| General | reading, writing, performance, going to gigs, sketching, photography, cinema - especially foreign films, africa, especially Nigeria, insects, octpuses and squids | | Music | weird experimental stuff and cheesy 80s, Ligetti, Joe Bell, CSS, The Kills, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, Femi Kuti, Vincent Vincent and the Villians, Nas, Kelis, Bob Marley, Roberta Flack, Xenakis, Lauryn Hill, Tracey Chapman, Duran Duran, The Smiths, The La's, Fine Young Cannibals, Frank Chickens, The Cure, Prince, Michael Jackson, early Madonna, Joy Division, Gary Numan, Pete Thorpe, John Chantler, Bjork, DJ Dangamouse, Jackson and his computer band, Bat for Lashes, Fabric, Scala, The Dungeons in Leytonstone | | Movies |
anything by David Lynch, especially the Elephant Man, Solaris , Tarnation, anything by Helen Walker, Back to the Future, Cocktail, Days of Thunder, Top Gun, Roberto Succo, Brief Encounter, cowboy films (especially Sam Peckinpah)- the Wild Bunch, 2001, Barry Lyndon, all sorts of costume dramas, Dangerous Liasons, The Fountain, Love Story, Miami Vice, Collateral, Ferris Buller's Day Off, The Goonies, Robocop 1 + 2, Red Heat, Blues Brothers, Spinal Tap, Brother, Old Boy, Suicide Circle, Kill Bill | | Television | The Secret Life of Plants, Newsnight, Question time, | | Books | War Boy, DH Lawrence, WH Auden, Wilfred Owen, Trumpet by Jackie Kay, Things Fall Apart, Silence (it's been made into a film!) Rimbaud, Vincent Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, Anne Frank, anything by Ayo!, Adrian Mole, Charlotte's Web, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Worst Witch, Thomas Hardy, Fantastic Mr.Fox, Ian McEwan | | Heroes | Lauryn Hill, Stokely Carmichel, Carson McCullers, Paula Rego, Halle Berry, Naomi Campbell, Kelly Rogers, Bessie Smith, Picasso, Jan Palanch, Cathy Freeman, Susan Sontag, Rosa Parks, Debbie Harry, Spike Lee |
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