| General | I like...Rare Breeds, Junk Shops, Jamaican Sounds, 7 inch records, 5 Day Weather Forecasts, Stone Circles, Rat Catching, York City FC, Cows, Necropolis Graveyards, Strawberry Fields, Folklore, Iceland, Drunk Poets, Bowling, Atlases, Patterdale Terriers, Museums, Baking, Kamikaze Cycling, Yorkshire Tea, Crap Fairground Rides, The Shipping News, Beekeeping, Romanticism, Kitchen Sink, Mythology, Jerk Chicken Joints, Pregnant Onions, Caravans, Cream Cakes and Dusty Libraries.. | | Music | Chic, Skip James, The Smiths, Lil' Son Jackson, Chet Baker, Herman Chin-Loy, Moondog, Dr John, Robert Wyatt, Curtis Mayfield, Miles & Betty Davies, Suicide, Vince Taylor, Destroy All Monsters, Black Sabbath, Slade, Beach Boys, The La’s, Teardrop Explodes, PiL, Yazoo, Happy Mondays, Kraftwerk, Guns N’ Roses, King Jammy’s Firehouse Productions, TomTom Club, Grace Jones, Lee Hazlewood, Winston Riley’s Techniques, The Seeds, Steely and Clevie, New York Dolls, Destiny’s Child, My Bloody Valentine, Moodyman, The Wedding Present, One More Grain, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Lord Kitchener, Karen Dalton, Burial, Billy Boyo, The Specials, Roxy Music, Aphex Twin … | | Movies | Naked, Dead Man Shoes, A Trip To The Moon, A Taste of Honey, Last Resort, Down By Law, Ghost World, Kes, Midnight Cowboy, Secretary, Beetlejuice, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Rita Sue and Bob Too, Slade in Flame, Girl On a Motorcycle, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Wicker Man, Buffalo 66, 1984, The Bay Boy, Glen or Glenda, Noi Albinoi, Psycho, Hedwig and the Angry Itch, Withnail and I, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and Mary Poppins. | | Television | "Watching TV is like squirting black paint all over your third eye.." | | Books | W.B Yeats, Anne Sexton, Ryonsuke Akutagawa, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Herbert Huncke, Frederico Lorca, Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Li Po, Hart Crane, Arthur Rimbaud, William Blake, Cold Mountain, Ono No Komachi, Charles Bukowski, Alan Warner, Buson, Alexander Trocchi, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, Carl Sandburg, Cookie Mueller, Vladimir Mayakovsky, John Fante, Phillip Larkin, Nikolai Gogol, Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Niall Griffiths, Patrick Kavanagh, William Wantling, Tu Fu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Junichiro Tanizaki and Mary Shelley. | | Heroes | I would be rather partial to sharing a pot of tea and a Tunnocks Marshmallow with the following:
Lord Summerisle, The Cockettes, Bill Drummond, Robert and Aline Crumb, Frieda and Diego, Werner Herzog, Marmalade Atkins, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mother Shipton, Alan Moore, Michael Clark, Bill Hicks, Cynthia Payne, Tony Wilson, Billie Holiday, Batman, Ben Myers, Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Cope, John Waters, Richard Pryor, Dian Hanson, Caspar David Friedrich, Phil Spector, John Peel, Joe Coleman, Germaine Greer, Cutty Ranks, Jarvis Cocker, Leigh Bowery, Grace Jones, Caravaggio, Beryl Reid and Count Dracula.. |
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