Other people with an innate curiosity for the spiritual in ourselves and in the universe. Appreciators of strategies and tactics for living and loving. Watchers of the weather. The defiant against alienation and despair, whether it be the mundane or grander varieties. Those with a home without a residence (even if they still have a residence). The lost and somewhat damaged. The converters of the system's faeces into soul worthy gold.
Manic Street Preachers, The Donnas, TISM, the Beasts of Bourbon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Tool, Pearl Jam, the Dirty Three, RollinsBand, The Mark of Cain, Smashing Pumpkins, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Scott-Heron, Foo-fighters, Faith No More, Sonic Youth, Midnight Oil, Radiohead, Iggy Pop, Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Soundgarden, You Am I, Jimmy Eat World, The Strokes, Powderfinger, Jeff Buckley, The Ramones, New Order, Led Zeppelin, Beth Orton, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Joy Division, The Smiths and of course Spinal Tap.
Movies: The Machinist
- V for Vendetta ("people shouldn't be afraid of their governments, the governments should be afraid of their people")
- Trainspotting ("I might as well have stuck 'em up my arse for all the good they've done")
- Look Both Ways ("What? Cancer cancer?")
- 24 Hour Party People ("who gives a shit? we're going to sell fuck all")
- Apocalypse Now
- The Deer Hunter
- Star Wars one thru six ("I've got a bad feeling about this")
- Amores Perros
- The Matrix ("not too bright either")
- Fight Club
- Empire of the Sun ("Hey kid! Do you want a Hershey's bar?")
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Trust
- Brazil ("and here's your receipt for my receipt")
- Bambi:First Blood
- A Clockwork Orange
- Dr Strangerlove (or how I stopped worrying and learnt to love the bomb) ("Gentleman! You can't fight in here, this is the war room!")
- Taxi Driver
Favourite actors: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Geoffrey Rush, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Eric Bana.
Red Dwarf, The Chaser, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Coupling, Little Britain, The Office, Doctor Who (the new one with David Tennant), Black Books, Extras.
"Dorian" + "Cock and Bull" Will Self
"The Dispossessed" Ursula Le Guin
"The Dice Man" Luke Rhinehart
"Catch-22" Joseph Heller
"The open society and it's enemies (Volume 1)" Karl Popper
"Crime and Punishment" + "The Possessed" Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Stand on Zanzibar" John Brunner
"The Second Sex" + "The Mandarins" Simone de Beauvoir
"Beyond Good and Evil" + "Twilight of the Idols" Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don Juan" Lord Byron
"Now Wait for Last Year" + "A Scanner Darkly" Philip K Dick
"American Psycho" Bret Easton Ellis
"Unlimited Dream Company" JG Ballard
"The Rebel" Albert Camus
"Red Mars" + "Green Mars" + "Blue Mars" Kym Stanley Robinson