SONGS
Strange Religion – Mark Lanegan
Sounds Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
Better Than You – Swans
Shook Ones Part II – Mobb Deep
Human Fly – The Cramps
The Days Of Swine And Roses – My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Bring Da Ruckus – Wu Tang Clan
Sex Beat – The Gun Club
Discipline – Throbbing Gristle
Bring Me The Head Of Yukio Mishima – Snivelling Shits
Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
Smokestack Lightnin – Howlin Wolf
Straight To You – Nick Cave
Beware – Death Grips
Blue Thunder – Galaxie 500
Ain’t No Fun To Me – Al Green
Mongoloid – Devo
Come On Feel The Illinoise – Sufjan Stevens
TELEVISON
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Brooklyn 99
The Punisher
Lost
Twin Peaks
The Sopranos
Atlanta
Carnivale
Les Revenants
BOOKS
The Clown – Heinrich Boll
Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
A Rage In Harlem – Chester Himes
Savage Night – Jim Thompson
Go Tell It On The Mountain – James Baldwin
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
IT – Stephen King
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Cartel – Don Winslow
Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr
A Scanner Darkly – Philip K Dick
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea – Yukio Mishima
Lost Weekend – Charles Jackson
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
East Of Eden – John Steinbeck
FILMS
Taxi Driver
Rocky
Get Carter
Apocalypse Now
Blue Velvet
Zulu
Kill List
Stormy Monday
Heat
Boyz In The Hood
Mo Better Blues
La Haine
Some Like It Hot
Seven Samurai
East Of Eden
The Holy Mountain
PLACES
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Edinburgh
Gateshead
Alnwick
Amble
Hadston
Bio: Paul Heatley is the author of The Motel Whore & Other Stories, the Eye For An Eye series, Guns, Drugs, And Dogs, Fatboy, Christmas Stockings, and the forthcoming Guillotine and Bad Bastards, as well as over fifty short stories online and in print.
He lives in the north east of England.