1
SOME RIOT BY ELBOW
I never really followed Elbow
(pictured right) too much, but saw them
at Glastonbury and thought they were
superb – Some Riot was one of the
greatest songs I’ve ever heard. Their
[fourth] album [The Seldom Seen Kid]
went mega and it’s almost impossible to
say you like them, because the music
snobs assume you’ve just jumped on
the bandwagon.
MARK KERMODE’S
2
RADIO 5 LIVE
FILM PODCASTS
I hate it when he’s away and somebody
covers – there’s nothing more
disappointing. I save them up and listen
to them on long walks. It’s started to
annoy me, though, the way they always
[give a shout out] to Jason Isaacs. I have
no idea who he is. I haven’t seen Harry
Potter. I had to Google him to see what
he looked like and I still had no clue.
VESPAS
3
My love for Vespas (pictured
below) became quite embarrassing
when I moved to the countryside.
Somehow, in London you look all right on
one, but in the country, they’re not really
practical. This isn’t Rome, it’s
Cirencester. My dog would run after
me when I pulled off, which was great,
because it meant I didn’t have to walk
it. All the locals saw this and nobody said
anything, but they were all calling me
a lazy b*stard behind my back.
The Quadrophenia
reunion was a letdown
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The airbrush department had
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“I hate it when Kermode is away and somebody
covers – there’s nothing more disappointing”
KITTENS
4
I love animals. Having had lots of
dogs we got a kitten when we moved and
it was just so cute. Then the swine grew
up and became the most unpleasant pet
I’d had in my life. He literally wanders
around looking at me as if he’s thinking,
“You are a tw*t.” With dogs, it’s, “You’re
brilliant, I love everything you do.” You
feel really good with a dog, but this cat,
having grown up, just makes me feel
really bad about myself. Somehow,
I really want to invent a permanent kitten
that just stays cute for all time.
5
CARHARTT
CLOTHING
I’m really bad with clothes shopping, but
I love these guys. I’m a terrible advert for
men who refuse to grow up sartorially.
I was a goth in my twenties, which was
just wrong, and then I kind of fell into
this skate-punk-who-can’t-skate,
media-type look. It’s just all so
comfortable, but I’ve reached the point
now where I have children, and their
friends’ parents think I dress like
a teenager.
BEING IN BUSINESS
6
CLASS WHEN AN
ENEMY IS IN ECONOMY
It’s terrible, and not very credit crunch,
but I just love it. Just occasionally I
manage to bag a seat in first class and
it’s a joy when someone you hate has to
walk past you to go into the cheap seats.
I remember Piers Morgan, before he
was ‘Piers Morgan’, being shuttled
past me, which was a real pleasure.
Unfortunately, these days the roles are
somewhat reversed.
7
CALL OF DUTY:
MODERN WARFARE 2
When I play online I’m harassed by US
GIs who kick back by playing games. If
you can’t beat them, join them, so I now
adopt the persona of a hillbilly and spend
most of my time winding up people from
Manchester. My
gamer-tag is ‘big
gay badger’.
Come and have
a go if you think
you’re hard
enough…
MACBOOK
8
It’s a cliché, but I love the Apple
MacBook (pictured above) – I can write
and listen to music and watch porn all at
the same time. I’m in love with Apple,
I love the shiny gadgetiness of its stuff.
A lot of my friends say I should get a PC,
but I can’t do it – I’m an Apple person.
I love the fact that I can carry something
with 20,000 times the computing power
of the Apollo programme [that saw the
first humans land on the moon], and just
use it for music and writing.
9
MADE BY BOB
(MY LOCAL PUB)
I was told one of the problems of moving
out of London was that all the shops
closed at 3pm and you couldn’t get
anything. However, pub-wise, here in the
Cotswolds it’s all either poncey pubs full
of celebrities throwing things at each
other, or pubs like the one in An
American Werewolf In London. This
place just opened and it’s brilliant.
It’s like a deli-cum-brasserie which
serves good food, and I can sit there
and write.
THE INNOCENTS
10
ABROAD BY
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain’s work always used to annoy
me because he’s almost too quotable.
But then somebody gave me The
Innocents Abroad; it’s kind of an account
of a 19th century package holiday.
You always assume that people back
then were much more serious, but what
I love is that he’s just like me when I go on
holiday – he just calls everybody names.
It could have been written today.
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