Miscellaneous likes :

artists' books/ automata/ badges/ beachcombing/ Lord Berners/ Brautigan Library/ car boot sales/ cats/ cat ceramics/ charity shopping/ children's art/ chimpanzee art/ Joseph Cornell/ cryptic crosswords/ dada/ dance crazes/ design history/ Jean Dubuffet/ Marcel Duchamp/ Anthony Earnshaw/ feminism/ flexidiscs/ Jim Flora/ Fluxus/ folk art/ found objects/ Stephen Gill/ Vivien Goldman/ graphic design/ greengrocers' hand-lettered price tickets/ homemade things/ Tim Hunkin/ Ray Johnson/ kaleidoscopes/ kinetic art/ kitsch/ Bruce Lacey/ lost pet posters/ mail art/ Mass Observation/ mathematical sequences/ Spike Milligan/ mix tapes/ museums/ oral history/ Ordnance Survey maps/ outsider art/ packaging/ paradoxes/ Tom Phillips/ photo booth pictures/ printed ephemera/ postcards/ record sleeve design/ rubber stamps/ Tony Schwartz/ Kurt Schwitters/ sea glass/ short wave radio/ small press/ Harry Smith/ stationery/ testcards/ toy instruments/ trademarks/ typography/ urban myths/ vegan food/ Xerox art...

Watching :

Stan Brakhage/ Steve Buscemi/ early cinema/ Free Cinema/ Frog Dance (Lol Coxhill documentary)/ Ghost World/ Harold And Maude/ Jeff Keen/ Laurel And Hardy/ Little Fugitive (Morris Engel)/ Len Lye/ Norman McLaren/ Horace Ove/ Sir Henry At Rawlinson End/ Smashing Time (Bruce Lacey scene)/ Jan Svankmajer/ The Rebel/ Rutland Weekend Television/ Francois Truffaut and French new wave generally...

Listening :

advertising records/ Alga Marghen/ Argo Records/ Arhoolie Records/ BBC Radiophonic Workshop/ Steve Beresford/ Deben Bhattacharya/ Ed Blackwell/ Dennis Bovell/ BYG Actuel/ John Cage/ cajun/ Camper Van Beethoven/ Captain Beefheart/ Don Cherry/ Irwin Chusid/ Shirley Collins/ Lol Coxhill/ The Desperate Bicycles/ doo wop/ electronic music/ English psychedelic pop/ Eno/ Ethnological Forgery Series (Can)/ exotica/ John Fahey/ Jad Fair/ Faust/ 'fifties r&b/ The Flying Lizards/ Frank Chickens/ Slim Gaillard/ Ron Geesin/ girl groups/ Milford Graves/ Hybrid Kids/ improv/ Incredibly Strange Music/ Bismillah Khan/ Kleenex and Liliput/ Tom Lehrer/ Lieutenant Pigeon/ locked grooves/ Alan Lomax/ Barbara Lynn/ mbaqanga/ Joe Meek/ The Mighty Sparrow/ The Miracles/ Moondog/ no wave/ Obscure Records/ outsider music/ pennywhistle jive/ Pianosaurus/ Portsmouth Sinfonia/ Pulsallama/ The Raincoats/ Steve Reich/ ReR Megacorp/ The Residents/ Jonathan Richman/ The Rutles/ Scratch Orchestra/ The Shaggs/ shangaan/ Silicon Teens/ silent records/ The Slits/ song-poems/ Sparks/ Stavely Makepeace/ Swell Maps/ These Records/ Tiny Tim/ Western swing/ Robert Wyatt/ Y Records/ Young Marble Giants/ zydeco...

Reading :

Atlas Press/ Beer Frame 'zine/ Louise Bennett/ Richard Brautigan/ Ian Breakwell/ Italo Calvino/ Bob Cobbing/ Les Coleman/ Bob Copper/ Barbara Comyns/ Collusion magazine/ concrete poetry/ Kevin Coyne/ Robert Crumb/ Ivor Cutler/ Dame Darcy/ dream diaries/ Exact Change/ Geoffrey Fletcher's London's Pavement Pounders/ folk tales/ Gaberbocchus Press/ Edward Gorey/ B.S. Johnson/ LKJ/ Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior/ Le Dernier Cri/ Joseph Mitchell/ Iona & Peter Opie/ Oulipo/ Kenneth Patchen/ Mark Pawson/ Georges Perec/ Raymond Queneau/ Raw Vision/ Resonance magazine/ Gertrude Stein/ Studs Terkel/ The Sound Projector magazine/ Amos Tutuola/ Denton Welch/ Val Wilmer...