Music : lots of stuff but especially 70's rock, punk, country, blues, southern soul, latin funk, hair metal, 60's pop, hip-pop, bluegrass, and baroque classical...catholic iconography, white trash culture, gothic americana, british kitchen sink cinema, crime novels, violent films, BBQ, cussing, drinking, cowboy boots, american muscle cars, photography, cooking, collecting cookbooks full of exotic ingredients I can't find, tattoos, conversation, letter writing, tv detectives, virginia, mississippi and louisiana, biker pulp, contemporary british fiction, vintage erotica, expensive make-up, dildoes, latin american food, rum, arguments.
I'd like to meet:
People who should know better. Bounders, cads and misfits. Sharp wits, fast talkers and deep thinkers. Folk who know when it's their round. Those who know the secret places. Tall people so I can wear high heels without feeling like a drag queen. And I like to meet people who like to break alot of rules.
Music:
and in general, in real life, where vinyl prevails : Todd, PW Long, Lungfish, Fugazi, Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter, Bo Diddley, Dizzee Rascal, Led Zeppelin, Silver Mt Zion, Patti Smith, Al Green, The Evens, Dusty Springfield, David Bowie, Screaming Trees, Wagner, Oxbow, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lulu, Jenny Hoyston, Outkast, Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Ramones, CRASS, Son House, Ike & Tina Turner, Joan Jett, Bobbie Gentry, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore; Clipse, Nick Drake, Aerosmith, Laura Lee, The Meters, X Ray Spex, Current 93, Ike & Tina Turner, Heart, Goatsnake, Loretta Lynn, Muddy Waters, Bob Wills, Kyuss, Public Enemy, AC/DC, Lyn Collins, France Gall, Boston, Minor Threat, Monica Queen, Husker Du, Elvis Costello, Dalek, Patsy Cline, Blondie, Stars Of The Lid, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Howlin' Wolf, Cheap Trick, William Elliott Whitmore, Isis, Shellac, Scream, Afghan Whigs, Mule, Sunn 0))), Scott Walker, Hank Williams, Mountain, MC5, Grand Funk Railroad, The Avengers, Ted Nugent, Ann Peebles, Trencher, Thrones....
Movies:
To Sir With Love, Lady Snowblood series, Big Lebowski, Doberman, La Haine, A Taste Of Honey, Near Dark, Battle Royale, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, L'Apartment, Face Off, Irreversible, Return Of The King, Return Of The Jedi, Barberella, Alfie, On The Waterfront, Escape From New York, The Killing Of Sister George, Leon, Coal Miner's Daughter, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Saturday Night Fever, Smokey And The Bandit, Dazed And Confused, Last Picture Show, Good Fellas, The Italian Job, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner, Brotherhood of The Wolf, Con Air, Babycart In The Land of Demons, Nashville, West Side Story, Fargo, Made In Britain...
Television:
House, 24, Grey's Anatomy, Location Location Location, Relocation Relocation Relocation, Grand Designs, Batman (original TV series and The Animated series), CSI, Seinfeld, Larry Sanders, The Wire, Will & Grace (should be called Karen & Jack), Without A Trace, Mr Show, Prime Suspect, Brass Eye, Antiques Roadshow, Takeshi's Castle, Cracker, Twin Peaks, Mod Squad, Beat Club, and errr, America's Next Top Model.
Books:
The B Guys : Bataillie, Bukowski and Burroughs; 'Stone Junction' by Jim Dodge, To Kill A Mockingbird, Peyton Place, all the Nell Dunn stuff (Up The Junction, Poor Cow etc), all the Richard Allen stuff (Skinhead, Punk Rock etc), every single word ever written by the late great Derek Raymond (The Factory novels), Ed McBain 84th Precinct novels, 'Yonder Stands Your Orphan" by Barry Hannah, Dennis Cooper, 'Gangland Britain' by Tony Thompson, Daniel Woodrell, 'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind, 'Tipping The Velvet' by Sarah Waters, Haruki Murakami, 'Wise Children' by Angela Carter, 'The Burglar Diaries' by Danny King, "Doing It For Daddy' and pretty much everything by Pat Califia, Irvine Welsh, 'Born Fighter' by Reg Kray, 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nobokov, 'Edie' by Jean Stein, 'Hammer Of The Gods' by Stephen Davis, 'Among The Thugs' by Bill Bruford, 'The Passion' Jeanette Winterson, 'The Treatment' by Mo Hayder. .
Heroes:
"Create like God, command like a king, work like a slave." Constantin Brancusi - - - - - -Ian MacKaye, Pauline Fox Libeau, PW Long, Patti Smith, Pat Califia, Josephine Bonaparte, Joan Jett, Charles Bukowski, Yves Klein, Billie Holiday, Hunter S. Thompson.
