...could fill pages!...not one for long lists, so here's a little cross section... Bowie, Iggy, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Roxy Music, Beck, Kraftwerk, PJ Harvey, Will Oldham, Juan Atkins, Jimmy Edgar, Roots Manuva, Sonic Youth, Life Without Buildings, Her Space Holiday, Missy, Nirvana, Smog, QOTSA, Joy Division, J.Cash, Neil Young, S.Gainsbourg, Sylvain Chauveau, Dirty Three, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen... +... +... +
Movies
Probably have about 200 favorite favorite films! ...naming just a few is too hard! ...but off the top of my head... Bed and Board, Sex is Comedy, Masquiline-Feminine, The Mirror, The Return, Fanny and Alexander, A Matter of Life and Death, Ed Wood, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Dark Days, Paris Texas, The Seven Year Itch, The Conversation, Nightwatch, Freddie Got Fingered, The Fruits of Passion, Le Mepris, Bad Guy, Mulhollond Drive++ ...most recent film i've seen and would recommend - Wong Kar-wai's 'The Hand'.
Television
When I get the chance to watch... Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mighty Boosh, Leigh Francis a.k.a Avid Merrion
Books
Story of the Eye-Georges Bataille, Uses of Enchantment-Bruno Bettelheim, In the Blink of an Eye-Walter Murch, Norwegian Wood-Haruki Murakami, Stone Junction-Jim Dodge, The Telescope-Marc Bianchi. Dream, Phantasy and Art- Melanie Klein, The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, and pretty much anything by Paul Auster, Bukowski...
About me:
CHECK BLOGS for information on some of the films i've made and am currently at various stages of completing. Above, is a low res. version of the music video i made for Ramblin' Man- the single off Mercury Music Award Nominated 'Ballad of Broken Seas' (V2 Records) by ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN (QOTSA).
Who I'd like to meet: 'FOR BEAUTY IS NOTHING BUT THE BEGINNING OF TERROR WHICH WE ARE ONLY JUST ABLE TO BEAR AND WE ARE SO AWED BECAUSE IT SERENELY DISDAINS TO ANNIHILATE US.'
SUPERMAX HALLOWEEN HORROR SHOW …for DROOGS & DEVOTCHKAS SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 11PM ‘til LATE with DJ BILLY WOODS BRUNSWICK - HOTEL – BASEMENT http://www.brunswickhotel.co.uk