These are some of my favourite things: making fancy dress costumes, listening to records, quality socks, collecting C20th detris, handicrafts, shitty old markets, small and big museums, eating, general stores, specialist shops, woolens, drinking booze, mudlarking, scrumping, krumping and gabba-ing.
Jonathan Krisp, Clor, Minty, Ian Dury, Vincent Gallo, Wilf Carter, Aphrodite's Child, The Stones Roses, Can, Serge Gainsbourg, X-ray Spex, The Rolling Stones, Blind Lemon Jefferson, David Bowie, Television, Art Brut, Gang of Four, Johnny Thunders, The Raincoats, Ennio Morricone, Violent Femmes, Metronomy, CSS, The Au Pairs, Velvet Underground, The Small Faces, David Axelrod, Syd Barrett, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Cyrkle, Graham Coxon,The Zombies, Whitey, A Certain Ratio, Pere Ubu, The Stranglers, Holly Golightly, Jonathon Richman and The Modern Lovers, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, Hasil Adkins, Patrick Wolf, James Darren, Klaxons (Polka band).
The Idiots, Adaptation, Napolean Dynamite, R Kelly's 'Trapped in the Closet', Movern Callar, Polyester, Hairspray, The life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou, In The Soup, Peeping Tom, Metroland, Wickerman, Wish You Were Here(" Up yer bum"), Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Withnail and I.
Youtube.
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, Up The Junction by Nell Dunn, Down and out in Paris and London- George Orwell, Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland A Crack Up at the Race Riots by Harmonie Korine...I like picture books mostly though.
Prince Charles.