- wrestling - shooting guns - record listening - playing musical instruments - table tennis - books - typewriting - driving with the window down - letter-writing - receiving letters - swimming (only calculated distances or freestyle lake-swimming) - mixtapes - recording music at home - practicing listening - old photographs - to-do lists - The Guardian crossword - whisky - lying down.
Music
Just now I like listening to:
- metal
- rock n roll - doo wop - American hardcore - modern classical - stadium rock - lo-fi - wartime - soul and - spazzcore.
Bands I like to listen to are:
(wait for it!)
- Angelo Badalamenti
- Afrirampo
- Alasdair Roberts
- Andre Williams
- Andrews Sisters
- Arab On Radar
- Archers Of Loaf
- Aretha Franklin
- Arthur Russell
- Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
- Astrud Gilberto
- Barbara Lewis
- Bastro
- The Beach Boys
- Beat Happening
- Bernard Hermann
- Bessie Smith
- Bettye Swann
- Big Black
- Big Business
- Big Star
- Bill Fay
- Black Flag
- Black Sabbath
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
- Boredoms
- Boris
- Brian Eno
- Buddy Holly
- Built To Spill
- Butthole Surfers
- The Byrds
- Caetano Veloso
- Candi Staton
- Charlie Feathers
- Chet Baker
- The Chiffons
- Chris DeBurgh
- Chubby Checker
- Comus
- Console
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Cryin' Shames
- The Crystals
- Daniel Johnston
- Dave Brubeck
- David Grubbs
- Deerhoof
- Depeche Mode
- Detroit Spinners
- Devo
- Diana Ross & The Supremes
- Dillard & Clark
- Dinosaur Jr
- Dirty Three
- DJ Sammy
- Django Rheinhardt
- Dolly Parton
- Don Caballero
- Doris Day
- Duane Eddy
- Earth
- Edith Frost
- Elizabeth Cotten
- Elliott Smith
- Emmit Ray
- Ennio Morricone
- Fabio Frizzi
- The Falcons
- Faust
- Flying Burrito Brothers
- Folk Implosion
- The Fucking Champs
- Fugazi
- Gal Costa
- Galaxie 500
- Gastr Del Sol
- Gene Clark
- Ghost Valley 1
- Gilberto Gil
- Gino Washington
- Glenn Miller Orchestra
- Gram Parsons
- Guided By Voices
- Half Japanese
- The Halo Benders
- Hank Williams
- Hasil Adkins
- Herman Dune
- High On Fire
- Hot Snakes
- Husker Du
- Ike & Tina Turner
- The Impressions
- Irma Thomas
- Jeff Buckley
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jesus & Mary Chain
- The Jesus Lizard
- Jim O'Rourke
- Joanna Newsom
- John Cale
- John Carpenter
- John Fahey
- Johnny Cash
- Jonathan Richman
- Joni Mitchell
- Jorge Ben
- Joy Division
- Julee Cruise
- Juliana Hatfield
- Julie Doiron
- Karp
- Kate Bush
- KLF
- The Lapse
- Lead Belly
- Lee Ranaldo
- Left Banke
- Les Savy Fav
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Little Anthony & the Imperials
- Loose Fur
- Lou Barlow
- Low
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz
- Make-Up
- Marcos Valle
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Marvin Gaye
- Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
- Maxine Brown
- Melvins
- Minutemen
- Mirah
- Miriam Makeba
- Mission Of Burma
- Modern Lovers
- Moondog
- Motorpsycho
- Mudhoney
- My Bloody Valentine
- Neil Young
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Nina Nastasia
- Nina Simone
- Papa M
- The Pastels
- Paul Giovanni
- Pavement
- Peggy Lee
- Perry Como
- The Platters
- Polvo
- Prince
- Pulseprogramming
- Quasi
- The Ramones
- Rapeman
- Raymond Scott
- Red House Painters
- Rod Stewart
- Roy Orbison
- Sam Cooke
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- Sebadoh
- The Shamen
- Shangri-Las
- Shellac
- The Shirelles
- Shuggie Otis
- Silver Jews
- Six Organs Of Admittance
- Slint
- Slowdive
- Smog
- Smoosh
- Songs:Ohia
- Sonic Youth
- Stereolab
- Steve Reich
- The Stooges
- Suicide
- Sun Ra
- Swans
- Sweep The Leg Johnny
- Tal Farlow
- Talking Heads
- Tarwater
- Tenniscoats
- This Heat
- This Mortal Coil
- Tim Hardin
- Tiny Little Hearts
- Tom Ze
- Tortoise
- Trans Am
- Trinidad Steel Drum Band
- Trout
- US Maple
- Vashti Bunyan
- Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Ween
- Weezer
- Wesley Willis
- The Whip
- Will Oldham
- Woody Guthrie
- Xavier Cugat
- Yo La Tengo
- Michael Yonkers
Movies
Mainly prison movies. Mmm... prison movies. Or films as we say in the United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland. 'CI-NE-MA'. Chopper, Brubaker, Taxi Driver, Billy Liar, Small Faces, Watership Down, The Deer Hunter, The Hairdresser's Husband, Bande A Part, The Exorcist, Fire Walk With Me
Television
OZ
Books
I just read: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle, Sula by Toni Morrisson, and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I rate them all yes. - Henry and June (A Nin) - Travels With My Aunt (G Greene) - The Plague (A Camus) - Jill (P Larkin) - The Sound and the Fury (W Faulkner) - Moon Palace (P Auster) - Maurice (EM Forster) - Watership Down (R Adams) - The Secret History (D Tartt)
Lorna plays in Spectator Sports, an ongoing project since 2004, starting in Scotland and continuing in the USA. Lorna also plays in Bill Wells' The National Jazz Trio Of Scotland, International Airport, Plimpsole Nose, and Ferrari Coffin.
Lorna played in Park Attack between 2001 and 2007, Human Head in 2006/7 and Sweat Lodge in 2007/8.
Components: wood panelling, milk, decoy crows.
I'm doing some stuff. Come on over and we can both do some stuff at the same time if you like.
Headbanging gives you a headache!
Books are good 'n' 'at 'no.
"You have beautiful hair." "I'm from Scotland!"
Hi 'myy sppace'. Is this on?
Hi hi! I am at the computer writing this. Where are you?! Isn't Tom Hanks amazing in Big?! Do you like the autumn time? I do... Please send me jumpers.
Who I'd like to meet: ... emotional retards, romantics and other music-makers.
Oh, and big guys that can pick me up... you know, the 'fuscular' ones.
Members of the following clubs:
Severed limbs, lying in driveways drunk, voodoo coffins, log cabins, sweat lodges.
Monorail Music and Mono are proud to announce this year's Project Ability exhibition. Project Ability is one of Scotland's leading specialist arts organisations and we have a long-standing and happy association with them and love having their artists brilliant, raw, vivid work on our walls.
Opening is on Wednesday 3rd December at 7.30pm with Remember Remember and The Pastels (dj set). It's a free event and there's going to be an excellent raffle.
