Old film stars with beautiful dresses and broken marriages.
...the smiths, the pixies, blondie, 80s madonna only, OMD, jacques lu cont, goldfrapp, t. rex, freeform five, CSS, nancy sinatra, dionne warwick, dusty springfield, eurythmics, human league, depeche mode, david bowie, adam ant, the long blondes...
... hairspray, the third man, shadow of a doubt, my beautiful launderette, the breakfast club, on the waterfront, breakfast at tiffanys, true romance, the apartment, umbrellas of cherbourg, sunset boulevard, red angel, full metal jacket, the shining, rear window, bad education, don't look now, blue velvet, mannequin, what have I done to deserve this?, black narcissus, brighton rock, wild strawberries, the fly, the innocents, victim, wild at heart, the original ladykillers, dead man's shoes, cabaret, the great dictator, double indemnity ...
Twin Peaks.
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood, An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, The Progress of Julius - Daphne du Maurier, Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert, Aspects of the Novel - E.M Forster, Madness and Civilisation - Michel Foucault, The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer, Dystopias, Joe Orton plays, Lauren Bacall's autobiography.
He's right, you know.