Likes
I enjoy gardening, cooking, eating, music, films, spending time with friends, coffee, cheese, Spanish food, animals, reading, acting, writing and meeting new people.
Dislikes
Bigtry, right-wing politics, modern commercialisaion and consumerism, the modern 'chav' culture, religious and political extremism, beetroot and the way that my hands always go dry in the winter.
Music:
I love anything from ska, dub and trip hop to industrial, British acid folk, country, grunge, indie, gothic, madrigal, musicals, baroque, classic rock, r and b (though urban can go sod itself sideways). Some artists in particular include:
..2 Air, Amon Tobin, Tori Amos, Aphex Twin, Ash, Autechre, The B-52s, Devendra Banhart, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Belle & Sebastian, Bellowhead, Ben Folds, Acker Bilk, Bjork, Blind Guardian, The Bluetones, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Marc Bolan and T Rex, David Bowie, Brendan Benson, Bright Eyes, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Kate Bush, Calamine, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Nick Cave, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, Bootsy Collins, Sam Cooke, Elvis Costello, Cruachan, The Cure, Daft Punk, The Dandy Warhols, Sandy Denny, Depeche Mode, The Divine Comedy, DJ Shadow, The Doors, John Dowland, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, E.L.O., Earthtone9, Eek-A-Mouse, The Eels, Danny Elfman, Embrace, Brian Eno, Enya, The Everly Brothers, Fairport Convention, Bill Fay, The Flaming Lips, The Foo Fighters, Forest, Frou Frou, Golden Smog, Gomez, The Gorillaz, Green Day, Ed Harcourt, PJ Harvey, Imogen Heap, Jimi Hendrix, Herbaliser, Hole, Buddy Holly, David Holmes, Johnny Lee Hooker, I Am Kloot, Idlewild, Interpol, Iron and Wine, The Jam, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Yoko Kanno, The Kinks, Lacuna Coil, Lamb, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Sean Lennon, The Levellers, Love, Lush, Mansun, Bob Marley, John Martyn, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Mercury Rev, Mogwai, Mr. Scruff, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Joanna Newsom, Nico, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Nirvana (prog rock group), No Doubt, Stina Nordenstam, Orbital, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pentangle, The Pixies, Pink Floyd, The Pogues, Karine Polwart, The Polyphonic Spree, Iggy Pop, Portishead, The Presidents of the U.S.A., Primal Scream, Procol Harem, The Prodigy, Public Enemy, Pulp, The Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lou Reed, Rhapsody, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Raymond Scott, The Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Silverchair, Paul Simon, Nina Simone, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skunk Anansie, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, The Sneaker Pimps, Sonic Youth, Soulwax, Soundgarden, Sparklehorse, Spike Jones, Squeeze, Stabbing Westward, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Stiff Little Fingers, The Stone Roses, The Stone Temple Pilots, The Stranglers, Suede, Supergrass, Switchfoot, System of a Down, June Tabor, The Talking Heads, Tangerine Dream, Television, They Might Be Giants, Linval Thompson, Tool, Traffic, Tricky, Tunng, Turin Brakes, Suzanne Vega, The Velvet Underground, Popol Vuh, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Wu-Tang Clan, Neil Young, The Zombies...
Movies:
I love my films very much. Favourites include:
28 Days Later, Akira, Amélie, American Psycho, An American Werewolf In London, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, The Big Lebowski, Blackrock, The Boondock Saints, Brazil, The Bubble Boy, The Butterfly Effect, Carlito's Way, A Clockwork Orange, The Crow, The Dark Crystal, Deathwatch, Devilman, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, The Emperor's New Groove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Fight Club, Flight of Dragons, Harvey, Hot Fuzz, It's A Wonderful Life, The Jacket, Labyrinth, Legend, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Machinist, The Matrix, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Moulin Rouge, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Nightwatch, Nosferatu, Nothing, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pan's Labyrinth, The Pianist, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Plague Dogs, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shallow Grave, Shaun of the Dead, Shine, The Shining, Sin City, Sleepy Hollow, Spiderman, The Usual Suspects, V For Vendetta, Velvet Goldmine, Vertigo, Watership Down, The Wicker Man, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Withnail and I...
There are many, many more...
Actor of the Moment
John Simm
I'm very much into Life On Mars at the minute, but some of Simm's other work is fantastic too. Check out Sex Traffic in particular.
Television:
Adam Adamant, Big Train, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Black Books, Blackadder, Blackpool, Carnivále, Doctor Who, Family Guy, The Fast Show, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Firefly, Futurama, Garth Merenghi's Dark Place, The Goodies, Harvey Birdman, The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, How Do You Want Me?, King of the Hill, The Lakes, Life On Mars, Lost, The Mighty Boosh, Monty Python's Flying Circus, My Name Is Earl, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Northern Exposure, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Our Friends In The North, Q.I., Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, Ren and Stimpy, Ripping Yarns, Robot Chicken, Scrubs, Sealab 2021, Sharpe, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Spaced, Sparkhouse, The Storyteller, The Tick, Top Gear, Torchwood, The X-Files...
To name a few.
Quotes
"You'll have to stay the night... They've taken the roads in."
"Dougal, you can't sit around here watching television all day... Chewing gum for the eyes!"
"Oh no thanks Ted, I've got these crisps here."
"I'm eating scrambled eggs... With a comb... From a shoe..."
"You know what I saw him doing? He was sucking his trousers... And laughing!"
"Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink tea out of a rolled-up newspaper."
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"
"We can't stop here... This is bat country."
"Obviously, you're not a golfer."
Books:
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange; Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years Of Solitude; Chuck Palanhuik - Fight Club; Anne Rice - Vampire Chronicles; Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas; J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings; Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey;
I'm currently reading 'The Remains of the Day' by Kazuo Ishiguro, and 'The God Delusion' by some feller.
Links
The Perry Bible Fellowship
* T Shirt Hell *
Cyanide and Happiness
Commercial Breaks and Beats
Married to the Sea
Toothpaste For Dinner
Natalie Dee
Heroes:
My parents (even if the poor couple did sire and birth me, it goes without saying)
Stephen Fry
David Bowie
The Beatles
The Monty Python lads
Vincent Price
Sylvia Pankhurst
Oscar Wilde
Tim Burton
Akira Kurosawa
James Stewart
Ned Kelly
Visual Aids to Illustrate My Favourings
