| General | Culture and writing, gigs and literature, alcohol and Farnborough F.C., cult movies and brunettes, coffee and conversation.
Self-publishing novels, like The Spirit of Nagasaki here:
| | Music | The Hold Steady, The National, Rocket From The Crypt, Afghan Whigs, The Wedding Present, Flaming Lips, Luna, Driveshaft, The New Pornographers, Slobberbone, Kevin Tihista, The Thermals, Ben Folds, Husker Du, American Music Club, Wheat, The Long Winters, Warren Zevon, Creeper Lagoon, Dinosaur Jr., Super Furry Animals, Girls Against Boys, Yo La Tengo, American Music Club, Pavement, The Aprons, A.C. Acoustics, Desaparecidos, Iron & Wine, Pixies, Lambchop, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Posies, Teenage Fanclub, Archers Of Loaf, Broken Family Band, Weezer, Guided By Voices, Tripmaster Monkey, Less Than Jake, Brendan Benson, Half Man Half Biscuit, Buffalo Tom, Twilight Singers, Lotion, Deus, Sleater-Kinney, Urusei Yatsura, Death Cab For Cutie, Vandals, Idlewild, Crooked Fingers, Engine 88, Bare Jr., Latimer, Trail of Dead, the list goes on (and on)..... | | Movies | Badlands, Outfoxed, Swingers, Big Lebowski, Murderball, In The Company Of Men, The Wild Bunch, Sweet Smell Of Success, Grindhouse, The Squid and the Whale, Annie Hall, Les Diaboliques, This Is Spinal Tap, Children of Men, Punishment Park, Y Tu Mama Tambien, M*A*S*H*, Brick, City of God, Roger Dodger, Klute, Tsotsi, Casablanca, Bad Santa, Performance, Away From Her, Don't Look Now, Play It Again Sam, Cannibal - The Musical, The Last Detail, Straw Dogs, Barbarella, Unforgiven, Sleeper, Naked, Royal Tennenbaums, Les Choses Secretes, Exiled, The Hustler, Red Road, Carnival Of Souls, Beautiful Girls, The Long Goodbye, The Beat That My Heart Skipped and many more along the same lines..... | | Television | Peep Show, Six Feet Under, Flight of the Conchords, Nathan Barley, Sopranos, Knowing Me Knowing You, The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Doctor Who, Brass Eye, Funland, The Simpsons, Flavor of Love, A Bit Of Fry & Laurie, Oz, Terence & Philip, Father Ted, Albi The Racist Drago, American Dad, The Day Today, South Park, My Name Is Earl, Not Only But Also, Spaced, Deadwood, Jam, Family Guy, The Mark Thomas Product. | | Books | Books I have written: Wallfloweresque (available now!), Interfering With Play, The Spirit Of Nagasaki, Synchronicity, Surfing For Jesus, Another One Won't Kill You, Kicking Asbestos and coming soon - Conjoined.
Books I like: Anything by Don Delillo, Jonathon Franzen, George P Pelecanos, Thomas Pynchon, Chuck Palahniuk, Michel Houellebecq, Denis Johnson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Lawson, Alan Moore, Michael Chabon, Sherman Alexie, Jim Thompson or Douglas Coupland. A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is the funniest book ever written.
If I'm in the mood I also like: Hubert Selby Jr, Garth Ennis (Preacher), Raymond Chandler, Haruki Murakami, Sam Lipsyte, Jonathon Lethem, John Wagner, DBC Pierre, Bukowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Yates, P J O'Rourke, Salman Rushdie, Richard Powers, John Fante & Stephen Sherrill.
'Infinite Jest' by the sorely missed David Foster Wallace is brilliant too, all 1,089 pages of it. Go read. | | Heroes | Bill Hicks, Hugo Chavez, Lenny Bruce, Jane Fonda, Karel Fialka, Peter Cook, Edgar Allan Poe, Huey from the Fun Lovin' Criminals, Huey from the Fun Lovin' Criminals' dog, Woody Allen, Mark Thomas, Jeremy Hardy, Paulie Walnuts, Chris Morris, L. Ron Hubbard, Howard Marks, Sam Peckinpah, creators of The Onion, Clint Panzerdivision & Dan Ashcroft, aka. The Preacherman.
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