| Influences | The Shiny Beast: 10 Albums - The Jungle Book O.S.T, Electric Warrior, White Light /White Heat, Trout Mask Replica, The Stooges, Horses, Hejira, The Marble Index, Mingus' Town Hall Concert, Live At The Witch Trials.
10 Writers/Books - Kerouac, London, Brautigan, Basho, Under The Volcano, The Indian Heritage Of America, The Hitchhikers Guide To Europe, Le Grand Meaulnes, Gary Snyder, Raymond Carver.
11 Films - The Last Picture Show, Un Chien Andalou, Duck Soup, any Laurel + Hardy, The Third Man, Casablanca, Solaris, Midnight Cowboy, A Taste of Honey, Night of the Hunter, Wings of Desire.
An Alphabetical Miscellany of Loves+Influences:
anticipation, the Arctic, early morning Birdsong when walking city streets home, blackberry and apple crumble, candlelight, Chagall, clouds, the crunch of fresh snow underfoot, Dreams, desserts, dirt, the deserted, great Eccentrics and eccentricity, foggy country mornings with legless cows in fields, the smell of Freshly-mown grass, Ghosts and apparitions, grace and beauty, Hope, humour, hunger, hills and dales, Indian cuisine, Just baked bannock or bread, Kindness and compassion, Love, lakes, lasagne, memories, Maps to pore over and fuel the imagination, Novelties, no wave, Onibaba, osculation, one-horse towns where time goes slow, Peace and Quiet, real smiles, reflections, refractions, Raindrops on glass, surrealism, Sunrises and sunsets, shadows, silence, tolerance, touch, tors, tarns, Tampopo, Unexpected meetings with old friends or new, Visions and vistas, the Weather, the eXquisite and bizarre, fresh Yoghurt, Zest in food and for life. |
