DREAMING, Music, Fantasy, Exploring, New Adventures, Travelling, Booze, Films, Marmite on toast, Food fights, Apples, Cider, Weekends, Lovin the Sea, The Sky, Bed, Hammocks, Wig-wams, treehouses, Planes, Classic Cars, Watching thunderstorms, Messy breakfast in bed, stupid comedy hungover lazy days talking utter shite with yer mates and lovin it, Ketchup, Coffee, Cinema, collecting japanese toys graphics and things to clutter my room, acting stupid but not thinking stupidly, Photography, design, People who love and make others happy, random kindness in the street, buying vinyl tuneage when i have the time 'n cash, dreaming about making + selling my own textiles + screenprints one day + having my photography published. Want to learn spanish, surf, snowboard, buy a VW, travel all around the world all over again and draw for the rest of my life and have a sweet little garden one day where i can grow lot's of lovely veggies and fruit and herbs and lillies and daisies and things like my Grandad taught me....and a gorgeous Man to share it all with. For now though, it'll have to remain in my head.... But that would make me very very happy.
I'd Like To Meet..Ideally: The Editor of National Geographic who will offer me a job as top Photographer, Gael GarcÃa Bernal, An MI5/MI6 Spy, Al Pacino, Chief Brody, Little Garden Fairies and pretty elves, Freddie Ljundburg look-a-likes, cute skateboarders, Jeremy Bowen (War Correspondant dude), John Carpenter (to give me some movie making advice and scare the shit out of me), My School Art Teacher to say thank you, My Irish Grandad and My Welsh Grandmother. Realistically: Mates and long lost mates.. oh and the little shit who nicked all my school paintings...
In no particular order...60s, 70s, Electro, Breaks and beats, Jazzy funky Drum n bass, Old Skool 1992-1994 house, Brazilian Bossa Nova, DJ GAVSTER . Anything on Fingerlickin, Good Looking, Mob Records, Distinctive Breaks, Skinny Malinky records, Spooky (Charlie May), Banco De Gaia, Eagles, Santana, Furry Phreaks, Jimi Hendrix, James Lavelle, DJ Shadow, (UNKLE), Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Otis Reading, Beach Boys, Tracy Chapman, The Avalanches, Aphex Twin, Gilles Peterson, Sasha, Massive Attack, Portishead, Roni Size, (ALL THE BRISTOL CREW OF COURSE!) The Carpenters, Dusty Springfield, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, JTQ, Killers, Makoto, Seba, LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad, Air, Herbie Hancock, Adam Freeland, Blame, Orb, Gus Gus, My friends' bands...blah blah blah.......
Too many.. Apocolypse Now, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Jaws, Goonies, Dr.Strangelove, Whale Rider, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Dead Mans Shoes, Withnail and I, Goodbye Lenin, All About My Mother, Donnie Brasco, Story of the Weeping Camel, The Shining, Star Wars - all of 'em, The Straight Story, The Fog, Magnolia, Battle Royale, The Tale of Two Sisters, Factotum, Sideways, Napolean Dynamite, Ameros Perros, Buffalo 66, Palookaville, Hannah and Her Sisters, Dark Water, The Ring (japanese versions), Spirited Away, The Wizard Of Oz, It's A Wonderful life, The Devils Backbone, Motorcycle Diaries, Pan's Labyrinth, Science Of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, JOJO IN THE STARS.....BLAH BLAH...
Yea, big plasma screen please if yer offering.
All of the Lonely Planet ones. And far too many other ones.
Grampy Stevens