voyeuristic photographing, cinemas, avoiding the multiplex shopping arcades because they are horrid, rockabilly, rock n roll, bluegrass, cultural junket, visually pleasing treats, pickin the banjo, promenading about the place, LPs, staying up all night mingling, sitting in warm rooms, smoking, fornication, vegetarianism, most things queer, uk seaside holidays, one particular medium-core pornography publishing scam that hasn't got my name all over it, watching people tango, mail art in the spirit of genesis p.orridge/COUM, burlesque ladies, brocante, ping pong, parks, pool
bizarre and rare instruments- celesta, thereminvox, the uke, various membranophones, banjo and so forth. As far as bands go, a general round-up= the smiths, the velvet underground, captain beefheart, wanda jackson, the shangri-las, cash, parkins and presley, battles, can, joy division, my bloody valentine, rodrigo y gabriela, aphex twin, the magic and mastery of phil spector, the cramps, ike and tina, 60s girl groups, nico, kitsch and novelty records, jonathan richman (and the modern lovers), ralph stanley, plaid, patti smith, squarepusher, chicks on speed, the pixies, peaches, led zepp, the nazz, jacques brel, the cure, the stones, the buzzcocks, the ramones, autechre, the stooges, the count five, ani difranco + righteous babe records, the sonics, zombie zombie, kraftwerk, the modified toy orchestra, salty dog, talking heads, pj harvey, the pixies, gillian welch, john renbourne, bert jansch, serge gainsbourg, lee hazlewood, sparks, sandie shaw, joni mitchell, add N to X, richie havens, pickin' on zepp ironhorse bluegrass band, big mama thornton, os mutantes, bauhaus, the new york dolls, bochum welt, cassette boy, push button objects, goran bregovic, mouse on mars, eek a mouse, björk, brian eno, matmos, sonic youth, paco de lucia, kate bush, george thorogood, nick cave, einsturzen neubauten, lcd soundsystem, ceephax acid crew, seefeel, skatalites and some dub reggae but im no expert in that there music
in no particular order= hal hartley, mike leigh (particularly 'Nuts in May', 'Naked' and 'Secrets and Lies'), jim jarmusch, wolfgang becker, tony richardson 'A Taste of Honey', pedro almodovar, nicolas roeg, lynne ramsay, christopher guest, joseph losey 'The Servant' yes, brian forbes 'The L Shaped Room', pawil pawlikowski, michael powell emeric pressburger, john waters, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s B movies featuring giant women, unsavoury objects and mutated things, the day of the triffids, the invasion of the bee girls, the wicker man, isabelle huppert, alfred hitchcock, ernst lubitsch, george cukor, lars von trier, fritz lang, richard griffiths, ingmar bergman, werner herzog, david lynch, joan crawford, michael haneke 'the piano teacher' especially, wim wenders 'Der Amerikanische Freund', lukas moodysson all except that terrible last load of claptrap, withnail, bette davis, spinal tap, roy boulting 'the family way', krzysztof kieslowski, katharine hepburn, the big lebowski, fargo, godard 'Bande à Part'
Nighty Night, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, The Kingdom, David Attenborough, high brow quizes. Instead of television though, I'd prefer to take this opportunity to wax lyrical with a list of photographers who I think are super. Martin Parr, Eadweard Muybridge, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Cindy Sherman, Weegee, E.J Bellocq, Wolfgang Tillmans, Georges Brassai, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Stieglitz, Brian Ulrich, Leigh Ledare and many more
Alistair Gray's 'Lanark', Herman Hesse, Philip Larkin, Aldous Huxley, Alan Bennett, Harold Pinter, Oscar Wilde, Iris Murdoch, Roland Barthes, Paul Verlaine, Alfred Lord Tennyson, James Baldwin, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Joe Orton, Richard Dawkins, Noel Coward
William Melvin Hicks Stephen Patrick Morrissey. I couldn't agree more Pat Phoenix aka Elsie Tanner in epitome of the North tele