Lovely booze, pop music, daydreaming, writing, photography, architecture, noise, standing up comedy, talking quietly
My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Pavement, Super Furry Animals, Joy Division, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Field Music, Maxïmo Park, Four Tet, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Jay-Z, Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions, Roots Manuva, Ligament, Jim O'Rourke, Will Oldham, Joanna Newsom, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Primal Scream, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Cat Power, Stereolab, Six by Seven, Hot Chip, d_rradio, Manic Street Preachers, Peace Burial at Sea, New Order, Can, Neu!, Otis Redding, the Fall, Yo La Tengo, Slayer, Wilco, Al Green, the Arcade Fire, Lily Allen, Sunn 0))), St. Etienne, Ladytron, Jonathan Richman, Alvin Lucier, &c. &c. &c.
PlayTime, Breathless, Jules et Jim, Zatoichi, Dr Strangelove, La Haine, Le Spinal Tap, Il Zoolander, Les Busters de Ghost, Top Gun
The Day Today, Brass Eye, Horizon, The Thick Of It, People Like Us, The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin, Black Books, anything with Jonathan Meades, Peep Show
by Dan Rhodes, Will Self, Haruki Murakami, Iain Banks, Christopher Brookmyre, Tibor Fischer, Tom Hodgkinson
Monsieur Hulot, Bill Drummond, Jonathan Meades