Writing, directing, producing, travel, photography, music, Psychogeography, football, literature, film. Anything that gives me an adrenalin rush, captures the imagination, stirs the soul and justifies the often painful decision to get out of bed.
The Beautiful and the Damned. I will not discriminate.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, David Bowie, Biosphere, Burial, Luke Haines / The Auteurs, Suicide, Metro, The Sonics, Dexter Gordon, Sisters Of Mercy, Brian Eno, P.I.L, 80's Pop, Kreeps, Elvis, Dictaphone, Colder, Grace Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Matt Elliot / Third Eye Foundation, Depeche Mode, The Stooges, Talk Talk, Peaches, Can, Sam Cooke, Blind Willie Johnson, Sonny Rollins, Guns N Roses, John Martyn, 16 Horsepower, Benny Goodman, Ministry, The JB's, The Cramps, Interpol, Loefah, Einsturzende Neubauten, City Rockers Label, Alice In Chains, MC5, Surf Rock, Prince, James Chance, Johnny Cash, Tiga, Sam Cooke, Scott Walker, O Yuki Conjugate, Tom Waits, Michael Brook, Soundgarden, Motown, Mazzy Star, Jon Hassell, Them!, Mile Davis, Eric Satie, DJ Hell, The Temptations, 60's Garage, Peace Orchestra, Jeff Greinke.....
INLAND EMPIRE, La Samourai, Lost Highway, Heat, Chris Marker, Dust Devil, Claude Chabrol, Dream Of Garuda, James Bond Movies, Greg Araki, In The Company Of Men, Kenneth Anger, London (Patrick Keiller), Raiders Of The Lost Arc, The Tenant, Stalker, This Is Spinal Tap, Ozon's Shorts, The Passenger, Hardware, Betty Blue, Taxi Driver, Ghostbusters, Sex Lie & Videotape, French Connection, Vertigo, Halloween, The Insider, Frantic, Double Indemnity, Velvet Goldmine, Mulholland Drive, The Conversation, Plein Soleil, King Of Comedy, White Heat, Suite 16, The Bedroom, Rear Window, Chinatown, Un Flic, Insomnia (Nor), The Parallax View, Point Blank, Hidden, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Ken Burn's 'History Of Jazz', One Day In September, Collateral, Audition, MC5 - A True Testimonial, Bob Dylan Don't Look Back, Code Unknown, Memories of Murder, Elephant....
Larry Sanders, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Armando Iannucci Show, Our Friends In The North, Blackadder, Frasier, Crime Story, The Prisoner, Alan Patridge, Alas Smith & Jones, Jam, Chris Rock Stand-Up, Peter Cook, Secret Rulers Of The World, This Life, BBC4, Fry & Laurie, Peter Taylor's docs, Fashion TV....
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bukowski, Bill Henson 'Mnemosyne', Iain Sinclair, Andrew Hussey, James Ellroy, Raymond Carver, B.S Johnson, Albert Camus, Dostoyevsky, Raymond Chandler, Pinter, Bataille, Aldous Huxley, Peter Ackroyd, Burroughs, Gogol, T.S Eliot, Kafka, Robert Hughes, Proust, Jonathon Dollimore, Auden, Paul Auster, James Baldwin, Chris Petit, Rimbaud, Clive James, Guy Debord, Greil Marcus, Jake Arnott, Simon Reynolds, Jon Savage....
Definitely my favourite album ever.