Mummies interest me: ice mummies, sand mummies, bog mummies, Egyptian mummies, those experimental ones people make out of lunatic asylum inmates for the fun of it, I'm really not fussy. (Also now The Mummies - thankyou Do$ch!) I'm quite interested in that man with the hat and all his bodies. I'm not a ghoul though.
I also like water of any kind (seas, rivers, streams, lakes, puddles); art; scenery and cats.
I don't like coat hangers or people who drive in front of me (unless they go very fast).
Music
The Jam, Wilko Johnson, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Alice Cooper, Shaggy, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, The Pretenders, The Beat, Barclay James Harvest, The White Stripes, Deacon Blue, Christy Moore, Tracy Chapman, The Beach Boys, Cornershop, Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, Steve Forbert, Whitesnake, Barenaked Ladies, King Crimson, Carole King, Phil Ochs, Paolo Nutini, They Might Be Giants, Rush, Bruce Springsteen, Madness, The Style Council, Paul Weller, The Kinks, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Blondie, Hugues Aufray, Gogol Bordello, JJ72, Muse, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Van Morrisson, The Pogues, Pulp, Radiohead, The Cure, Turin Brakes, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Counting Crows
Movies
As Good As It Gets, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Shaun Of The Dead, Patch Adams, Showboat (1946), Will Hay, Marx Brothers, In The Heat Of The Night, The Odd Couple, Patton, The Night Listener, This Year's Love, Agnes Browne, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Love Honour and Obey, James Cagney, Laurel and Hardy, Forrest Gump, The Ladykillers (1955), Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, Pulp Fiction, Midnight Cowboy, The Blues Brothers, Moonlight Mile, Muriel's Wedding, Rain Man, Brassed Off, Still Crazy, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Meet the Fockers, The Fisher King, The Birdcage, Twin Town, The Green Mile, Amelie, Withnail and I, Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory
Television
Hill Street Blues, St Elswhere, Extras, Early Doors, The Royle Family, Mapp and Lucia, QI, Desperate Housewives, Dr Who, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Sgt Bilko, Car 54 Where are You?, Blackadder, The Young Ones, Shirley Ghostman, House, Jeeves and Wooster, The Thin Blue Line, Life on Mars, Nuts in May, Jonathan Ross, Black Books, The Office, Winners and Losers, Tales of the City, Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy, Rock Profile, Casanova, Jam and Jerusalem, Coast, King Rollo, Towser, Worzel Gummidge, Ivor the Engine, Wallace and Gromit, My Parents are Aliens, Gavin and Stacey, Summer Heights High, Deadwood. I can't believe I missed out Kath and Kim!!!
Books
Dickens, Wilde, Armistead Maupin, Wilkie Collins, Herodotus, Mark Twain, Maupassant, Ian Rankin, Janet Evanovich, Judy Gardiner, EF Benson, Michael Innes, Irving Stone, Flann O'Brien, Evelyn Waugh, Greek Tragedies, Aristophanes, Herman Melville, Stephen Fry, Alexander Cordell, RL Stevenson, Damon Runyan, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Emil Zola, George Eliot, Walter Scott, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon, Wild Swans - Jung Chang, Bob Dylan Chronicles, Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde - Frank Harris, Tom Jones - Henry Fielding, Lewis Carroll, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island, Lemony Snickett, Worzel Gummidge
About me: I like some things a lot, but other things I only quite like. For instance, contrary to popular belief, it IS possible to quite like Marmite, Graham Norton and Chris Evans. It's probably because I have fairly low expectations of life. I'm a bit of a pessimist actually, which means I always expect the worst and am consequently often mildly pleased with how things turn out. I'm rambling, aren't I?
Who I'd like to meet: Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Ian Dury, Shirley Ghostman, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Rik Mayall, Julie Walters, Armistead Maupin, Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey. (Anyone notice that I put Stephen Fry twice? Well I would like to meet him twice, so maybe I did it on purpose!)
I'm beginning to think we are going to London!! I thought we were just going to a chapel in the next village!!! You wait until I tell my doctor you've taken me on the M25! He'll have a fit!!
THE AUTUMN DEFENSE (two members of WILCO) + PLUSH (Liam Hayes) + CHARLOTTE GREIG Sunday 7th September @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
The Autumn Defense is a collaboration between Wilco/Uncle Tupelo bassist John Stirratt and Wilco multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone who has also produced records for the likes of Andrew Bird and Joseph Arthur. They have released 3 albums of beautifully arranged, organic, wispy folk-rock and singer-songwriter musings.
"Comfort music for the soul...” UNCUT **** "never less than utterly gorgeous" THE WORD "reference points include Nick Drake and CSN, Bread, Big Star and the essence of Love, Steely Dan and a dozen others" MOJO **** "edifying and beautifully textured" DAILY MIRROR **** "soft rock at it's most elegant." TIME OUT "Soft, dreamy and bittersweet” WASHINGTON POST "Warming, gorgeous and delightful” DAVID FRICKE, SENIOR EDITOR, ROLLING STONE
Liam Hayes appeared as himself in High Fidelity and his band Plush's long lost masterpiece 'Fed' is currently receiving rave reviews across the music press including 5/5 in Uncut, 4/5 in Mojo, Q, Plan B, NME 8/10 etc. A regular collaborator, he has also worked with Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy), appearing on keyboards across the Palace era output, and also played on records by Royal Trux.
"Fed is beautifully excessive, ornamented with dazzling soul/pop arrangements. And the songs are glorious..." UNCUT ***** "A banquet of sonic gorgeousness" NME 8/10 "Fed is something of a lost classic" MOJO **** "Fed can be finally heard as a testament to Hayes's widescreen obsessions" Q **** "Perfect takes time" PLAN B “a soulful symphonic masterpiece” ROLLING STONE
A pretty decent amount of superlatives there for just £9 (adv.) Get your tickets from www. clwb. net, Spillers (Cardiff) or Diverse (Newport)
Hey Lucy, Thanks for the card, it's really funny and unusual, just the sort of thing I love!!! Hope all is well over there, I really miss everybody xxxxxJo
Yeah - tight lot eh? -just blow it all on drugs I expect! We've all just about recovered from a grim bug - excellent excuse for training procrastination though. .....Neil Finn I hope you're getting all of this dedication :-) What're u up 2 on Bank Holiday Monday?
Hi Lucy, hope yer well. I like the page. Three Stephen Fry's, a wee guy called davey in a WHU top, Wilco Johnson as a pal.......you're overqualified to be a friend of mine.
Hey Lucy Guess what? Yep, I've not been on this Myspace much of late! Therefore you spotted the song being deleted before me. (Oh well if he doesn't want a springboard for his career eh?)We're all doing pretty well over here in Kesgrave. Baby is kicking on and will be walking pretty darn soon I think. We'll definately have to get over to Maldon and drop in for a catch up. Guess we'll just leave it long enough for our Kevs gloating over da rugby to abate :-) Love to all, Mike
