Staring at screens. Reading and writing. Listening to music and BBC Radio 4. Riding my thrash stick. Enjoying the beautiful Scottish countryside. Walking around London.
My favourite combo is Boygasm, particularly their long-player 'Freak me with Your Widdle Stick'. Whimsy aside, I like: Pixies, The Smiths, Belle and Sebastin, Deerhoof, DEVO, Adam Green, the Decemberists, Orange Juice, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney, Eagles of Death Metal; Butthole Surfers, David Bowie, Artie Shaw, and Django Reinhart. Devendra Banhart, Ween, Lou Barlow; Boards of Canada, Plastikman, Liquid Liquid, Can, and Captain Beefheart. Go! Team, Brian Eno, The Concretes, Futureheads; Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, and Bix Beiderbeck. Simon and Garfunkel, Mos Def, Public Enemy, Talking Heads; Carl Craig, Black Dog, Moondog, the Make Up, Neu!, Plaid, and Beck. Kate Bush, Arcade Fire, Sons and Daughters, Aimee Mann, Tegan and Sara, Magnetic Fields, Os Mutantes, Matthew Ward, Tom Waits, The Knife, Interpol, Polysics, Sufjan Stevens, et cetera, et cetera...
Off the top of my head - 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1925); 'The Big Lebowski'; 'The Magic Box'; 'Rushmore'; 'The Lost Boys'; 'A Matter of Life and Death'; 'American Movie', 'To Kill A Mockingbird'; 'Twelve Angry Men'; 'The Producers'. I like David Lynch, Darren Aronovsky, Carol Reed, Powell and Pressburger, Charlie Kaufman.Skateboard films - 'Video Days'; 'Animal Chin', Plan B's 'Questionable'; Tilt Mode's 'Man Down'.
Telly I like - I Need The Toilet!, Lost, Sopranos, Nanny Squawk, Late Review, Peep Show, Garth Marenghi, Chris Morris stuff, Adult Swim stuff, Dick and Dom, Six Feet Under. On radio - That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Just A Minute, AM, PM, the Archers (never pay attention to it, but it's a comforting background burble while I eat my tea).
Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, J.D. Salinger, Donna Tartt, Philip Larkin, Philip Roth, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland, Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon, Flannery O'Connor. Among others.
Mark Gonzales, Kurt Vonnegut, David Cleveland, that dude Mike out of 'American Movie'. Morrissey. Kathleen Hanna. Daniel Gesmer.