Where are you? stressville, Exeter; a.k.a. the stride office
What are you? writer, painter, music-junkie, publisher
What do you make? noise, poems, pictures, neat piles of things
What do you love? Sue, the blob [baby-to-be], the sea, books
What do you hate? untidiness, laziness, tellytubbies, MOR music, rhyming doggerel masquerading as poetry
What do you listen to? dj krush, tortoise, sun ra, anthony braxton, yes, van de graaf generator, whatever people tape for me, whatever gets sent to me for review, electronica, improv, out-rock, jazz, progrock, singersongwriters
What do you watch? the stars at night, X files, Twin Peaks on video, what i say in public
What do you drink? Fullers London Pride, bourbon, home-made sloe gin, cheap lager, cranberry juice, real coffee
What do you smoke? fish
What do you take? the piss
What do you believe in? words, language, love, music, God
When We were 16.
Where were you? London: school during the day, concerts at night
What were you? an oik. pretentious grammar school 6th former
What did you wear? jackets & tie at school [uniform] during the day, flares & cowboy boots in the evenings [come on, it was 1976]
What did you listen to? Yes, Deep Purple, Larry Norman, Genesis, Racing Cars and early live gigs by XTC, Magazine, etc
What did you watch? the girls passing by, the classroom clock
What did you love? music, first drinks, parties, Sarah, holidays
What did you hate? cross-country runs, exams, school uniform, top of the pops, disco
What did you drink? guiness & cider, cheap lager, tap water
What did you smoke? didnt
What did you take? days off, showers, long bike rides
What did you want to be? famous, rich, & somewhere else
Who did you fight? I tried, and still do, to be a pacifist but three punkettes who picked on me at the Marquee, assorted school bullies, National Front members at a Stiff Little Fingers gig
Who/What did you believe in? records, NME, my parents, God
Where did you go? to work for the summer. art college after first year sixth form. down by the river. downhill
What did you learn? you never grow up. english and maths
who my friends were
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