Playing guitar, writing songs, laughing, setting ideas in motion, bringing people together, history of sideshow, magic and performance, unusual acts and people (both current and historical), ephemera, automata, games, illusions, interesting women in history, many many kinds of art & design, film, theatre, the arts in general, funny animals.
Anyone with a brain and a passion for something.
The short version: mostly rock, indie, punk, metal, alternative, experimental, with a bit of cinematic, blues, ska, hip-hop thrown in. Pretty much anything that's not bland.
The longer version: Pixies, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Misfits, PJ Harvey, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, CSS, Eagles of Death Metal, Slant 6, Cadillaca, Le Tigre, Electrelane, White Stripes, Mercury Rev, L7, Faith No More, Babes in Toyland, Black Flag, Fugazi, Bauhaus, Sleater Kinney, Suede, Minor Threat, Hole, Public Enemy, Skunk Anansie, Pitch Shifter, Soundgarden, Silverfish, Bad Brains, Alice Donut, Bowie, Iron Maiden, Queen Adreena, Bloc Party, Kings of Leon, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Patti Smith, Ramones, The Descendents, Free, Motorhead, Corrosion of Conformity, Monster Magnet, Detroit Cobras, Jurassic 5, Blondie, The Damned, Slayer, Dilated Peoples, Foo Fighters, The Cramps, Siouxie, Bikini Kill, Thin Lizzy, Dead Kennedys, Napalm Death, Air, Big Black, Peaches, Wolfmother, The Breeders, Cat Power, Nick Cave, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Gil Scott Heron, Billie Holiday, Philip Glass, Ella Fitzgerald, Kronos Quartet... and many others heard and not yet heard.
The even longer version: hmmm, perhaps you've suffered enough.
Withnail and I, City of Lost Children, Dr Strangelove, Vertigo, Betty Blue, Cinema Paradiso, Napoleon Dynamite, Terminator II, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Clockwork Orange, Run Lola Run, Ed Wood, River's Edge, La Haine, Fight Club, The Science of Sleep, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Sleepy Hollow, Motorcycle Diaries, Koyaanisqatsi, The Big Lebowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Rumble Fish.
I'm rubbish at watching TV actually, but I do like to watch whole series on DVD including... Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Mighty Boosh, Spaced, Trailer Park Boys, My Name Is Earl, Carnivale.
Probably my favourite writers are Margaret Atwood, Iain Banks, Jeffrey Eugenides, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Hoeg, Kate Atkinson, Angela Carter, Hardy, Dickens, Kafka, Ibsen and Chekhov. I also like reading about history, art and politics (Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn etc.) and anything about magic/theatre/sideshow history, especially by Ricky Jay.