charley stone
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>Where are you?
On a bed, Hackney.
>What are you? I am the Helena Bonham-Carter of rock. >What do you make? "Don't make it, be it" >What do you love? Food, drink, fucking, sleeping, kissing, sunshine & soft breezes, conversation, writing, singing, being on stage, the sea, fresh air & green grass, Henry Miller (except Tropic of Cancer), carousels, a good cry or a good smoke or a good punch... London... >What do you hate? The music industry... London... >What do you listen to? Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Moonshake (when Margaret was guitar woman, forever...), the new Blur album, assorted hip hop records I got lucky with, Buffalo Daughter, Cornelius, the old Throwing Muses (with Tanya and Lesley on board), songs from the shows, Sidi Bou Said, Duran Duran (c. Seven & the Ragged Tiger), David Sylvian (esp. Gone to Earth), Bowie's "Scary Monsters", Can "Hallehluwah", Kraftwerk "TransEurop Express", Neu "Neu 2", Faure's "Requiem", Mozart... >What do you watch? Wings of Desire, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Cabaret >What do you drink? Fresh orange juice, Badoit, Earl Grey tea, Guinness, JD & coke, Maker's Mark, bottled lagers, real ale, Harvey Wallbangers, fake champagne.... >What do you smoke? Slim Panatellas >What do you take? Vitamin C >What do you believe in? Space... empty space & points of light... When We Were 16 >Where were you? Tiny bedroom, Exeter.>What were you? A lesbian in denial >What did you wear? Black Tshirts saying things like "The Cure", tie dyed trousers, hair that was growing long, bracelets I made from bits of the Eiffel Tower, hats to hide behind, a permanent frown.... >What did you listen to? The Cure "Standing on a Beach", Japan "Adolescent Sex" and "Tin Drum", David Bowie "Low" and "Ziggy Stardust", Arcadia, Cocteau Twins, David Sylvian "Gone to Earth" >What did you watch? The sky in the morning over Barton Fields >What did you love? Running up hills, dreaming, writing >What did you hate? My peers >What did you drink? Red wine, nightly, melancholy & solitary. >What did you smoke? Nothing >What did you take? Nothing >What did you want to be? "Pop star" >Who did you fight? Noone >Who/What did you believe in? God. My own creativity. >Where did you go? Rarely much further than my own backyard. >What did you learn? How to touch |
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