| General | Climbing Mountains, Rare Breeds, Junk Shops, Jamaican Sounds, 7 inch records, Countryfile, Stone Circles, Rat Catching, York City FC, Necropolis Graveyards, Strawberry Fields, Ten Pin Bowling, Folklore, Iceland, Drunk Poets, Patterdale Terriers, Museums, Cycling, Yorkshire Tea, Crap Fairground Rides, The Shipping Forecast, Beekeeping, Romantics, Kitchen Sink, Mythology, Jerk Chicken Joints, Pregnant Onions, Caravans, Cream Cakes and Dusty Libraries.. | | Music | Arthur Crudup, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Lil' Son Jackson, Leadbelly, Cannonball Adderley, Chet Baker, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Herman Chin-Loy, Dr John The Night Tripper, Julie Driscoll, Scott Walker, Nico, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel, Os Mutantes, Dusty, Lee Hazlewood, Serge Gainsbourg, Captain Beefheart, Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, The Seeds, The Sonics, New York Dolls, My Bloody Valentine, Black Sabbath, XRaySpex, The Slits, Buzzcocks, Birthday Party, Wu-Tang Clan, The Germs, Snatch, Kleenex, Johnny Thunders, Gun Club, The Normal, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, ESG, Can, Gang Of Four, PiL, James Chance, Scars, Nick Drake, Robert Wyatt, Weird War, Yellowman, Joe Gibbs, Steely and Clevie, Sly and Robbie, Nora Dean, Prince Jammy, Winston Riley, King Kong, Public Enemy, Elastica, Huggy Bear, Stereolab, Seefeel, Adam and the Ants, Fela Kuti, The Stooges, NWA, Guns and Roses, Gram Parsons, Teardrop Explodes, Violent Femmes, Joy Division, Suede, Young Marble Giants, Happy Mondays, Ketty Lester, The Fall, The Smiths...too many to mention..! | | Movies | Naked, Dead Man Shoes, A Trip To The Moon, A Taste of Honey, Last Resort, Stand By Me, Ghost World, Kes, Midnight Cowboy, Secretary, Requiem for a Dream, Beetlejuice, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Rita Sue and Bob Too, Slade in Flame, Belleville Rendevous, Night of the Living Dead, 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 | Anne Sexton, Pablo Neruda, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Kurt Vonnegut, Mikhail Bulgakov, Herbert Huncke, Frederico Lorca, Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Li Po, WC Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, William Blake, Cold Mountain, Charles Bukowski, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Vladimir Mayakovsky, John Fante, Phillip Larkin, Octavia Paz, Nikolai Gogol, Harry Crews, Laura Hird, Vasko Popa, Blaise Cendrars, Niall Griffiths, Yuli Daniel, Patrick Kavanagh, Tu Fu | | Heroes | I would be rather partial to sharing a pot of tea and a Tunnocks Marshmallow with the following:
Lord Summerisle, Robert and Aline Crumb, Frieda and Diego, Marmalade Atkins, Mother Shipton, Alan Moore, Michael Clark, Bill Hicks, Tracey and Billy, Tony Wilson, Billie Holiday, Batman, Ben Myers, Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian and Dorian, Daniel Johnston, Richard Pryor, Dian Hanson, John Peel, Joe Coleman, Germaine Greer, Cutty Ranks, Jarvis Cocker, Leigh Bowery, Grace Jones, Caravaggio, Beryl Reid and Count Dracula.. |
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