My bicycles, bike rides, cups of Tea, buns, playing records, buying records, toy-making, walks in the park on autumnal or spring afternoons with people who like you as much as you like them, good quality knitwear and fabrics, vintage magazines, screen-printing, my postcard collection, making a white sauce from scratch, making collages, charity shoppin and car-bootin, dress-making, drawing and arguing.
People who draw things, make things, collect things, hate things.
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Georgie Fame, My Bloody Valentine, Can, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Kraftwerk, Belle & Sebastian, Sunforest, Joy Division, Loop, 13th Floor Elevators, Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, Jonathan Richman, Strawberry Switchblade, The Velvet Underground, Harry Nilsson, Ramsey Lewis, The Clash, Madonna (the pre-Sean Penn years), Dionne Warwick, Dusty, Tim Buckley, Flock of Seagulls, Talking Heads, Prince, Roxy Music, Neil Young, Jonathan Fire Eater, The Electric Prunes, Broadcast, The Specials, Soft Machine, The Beach Boys, Beck, Julie Driscoll, Jim O'Rourke, Tallulah Gosh.
Billy Liar, Gregory's Girl, Rita Sue and Bob Too, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Here We Go Round The Mullberry Bush, Poor Cow, American Werewolf in London, Up The Junction, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Le Weekend, Georgy Girl, Kes, Nuts in May, Life is Sweet, Don't Look Now, If, E.T. Oh, and yeah I know it's fucking predictable, but I like that dance scene at the end of Napoleon Dynamite...
I hate television, but if I'm round at me Grandma's or in on a Sunday evening I like to watch things like Antiques Roadshow, The Good Life, Crimewatch UK, Columbo
Diary Of A Nobody, Orwell, Salinger, Self, Franzen, Hardy, Lawrence, Capote, Camus, Burroughs, Greene etc. Poetry heros are Simon Armitage and Philip Larkin