Music, film, reading, current affairs, gardening... hmmm, this is looking rather dull... I shall proceed with haste to 'Music'.
I think it's probably best not to meet your heroes or icons.
Yo la Tengo. Pavement. Can. Neil Young. Television. Sonic Youth. Neu. Shellac. Talking Heads. Sebadoh. The Shins. The Fall. CSS. TV on the Radio. Neutral Milk Hotel. Tortoise. Galaxie 500. Slint. Devo. Wolf Parade. Besnard Lakes. Micah P Hinson. Deerhoof. Magnetic Fields. GYBE. Miles Davis. Suicide. My Bloody Valentine. Velvet Underground. Kraftwerk. Jesus and Mary Chain. Stereolab. Arcade Fire. PiL. Lightning Bolt. Herman Dune. The Dears. Faust. A Silver Mt Zion. Broken Social Scene. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. John Coltrane. Explosions in the Sky. Elliot Smith. Bert Jansch. John Martyn. Nick Drake. Suftjan Stevans. Gang of Four. Tapes n Tapes. Sleater- Kinney. Nick Drake. Syd Barrett. Leadbelly. Joanna Newsom. 4Tet. Wire. The Smiths. Jeffrey Lewis. Beck. Fairport Convention. Brakes. The Byrds. Flying Buritto Brothers. Smog. LCD Soundsystem. Charles Mingus. Sigur Ros. Cat Power. Boards of Canada. Iron and Wine. Modest Mouse. William Elliot Whitmore. Animal Collective. Belle and Sebastian. Patti Smith. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. John Cale. Leonard Cohen. Earth. Fugazi. The Modern Lovers. Big Star. Robert Wyatt. Ivor Cutlor. Aphex Twin. Mum.
Buffalo 66, 101 Reykjavic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Wicker Man, City of God, Donnie Darko, Rebel without a cause, The Wild one, Citizen Kane, One flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Snakecharmers, Gummo, Lemming, The Science of Sleep, Brick, Pan's Labarynth, Bad Education, Volver, All about my Mother, What's eating Gilbert Grape?, Shaun of the Dead, Cache, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Dig!, My best friend,
Nathan Barley, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Curb your enthusiasm. Channel 4 News, Football Focus, Shameless, 10 minute previews on Channel X ("Beat the clock"), Anything Chris Morris, Peep Show, Spaced, I'm Alan Partridge (Series 1- not 2!), Knowing me, knowing you
I have just finished Patrick Suskind's 'Perfume'- beautifully written, a little dark it's fair to say... I also like the dictionary/ thesaurus, books by Camus, Kerouac, Burroughs, Satre, Achebe, Orwell, Huxley and Greene.