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I'd like to meet:

Lots of myspace virtual friends...and maybe Elvis,

Music:

The Beatles, Johnny Cash, John Martyn, The Golden Gate Quartet, The Smiths, Jeffrey Lewis, Dolly Parton,The Pixies, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, Nico, Janis Joplin, Leadbelly, Nina Simone, Ray Charles,Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Coldcut, Simon and Garfunkle, Soul wax, Karate Klub, The Kinks, Yann Tiersen, Blur, Tom Waits, Nueges, Tryo, Otis Reading... stuff like that

Movies:

Napoleon Dynamite (looks like my dad!!), I heart Huckabees, Garden State, The Cohen Brother movies, Rushmore, Life Aquatic + The Royale Tennanbaums, Adaptation, La Belleville Rendezvous, Hiyao Miyazaki films (Totoro, Spirited Away + Howls Moving Castle), Chambara (samurai) movies, Kurosawa movies, La Vie En Rose, Amelie, Les Choristes, Delicatessen, La Haine, The Jungle Book, Almodovar films (bad education, all about my mother, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown) the lion king, and Anchorman

Television:

neighbours, David attenborough nature documentaries, university challenge (come on Paxman!!) and the channel four news with John Snow and Krishnan Guru Murphy.

Books:

Albert camus the fall and the outsider, J.m Coetzee Disgrace, Andre Brink Rumours of Rain, F.Scott fitzgerald Gatsby and Tender is the night. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in a time of cholera, A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh and his poetry, Ted Hughs The Iron Man and The Crow,Alan Paton Cry the Beloved Country, Chinua Achebe Things Fall apart. Ryu Murakami's 'coin locker babies' was my 'gap-year-read' and it is something that i think everyone should read, but I wouldn't push it on you, at the end of the day it's your choice...