Pygmalion, True Stories, The Tempest, Metropolis, Before Sunrise, The Cremaster Cycle, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Mirrormask, The Straight Story, American Graffiti, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Jean Vigo, Jean Cocteau, The Coen Brothers, Charlie Kaufman, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Derek Jarman, Jan Svankmajer, Tim Burton, Powell and Pressburger, Georges Melies, The Marx Brothers, George Formby, How To Draw A Bunny... classic horror, animation and film noir
Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Buffy, Northern Exposure, The Moomins, Beauty and the Beast, Futurama, My So-Called Life, Queer As Folk, Hancock, Ren and Stimpy, Bod, Mr Benn, Bagpuss, The Clangers, The Magic Roundabout, The Twilight Zone, Sherlock Holmes, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Young Ones, Batman, Spaced, Star Trek, Quantum Leap, Tales Of The City, Barbapapa, Henry's Cat, Father Ted, Fist of Fun, Jeeves and Wooster, The Prisoner, Max Headroom, Harry Hill, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Look Around You, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Torchwood
The Little Prince, Peter Pan, The Tao of Pooh, The Thurber Carnival, The Castle of Otranto, The Consolations of Philosophy, Last Chance To See, Struwwelpeter, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Jimmy Corrigan, 1984, Frankenstein, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Princess Bride, The Bloody Chamber, Invisible Cities, The Book of Imaginary Beings (Borges), Edward Gorey, Will Eisner, James Thurber, Raymond Chandler, Charles Dickens, PG Wodehouse, Sherlock Holmes, J.G. Ballard, Tove Jansson, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, The Sandman, fairy tales, gothic novels
Bjork, David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Joseph Cornell, Michael Powell, Will Eisner, David Attenborough, Michel Gondry, Douglas Adams, Jarvis Cocker, Tom Baker, Spike Milligan, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Rolf Harris, Humphrey Lyttelton, Edward Gorey, James Thurber, Tony Hancock, Vic Reeves, Frida Kahlo, Dave McKean, Tim Burton, Clive Barker, Derek Jarman, Johnny Depp; my fictional heroes are: Dr Who, Bertie Wooster, The Spirit, Peter Pan, Popeye and Batman. I'm also a disciple of the late artist Ray Johnson (below)