„Contents subject to change and may settle in transit“
Favourite Writer: Russell Hoban
Favourite Book: Poisson Soluble
Favourite Poem: The Ideal Star-Fighter
Favourite Film: La Haine
Favourite Crime Novel: Time to Murder and Create
Favourite Play: The White Devil
Favourite Contemporary Play: Brimstone and Treacle or Woyzeck
Favourite Song: The Venus of the Soup Kitchen
Favourite Scottish Novel: Dance of the Apprentices
Favourite Contemporary Scottish Novel: The Maintenance of Headway
Favourite Audiobook: The Information (the only audiobook I’ve ever heard)
Favourite Thriller: Fried Man (Martin Waddell)
Favourite Non Fiction: The Book of Lies
Favourite Funny Novel: Kleinzeit
Favourite TV show (all time): Grange Hill
Favourite TV show (now): No Reservations
Favourite Rock Album: Animals
Favourite Blues Album: The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker
Favourite Classical Recording: Either the 1952 mono recording of Tristan und Isolde (Furtwängler) or Boulez doing Edgard Varèse’s Amériques in 1978
Favourite Jazz Album: A Love Supreme
Favourite Punk Album: The Feeding of the 5,000
Favourite Contemporary Classical Album: Six Pianos
Favourite Maximalist Album: Sign „☮“ the Times
Favourite Rock Minimalist Album: Steady Diet of Nothing (Fugazi)
Favourite Rap Maximalist Album: Play With Toys (dc Basehead)
Favourite Marx Brothers Film: A Day At The Races
Favourite Place In America You’ve Never Been: Kearny, New Jersey
Favourite Crisps: Euroshopper Paprika (from Albert Heijn or MonoPrix)
Favourite Minimalist Law of Nature: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Favourite Phrase To Describe The Preceding Law: “The cup is fucking broken. Long live the fucking cup.”
