Food, travel, wine, fun, music, films, books.
Charlie Watts
ooh, loads. Currently Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings (cheers Skanks!), Me'Shell Ndegeocello (thanks again Skanks!), Trilok Gurtu, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Prince, Mr. Brown, Fourtet, Fela Kuti, Parliament, Sly & the Family, Faithless, Black Crowes, Blackalicious, Charles Wright (cheers K), Cappo and Zero Theory (Get Out!), Dave Matthews, Billy Cobham, Miles Davis, Mos Def (one really good album), Roots Manuva, The Faces, G Love & Special Sauce, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Tower of Power, Sublime, most things with Steve Jordan on them, Ruben Gonzalez, The Meters, Sublime. I also quite like Tool but have no idea why.
Happy, not scary ones.... Sleepy Hollow is an all-time favourite, I think. Also, Corpses Bride &, er, forgotten 'em all!
Surely you don't care?!Ok. Spaced, 24, Father Ted :)
Anything by David Mitchell. Loved loved loved Ghostwritten, Number9dream, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind Up Bird Chronicle' in particular, Kazuo Ishiguro for An Artist of the Floating World, William Boyd- all- but esp. 'Any Human Heart'/ 'The New Confessions'. Paul Auster I like, but not recommended if you're feeling fragile.. Odds: My Family and Other Animals, Life of Pi, LoTR, Unreliable Memoirs (if only for the Dunney Man), His Dark Materials trilogy (I WANT an armoured bear!). I know it sounds pretentious, but I really enjoyed(?!) Crime and Punishment, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell, Cold Comfort Farm, Wall & Peace (worth it for the quote from the Met on the back cover alone), The Kite Runner (thank you, P)Special thanks to Keith for lending me the book with possibly the Best Title in the World (Volume 3....): 'Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid".