Music
 

high rotate Talvin Singh presents SOUNDZ OF THE ASIAN UNDERGROUND Buffalo Tom, SMITTEN Elvis Costello, KING OF AMERICA Al Green, GREATEST HITS The Clean, COMPILATION

desert island essentials Bettie Serveert, PALOMINE Buffalo Tom, LET ME COME OVER, 1997 Nick Cave, LET LOVE IN,  Bob Dylan, BLOOD ON THE TRACKS,  P J Harvey, TO BRING YOU MY LOVE, 1995 Joy Division, PERMANENT, 1995 Curtis Mayfield, PEOPLE GET READY! (boxed set), 1996 Bob Mould, WORKBOOK, 1989 Patty Smith, HORSES, 1975 Stereolab, REFRIED ECTOPLASM (SWITCHED ON Vol.2), 1995Straitjacket Fits, MELT, 1990 Superchunk, FOOLISH, 1993 Throwing Muses, THE REAL RAMONA, 1991 The Velvet Underground & Nico, "The Banana Album", 1967 Yo La Tengo, I CAN HEAR THE HEART BEATING AS ONE, 1997

Books
 

on the boil Paul Theroux, The Happy Isles of Oceania Neal Stephenson, Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

all time favorites James Ellroy, My Dark Places Nick Hornby, High Fidelity Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street Flannery O'Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Jean Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

Movies
 

saw recently & liked Buffalo 66 A Touch of Evil Cat People, 1943, dir. Jacques Tourneur I Walked With a Zombie, dir. Jacques Tourner

all time favorites Strangers on a Train, dir. Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo, dir. Alfred Hitchcock Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, dir. Russ Meyer Heavenly Creatures, dir. Peter Jackson The Unbelievable Truth, dir. Hal Hartley Fargo, dir. The Coen Brothers The Poseidon Adventure The Kingdom, dir. Lars von Trier Heat, dir.  Jackie Brown, dir. Quentin Tarantino Donny Brasco, dir. Mike Newell Alien, dir. Ridley Scott Topless Women talk about their Lives, dir. Harry Sinclair

 
 

"He talks relentlessly, and more or less everything he says is gibberish. He talks a lot about music, but also a lot about books [...], and films, and women. Pop, girls, etc. like the Liquorice Comfits said. But his conversation is simply enumeration: if he has seen a good film, he will not describe the plot, or how it made him feel, but where it ranks in his best-of-year list, his best-of-all-time list, his best-of-decade list - he thinks and talks in tens and fives, and as a consequence Dick and I do too. And he makes us write lists as well, all the time. 'OK, guys. Top five Dustin Hoffman films.' Or guitar solos, or records made by blind musicians, or Gerry and Sylvia Anderson shows('I don't believe you've got Captain Scarlet at number one, Dick. The guy was immortal! What's fun about that?'), or sweets that come in jars ('If either of you have got Rhubard and Custard in the top five, I'm resigning now.')."