Art, music, film, books, comedy and bowling. Oh, and failure, outmoded masculine iconography, debased culture, transcience and other fancy and pretentious ideas.
Music
Otis Redding, The Flaming Lips, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder (pre-1980), Marving Gaye, Smog, Silver Jews, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Ann Peebles, Ike and Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, The Rolling Stones, Al Green, Scott Walker, The Pixies, Sly and The Family Stone, Neil Young, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Wilson Pickett, Wilco, Grandaddy, The Who, Lustfaust, Solomon Burke, NEU!, Can, Faust, Blackalicious, Iron and Wine, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Funkadelic, Wu-Tang Clan, MF Doom, Madvillain, Parliament, The Temptations, Roxy Music, Grandmaster Flash, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Mountain Goats, Arcade Fire, Pavement, Leonard Cohen, Sam Cooke
And, just last week...
Movies
Network, Manhunter, Ring, Reqiem for a Dream, Paris,Texas, Halloween, Nashville, Psycho, Vertigo, Week-End, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bad Day at Black Rock, Point Blank, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Godfather, The Godfather part II, Apocalypse Now, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The Rainmaker, Predator, Die Hard, The Howling, Escape From New York, Thief, Jaws, Dr Strangelove, Paths Of Glory, The Shining, 2001: A Space Oddysey, Footloose, Don't Look Now, Walkabout, The Killers (both versions), Rollerball (1975), The Haunting, The Legend of Hell House, Welcome to The Dollhouse, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Solaris, The Seventh Seal, Audition, True Romance, Donnie Darko, The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Open Your Eyes, Cinema Paradiso, M*A*S*H, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, The Straight Story, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet, After Hours, The King of Comedy, The Taking Of Pelham 123, Vanishing Point, Oni-Baba, The Dead Zone, Videodrome, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 one, not the shitty remake), Living In Oblivion, Trees Lounge, The Odd Couple, The Apartment, Grosse Point Blank, The Breakfast Club, Amelie, Evil Dead II, Dawn of The Dead, Night of The Living Dead, Ghostbusters, Cul-de-sac, Repulsion, Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai, Road Games, The Fog, The Conversation, Seconds, This Is Spinal Tap, Final Destination 2, Soylent Green, Marathon Man, Spartacus, Night of the Hunter, The Yakuza, The Long Goodbye, Enter the Dragon, The Stuff, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, The Boston Strangler, The Birds, Blind Terror, Wait Until Dark, Charade, Affliction, 3 Fugitives, 48 Hours, Teachers, Poltergeist, Carrie, Blow Out, Prom Night, A Bucket of Blood, The Rebel, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, The Ladykillers, Magnolia, Badlands, By The Sword, Midnight Run, Assault On Precinct 13 (original), The Thing, Big Trouble In Little China, Rope, Rear Window, The Five Obstructions, 5 Easy Pieces,
Television
Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, I'm Alan Partridge, Twin Peaks, The League of Gentlemen, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Fawlty Towers, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Quincy M.E., The Simpsons, Futurama, Scrubs, Nathan Barley, The Mighty Boosh, Snuff Box, WHEN GOOD PETS GO BAD
Books
Perhaps my greatest flaw, aside from being a bit of an asshole, is that I don't read fast enough. It is at least the one that infuriates me most. especially as I buy so many books with interest and good intention.
The following are book that spring to mind as ones that I have particularly enjoyed.
Catch 22, Joseph Heller Atomized, Michel Houellebecq One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey Red Dragon, Thomas Harris 1984, George Orwell Letters From A Nut, Ted L. Nancy
I have recently finished American Psycho, but enjoy isn't really the word for how you engage with that book is it. It starts off jovial enough albeit very black humour and spirals down into serialized bleakness, like getting kicked in the stomach. Unarguably a very sophisticated piece of writing though.
I am currently persisting with The Name Of The Rose, which due to my lack of fluency in latin I am finding occasionally infuriating. Not sure what's next, I have a big stack to choose from.
Who I'd like to meet: Hmmm, I'm a little misanthropic so that's a tricky question. Pleasant folk would be the simplest answer. But who wants to talk to simpletons? And nice people can be so dull. A conundrum indeed.
A better question would be "Where can I find information on unsung heroes of experimental music Lustfaust?"
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hey mike! now the kerfuffle of fashion week is over, we can proceed with the comedy.
a girl i work with ended up at an impromptu house party at Matt Berry's on Friday! Apparently his place looks like a gentlemen's club but he put his own dvd on and made them watch it. x
