Design. Being a pretentious design snob. Hating pretentious design snobs. Music. Being a pretentious music snob. Hating pretentious music snobs. Art. Being a pretentious art snob. Hating pretentious art snobs particularly those who talk shit in galleries and get information wrong about major art movements. Architecture. Learning more about architecture so that I can one day be a pretentious architecture snob. Learning about anything. Holidays. Travelling. Edinburgh. London. Berlin. Paris. Florence. Reykjavik. Melbourne. Luxor. New York. Any place that makes me like living in Dublin even less. Dancing. People watching. People watching while dancing. Talking. Talking shite to old friends. Talking to new people. Making new friends. Music festivals. Being a big nerd. Always having my work done on time. Always having my essays done early. Sleeping. Going on road-trips. Not getting public transport. Eating. Cooking. Buying fancy over-priced cheeses. Buying most fancy over-priced food. Writing semi-tongue-in-cheek and not particularly witty sections in my myspace profile.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky. (As you can see, I was reading 'On the Road' - Jack Kerouac at the time of creating my profile)
Radiohead, Animal Collective, Errors, Beirut, Aphex Twin, Four tet, Battles, The Books, Death from Above 1979, Girl Talk, DJ Shadow, Marnie Stern, Grizzly Bear, Joanna Newsom, M.I.A, Bjork, Late of the Pier, Explosions in the Sky, The Knife, Panda Bear, Portishead, Missy Elliot, Why?,Boards of Canada, Mogwai, Soulwax, Passions, The Presents, TV on the Radio, Erol Alkan, Massive Attack, Neutral Milk Hotel, Onedia, Plimsouls, EST, Jurassic 5, Damn Shames, Crystal Castles, Digitalism, Blood on the Wall, Rihanna, Clor, Ratatat, Shychild, Final Fantasy, Comanechi, Cut Copy, The Smiths, Coldcut, Cornelius, Fujiya & Miyagi, Spankrock, Passions, Teenage Bad Girl, Broken Social Scene, Madlib, The Field, Sugababes, Talking Heads, Nouveau Noise, Lo-fi Fink, Arcade Fire, Von Sudenfed, yeah yeah yeahs, gay against you, the low miffs, Dimitri from Paris, Dizzee Rascal, Miles Davis, The Fall, Blockhead, Fischerspooner, Dancepig, PRE, The Whip...
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Delicatessen, The three colours Blue, Citizen Kane, Dogma, Napoleon Dynamite, A bout de souffle, Magnolia, Anchorman, The Great Dictator, Belleville rendezvous, Amelie, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Beauty and the Beast, sideways, Mean Girls, the birds.. (Go ahead. Judge me. Judge me on my movie taste)
The Secret History, Wonderland Avenue, The God of small things, On The Road, Anansi Boys, Jpod.. I love books on art - particularly Ways of Seeing, Art Now (Taschen), The art of looking sideways, The shock of the new, The surrealists edited Jemima Montagu (probably one of the few good books on the surrealists) and many many many others. The Battle for Room Service is a great take on the travel book. I like reading travel guides and organising holidays.. I mean REALLY organising them. Gallery timetable and nearby restaurants, anyone?