Art. Some of my favourite artists are Nan Goldin, Egon Schiele, Picasso, Bruce Nauman, Gustav Klimt, Jean-Michel Basquait, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Bill Viola, Stanley Spencer, Jackson Pollock, Peter Doig, Keith Haring, David Shrigley, Yoshitomo Nara and Yue Minjun.
Berbers, Native Americans....
Everything! Over the years I've gone from an underground know all to a mainstream bore. I remember Bjork recording There's more to life than this in the Milk Bar toilets and the best nights out at clubs like Ophelia, Milk Bar and Land of Oz..............Jack Penate, The Macabees, Pigeon Detectives, Kate Nash, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Big Daddy Kane, Mos Def, Roxanne Shante, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Kooks, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Shirley Bassey, The Shins, Fela Kuti, The Flaming Lips, BomB Squad, Appleseed, The Killers, Daniel Johnston, Alela Diane, Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, David Bowie, Diana Ross, The Smiths, The Pastels, The Cure, Beck, Tricky, Massive Attack, The Clash, Hard Fi, The Rakes, Blur, Oasis, Green Day, Talking Heads, Cornershop, Gil Scott Heron, Jill Scott, Primal Scream, 2ManyDJ's, Editors, Justice, Kasabian, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy, Air, Joy Division, Dusty Springfield, The Police, Roy Ayres, Nivana, Giles Peterson, Norman Jay, Bob Marley, Julian Cope, Bob Dylan. Just too much good stuff to list but its all in my heart!
So many!!! Some of my favourite films are The Shining, Flatliners, The Lost Boys, The Lives of Others, St Elmo's Fire, Thirteen, Dirty Pretty Things, A room for Romeo Brass, Rita, Sue and Bob too, Pretty Persuasion, Lawrence of Arabia, The Breakfast Club, Replusion, The Godfather, Babel, Elephant, Eraserhead, Belleville Rendez-vous, Happiness, The Life Aquatic, The Science of Sleep, The Royal Tenenbaums, Festen, Me Without You, Trading Places, Me You & Everyone we know, Rumblefish, Factotum, Life is Sweet, Nuts In May, A Very long Engagement, Who framed Roger Rabbit, Sin City, Requim for a dream, Kalifornia, The cook the thief his wife and her lover, Fight Club, I heart Huckabees, Saturday night and Sunday morning, Dangerous Liasions, Blue in the face, Badlands, City of God, Wish you were here, Jaws, The Deer Hunter, Twin Peaks, American Beauty, One flew over the cuckoos nest, Amores Perros, Morvern Callar, RumbleFish and Three Colours Red.
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder, Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy, Wonderland Avenue & No-one here gets out alive - Danny Sugarman, The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath, Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski