The Father The Son and The Holy Ghost, Punk, saints and sinners, artists and poets, DIY fashion, psychiatry, Irish politics and revolutions, and anything which makes me angry.
Music
The Who, the whole punk thing from The Sex Pistols to Wire, special mention to Gertrude, my friends, post-punk all female band from South-London and who's been going for 11 years + Armitage Shanks (R.I.P.) from Rochdale, Sinead O'Connor, Motorhead, MC5, The Stooges, Small Faces, The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Yardbirds, The Spencer Davis Group, Hendrix, Northern Soul & 60's Soul, Lee Scratch Perry Bob Marley LKJ and Rockers reggae, Garbage, Nirvana, Hole, Blur, Massive Attack, Portishead, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Dutronc, Alan Stivell, trad. Irish, Natasha Atlas, Baroque, Beethoven and Bach.
Movies
Films about revenge in style (don't we all).
Apolcalypse Now, Quadrophenia, Get Carter, Jackie Brown, Children of a lesser God, A Clockwork Orange, Elizabeth, Gimme Shelter, The Conversation, Angel Heart, Casino, The Piano, Dangerous Liaisons, Marie-Antoinette, Barry Lyndon, Braveheart, The Last of the Mohicans, Into the West, Aguirre Wrath of God, The Ratcatcher, Amadeus, Cleopatra, Jaws, The Life of Brian, Toy Story 1&2, Enchanted, Jubilee, The Filth and the Fury, Kill Bill 1&2, Austin Powers, Uncle Buck, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Borat, The Go-Between, Blow-Up, The Pawnbroker, The Damned, Cabaret, Shindler's List, Downfall.
French and Italian cinema.
Television
Damages, Engrenages (Spiral), Rome, The inbetweeners, Peep Show, IT Crowd, Russell Brand's Ponderland, Mock The Week, Balls of Steel (especially The Annoying Devil), Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, any travelling cookery programme, Bremner Bird and Fortune, Father Ted, Columbo, The Prisoner and The Avengers, Rising Damp, Football and the 6 nations.
Books
The Ginger Man, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Rapture, Tyrannosaurus Rex vs Corduroy Kid, If this is a Man, le Convoi du 24 Janvier, The Speckled People, Dubliners, Tintin in Tibet, Les liaisons Dangereuses, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Bell Jar, L'Etranger, The Catcher in the Rye, One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Of Mice and Men, Men are from Mars Women are from Venus, Banksy Wall and Piece. Freud Jung Joyce Beckett Hemingway Rimbaud Yeats Armitage Duffy.
Heroes
The Duke of Wellington @ Waterloo, Nelson @ Trafalgar, St John The Baptist, Arthur Rimbaud, Lemmy, Sinead O'Connor, Jimmy (Quadrophenia), Keith Richards, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, Bobby Sands, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Victor Scoelcher, Johnny Rotten, Beckett, John Paul II, The Virgin Mary, Mary-Magdelene and St Catherine of Sienna, Rosa Parks, Felicity Shagwell, Patti Smith, Simone Veil and Charlotte Delbo, Primo levi, Nietzsche Jung and Freud, Caravaggio, my daughter and her WWF tiger, my beautiful son, Blackbeard, Tintin & Captain Haddock, Vercingetorix, Asterix the Gaul, Warhol, Damien Hirst & Antony Gormley, Jenny Holzer % Tracey Emmin, Barbie, Chanel & agnès b., David Bailey & Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon & Deborah turbeville, Twiggy, Erin O'Connor & Grace Coddington, Barbara Hulanicki & Mary Quant.
Burton & Taylor, Gainsbourg & Birkin, Me & Him.
Saints and Sinners (we're all ss) Shane McGowan, George Best, France 82, 98, 2000.
..I like to make valuable things out of discarded things, anything, notions, words, rags and people nobody wants. My religion is punk. i used to write/edit a fanzine Open Up and Bleed (punk, politics, poetry - 1998-2000), you may have read it.
Who I'd like to meet: No-one in particular but I trust that you'd like to meet me anyway.
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