| Music | In no particular order: television personalities, 13th floor elevators, culture, primal scream, elvis costello, robert johnson, small faces, the faces, ian dury, alabama 3, marvin gaye, stooges, skinnyman, john coltrane, t. rex, smiths, gil scott-heron, beatles (mostly when they were on acid), jacques brel, who, leftfield, kraftwerk, roxy music, fall, bob dylan, pink floyd (esp. syd-era), happy mondays, jam, velvet underground, kinks, van morrison, mc5, clash, francis cabrel, jimi hendrix | | Movies | In no particular order: a bout de souffle, the lives of others, withnail & i, the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, volver, satyajit ray's apu trilogy, un chien andalou, la dolce vita, pan's labyrinth, les enfants du paradis, kind hearts and coronets, man bites dog, the exterminating angel, la vie en rose, the red shoes | | Television | I'd like to say I'm not a saddo who spends endless hours in front of the box, but I'm a sucker for "Frasier" repeats which I watch almost every day. Plus: MTV2. | | Books | guns, germs and steel (jared diamond), brave new world/island/the doors of perception (all by aldous huxley), a confederacy of dunces (john kennedy-toole) - reading each of these books was a genuine life-enhancing experience for me | | Heroes | not exactly heroes, but people whose achievements I've admired: federico fellini, bill hicks, friedrich nietzsche, matt le tissier, aldous huxley, mick channon, marc bolan, david bowie, john lydon, joe strummer & mick jones, bob dylan, lou reed, jacques brel, albert camus, the england 1966 world cup squad (incl. terry paine), luis bunuel, satyajit ray, george best, william shakespeare, spartacus, cleisthenes, socrates, wat tyler, brendan behan, tommy cooper, tony allen, franz kafka, heinrich boll, ray davies, john lennon, iggy pop, joe cairo, simon monkhouse, william blake, millie (my dog) |
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