Music, cinema, comedy, art; watching sports such as football, ice hockey, cricket and rugby (union). My favourite teams are Coventry City (football) and Pittsburgh Penguins (ice hockey). I love writing, reading books and magazines, and avoiding reality TV. I can often be found at gigs in Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton.
I'd like to meet:
David Pajo, Thurston Moore, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, too many other musicians to list here, Jon Stewart from the Daily Show, Seth MacFarlane, Bill Clinton, Sean Connery, Mario Lemieux and Pele, to name more than a few...
Music:
Yikes...far too many to list them all, but here's a substantial selection: Mogwai, Slint, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr/J Mascis and the Fog, Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, the Beatles, Tunng, Shady Bard, Nick Drake, Talking Heads, Elliott Smith, Cat Power, Pixies, the Ramones, Ennio Morricone, Vashti Bunyan, Stereolab, Broadcast, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, Broken Social Scene, Andy Votel, Voice of the Seven Woods, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, Static Caravan, Trunk Records, Red House Painters, Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Claude Vannier, Bert Jansch, James Brown, Sam Cooke, James Carr, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Tortoise, Jesus Lizard, Flaming Lips, Akron Family, Bob Dylan, Espers, Grandaddy, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev, iLiKETRAiNS, Micah P Hinson, Fionn Regan, Midlake, Joy Division, New Order, The Jam, Pentangle, David Bowie, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Tindersticks, Arab Strap, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, The Go! Team, the Earlies, Spoon, Dungen, Super Furry Animals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, Radiophonic Workshop. Indie rock, folk, electronica, soul, deliciously odd pop and rock, funk, some hip hop, exotica, soundtracks, reggae, jazz, country-rock, classical, avant garde - with a fondness for the cultish, obscure and esoteric.
Movies:
The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Bullitt, The Great Escape, The Italian Job, any Bond films, the Blues Brothers, Raging Bull, Amelie, Ghostbusters, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, Fargo, The Maltese Falcon, This Is Spinal Tap, Brazil, Life of Brian, Dr Strangelove, Being John Malkovich, Bill Murray, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, lots of others
Television:
Family Guy, the Simpsons, American Dad, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Extras, the Office, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Larry Sanders Show, I'm Alan Partridge, Knowing Me Knowing You, Arrested Development, the Mighty Boosh, Peep Show, Mitchell and Webb, Hancock's Half-Hour, Alias, 24, Lost, Prison Break, Dr Who, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Danger Mouse, The Day Today, The Thick of It or anything by the genius that is Armando Iannucci, My Name Is Earl, Man to Man With Dean Learner, Phoenix Nights, The Late Edition, Father Ted, The Fast Show, Match of the Day, lots of documentary stuff on BBC4 or More4, Later with Jools Holland, Question Time, The Man From UNCLE, Danger Man, The Saint, Spooks, anything spy-related really
Books:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, The Third Man, Revolution In the Head, Is It Cowardly to Pray For Rain?
Heroes:
There are a few but it would have to be Bill Hicks, and maybe John Lennon too
