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(This dog won CRUFTS!!)
Music, CUTEOVERLOAD.COM, workin with young people, reportage/ investigative journalism, sociology, US and UK crossovers. make-up, GCHQ,William Brody Jekyll/Hyde, fireworks, steam inhalations, standing on rooves, LALIQUE GLASS, Enigma machines and WW2, my brother, debris and building fall out, overgrown outdoors, animals particularly dogs and cats, giving up smoking, beachfires with no washed up jellyfish, silver chains with charms on them, history of London- I don't like small towns, crime, photography, trips stateside, seroxat, drums, CHANTECAILLE, London Zoo, the National Aerospace Museum in DC esp. watching TO FLY, LA Riots, drawings like those 80s Robert Longo businessmen, war stories, women doing cool stuff even if it's grassroots, rootbeer, hip hop album covers, the westway until it changed to being a sad part of town for me, explorers, spies and their memoirs, imax movies, extreme workloads then collapsing, publishing and learning more about layout, Torvill and Dean, St.Pauls, collages, archives and those machines that speed through newspaper articles,accents, tenderness, plays and documentaries, having places that are yours in the city, visiting the cat in the newsagent and makin accidental photocopies when it sits on the photocopier.sir.alan cobham. propolis
I'd like to meet:
Drexciya, Teddy Riley, Patrick McGoohan, Justin Warfield, Biggie, Jean Muir, Wonder, Juan Atkins, Leonardo Da Vinci,Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar, a fox terrier, Jon E Cash,Bertie Smalls. Cameo, Georgio Moroder, Robert Louis-Stevenson, William Shaw, Moira Shearer, Robert Capa, Gary Kasparov, Dionne Warwick, Peter Shaeffer, Patty Waters, Nina, Rita and Toffee (very ferocious), Graham Massey, David Lean, warm peeps ..
Music:
Grime: Wonder, Plastician, Terror, Skitz Beatz, Mizz Beatz, Dex, JME, Braindead, WIZZBIT, Ears, Bashy, Bruza, Jon E Cash, Statik, Newham Generals,Slew Dem, D Double E, DCOY, Wiley...Drexciya, Dopplereffeckt, Ultradyne, JAMES STINSON, Juan Atkins, anything UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE, Neurosis. clan of xymox. Oxbow.karp.born against. antioch arrow...Newcleus,Bitch Magnet. Slayer. Dillinger Escape Plan. Brutal Truth. Nasum
Morbid Angel. Carcass. Nocturnus. Early Earache. Meshuggah.
Lightning Bolt (ish). GG Allin. Dead Meadow. Led Zep (fave drummer
of all time). Satyricon. Fugazi. Emperor.Oxes. Nile. Sleep. Converge. Megadeth.
The Cure. Drive like Jehu. Mastodon. Cocteau Twins, Dif Juz.
The Fall. Country Teasers. Japan. kate bush. joy division.
biting tongues. crispy ambulance. STEWART COPELAND- DONT BOX ME IN the subhumans. NomeansNo.
Sex Pistols. Depeche Mode. Tears For Fears. David Sylvian. The Smiths.
Cass Mccombs. Nina Simone. Mahalia Jackson. Stevie Wonder. Blondie.
Alice Coltrane. Patty Waters. Pentangle. Shirley Collins. Don Cherry.
Laika. Dionne Warwick.The boredoms. shellac. sicbay. 90 day men.
alasdair roberts.nas. epmd. bdp. justin warfield. krs1. mobb deep. dizzee.
Biggie. Ice Cube-Predator. J Dilla. Salt N'Pepa.1Xtra. Wu. Ultramags. Early Def Jam. MC Solaar.
Redman. Sub Lo/ Eski.808 State. Bjork. Diamanda Gallas. Shipping News.
Slint.My Bloody Valentine. Labradford. Siouxsie. The Heads. God. Bronski Beat.
Soft Cell. Vince Clarke. PSB. PIL. Neneh Cherry. Bark Psychosis.
Ride. Slowdive. Gang of Four. Pan Sonic. Autechre. Allegri. Ambient Works 2. Merzbow. EMF. Nation of Ulysees. Mission of Burma. Mr.Bungle. James
Chance. Neu!. Barry Adamson. Birthday Party. Einsturzende Neubaten.
The Residents. Can. Butthole Surfers. Jarboe. Bardo Pond. The Fucking Champs. Rhythm and Sound label. Human League. Visage. Yazoo. US Maple...The music to Westside Story and Showboat, Porgy and Bess. cats caterwauling on fences all puffed up.
Movies:
WALKABOUT. PATRICK KEILLER- Dilapidated dwelling/ london/ robinson in space.La Haine. Black Orpheus. Company of Wolves. John Landis. Last Exit To Brooklyn. The Deerhunter. The Conformist. Henry: Portrait of a serial killer. Kes. New Jack City. King of New York. Public Enemy. Angels with Dirty Faces.Shaolin soccer. Infernal Affairs. Gilda. Day of the Jackal. The Ring. Heathers. The Color of Money. Nikita. Gattaca. Midnight Cowboy. Driller Killer. Shoah. Boys in the Hood. Do the Right Thing. The Servant. Vampire movies. Legend of the Overfiend. If... Rita, Sue and Bob too. Dilapidated Dwelling. Spinal Tap. Aliens. Chinatown. Clockwise. The Cruel Sea. Wallstreet. 80s teen flicks/ Back To The Future. Scarface. Miller's Crossing. Mean Streets. Bad Lieutenant. Borstal Girls. Capturing the Friedmans. Audition. Aliens. Candyman. The Grifters. All Abel Ferrara. Best in Show. Full Metal Jacket. Goodbye Mr Chips. High Plains Drifter. Glory. Gimme Shelter. Night Porter. Last Year in Marienbad.Crumb. The Wicker Man. The Warriors. Zulu.Call of the wild....
Television:
Edge of Darkness.The Box of Delights.Screenwipe. The Planets. Civil War series by Ken Burns. Wifeswap. The Shield. Daria. Channel 5 forensic shows. Blackadder. David Jason. Morse (well I am from Oxford!). Columbo. Why Don't You? ITV chart show. Cosmetic Surgery Live. Elephant Diaries.The Wire. Fraggle Rock.The show on London Zoo. Sapphire and Steel.The World at War.
Books:
WESTSIDERS by William Shaw. Welfare that works/ Demos publications. Winnicott.TURN OF THE SCREW. Marshal McLuhan. The Secret Garden. The Leopard. Gerard Manley-Hopkins. Keith Haring's Diaries. Erikson. Derek Jarman books. Tennessee Williams. Eugene O'Neill. Spycatcher. Churchill. Ghost stories/ Poe. Cyril Roth history stuff. Simon Schama. A tree grows in Brooklyn. Books on choreography. Krappes Last Tape. Chronicle of a death foretold. Desire Under the Elms. In the Garden of the Finzi Continis. Robert Frost. Taste of Honey. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Hebdige. Deleuze stuff. Catherine Mansfield. Colette. T.S Eliott. S.Pepys. I HATE THE BEATS!!!.Art: Bosch, Holbein, Cranac, Patrick Keiller, Matthew Barney,Wayne Thiebaud. Steven Shearer. Steven Shore. Pettibon. Scott King. P. Guston, Franz West. Kippenberger. Kabakov. Krazy Kat. Keith Haring. Alex Mir. Chris Burden, Hopper, Beuys watercolours, ROBERT LONGO!! Paul Noble... Pentagram, victorian botanical drawings, Basquiat sometimes, Dan Flavin, Judd, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Andy Warhol, Tiffany Lamps, old vaudeville theatres, flat iron building...I read a lot of newspapers and magazines Colors/News on the internet/ National Enquirer/ iD/ The Onion/ Viz/ Document/ Thrasher/ LIVE!/ RWD/ Terrorizer/ Campaign/ Parkett/ The Sun/ TES/ LIFE MAGAZINE from the 50s
Heroes:
James Cagney, Lindsay Kemp, Rick Rescorla- security chief at the World Trade towers, Sam McPheeters, Merce Cunningham, Arthur Ashe- Richmond won't put his statue on the avenue, Ken Burns, Sylvie Guillieme, David Lean, my mum! For words- diaphanous
