60's suits,
Plant life,
America,
Amsterdam (water is essential in a city),
Ancient Egypt,
Ancient Sparta,
Ants,
Astrology,
Astronomy,
Baboons,
Batman,
Biology,
Birds,
Britain,
Buddha,
Caravaggio,
Carl Jung,
Cats,
Caves,
Cerebus the Aardvark,
China,
Comic books,
Cosmology,
Country pubs,
Cuban cigars,
Da Vinci (but not his stupid code funnily enough!),
Dancing,
Deserts,
Dogs,
Donkey Kong,
Donuts,
Dracula,
Erich Mendelsohn's architecture,
Europe,
Fine Cognac,
Fine Armmagnac,
Foxes,
Brain chemistry,
Frankenstein,
Being in the here and now,
Galaxians,
Gentleness,
Golf,
Having wacky dreams and trying to remember 'em,
Helicopters,
Horses,
Houseplants,
Hunterwasser,
Jackson Pollock,
James Bond,
Japan,
Jean Baudrillard,
Jesus,
Joseph Beuys,
Laughing,
Living a mythical life,
Long hair on girls,
Male grooming,
Mark Rothko,
Martin Parr,
Michel Foucault,
Michelangelo,
Mods,
Monument Valley,
Motorsport,
Non-conformity,
Sex,
Open Fires,
Organised crime,
Picasso,
Plato and Socrates,
Post Modernism,
Psychedelia,
Psychogeography,
Psychology,
Quantum Physics,
Red Wine,
Rembrandt,
Robots,
Shopenhauer,
Short hair on girls,
Sin City,
Skyscrapers,
Clay pigeon shooting,
The constant search for the next ex!
I'd like to meet:
The disarmingly beautiful Emily Watson and the beautifully disarming Katee Sackoff (sorry Isabelle)are two goddesses I wouldn't mind sharing a bottle of Absynthe with. Failing that any ladies who thinks "Phwoooar!" when they see me! Failing that, Darth Vader!Failing that a good, cheap therapist! ;0)
Music:
Bonzo Dog Band, The Rutles, LCD Soundsystem, Scritti Politti, Led Zeppelin, The 'oo, Small Faces, The Kinks, Northern Soul, The Pretty Things, David Axelrod, Human League, Midlake, The Earlies, Death From Above 1979, The Rapture, Radio 4, Gavin Russom and Delia Gonzales, Kraftwerk, Stevie Wonder, Lemonjelly, Hot Chip, Beethoven, The Action, The Eyes, The Fall, Julie Driscoll, Dusty Springfield, Bob Dylan, Tiefschwarz, Soulwax, soundtracks, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Public Enemy, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, QOTSA, Angelo Badlamenti, Jimi Hendrix, Big Audio Dynamite, Cocteau Twins, Gang of Four, Louis XIV, Calexico, Stetsasonic, Blackalicious, The Roots, Smog, Death in Vegas, Ultramagnetic MCs, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Roger Miller, Daft Punk, MSTRKRFT, Hot Chip, Datarock, Turbowolf, New Young Pony Club, Teardrop Explodes, Gang of Four, Philip Glass, Wire, The Bonzo Dog Band, Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Movies:
Directors - Stanley, Kubrick, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, Takashi Miike, Terry Gilliam, Paul Verhoeven, Park-Chan Wook, Robert Altman, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Billie Wilder, The Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, Looney Tunes, Michael Mann, John Carpenter, Roman Polanski, Hal Ashby, Martin Scorcese, Sergio Leonne, Quentin Tarantino, Tod Browning, Preston Sturges, The Coen Brothers.
Films - Errol Morris' documentaries, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Alien, Electraglide in Blue, Two Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, Klute, The Conversation, The Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, Get Carter, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man, Dark Star, Koyaanisqatsi, Alphaville, Solaris, Catch 22, Point Blank, The Apartment, Android, The Odd Couple, Ghost in The Shell (I & II), Akira, Quatermass & The Pit, THX 1138, Android
Television:
Stella Street, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Peep Show, Life on Mars, Crime Story, Twin Peaks, Battlestar Galactica (new series), Deadwood, The Sopranos, The Sweeney, Paranoia Agent, Green Wing, The Survivors, The Avengers (bw), The Prisoner, Monty python, Rising Damp, Porridge, The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin, Chorlton & The Wheelies, Spaced, Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door, 15 Storeys High, Big Train and not forgetting the Don, Mr. Chris Morris
Books:
Peter Ackroyd, Philip K. Dick, Ian McEwan, Iain Sinclair, Michelle Houellebecq, James Ellroy, Ian Fleming, J.G. Ballard, Gulliver's Travels, Franz Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Joseph Heller, Charles Bukowski, Edward Bunker, Iain M. Banks, Robert Anton Wilson, Goethe,
Heroes:
We all live mythic and heroic lives. Thank you Mr. Joyce for pointing that out in such an erudite fashion.
Ullyses, Bill Hicks, Keith Moon, Peter Cook, Ted Chippington, Oliver Reed, Richard Pryor, Carl Jung, Lennie Bruce, Vivian Stanshall, Captain Nemo, Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins.
