manic street preachers, music, morrissey, reading, writing, art and photography, intelligence, humour (and mixing them all together), certain people i know (and certain people i don't), wanting to be brilliant, what-would-jarvis-do, wearing jarvis cocker's clothes, manchester and factory records, the word 'concubine', being intellectual & nicky wire with katie, dancingh to 'another girl, another planet', writing songs and generally being famous with phil and katie, the old 'bernards watch', brackets-within-brackets, pretension!, missing the train, london nights, smiths-fan-angst, rah-rah-rahing and blah-blah-blahing, big-big-love, going missing in london, rock'n'roll stars, stephen fry stephen fry stephen fry, being awful, the line "they fuck you up your mum and dad, they may not mean to but they do", sitting at the back of the bus, dancing & dancing badly, drainpipes & cheap gin, fmf's, the-bands-that-saved-your-life, crack jokes, not-feeling-fourteen, handsome devils, boys in bands, going on the run, trains, "i hate fun", the good kids, saturday nights and sunday mornings, pulp dancing, "MOD DANCE!", waltzing to the maccabees, cutting your hair, the sffc, cheap drinks at the labour club, polaroid pictures, "i dance, who are you?".
rock'n'roll stars, the boys in the band, disco dancers, anyone who says "m'dear", mr doherty, dylan moran, the wire, pretty much all the youthquakers and the young soul rebels, and someone who'll stay in bed all day watching 'steptoe & son' on repeat and drinking gin & lemonade from wine glasses. decent people decent people decent people (ineedanewcrowd)
those manics, the libertines, the smiths, joy division, morrissey, blur, graham coxon, belle and sebastian, the pixies, black francis, the velvet underground, elastica, the cure, the clash, dirty pretty things, british sea power, new order, dinosaur jr, rufus wainright, elliott smith, pulp, the long blondes, jeff buckley, lou reed, cursive, bright eyes, babyshambles, ben lee, rilo kiley, the smashing pumpkins, willy mason, the decemberists, special needs, the only ones, sex pistols, blondie, the kinks, nick cave & the bad seeds, selfish cunt, metro riots, the indelicates, the ramones, good shoes, the rakes, the maccabees, klaxons, hot club de paris, we smoke fags, new homes, the pigeon detectives, hefner anyone who can sing in french, music to dance to, music to make you miserable, songs to make you smile, songs to save your life.
velvet goldmine, trainspotting, fight club, man on the moon, lost in translation, withanil & i, billy elliot, quadrophenia.
steptoe & son, spaced, only fools and horses, black books, the young ones, hancock's half hour.
anything by chuck palahniuk, douglas coupland, irvine welsh, j.t leroy, patrick jones, f. scott fitzgerald, stephen fry or, failing that, 'everything' by simon price, 'love will tear us apart' by deborah curtis and 'fear and loathing in las vegas' by hunter s thompson.
nicky wire because i'm obviously a typical manics fan like that, peter (and that other peter, too, always), all the good kids, always.