| General |
Knitting, spinning wool, queerness, cricket, tennis, God, bitching, reading, moosic, drawing, tea, being a crazy feminist and lazy ideological loon, attempting to recycle (papier mache! weaving shopping bags! collages!), attempting to grow vegetables in the sunny climes of Durham, pretty things! | | Music |
Brilliant women ( PJ Harvey, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Cat Power, Dusty Springfield); the New York 'acoustic' lot (Antony and the Johnsons, CocoRosie, Devendra Banhart, Joan as Police Woman, Regina Spektor, Rufus Wainwright), indisputed genius ( David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, BB King, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, The Smiths); punk and post-punk (Sex Pistols, The Clash, Talking Heads, Blondie, Joy Division); riot grrl and post-riot grrl (Bikini Kill, L7, Hole, Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney); nineties British stuff (Manic Street Preachers (I was A Manics Fan - some of you may understand the significance of that on my psyche, if not, look here - http://jamiesrunoutgroove.blogspot.com/2006/07/mp3-m
anic-street-preachers-discography_09.html), Suede, Radiohead, Idlewild, Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, Gomez). And also Jeff Buckley, Mercury Rev, Scissor Sisters, Ed Harcourt, The Kills, Muse, Spiritualized, White Stripes, Belly, Arcade Fire, Tim Buckley, and loads of other cool stuff. Also Shakira. | | Movies | Withnail and I, The English Patient, Brief Encounter, The Hours, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist, Harry Potter, The Little Mermaid, Serenity, Brokeback Mountain, Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, Annie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Oh dear. | | Television | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spaced, Black Books, Father Ted, Six Feet Under, Angel, Queer As Folk, The L Word, Malcolm in the Middle, The Simpsons, Blackadder, Scrubs, Firefly, Dr. Who, Torchwood | | Books |
Middlemarch, The Brothers Karamazov, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Mrs Dalloway, Regeneration, The Bell Jar, Narnia, the Bagthorpe Saga, The Bible, War and Peace, Birdsong, Steppenwolf, The Outsider, The First Circle, The Bone People, Harry Potter, The Reader, In Time of Light, The Heart of the Matter, Human Croquet, Atonement, The Prodigal Summer, Lord of the Rings, Lirael, Chrestomanci, Adrian Mole, Run Rabbit, Susan Griffin | | Heroes | A lady named Dorothy, a lady named Julie and my grandad. |
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