This and that. My art/creative heroes include: Tara McPherson, Phil Frost, Tom Gauld, Glen E Friedman, Msrs Charles and Ray Eames, Shynola, Chris Cunningham, David Inshaw, Sanna Annukka. Places I've fallen in love with: London, Angourie, New York, Byron Bay, Ko Tao, Alexendra Bay, Barcelona, Palolem, Florence, Paris, Lisbon, Chamonix, La Tranche, Brighton, Prague, Boscastle.
...you all. All of the friends below are either genuine mates or customers or just lovely folk I've met. If you wish to be added, please send me a message rather than being random.
(deep breath & in no order): Queens Of The Stone Age, Pixies, Breeders, L7, The Smiths, Prince, Morrissey, Justice, Stereolab, Primal Scream, Orbital, Nick Drake, The Beatles, The Cure, Beck, RHCP, Led Zepp, Iggy & The Stooges, Boards Of Canada, Sunn o))), Bjork, Nirvana, Captain Beefheart, Melvins, Babes In Toyland, Smashing Pumpkins, Dr Dooom, Beastie Boys, Lemonheads, Evan Dando, Infadels, British Sea Power, Mastodon, My Bloody Valentine, Hendrix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Stevie Wonder, RATM, Distillers, Mark Lanegan, PJ Harvey, Bobby Conn, Rotary Connection, At The Drive In, Outkast, Jeff Buckley, Moldy Peaches, Serge Gainsbourg, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses, Ian Brown, Electric Light Orchestra, Dead Milkmen.
Withnail and I, The Shining, Dogtown and The Z-Boys, Old Boy, Betty Blue, Shaun Of The Dead, The Big Lebowski, Breathless, Red Squirrel, Sexy Beast, Amelie, The Wicker Man, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Annie Hall, City Of God, Donnie Darko, Performance, A Clockwork Orange, Team America, Anchor Man.
The Mighty Boosh, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Peep Show, Ren & Stimpy.
My favourites over the years: The Master & Margherita (Mikhail Bulgakov), Lives Of The Monster Dogs (Kirsten Bakis), Perfume (Patrick Suskind), Women/Post Office/Factotum (Bukowski), The Bandini Quartet (John Fante), Catcher In The Rye (JD Salinger), A Farewell To Arms (Hemingway), Great Apes/My Idea Of Fun (Will Self), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami), Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil & Gillian McGann), Pornographers Poem (Michael Turner), The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien), Wonderland Avenue (Danny Sugerman), On The Road (Jack Kerouac), The Beach (Alex Garland), Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks), Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis), Vernon God Little (DBC Pierre), How To Be Free (Tom Hodgkinson).
Bill Hicks, Tom Hodgkinson, Morrissey, Ned Ludd, Frank Lloyd Wright ...and the Thai ladyboy who gave me lift on the back of his/her moped when I was lost without a clue - thanks dude.