Things that I am a bore about:
Music
Film
Literature
Art
Culture
Buddhism
People that have influenced me in any way (see heroes section)
A lot...
Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Bach
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Beck
Beethoven
Björk
Black Mountain
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Breeders
Captain Beefheart
Chemical Brothers
The Clash
Cream
The Cure
David Bowie
Dinosaur Jr.
The Doors
Eels
Electric Six
Elgar
Faithless
Fatboy Slim
Foo Fighters
Frank Black
Frank Zappa
The Go!Team
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Handel
The Hives
Howlin' Wolf
Hüsker Dü
Iggy Pop and The Stooges
The Jam
Jane's Addiction
Janis Joplin
Jeff Wane
Jimi Hendrix
John Frusciante
John Lee Hooker
John Lennon
Joy Division
King Crimson
Kings Of Leon
Leadbelly
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
The Libertines
Lou Reed
The Magic Numbers
Massive Attack
Mike Oldfield
Mogwai
Mozart
Muddy Waters
Muse
My Bloody Valentine
Nick Drake
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
NWA
Pavement
Peter Tosh
Pixies
Placebo
Primal Scream
The Prodigy
Queen
Queens Of The Stone Age
R.E.M
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Robert Johnson
The Rolling Stones
The Sex Pistols
Sigur Rós
Skip james
Small Faces
The Smashing Pumpkins
Son House
Sonic Youth
Sparks
Squarepusher
The Strokes
Tenacious D
Thom Yorke
Throwing Muses
Tiesto
The Velvet Underground
Venetian Snares
Vivaldi
Ween
Weezer
The White Stripes
The Who
Yann Tiersen
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zwan
Last week I listened to:
Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Amelie, The Big Lebowski, City of God, Oldboy, Fargo, Trainspotting, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ghost World, The Godfather, The Godfather Pt II, The Shining, Se7en, Goodfellas, Hero, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Taxi Driver, The Truman Show, True Romance, The World According to Garp, A Clockwork Orange, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Scarface One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Apocalypse Now, The Evil Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Battle Royale, Dr Strangelove, Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle
South Park, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Office, ER, Green Wing, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The League of Gentlemen, Have I Got News for You, Lost, Da Ali G Show, Brass Eye, Spaced, Big Train, The IT Crowd, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Skins
Anything by Bukowski
Also: The World According to Garp, Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange, The Catcher in the Rye, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, About a Boy, American Psycho, 1984, The Shining
Most of my heroes are or were alcoholics, junkies, pot-heads and nut cases and most of them are dead.
This is worrying. However, they have all affected me in some way so they must be cool... Here are some of them:
Bill Hicks, Charles Bukowski, Jimi Hendrix, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian Curtis, Bob Marley, Salvador Dali, The Dude, John Frusciante, John Lennon, George Carlin, Karl Marx, Buddha, The black guy from 'Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle'