| General | I LIKE John Cusack and Alan Rickman (who is really just old John Cusack), Portland and Belfast, bass players, modernist literature, salt and vinegar crisps, Junior Mints, Yo Yos, old man music, leg warmers, puns, medical dramas, yellow squash, reading Uncut cover to cover, bubble tea, self-improvement, Powells, strawberry creams, The Hutch, walking over freeways, afternoon cinema, stealing posters from the Doug Fir bathroom, honesty and exageration, trailer parks, turrets, men in beige, knitting, word games especially speed scrabble and boggle at which I rule, cheese strings, late night tennis, bacon, brie and cranberry sandwiches. I DO NOT LIKE possums(especially dead ones) being bored or Gene Hackman.
Find me here:
www.burnsidewriterscollective.com
http://specialfriends7.blogspot.com/
www.theround.org
www.imagodeicommunity.com | | Music | BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, WILCO, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN beck, ryan adams, emmylou harris, kylie, amazing pilots, the frames, iron & wine, nick cave, the replacements, duke special, the cure, the beach boys, take that, gillian welch, bishop allen, loose fur, eric bachman, arab strap, band of horses, page france, orange juice, carla bruni, felt, caribou, bloc party, kasabian, neutral milk hotel, crooked fingers, the magnetic fields, camera obscura, the sleepy jackson, wheat, the national, will oldham, my bloody valentine, the white stripes, the smiths, the stills, golden smog, arcade fire, josh rouse, nick drake, elliott smith, pedro the lion, the jayhawks, yo la tengo, blur, vigilantes of love, american analog set, tom petty, the cribs, rolling stones, clem snide, flaming lips, joyzipper, lambchop, clap your hands say yeah, sparklehorse, josh ritter, broken family band, sufjan stevens, neil young, reindeer section, low, my morning jacket, lemonheads, kings of leon, wolf parade, sonic youth, van morrisson, guided by voices, bob dylan, the libertines, denison witmer, inxs, broken social scene, elvis costello, ratatat, simon and garfunkel, the pernice brothers, rosie thomas, rem, pavement, rilo kiley, the shins, duran duran, teenage fanclub, norfolk and western, whiskeytown DEL AMITRI | | Movies | Magnolia, Breakfast Club, High Fidelity, Wes Anderson, Edward Scissorhands, Empire Records, Rear Window, Virgin Suicides, Reality Bites, Pretty In Pink, Blade Trilogy, Half Nelson, Die Hard, Eternal Sunshine, The Lives Of Others, James Bond, anything that goes nowhere in particular but looks very pretty whilst trying to get there (eg me you and everyone we know, moonlight mile, lovely and amazing, paris, texas, my life without me, somersault) though i tried very hard and i just don't like Gus Van Zant, good romantic comedies, the collected works of mr cusack including lesser known 80s crap that is best forgotten and the latter day rom coms, anything that has a group dance scene, anything with cillian murphy, alan rickman, bill murray, maggie gyllenhal, gael garcia bernal or emily watson NO LORD OF THE RINGS EVER !!!!!! | | Television | Casualty (Dr Patrick era)
Holby City (Dr Alex era)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks (in particular episodes featuring Tony from Terrorvision)
Alan Partridge
H'Oaks | | Books | Graham Greene, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Saffron Foer, T.C.Boyle, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Jonathan Lethem, Greil Marcus, James Ellroy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tennessee Williams, Salinger, Bukowski, Vonnegut and Rock Biographies, Mix Tape-Thurston Moore, Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte, High Fidelity- Nick Hornby, My Name Is Asher Lev- Chaim Potok, Cash-Johnny Cash, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole-Sue Townsend, Gilead-Marilyn Robinson, Catch 22-Joseph Heller,The God Of Small Things-Arundhati Roy, Dubliners-James Joyce, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest-Ken Kesey, The Picture Of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde, The Secret History- Donna Tartt, Life After God- Douglas Coupland, Words and Music- Paul Morley, A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess, St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves- Karen Russell, Seven Types of Ambiguity- Eliot Perlman, East of Eden- Steinbeck, Dracula- Bram Stoker, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klostermann, The Brothers K- David James Duncan, The Famous Five- Enid Blyton | | Heroes | Joan Adams, the small brother, Emmylou Harris (before she started looking like Michael Jackson) and Katie Overlien who I look up to for wisdom and guidance. |
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