Interests? Yes, I have them. Some of them include: music, films, different colours of pavement, playing drums really badly, my friends, nicely dressed females, gigging and getting inexplicably pissed off of two bottles of Carlsberg, foreign films, vulgarity, making inappropriate jokes, fancying lots of girls, going to the pub, eating unhealthily (not really an interest, more of a habit!), talking shit, conversation, you!, maintaining a somewhat punk ethic in the things I do, with regards to music (kind of!), taking the piss, talking in a northern accent. There are more, but I'd be here for hours if I listed them!
Audrey Tautou and Ian Mackaye. Preferably together. Chatting enthusiastically. That would be nice.
Chris Morris.
Ampere,
Arctic Monkeys,
Public Enemy,
Comets On Fire,
Pixies,
Gang Of Four,
Patti Smith,
Dizzee Rascal,
Joan Of Arc,
Wow, Owls!,
Tortoise,
Forward, Russia!,
Big Black,
Judge,
Pictures Paint Words,
Mohinder,
Kraftwerk,
Wesley Willis,
California Love/Look Back And Laugh,
The recent works of Mike Patton,
Dr. Dre,
Kanye West,
Sketchie,
Million Dead,
Palehorse,
Descendents,
Haram,
Aussitot Mort,
Amanda Woodward,
Melancholy In Vain,
Boris,
Narcosis,
Joanna Newsom,
Melvins,
The Streets,
Steven Seagal,
Cursive,
Dead & Gone,
Arcade Fire,
The Flaming Lips,
Neutral Milk Hotel,
NOFX,
Sinaloa,
Medications,
Beach Boys,
Banner Pilot,
The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg,
Noxagt,
Moss Icon,
Bloc Party,
Coalesce,
RX Bandits,
Transistor Transistor,
REDS,
Jeremy Enigk,
The (International) Noise Conspiracy,
Khanate/Sunn0))),
High On Fire,
Glass And Ashes,
Combatwoundedveteran,
Wolves,
Pretty Girls Make Graves,
Snack Truck,
Scarecrows,
Sunny Day Real Estate,
JR Ewing,
The Mars Volta,
Secondsmile,
Paint It Black,
Kid Dynamite,
Lifetime,
Pictures Paint Words,
The Smiths,
Kayo Dot,
The Get Up Kids,
Gregor Samsa,
The Dillinger Escape Plan,
Spazz,
Das Oath,
Saetia,
Shellac,
Rapeman,
TransAm,
Botch,
Radiohead,
Propagandhi,
Pink Razors,
Stop It!!,
What Price, Wonderland?,
Against Me!,
The Lawrence Arms,
Saves The Day,
Orchid,
Reversal Of Man,
Lightning Bolt,
Hella,
Deftones,
Combatwoundedveteran,
Mirror! Mirror!,
The Holy Mountain,
Do Make Say Think,
Jawbreaker,
The Kevorkian Solution,
Sonic Youth,
The Sawtooth Grin,
Limp Wrist,
Sepultura,
caP'n Jazz,
Owls,
Braid,
Raein,
Louise Cyphre,
Yaphet Kotto,
City Of Caterpilar,
Pg.99,
Circle Takes The Square,
Rocket From The Crypt,
Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes,
Antioch Arrow,
Born Against,
Mineral,
The Gloria Record,
Fugazi,
Refused,
The Cape Of Good Hope,
Blah, blah fucking blah.
Of recent, I have been digging a moat around my hand-built castle to the bombastic metal sounds of:
Joan Of Arc - A Portable Model Of
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Amanda Woodward - La Decadence De La Decadence
Bad Brains - Rock For Light
Seein' Red - Workspiel
Shellac - At Action Park/Excellent Italian Greyhound
Deadguy - Fixation On A Co-Worker
Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
Too many too fookin' mention. Christ! Shit!:
Amelie, Snakes On A Plane, The Ring (original), A Streetcar Named Desire, Brick, Volver, Come And See, Lost Highway, Scarface, Ghostworld, Commando, I *heart* Huckabees, Wayne's World, City Of God, Dune, Jules Et Jim, The Squid And The Whale This Is Spinal Tap, The Shawshank Redemption, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Donnie Darko, Apocalypse Now, Delicatessen (anything by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, for that matter!), Forrest Gump!, L.A. Confidential, The Elephant Man, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Napoleon Dynamite (don't!), The Omen (original!), I enjoyed Vanilla Sky, Robocop, Oldboy, Saving Private Ryan, Peter Pan (not fucking 'Hook'!), Platoon, Breathless (A Bout De Souffle),Taxi Driver, Full Metal Jacket, The King Of Comedy, The 'Ghost In The Shell' movies, Lost In Translation, Bold Font: The Movie, Scum, Bad Taste/Braindead, Ghostbusters, Requiem For A Dream, Terminator 1 & 2 (not Terminator Three, Jess!), Total Recall, Irreversible, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, The Jacket, The Idiots, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Spirited Away, Battle Royale, Pulp Fiction, Dumb And Dumber, Beavis And Butthead Do America (fuck you!), The Die Hard Trilogy, Rocky, Big Fish, Gangs Of New York, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Raging Bull, Violent Cop!, anything with Arnie or Seagal in it.
There are others, innit?
Is mostly a big pile of horse waste, but I enjoy these programs very much:
Twin Peaks,
I'm Alan Partridge,
The Office,
Ren And Stimpy (R.I.P.),
Tintin!
Peep Show,
Postman Pat,
Sharky And George (old school!),
Extras,
Catterick!,
Green Wing,
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Dylan Moran. Just him, generally!
The Simpsons,
Family Guy,
Sex And The City!
are more fun than a load of naked hippies shagging.
I read:
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, MS. Found In A Bottle - Edgar Allan Poe, The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde, The Devoted Friend - Oscar Wilde, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Judgement - Franz Kafka, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll, Ligeia - Edgar Allan Poe, Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, The Chimney Sweeper - William Blake, The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde, Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Currently divulging:
Selected Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Selected Poetry - William Blake
Penguin Classics at 'Borders' all the way!
Brendan Canty,
Ian Mackaye,
Denis Lyxzen,
Dangermouse!,
Dave Knudson,
Dave Witte,
Jeff Kane,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Zach Hill,
Jayson Green,
Tom Hanks,
Blah, blah, blah!
My friends all rule, also!