Music, Books, (a bit of geeky video gaming), Talking about how I'd ride my bike, of only it hadn't been stolen.
Driving around in cars (when I get the chance, which is mainly weekends because Monday to Friday is usually Train Time).
Music
!!! (chk chk chk), Blackflower, Breakestra, Astropop 3, Aime Amis, The Bees (or A Band of Bees to you US kids), Altern-8, The Beatles, Cable, Captain Cocoa, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Mountain (well, some of the earlier stuff anyway), "The ever changing sound of the Brewis brothers", Cut Chemist, Cansei de Sur Sexy (CSS), MF Doom, Easyworld, Editors, Eagles of Death Metal, Free, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gomez, The Fiery Furnaces, The Horrors, Howie Beck, Catfish Haven, LCD Soundsystem, Kiiiiiii, The Klaxons, James Brown, The L.A. Carnival, Jim Noir, Johnny Flynn, John Egdell, The Lilys, Louis XIV, Michael Jackson, Madeline Peyroux, Nina Nastasia, Nirvana, Pulp, Radiohead, Portishead, The Roots, Arizona, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Tom Waits, We Are Scientists, The White Stripes, Jennifer Gentle.
Also, I'll occasionally listen to a bit of jazz, but not so widely listened. Liked things like:
Moanin' - Art Blakey
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Cannonball Adderley
Sitting Duck - Gene Harris & The Three Sounds
Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
Speaking of Happiness - Gloria Lynne
Like what I've heard of Stark Reality also.
If anyone's got any reccomendations that'd be tip top.
Movies
Tears of The Black Tiger, Reality Bites, Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, Clerks/Mallrats/Chasing Amy/Dogma/Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (anything by Kevin Smith, including Jersey Girl), Napoleon Dynamite for being so willfully idiosyncratic, Oh, also liked American Splendor, Ghost World, Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, Swingers, Go. Erm, other stuff I can't think of right now.
Movie Confessions: I have never seen any of the Godfather films, but I'll absolutely get round to it some day, promise.
Television
Never really get time to watch a lot of television, I'm curently trying to work my way through Cities of Gold, which I got from a guy I know - Does that count? If I do get half an hour I'm more likely to stick the PS2 on that watch TV - GT4, Pro Evo 6.
Actually that's all lies:
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Family Guy
The Simpsons
Futurama
Books
Haruki Murakami
For being, well just so intriguingly unusual. Favoutire of his - tough, possibly the even chapters from Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
Ryu Murakami
Much darker writer, In The Miso Soup could well be my favourite read of his (so far, I've not read all of them though).
Douglas Coupland
Always liked his books, captured the essence of the whole youth in the late 80's/90's for me. Favourite - Microserfs. I still really like Shampoo Planet. Actually Life After God is also a real contender for my favourite. And I still liked J-Pod.
Jeff Noon
I absolutely love Vurt his first novel. It's like nothing else I've ever read, can't reccommend it enough.
William Gibson
Love his sprawl stories (I know it's basically a trilogy, but there's also Burning Chrome and Johnny Mnemonic which are short stories set in the same imagined future - the latter of which was MURDERED in that 90's film, no justice I tell you.)
Brett Easton Ellis
American Psycho left an impression (there's a rumour I may not be alone in that sentiment). Not entirely sure I know what was going on in Glamorama, but I'd like to get around to re-reading it someday. Liked The Rules Of Attraction. Lunar Park? Not sure again. But I really rather want to read Less Than Zero, and The Informers.
Liked Johnathan Franzen's The Corrections. I like the gentle pacing of Banana Yoshimoto's books. Liked Koshun Takami's Battle Royale, just such a bleak concept.
Also recently read Out by Natsuo Kirino, now if you asked me if I liked crime thrillers, I'd probably say no, but it was actually Really Bloody Good.
Will think of others as and when I can be bothered
Currently Reading:
69 Ryu Murakami
Heroes
Ulysses 31:
He had that gun/lightsaber thing for god's sake, AND a beard.
About me: I'm a dad, so spend most of my time away from my desk hanging out with my wife, and daughter I suppose.
I'm always listening to music, and love "all kinds obscure tat" (as my wife describes it). I like reading. Watching films.
Finally got myself a new bike (thank you my lovely wife). The upshot of this is that I'm actually turning the pedals again. Grand. Winter's just around the corner though. So bring on the mud.
Low key class from Arizona here (video shot by The Young Francis):
Who I'd like to meet: People who make good music.
People who know good knock knock jokes.
People who will post me money for no good reason.
Laisse Tomber Les Filles by France Gall (60's French Pop Video)
But what if I inadvertently saw John Power or Paul Heaton? could you take that risk? seriously though, I had heard about it but didn't look any further due to the ongoing saga. Need to know more at a later date I think.
haha, funnilly enough, dad got hit by a torpeedo of a shite yesterday. came out in one hefty fart, totally missed the changing mat, hit the bed, olan's jeans, t-shirt and phone in his pocket. our looks of shock were replaced with laughs then a hurry to get his nappy .. he did anymore. i still cant believe it!
hello, yeah i brought him in on wed. was supposed to be there for 1:30 but made it in for 1:50 so i didnt get to see everyone for long (although jeff had a good conversation with my chest!!!) so i'll come back in a few weeks when theo's a bit more interesting! bless. it was wierd seeing gemma with a big bump, i think she's excited now, she'll be fine, she's practically adopted her friends daughter. how's your brood getting along?
