Staring at inappropriate trees, Daleks, rearranging all the letter M cds in the Rock And Pop section of every HMV I go into so they're out of order, Tiki culture & Hawaiian shirts, making useful household objects out of navel lint, Godzilla, Gamera & Ultraman, clenching my buttocks, ranting, emailing while I'm naked, listening to the soundtrack music in my head that accompanies my everyday life, worrying traffic wardens.
I'm also interested in any monetary offers for Scatz and I to reform our band, The Self-Righteous Brothers. Offers, bribes, etc. should be sent c/o this page...
Music
Marley to the 'Stones, Mendelssohn to Lemon Jelly, Queens Of The Stone Age to Burt Bacharach, Primal Scream to The Streets, Martha Wainwright to Ojos de Brujo, Curtis Mayfield to Johnny Cash, Peaches to Cream, The Fratellis to Charlie Parker, The View to Harry Belafonte, The Chemical Brothers to Ray Lamontagne, Elton John to Oasis, Ali Farka Toure to The Who, Ella Fitzgerald to Lily Allen, Yma Sumac to The Velvet Underground, George Harrison to Nick Drake, Kings of Leon to Kasabian, Lucky Jim to Kirsty MacColl, Akira Ifukube to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Arctic Monkeys to Handsome Boy Modelling School, The Beatles to Damien Rice, Sex Pistols to Jackie Mittoo, N*E*R*D to Badly Drawn Boy, Lee Perry to The Killers, Miles Davis to Green Day, Beth Orton to Sam & Dave, Bernard Herrmann to Death In Vegas, Ibrahim Ferrer to Ron Sexsmith, Sub-Rosa to DeSade, Danny Elfman to Steve Earle, Howlin' Wolf to ELO, Foo Fighters to The Vessels, Carl Stalling to The Congos, Missy Elliot to Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop to The Undertones, Hank Williams to The Feeling, John Barry to Q-Tip, The Kinks to Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits to Gnarls Barkley. Anything and everything..
Brazil, Withnail and I, The Empire Strikes Back, Ikiru, Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster, In The Mood For Love, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Magnolia, Freaks, Garden State, This is Spinal Tap, Seven Samurai, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Citizen Kane, Down by Law, Robocop, So I Married an Axe Muderer, Tokyo Story, Beetlejuice, Moulin Rouge, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Lawrence of Arabia, Little Miss Sunshine, Natural Born Killers, Spider-Man 2, The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, Napoleon Dynamite, Touch of Evil, Superman; The Movie, The Maltese Falcon, Starship Troopers, High Fidelity, Ninotchka, Kill Bill (1 and 2), Bride of Frankenstein, Austin Powers; International Man of Mystery, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, The Terror of Tiny Town, Sin City, The Exorcist, Sideways, Eyes Without A Face, The Wages of Fear, Dumbo, Beautiful Girls, Singin' in the Rain, Black Sunday, Fight Club, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Anchorman; The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Hellboy, It's A Wonderful Life, The Naked Gun, Suspiria, Ed Wood, The Godfather (1 and 2), Jaws, Django, Spirited Away, Joe Vs The Volcano, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Heat, Stranger Than Fiction, Kingdom of Heaven (check out the excellent director's cut), Sid and Nancy, Dawn Of The Dead (Romero's version), Les Diaboliques (Cluzot's version, of course), Tombs of the Blind Dead, Nacho Libre, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Amelie, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Pulp Fiction, City of God, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (quite partial to both versions), Toy Story, Theatre of Blood, The Tenant, Pan's Labyrinth, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Re-Animator, Goodfellas, The Third Man, The Incredibles, Leon, Lost in Translation, the films of Tim Burton, Paul Naschy and Mario Bava and anything with Vincent Price, the Marx Bros., John Belushi, Bill Murray or Jessica Biel. Ask me today and I'll list a hundred films, ask me tomorrow and I'll list a hundred more.
Gotta love this movie, the only all-midget, musical western ever made...
The Terror of Tiny Town
Doctor Who (officially the greatest TV series of all time), The Shield, Life On Mars, Heroes, Scrubs, Frasier, The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica (the new version), The Twilight Zone (the old version), Twin Peaks, Futurama, Ultraman, Ren and Stimpy, Batman; The Animated Series, Buffy, Alias, The Sopranos, Lonesome Dove, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, My Name Is Earl, Vic Reeves' Big Night Out, The League of Gentlemen, Do Not Adjust Your Set, flicking between music channels...
Books
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S Thompson (my favourite book); the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker; the Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; the Doc Savage novels by Kenneth Robeson; LA Confidential, by James Ellroy; The Brentford Trilogy, by Robert Rankin; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams; High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby; Wired by Bob Woodward; Kinski Uncut, the autobiography of Klaus Kinski; The Battle of Brazil, by Jack Matthews; Adventures in the Screen Trade, by William Goldman; Make Your Own Damn Movie, by Lloyd Kaufman; The Psychotronic Movie Guide, by Michael J Weldon. The graphic novels of Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns - with Lynn Varley, Sin City) and Alan Moore (Watchmen - with Dave Gibbons and V For Vendetta - with David Lloyd), the books of Edward Gorey.
Huge reader of magazines, too; Bizarre, Video Watchdog, Empire, Hot Dog, Total Film, Premiere, Rue Morgue, Fangoria, Dark Side, SFX, Starburst, Dreamwatch, G-Fan, Doctor Who Magazine, Uncut, Q, Mojo, NME, The Works, The Word, Heat.
Heroes
John Belushi, Homer Simpson, Mario Bava, Terry Gilliam, Doctor Cox from Scrubs, Hunter S Thompson, Popeye, Tim Burton and The Doctor. That's a worrying combination, isn't it...?!
About me: I'm taller than Tom Cruise, but I'm not a Scientologist (though I did take the application test once at their headquarters in LA... research for a movie script I was co-writing); I have more hair than Patrick Stewart, but less than King Kong; I have all my own teeth; I have worked in fashion, comic books, newspapers, magazines, radio, music, film, animation, television and escalator cleaning. Just finished a stint managing a band, currently developing four animated TV series.
My proudest moments include being Snorky The Elephant from The Banana Splits for a Cartoon Network promo spot, a comic strip I scripted making the front page of the Daily Star, and winning an MTV Europe award for a U2 music promo I art directed.
I'm a happy bunny, except when I'm not...
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who'd like to give me a million pounds.
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