Music, films, books - the old standards. Also food, wine, hard liquor, people with black senses of humour, sarcasm, wit and satire, politics (in a lazy kind of way) and many more things besides. But mainly science.
Anyone really. But mainly scientists. Shiny scientists.
Matthew Eastel, Divine Comedy, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Gorillaz, They Might Be Giants, Ben Harper, Starsailor, David Gray, Stereophonics (except the stuff in the middle), Tenacious D, The Killers, The Zutons, Phil Collins (at least I have the guts to admit it), Van Morrison, Nick Cave, Elton John, White Stripes, The Verve, Paul Weller, Libor Spacek, Harambe, Wire Jesus, Army of Pigmies, My Luminaires...etc. And some stuff I will never admit to. Not even under torture.
Oh god...ok. Lawn Dogs, The Italian Job (old one, obviously), Reykjavic 101, Leon, Moulin Rouge, Hero, Condorman, Labrynth, Princess Bride, The Royal Tennenbaums, Withnail and I, I Heart Huckabees, Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko, Basquiat, Brokeback Mountain, Trainspotting, Indiana Jones' films, Bond films (not so much the new ones), X-men films, American Beauty, Team America, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride...etc
Black Books, The Simpsons, American Dad, Southpark, King of The Hill, Spaced, Big Train, The Fast Show...but mainly Horizon (the SCIENCE ones).
Yes. Lots of these. Especially "A Brief History of Science" By Thomas Crump.
Scientists. All of them. Except Wernher von Braun. That guy was asking for trouble.
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