lying in bed, idling, procrastinating, complaining, reading, modernist / brutalist architecture, art, music, alcohol, public transport, cycling, good coffee, old men's pubs (the doublet), junk shops, guitars and synths, kite-flying, wine, women and song.
Licentious, languid, loose, lovely young things.
Tom Waits, Fursaxa, Es, Islaja, Sonic Youth, Dirty Three, Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Billy Childish, Shellac, Big Black, Tindersticks, The Gun Club, Phillip Roebuck, Dexy's, Henry Flynt, White Magic, Elf Power, Black Dice, The Naysayer, Suicide, Magazine, Sleater-Kinney, The Cramps, Scritti Politti, The Homosexuals, Associates, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Smog, Royal Trux, Afrirampo, Park Attack, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PiL, Make Up, Weird War, Nina Nastasia, Moldy Peaches, Jeffrey Lewis, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Whitehouse, Shirley Collins, Magik Markers, Joanna Newsom, Alexander Tucker, Colleen, Big Business
Raging Bull, Pi, Shaun of the Dead, La Haine, Kes, Downtown 81, Ratcatcher, Dancer in the Dark, The Life of Brian, Ghost World, Withnail & I, American Splendor, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blue Velvet, Bad Education, The Producers, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Rushmore, The Squid and the Whale, Richard Kern shorts, Free Cinema
Monkey Dust, League of Gentlemen, Nathan Barley, Peep Show, Spaced, Father Ted, Simpsons, Futurama, Look Around You, Brass Eye, Heimat, news & documentaries.
John Fante; Wait Until Spring Bandini and Ask the Dust, Alasdair Gray; Lanark, Billy Childish; My Fault and Notebooks of a Naked Youth, Alexander Trocchi; Young Adam, Guy Debord; Society of the Spectacle, Keith Waterhouse; Billy Liar, Jim Dodge; Stone Junction, Driss Ben Hamed Charadi; A Life Full of Holes, Haruki Murakami; Norwegian Wood, Marjane Satrapi; Percepolis, Dan Clowes; David Boring, Joe Sacco; Palestine, anything by JG Ballard
Kill yr heros