I am somewhat enamoured with writing, reading, drawing, listening, talking, pirates, walking along Sarsfield Bridge, second-hand bookshops, my friends, watermelons, tea, Costello's,Dolans, gigs, the good old days when I was allowed present my own radio show, cheese, berets, laughing, hugs, kisses, sleeping, international politics, history, historiography,discussing my hatred of Kafka and Derrida, my love of Foucault and Said, the colours red and green, finding nicer converse, shoes and handbags, interesting hats, monocles, my dog, art, poetry, vodka, staying up all night, funny and intelligent boys, whelans, oscar wilde, marlboro lights, Louis le Broquy, speaking Irish, crazy historians, all things Russian, snow, walking along inch beach and banna strand, Killaloe, chocolate, hypothetical questions...
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON
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The holy trinity – Dylan, Cohen, Young, David Bowie, dEUS, REM, Patti Smith, Morrissey, The Velvet Underground, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Low, Sigur Ros, Sparklehorse, Martin Finke, TV on the Radio, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Slint, Calexico, Cat Power, The Shins, Postal Service, Sufjan, Nicholas Cave, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, Broken Social Scene, Daniel Johnston, Dirty Three, My Bloody Valentine, Reindeer Section, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Elbow, Ten Past Seven,Arcade Fire, Stars, Architecture in Helsinki, Clap your hands, The Cure, Damien Dempsey, Devendra B, Pixies, Frank Black, Iron and Wine, Richard Thompson…I own one Fairport Convention album also, Wedding Present, Smog, Joni Mitchell, Mogwai, Jeff and Tim Buckley, all the Wainwright family, the Libertines, Martin Finke, PJ Harvey, Ryan Adams, the Smiths, Stellastar, Tom Waits, Belle and Sebastian, Will Oldham (on occasion), Rachels, Songs:Ohia, Modest Mouse, Joan as Policewoman, Joy Division…I am just going to stop typing now or I’ll be here all night...
Edward Scissorhands, The Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Everything is Illuminated, Requiem for a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, People on Sunday, Emil and the Detectives, The Third Man, Withnail and I, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Beneath Clouds, The Proposition and Lost in Translation
I heart Peep Show, Family Guy, usually anything on TG4 especially Cartaà Poist, Cogar and Ros na Rún, the late great No Disco, The West Wing, I'm also a sucker for the history channel...
All of the following authors and more: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arundhati Roy, Douglas Adams, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie, Eric Hobsbawm, Joseph Conrad, Alfred Doblin, Christopher Isherwood, Vladamir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, E.M. Forster, Joseph Hellar, George Orwell, Franz Fanon, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, Tolkein, Edward Said, Ian McEwan, A.S. Byatt, Roald Dahl, Bill Bryson,JD Salinger, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Zadie Smith, early Banville (give me one reason to like 'The Sea')
is a song I havent listened to in ages