making pictures, music and all kinds of other things, most of which are none of your business!
Syd Barrett. D'oh!
Music's great but bands that MOVE me are limited Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley ,Cinematic Orchestra, Air, Kraftwerk, Fourtet, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Junior, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, The Fall, Joy Division, Bees, Peter Gabriel, Doors, Joni Mitchell, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, John Martyn, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Jackson C Frank, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, John Coltrane, Tower of Power, Funkadelic, Sly Stone, Meters, Ryan Adams, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Oh God you get the picture!!
Oh Bloody ell, I'm a bit of a film bore but I'll keep it brief! Star Wars "...these are not your droids...., City of God, 21 Grams, Memento (still not seen the ending yet - tape ran out halfway thru! Somehow makes it a better film!) The 5000 fingers of Dr T (just plain mad Seuss nonsense!) Elephant Man, Blue Velvet "...its a straaaange world!", Mulholland Dr "silencio...!", Fargo, Big Lebowsky "..does the pope shit in the woods?", 2001, Kes...."nayyyowt!"..., Withnail & I "...we'd better work fast; a pair of quadruple whiskeys and a pair of pints please!", Raging Bull "...you fuck ma wife?", Raining Stones, Secrets & Lies, Naked, Shallow Grave, Wicker Man "oh jesus christ, no!!", Morvern Callar, Don't Look Now, Excorcist, Requiem for a Dream, Bird, Round Midnight, Thin Blue Line, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, This is Spinal Tap "two word review - shit sandwich", Scanners, Dead Ringers, Existenz, Hell anything by Tarantino (even though I can't stand the guy!)
Crap. OK most of it noodlerot but stuff that's worth watchin is stuff like Grand Designs, just about any arts / history documentary (which I regrettably watch lamentably little of!) Comedy is mostly a misnomer but accasional gems crop up like Flying Circus, Absolutely, League of Gentlemen, Father Ted, Nathan Barley, owt with either Chris Morris or Victor Lewis Smith in and Eastenders. Take heed, kids don't let the silver box swallow your brain......
Lord of the Rings / Hobbit: Tolkien, Cloud Atlas: David Mitchell, Them: Jon Ronson, Margrave of the Marshes: John Peel / Sheila Ravenscroft, Everything is Illuminated: Jonathon Safron Foer, The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Nighttime: Mark Haddon, Spike Milligan Anthology, Metamorphosis: Kafka, Naked Lunch: Boroughs
Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Peter Howson, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendix, Jaco Pastorius, David Lynch, John Peel, Ken Loach, Spike Milligan, Devvo, Me Wife!