Human & animal rights...having a go at people ordering veal at my table...getting worked up about religious fundamentalism...getting lost in ancient forests, orchards in bloom, museums, galleries etc (my sense of direction is dreadful)...http://www.acgrayling.com/ http://www.secularism.org.uk/ http://www.newscientist.com/ http://www.peta.org/
People who care.
Quintango, Charlotte Martin, Jeff Buckley, Kansas, Ephel Duath, Fiona Apple, Queen, VAST, Beethoven, Opeth, Chopin, Symphony X, Evanescence, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, Katatonia, Pain of Salvation, Dream Theater, Kate Bush, The Gathering(Mandylion, Nighttime Birds, if_then_else), The Provenance, Bon Jovi, SenseField, Whitesnake, Queensryche, Virgin Black, Carnival in Coal, Wolverine, Frantic Bleep, Ella Fitzgerald, Tori Amos, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Type O Negative, Nevermore, Stolen Babies...and many many more
The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, Stardust, Enchanted, Howl's moving castle, Pride and Prejudice(2006), House of the Flying Daggers, The Last King of Scotland, The Lord of the Rings, The Descent, Babe, Kung Fu Hustle, The Phantom of the Opera, Sympathy for Lady Vengence, Old Boy, Hotel Rwanda, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, Amelie
Kingdom Hospital, Heroes, Band of Brothers, Friends, House, Desperate Housewives, Supernatural
Atonement, Amsterdam, Black Dogs, On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, God Delusion, Half of a yellow sun, Restless, The Interpretation of Murder, The Choice of Hercules, What is good?, The Meaning of Things & others by A C Grayling, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Memoirs of a Geisha, Most of Gerald Durrell, Maus, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Parfum, P.J. Tracy books