I like learning. I'd like to know everything. But I dont aspire to be a know it all. I think I may have competing aspirations.
I'd like to meet:
Jonathan Safran Foer, Fidel Castro, a stranger with the same surname as me, a piece of ambergris and Mr. Heinz.
Music:
ABC, Album Leaf, The Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, Band of Horses, Bat for Lashes, Battle, Beck, The Beloved, Bent, Bjork, Jon Brion, British Sea Power, Buena Vista Social Club, Chameleons, Clientele, Cranebuilders, CSS, Cure, Dears, Delgadoes, Depeche Mode, Devotchka, Divine Comedy, Echo and the Bunnymen, Editors, Elbow, Elefant, Explosions In the Sky, Faint, Fischerspooner, French Kicks, Go! Team, Goldfrapp, Guillemots, Hot Chip, Human League, Idelwild, Interpol, Jens Leckman, Julian Fane, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Kings of Convenience, Knife, Ladytron, Lali Puna, Louis Armstrong, M83, Magnet, Martin Grech, Maximo Park, Mew, Minnie Riperton, Mogwai, Mum, Mystery Jets, New Young Pony Club, Patrick Wolf, People Under the Stairs, Placebo, Postal Service, Roxy Music, Sigur Ros, Simple Minds (yeah!), Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Special Needs, Spinto Band, Take That, Talking Heads, Sebastian Tellier, Tapes n Tapes, U.N.K.L.E, Wir Sind Helden, Wolf Parade, Xiu Xiu, Youth Group, 2many djs.
Movies:
Amelie, Fight Club, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Sex and Lucia, Nine Queens, Talk to Her, Edward Scissorhands, Forrest Gump, Motorcycle Diaries, American Psycho, Ed Wood, 24 Hour Party People, Garden State, Love Me if You Dare, The Hours, The English Patient, Maria Full of Grace, Coming to America (!), Enduring Love, A Very Long Engagement, Bad Education, Napoleon Dynamite, Rules of Attraction, Cool Runnings, Mrs Doubtfire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Central Station, 101 Reykjavik, City of God, Goodbye Lenin!, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dancer in the Dark, Thirteen Days, Road to Perdition, It's A Wonderful Life.
Television:
Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, Alan Partridge, Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Michael Palin on his travels, Sex and the City, This Life, Planet Earth, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Marion and Geoff, Nighty Night.
Books:
Although I claim to be unable to read and am therefore bad.......i actually have managed to get my mum to read all these to me at bedtime and which I have thoroughly enjoyed; Perfume, Eveything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Time Traveler's Wife, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Norwegian Wood, History of Love, The End of the Affair, The Forger, To Kill A Mockingbird, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, Touching from a Distance, Intimacy, The Diary of Anne Frank, Che Guevara (A Revolutionary Life), The Dice Man, Catcher in the Rye, Venus as a Boy, The Bell Jar, Birdsong, The Secret History, Brave New World, Cloud Atlas, Freakonomics, Beyond Black, The Lovely Bones and Dead Air. She's read me a lot of other books that I thought were a bit rubbishy. Maybe she didnt do the accents very well......and she doesnt crease the spine......reading with ettiquete....some people.....
Heroes:
Vince Noir, Captain Corelli, Paul Banks, Andreas Johnson and of course Jimmy Nail.
