A few Books I rate
Neuromancer William Gibson
En Saison d’enfer, The Drunken Boat- Arthur Rimbaud
My Idea of Fun Will Self
SteppenWolf Herman Hesse
Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley
Some Other Country Bill Bryson
Glengarry Glen Ross
London Fields Martin Amis
The World According to Garp
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Complicity Iain Banks
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
A Man in Full Tom Woolf
Masters of the Universe Tom Woolf
Anything that Danielle Dax likes
MUSIC CONTEMPORARY/ NOT SO CONTEMPORARY ; Pram / Gorillaz / Kings of Leon / Mars Volta / The Roots / Torque / Shock Headed Peters / Lydia Lunch / Arkkon / Jaga Jazzist / Kaito / Outkast / Aphex Twin [Richard D. James ]/ Talvin Singh/ Missy Elliott/ Eartha Kitt / This Heat / The Beta Band / cLOUDDEAD / Rokia Traore / Animal Collective / Radiohead / Roots Manuva / Franz Ferdinand / Alec Empire / Misty Roses / Pere Ubu / Muddy Waters / Mahalia Jackson / Nirvana /Luke Vibert / The Velvet Undergound / Miles Davis / Robert Wyatt / Captain Beefheart / Yes [up to 1974] / Andrea Parker / Jimi Hendrix / Frank Sinatra / Public Enemy / Stevie Wonder / Chrome / Beck / Os Mutantes / Can / Faust / Wire / P.J. Harvey / Prince / James Brown / Tom Waits / Elastica / Nick Drake / Deelite / Marvin Gaye / Deus / Trojan classics / Scissor Sisters / Diamanda Galas / Bjork/ /Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Acid Mothers Temple/ Muse /Neotropic / Node [Flood, Ed Buller etc.] /Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry / Tortoise / The Goats / Howlin’ Wolf / Cab Calloway / Eels / Andrew Liles/ Astrud Gilberto / Bessie Smith / Toumani Diabaté / Isotope 217 / Money Mark / Roxy music [early years] / Mira Calix / The Shaggs / Iggy and the Stooges / DE La Soul / The Orb / Alice Coltrane / Photek / Aretha Franklin/ Leafcutter John / Goldfrapp / Califone / Bonobo … FILM
COMPOSERS; Richard Rodney Bennett / Lalo Schifrin / Thomas Newman / Bernard Hermann / Ennio Morricone / Neal Hefti / Jerry Goldsmith / Georges Auric / John Barry.
MUSIC CLASSICAL; Pendereckii / Bela Bartok / Anne Lockwood / Arvo Part / Henri Chopin / Gustav Faure / Messiaen / Delia Derbyshire / Benjamin Britten / Gorecki / Taverner.
ARTISTS: Barbara Hepworth / Helen Chadwick / Odilon Redon / Grayson Perry / Francis Bacon / Andy Goldsworthy / Cornelia Parker / Ed Keinholz / COBRA group / Cranach / Louise Bourgeios.
ARCHITECTS/DESIGNERS: Frank Gehry / Bart Prince / Rod Arad / Facteur Cheval / Werner Panton.
PHOTOGRAPHY/CINEMATOGRAPHY: Freddie Francis / Geoffrey Unsworth / Joel Peter Witkin / Cecil Beaton / Nan Goldin / Diane Arbus / Nan Goldin / Weegee / Man Ray + Lee Miller / John Blakemore / Jack Cardiff / Andre Kertetz. FILMS; Goodfellas / Liquid Sky / Legend of the Holy Drinker / The Innocents / Beauty and the Beast / Santa Sangre / Requiem for a Dream / Trainspotting / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / A Streetcar named Desire / Pulp Fiction / Beyond The Valley of the Dolls / Tetsuo the Ironman (pt.1) / Street of Crocodiles / Meet me In st. Louis / Eraserhead / Barberella/ Singing Ringing Tree / Alien / Padre Padrone / City of God / Raise the Red Lantern / A Chinese Ghost Story. BOOKS: Perfume / Crash / Behind the Scenes at the Museum / Birdsong / Gormenghast / u lysses / The Cement Garden / The Wasp Factory / The Shining / Tender is the Night / Lolita.
WRITERS: Lisa Pickard / Ian McEwan / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Marge Piercey / J.G. Ballard / James Joyce / Nabokov / Alison Weir / James Lovelock. CLOTHES/HAT DESIGN: Yuki / Erte / Vionett/ Sonja Delauney / Courreges / Shapirelli / Preen / Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell / Jon Galliano / Avshalon Gur / Phillip Treacy / Manish Aurora / Rachel Auburn / Stephen Jones / Vivian Westwood / Edith Head.