Music, Reading, Photography, Travelling and Football
The new advert by VW entitled 'Night Driving'. Words written by Dylan Thomas and spoken by Richard Burton. Music by Cliff Martinez. This is a beautiful piece of work.
and... ...the artist James Jean.
13&God, Aesop Rock, AiM, Ali Farka Toure, Amon Tobin, Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire, Art Blakey, Asaviour, A Silver Mt. Zion, Autolux, Automato, Beth Gibbons, Bjork, Blackalicious, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Babyshambles, Beck, Beirut, Blockhead, Bloc Party, Blur, Boards of Canada, Braintax, Bran Van 3000, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, Buck 65, Cat Power, Chemical Brothers, The Cinematic Orchestra, Citizen Cope, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, Clint Mansell, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Craig Armstrong, CunninLynguists, The Cure, Cut Chemist, Damien Rice, Danger Mouse, Dan The Automator, David Axelrod, David Gray, Death Cab for Cutie, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Deltron, DJ Honda, DJ Krush (with and without Toshinori Kondo), DJ Shadow, DNTEL, The Doors, Doves, Dr. Octagon, Edan, Ed Harcourt, Editors... ...Elbow, El-P, Eva Cassidy, Explosions in the Sky, Fat Freddys Drop, Feist, Fionn Regan, Foreign Beggars, Four Day Hombre, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, Gang Starr, Genesis, Ghost, Gift of Gab, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grand Drive, Guillemots, Harry Love, Herbaliser, Hi-Tek, Hieroglyphics, Husky Rescue, Iron & Wine, The Jam, J Dilla (R.I.P), Jeff Buckley (R.I.P), Jehst, Jeru The Damaja, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Junior Boys, Jurassic 5, Kasabian, Kashmere The Iguana Man, Kate Rusby, Kid Koala, Kings of Leon, Kool Keith, Lateef The Truth Speaker, Laura Veirs, Liam Frost, The Libertines, Lisa Gerrard, Lyrics Born, M83, Madeleine Peyroux, Madlib, McCoy Tyner, MF Doom (in all his various guises), Modest Mouse, Mr Lif, Mr Scruff, Mulatu Astatke, My Morning Jacket, Nina Simone, The Notwist, Patrick Watson, Patrick Wolf, Pep Love, Pete Rock, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Plan B, Portishead, The Postal Service, Quasimoto, Radiohead, Ray LaMontagne, Rifles, Roots Manuva, Ryan Adams, Sade, Sage Francis, Saul Williams, Seasick Steve, The Severely Departed, Sigur Ros, Slum Village, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Sole, Son of Dave, Souls of Mischief, Stanley Turrentine, Stars, Stephen Fretwell, The Stills, Sufjan Stevens, Susuma Yokota, Talib Kweli, Tangerine Dream, Thelonious Monk, Tokyo Police Club... ...Tom Vek, Tracy Chapman, TV On The Radio, U.N.K.L.E, Ursula Rucker, Verb T, We Are Scientists, Weather Report, Wheat, Whitest Boy Alive, William Basinski, Wolf Parade, YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO, Zoot Woman....in keeping with the infinite possibilities that music provides, this list will forever remain a work in progress, an unreachable horizon, so feel free to offer your recommendations.
Anchorman, Manhunter, Old Boy, Memento, Lost in Translation, Riding Giants... ...Heat, 13 (Tzameti), Me And You And Everyone We Know, Requiem for a Dream, Little Miss Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Friday, City of God, Ghostbusters, True Romance, The Bourne Trilogy (Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum), films by Mike Figgis & Christopher Nolan
Sopranos, Family Guy, Wild Life Documentaries narrated by Sir David Attenborough, Band of Brothers, The Mighty Boosh, Monk, Alan Partridge, Big Train... ...Peep Show, Eastenders (the constant misery is strangely sobering), Match of the Day, The Daily Show, Sky Sports News
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, Anything by Murakami especially Hard-boiled Wonderland and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Generation X & Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland, The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga, Drown by Junot Diaz, An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Ask the Dust (in fact that entire Bandini Quartet) by John Fante, The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith, The Impressionist by Hari Kunzu, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?:Stories by Raymond Carver, Anything by Bukowski, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah...
The entire 2005 Champions League winning Liverpool team