musicmusicmusic, film, the hills, (under) water, laughin' ma head off, hangin' oot wi' pals, gettin' cozy on the couch wi' me cat, rollerskating, illustration an' painting, taking photies, dreaming...
Sir David Attenborough, Paolo Conte, Mo Mowlam, Atticus Finch, Rosa Parks, Thelonious Monk, Robert Louis Stevenson, Norman MacCaig, Yul Brynner, Snoopy, Spike Milligan, Steve Biko, Victor Jara, Jane Birkin, Kathy Burke.Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Dr Gonzo & Hunter S Thompson for three days of this... Benicio del Toro, Animal, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Colonel Walter E Kurtz, Leonard Nimoy, Naomi Campbell to stick a hot poker up her arse (dbl hot rod for Bush Jr & Sr), a gargantuan edible Bakewell Tart, Peter Sellars, Harold Pinter and the one and only Charlie Thayers.
John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, lil' Stevie Wonder, Ron Carter, Artie Shaw, Curtis Mayfield, Georgie Fame, Anita O'Day, Yusef Lateef, Moldy Peaches, Autechre, Boards, Tortoise, KRS, Morricone, Madlib, Mancini, Lalo, Miles, film scores/soundtracks, Benjamin Britten, Lee Morgan, Talking Heads an'Tom Tom Club, auld school Hip Hop, Asher D an' Daddy Freddy, Masters at Work, Phoenix, Louis Jordan, Holger Czukay, Trojan an' dirrty dirrrrty Dancehall, Staxx, Blue Note, Impulse! Warp, Ubiquity, Brownswood, Jaco Pastorius, Weather Report, Ohio Players, Herbie Hancock and Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Fatback Band, Digable Planets, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Staple Singers, Lynn Collins, Minnie Rip, Roberta Flack, Vicki Anderson, Ann Sexton, Sylvia Striplin, Roy Ayers, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan, Sade, Recloose, Moodyman, Innerzone Orchestra, Carl Craig, Detroit Experiment, I:Cube, Larry Heard, Juan Atkins, Pepe Braddock, My Bloody Valentine, Augustus Pablo, Big Youth Little Roy, U-Roy, Jackie Mittoo, Bob, Lee 'Scratch', Sergio Mendes (Capoeira do Brasil-find it!), Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Beta Band, Fela/Femi Kuti, Antibalas, the Roots, ATCQ, the Phaaaarcyyyde, Pixies, Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys, Dr Alamantado, Primal Scream, Violent Femmes, Telafon Tel Aviv, The Bad Plus, Sebastien Tellier, LCD Soundsystem, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Julio Iglesias, Cesaria Evora, all things Latin, Delfonics, Bullfrog, Lizz Fields, Overhead, Sun Ra, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Paolo Conte, Pinetop Perkins, Can, flute, help ma boab loads more...
Festen, Whale Rider, City of Lost Children, Alien, Kirosawa, Annie Hall, Withnail & I, Manhatten, ZULU, A Man Called Horse, Apocalypse Now, Alien, Serpico, Dr. Strangelove, La Dolce Vita, In The Mood For Love, American Splendour, Crumb, Lost in Translation, The Little Thief, Chocolat, The Sea Inside, Naked Lunch (eh?), Mulholland Drive (whathafuu*?), Godfather, Dark Days, Orca: Killer Whale, The Horseman on the Roof, Silent Running, The Vikings, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Alien, Where Eagles Dare, King Kong, Cohen Bros, Ken Loach, Bladerunner, Sergio Leone, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Zatoichi, Once Were Warriors, Tarrantino, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Wings of Desire, Chinatown, Les Amants des Pont Neuf, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Straight Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Lost in La Mancha, Dead Man's Shoes, Alien, City of God, Central Station, Betty Blue, The Apartment, Baraka, La Haine, Amelie, Dartagnan's Daughter, Punch Drunk Love, Sideways, Donnie Darko, Swingers, Slacker, Nil By Mouth followed by Ma Vie En Rose, Old Boy, Robin Hood (Rathbone & Flynn), Mystic River, Jason and the Argonauts, Modulation, Dr. Strangelove, St. Trinian films, The Party, The Ladykillers, The Man in the White Suit, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Subway, Riding Giants, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Sinbad, The French Connection, Bourne Identity etc, Stop Making Sense, Fear & Loathing of Las Vegas, Sexy Beast, The Pianist, Rear Window, Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen, Touching the Void, Last King of Scotland, Don't Look Now, The Shawshank Redemption, 12 Angry Men, Das Boot, Million Dollar Baby, Dog Day Afternoon, After Hours, The Departed, Scorcese, Gondry, every goddamn thing Almodovar touches...and the timeless - ALIEN...
Rhubarb & Custard, Peanuts, Weir's Way, Takeshi's Castle, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Teletext.
Victor by Joan Jara... Norman MacCaig's poetry, the cantankerous Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Woman Unknown by Lucia Graves, Robert Graves, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, The Little Prince, The Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman, No Logo-Naomi Klein, Kitchen Confidential-Anthony Bourdain, Fantastic Mr Fox-Roald Dahl, Peanuts, Where the Wild Things Are, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, Antonio Machado, Horacio Quiroga's short stories, Sor Juana, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bukowski, Fante, autobiographies and obituaries, maps, Spanish Civil War history, The Moon's A Balloon & Bring On The Empty Horses by David Niven,
Me Ma an' Da, Oliver ReedJohn Coltrane Norman MacCaig Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Tony Benn Barbara HepworthRobert CapaErrol Flynn Bill AndersonRIP Scott Fleming 1969 - 2006