The usual: music, films, comedy, gigs, friends, drinking, drawing, cats, writing.
The unusual: falconry, making things out of beads, photoshopping, tupperware, my parrots, badge-making, playing dress up, roller coasters, googlewhacking, making strange crafty things, making and cutting short films, collecting pictures of my initials, drawing moustaches on myself, taking pictures of people asleep on public transport...you've gotta love the last train home ;-)
I want to meet people who want to meet me. People who care about things. People who tell me when I have sauce on my chin. People without pretentions. People who enjoy surrealism. People who like silly things. People I can make a difference to. People with their own hair. People I don't have to say sorry to for just being me. People who can recite Eddie Izzard backwards. People that won't get embarrassed when I dress up in ridiculous costumes - they will want to go one better. People that want to make things happen. People that will make me laugh til it hurts and a little bit of wee comes out. People that aren't afraid to cry. People that will dance like nobody's watching, and not care when I do. People that want to be a part of my life. People that like Sambucca. People that enjoy randomness. People that make me a better person.
For obvious (and admittedly rather geekily sad) reasons I quite like the initials CTS. So if you do happen to see a stray CTS, please take pity (and a little picture) and send it on. And for any of you facebookers out there please do join The Quest for CTS and help me in my Gormanesque quest.
To raid my iPod...
Air Traffic, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Ash, Au Revoir Simone, Babyshambles, Beatles, Beirut, Bloc Party, Blur, Bravery, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Buzzcocks, Captain, Charlatans, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clash, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Coral, Cribs, CSS, Delays, Departure, Dirty Pretty Things, Dogs, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Editors, Faith No More, Feeder, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Fratellis, Futureheads, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Go! Team, Gossip, Green Day, Guillemots, Guns 'N' Roses, Hard-Fi, Hives, Holloways, Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, Hours, Howling Bells, Incubus, Interpol, Jeff Buckley, Jet, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Killers, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, Kooks, Larrikin Love, Libertines, Little Man Tate, Live, Long Blondes, Maccabees, Manic Street Preachers, Mansun, Marilyn Manson, Maximo Park, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, Mumm-Ra, Muse, Mylo, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Young Pony Club, Nine Black Alps, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Offspring, Paddingtons, Panic! At The Disco, Paolo Nutini, Pigeon Detectives, Pipettes, Pixies, Placebo, Polyphonic Spree, Prodigy, Pulp, Queens Of The Stone Age, Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Rakes, Rapture, Razorlight, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Rifles, Shins, Shout Out Louds, Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins, Smiths, Soulwax, Spinto Band, Stereophonics, Stone Roses, Strokes, Subways, Suede, Sunshine Underground, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, System Of A Down, Tenacious D, Thirteen Senses, Tori Amos, View, Vines, We Are Scientists, White Stripes, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Young Knives, Zutons. And the tune the ice cream man plays.
Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, Shrek, Garden State, American Psycho, History of Violence, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cry Baby, Clockwork Orange, Amelie, Lord of the Rings, Shaun of the Dead, Dead Ringers, Kill Bill vol 1&2, 9 Songs, Power of One, Donnie Darko, Ghostbusters, Donnie Brasco, Three Colours Trilogy, All About My Mother, Short Circuit, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Green Mile, Ice Age, Brokeback Mountain, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Shining, Team America, Back To The Future, Goonies, Moulin Rouge, Dark Crystal, Napolean Dynamite, Motorcycle Diaries, American Beauty, Labyrinth, Wizard of Oz, Leon, Gladiator, Jaws, Anchorman, Fear and Loathing, Batman, City of God, Gangs of New York, Top Gun, Sleepy Hollow, Dogma, Fargo, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth.
Teachers, Mighty Boosh, Friends, Dungeons and Dragons, The Office, Extras, 24, Spaced, Nip / Tuck, Bruce Parry's Tribe, South Park, He-Man and She-Ra, Family Guy, Blackadder, Simpsons, Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Eddie Izzard, Phoenix Nights, The Flumps, Little Britain, Smack The Pony, Titty Titty Bang Bang, Long Way Round, Brass Eye, Monty Python, Top Gear, Grand Designs, Project Catwalk, BUSTAMOVE.
American Psycho, Love Is A Mix Tape, Glamourama, The Beach, Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Rum Diary, Cocaine Nights, High Rise, Rules of Attraction, Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, 1984, all Ian McEwan esp Enduring Love, Schott's Miscellany, Quantity Theory of Insanity, Harry Potter.
Matt Bellamy, Brett Easton Ellis, Bruce Parry, Tim Burton, Ian McEwan, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Depp, Noel Fielding, Quentin Tarantino, Eddie Izzard, Marilyn Manson, Jack Bauer, the late great Dave Smith who taught me everything I know about sound recording, my old bassoon teacher Mr Carben, my dad.