Music:
In no particular order.......My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Will Oldham, The Knife, The Cramps, Belle and Sebastian, Felt, Nick Drake, Low, Missy Elliott (the first 3 albums), Aaliyah, The Smiths, Love, Joy Division, Pulp, The Sonics, Syd Barrett, Le Tigre, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Lightning Bolt, Velvet Underground, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Liars, The Gossip, The Stooges, Shellac, Johnny Cash, Shangri-Las, Stereolab, Quickspace, Spaceman 3, Spiritualised, Royal Trux, Yo La Tengo, Pavement, Can, Add N to X, The Rapture, Sleater-Kinney, Gang of Four, CSS, Dinosaur Jr, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Ladytron, The Klaxons, Peaches, PIL, QOTSA, The Magentic Fields, Television, Kate Bush, Broadcast, The White Stripes, The Kinks, Trans Am, The Slits, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster...rock n roll, 60s garage, 40s swing music
Movies:
Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, The Shining, Chinatown, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid and The Whale, Donnie Darko, Boogie Nights, Kes, A Bout de Souffle, The Kid, Magnolia, The Big Sleep, Godfather I and II, Talk to Her, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cry Baby, The Women, Withnail and I, Festen, This is Spinal Tap, The Big Lebowski, Vertigo, American Splendour, West Side Story, Nuts in May, The Third Man, City of God, Singing in the Rain, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Red Shoes, Freaks, Dead Man's Shoes, In the Mood for Love, A Streetcar Named Desire, Harvey, Pan's Labyrinth.......Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Mike Leigh
Television:
Huff, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Twin Peaks, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Arrested Development, Peep Show, The League of Gentlemen
Books:
Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver,'Give the Anarchist a Cigarette - Mick Farren, 'The Watchmen - Alan Moore, 'The Go Between - LP Hartley'