Binge drinking.
I'd like to meet:
Not the likes of you, that's for damn sure.
Go on - sling yer hook. Nothing to see here. On your way. Get out of it!
Music:
Other than playing in the Splitters and Black Eye Friday , I'm into things like Lee Perry, the Clash, Hank Williams, Gene Vincent, Steel Pulse, Minor Threat, Public Enemy, Gogol Bordello, old school Trojan / Studio 1 etc, the Redskins, Sizzla, Johnny Cash, Prince Buster, Billy Bragg, Crass, Black Flag, Skatalites, rockabilly / hillbilly, New Bomb Turks, the Holy Modal Rounders, Minutemen, Hard Skin, the Stooges, Macka B, the Pogues, Born Against, the Cramps, yodelling, Jinx Lennon, the Dubliners, NWA, Poison Idea, Lady Saw, the Slackers, Woody Guthrie, rebel songs, Op Ivy, the Specials, Runnin' Riot, Velvet Underground, Subhumans, King Tubby, Arab Strap, Scientist and a million other things. When it's good it's pretty great, but when it's bad it can be not so good.
Movies:
Reds / This is England / Clerks / Mallrats / Withnail & I / Shaun of the Dead / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Goodbye Lenin / Groundhog Day / Enemy at the Gates / House of 1000 Corpses / Another State of Mind / Clockwork Orange / lots of stuff! / Walk the Line. Good films good, bad films bad.
Television:
Alan Partridge, The Office, Lost, Quezzy Time, Chris Morris, Shameless, Mark Thomas, Simpsons / Futurama / Family Guy, Channel 4 News, Fawlty Towers, Porridge. I advocate the carpet bombing of Hollyoaks until those mongs are off my telly, mind you.
Books:
Viz comics, music biographies, Charlie Marx, John Lenin, George Orwell, Chomsky, Tony Benn. Books about socialism and communism and anarchism in general, and all that lefty goodness. Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, Christy Brown, Frank McCourt (got a taste for Irish stuff from my old man I guess), Hewligan's Haircut, Terry Pratchett, Rollins ... lots of stuff really. Books about punk, booze, outlaws, reggae, stuff like that.
Ted recommends fiction: A Fairytale of New York - JP Donleavy.
Ted recommends non-fiction: No Retreat - the Secret War between Britain's Anti-Fascists and the Far Right - Dave Hann & Steve Tilzey
Bass Culture: When Reggae was King - Lloyd Bradley.
American Hardcore: A Tribal History - Stephen Blush
Almost Like a Whale: the Origin of Species Updated - Steve Jones
Heroes:
Useless they are.
