Favourites

Here are some of my favorite things, choose a category from the tabs below.

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Colours:

• Hot pink
• Red
• Black

 

Perfumes:

• Amarige (Givenchy)
• Angel (Thierry Mugler)
• Channel No 5
• Dior – Escale de Portofino
• Gucci
• Hypnotic Poison
• Rush (Gucci)
• Yohji (Yohji Yamamoto)

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Films:

• A walk in the clouds
• A taste of honey
• A touch of class
• Alfie
• Always
• Apocalypto
• Autumn in New York
• Avatar
• Baby Boom
• Brief Encounter
• The Bucket List
• Bury my heart at wounded knee
• Choose me
• City of angels
• Closer
• The Crush
• Dangerous liaisons
• The Duchess
• Earth girls are easy
• Educating Rita
• Falling in love
• First Knight
• G I Jane
• Karate Kid
• Keeping the faith
• LA Story
• The Matrix
• Meet Joe Black
• Must love dogs
• Only you
• RED
• Same time next year
• Serendipity
• Shirley Valentine
• Shopgirl
• Skyline
• The Sweetest Thing
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Torch Song Trilogy
• Under the Tuscan sun
• Up the junction
• What dreams may come

 

Actors:

• Jeff Goldblum
• Steve Martin
• John Malcovich
• John Cusack
• Keanu Reeves
• Nicholas Cage

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[tab title=”Music”]

Albums:

• Born To Do It – Craig David
• Essential Recordings – Billie Holiday
• Exodus – Bob Marley
• Greatest Hits – Whitesnake
• Intensive Care – Robbie Williams
• Late Registration – Kanye West
• Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
• Meet Joe Black (soundtrack)
• My Way – The best of Frank Sinatra
• No More Drama – Mary J Blige
• Ocean Drive – Lighthouse Family
• Real Love – Lisa Stansfield
• Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
• Results – Liza Minnelli
• Seal Best 1991-2004 – Seal 
• Something To Remember – Madonna
• Songs From The Last Century – George Michael
• Street Life – Crusaders
• Taxi – Bryan Ferry

 

“scream” Fast Tracks:

• A Little Bit Of Luck – D J Luck 
• Ain’t Nobody – Rufus and Chaka Khan
• Baddest Girl – Lady Saw
• Blow Ya Mind – Lock n load
• Closer – NeYo
• Do It To Me Again – Soulseacher
• Don’t ya – Pussycat Dolls
• Easy Living – Uriah
• Heep
• Ever Fallen In Love – Buzzcocks
• Fastlove – George Michael
• Follow Da Leader – The Soca Boys
• Get Busy – Sean Paul
• Girlie Girlie – Sophia George
• Hey Boys Hey Girls – Chemical Brothers
• I don’t need a man – The Pussycat Dolls
• I like the way you move – Bodyrockers
• I’m Every Woman – Whitney Houston
• Just A Little Bit – Liberty X
• Love Lockdown – Kanya West
• Make Luv – Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham
• Maneater – John Hall and Darryl Oats
• Moving On Up – M People
• Moving Too Fast – Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson
• Misfit – Amy Studt
• Naked In The Rain – Blue Pearl
• Native New Yorker – Odyssey
• No Limit – 2 unlimited
• Perfect – Fairground Attraction
• Rock this party – Bob Sinclair featuring B Cutee
• Run to the hills – Iron Maiden
• Salsoul Nugget (if u wanna) – M&S presents the girl next door
• Set You Free – N-Trance
• She’s The Boss – Mick Jagger
• Single Ladies – Beyonce
• Somebody Else’s Guy – Jocelyn Brown
• Something about you – Jamelia
• Straight From The Heart – Doolally
• Sun Is Shining – Bob Marley & The Wailers (remix)
• Sweet Like Chocolate – Shanks & Bigfoot
• Tease Me – Chaka Dan & Pliers
• Tell Me It’s Real – K-Ci & Jojo 
• The hand that feeds – Nine Inch Nails
• Toca’s Miracle – Fragma
• Tripping – Robbie Williams
• Turn Me On – Kevin Little 
• What a wonderful world – Joey Ramone
• When Love Comes To Town – B B King
• Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton

 

Slow tracks:

• A Woman’s Worth – Alicia Keys
• Against All Odds – Phil Collins
• Angels – Robbie Williams
• Beautiful – Christina Aguilera
• Bedshaped – Keane
• Bitch – Meredith Brooks
• Breathe – Blu Cantrell
• Can’t let you go – Fabolous
• Confessions Part II – Usher
• Cool – Gwen Stefani
• Crazy – Seal
• Cry Me A River – Julie London
• Don’t Leave Me This Way – Harold Melvin
• Don’t let go – En Vogue
• Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Elton John
• Family Portrait – Pink
• Fantasy – Earth Wind and Fire
• Favourite Things – Big Brovaz
• Finally Found – Honeyz 
• Gigolo – Nick Cannon
• Gonna getcha good – Shania Twain
• He Wasn’t Man Enough – Toni Braxton 
• Heart of Glass – Blondie
• Here I go again – Whitesnake
• How you remind me – Nickleback
• I care for you – Sanchez
• I Just Want To Make Love To You – Etta James
• I Say A Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin 
• I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
• If There’s Any Justice in This World – Lemar
• It wasn’t me – Shaggy
• Just My Imagination – Rolling Stones
• Just The Way You Are – Barry White
• Knocking on heaven’s door – Guns N Roses
• Let’s get married – Jagged Edge
• Love Walked in – Thunder
• Missing You – John Waite
• No Letting Go – Wayne Wonder
• No More Drama – Mary J Blige
• Only Women Bleed – Alice Cooper
• Oops (There Goes My Skirt) – Tweet
• Paradise City – Guns N Roses
• Poison – Alice Cooper
• Power Of Love – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• Run – Leona Lewis
• Say My Name – Destiny’s Child
• Smile – Lily Allen
• Silly Games – Janet Key 
• Still The One – Shania Twain
• Stop – Sam Brown
• Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Sunchyme – Dario G 
• Thank you – Dido
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – George Michael 
• Three little birds – Bob Marley
• To You I Belong – B*witched 
• We Got Tonite – Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
• What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
• When Love Walked In – Thunder 
• Wishing On A Star – Rose Royce 
• With Or Without You – U2
• You have killed me – Morrissey
• You’ll See – Madonna

 

Classical:

• Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata-Beethoven’s Pastoral
• Bizet’s – The Pearl Fishers
• Grieg’s Peer Gynt
• Delibes – Lakme
• Handel’s Water Music
• Moussorgsky – Pictures at an exhibition
• Puccini’s La Boheme
• Puccini’s Madam Butterfly

 

Radio:

• Heart
• Kiss 100 FM

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[tab title=”Books”]

• Beyond Certainty – Charles Handy
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
• Marrying the mistress – Joanna Trollope 
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus – John Grey
• Mr Commitment – Mike Gayle 
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
• Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett 
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
• The Alchemist – Paul Coelleo 
• The Celestine Prophesy – James Redfield
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• The Road Less Travelled – M Scott Peck
• To your scattered bodies go – Philip Jose Farmer 
• Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
• Slapstick (Lonesome no more) – Kurt Vonnegut
• What are these strawberries – Vanessa Feltz

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[tab title=”Restaurants”]

• Blue Elephant
• Dover Street Wine bar
• Gauchos
• McClements
• Orsos 
• Osteria de Pulcinella (Twickenham)
• OxoTower
• Putneybridge
• Riva 
• People’s Palace

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[tab title=”Places”]

Amsterdam

Barbados

Boston (especially Harvard)

Brighton

Dorset

Italy

London (Where I was born)

 

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[tab title=”Poets & Painters”]

Poet

Robert Graves

 

Painters

Pre-Raphaelites But I prefer tactile sculptures more than paintings!)
I am also a friend of the Tate Modern, so I have my modern moments too.

Reuben Colley

 

Gavin Perry

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[tab title=”Misc.”]

Motorcycles: Triumph Bonneville 750, Norton Commando 850
Mythical creatures: Mermaids
Creatures: Meerkats, lions and wolves
Flowers: Lillies, Gypsophilia, White roses
Shapes: Five pointed stars
Ancestors: Native American branch
Politicians: Michael Portillo
Other sports: (see karate) Fishing (coarse and game); Rollerblading

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