Music, Films, Books, Books, Books....did i say Books? Trying to cook new things, being healthier than what i was a day previously, attempting to speak Japanese (and doing VERY well i might add), being happier than what i was a day previously, my friends and people that can make me question what i thought a day previously
George Orwell, Oskar Schindler, Chuck Palahniuk, Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates....anyone that inspires me or is simply nice to me when i'm around them. Nice people are underated, and shouldn't be a reserve for desperate people at deperate times.
oh jesus...Helmet, Guns n' Roses, Iron Maiden, Nina Simone, Queen, Bon Jovi, Tool, U2, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Miles Davis, Idlewild, Johnny Cash, Sigur Ros, Pantera, Metallica, Slayer, The Smiths, Neurosis, Michael Jackson, The Who, A Perfect Circle, Bloc Party, Anberlin, Joni Mitchell, He is Legend, Frank Sinatra, Vast, 30 seconds to mars, Fugazi, The Chariot, Thrice, Bruce 'The Boss' Springsteen, Colin Hay, Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, John Coltrane, Dean Martin, Coalesce, Jeff Buckley, Kenny Fuckin' Loggins, Neil Young, The Smiths, Will Haven, Al Green, The Blind Alabama Boys et al....you get the general idea?
Not sure whether it's better to start with the obligatory stuff or not? Well here we go...JAWS! The Godfather (part 1 & 2), Akira, Street fighter, Fight Club, American History X, The Believer, The Warriors (can you dig it?!), Batman/Batman Begins, Buffallo 66, The Big Lebowski, Labyrinth, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Blair Witch Project, An American Werewolf in London, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Indiana Jones trilogy, Lord of the rings Trilogy (lot of trilogies going on right now), Ring/Ring 2/Ring O, The Killer, Se7en, Anything with Beat Takeshi In It (Boiling Point, Vioent Cop, Sonatine, Hani Bi, etc), The Wicker Man, Alien/s/3, Planet of the Apes, Pulp Fiction, Groundhog Day, Schindlers List, Malcolm X, Lethal Weapon 1/2/3/4, Sububan Commando (it's got Hulk Hogan and the Undertaker in it, what more do you want from a film?), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Old Boy, A Very Long Engagement, Hidden, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, Robocop, 21 Grammes, Interview with the Vampire, Seven Samurai, Walk The Line, Unforgiven, Don't look now, Choke, 28 Days Later, Clerks, The Descent, The Pianist, The Machinist, The Woodsman, The Three Colours trilogy (probably any film with a title in which the word 'the' preceeds it, normally indicates something special)
24, The Sopranos, Frasier, WWE, UFC, The Simpsons, The League of Gentlemen, CSI, Twin Peaks, Only Fools and Horses, Curb your enthusiasm, The Shield, The Root Of All Evil (all 2 parts of it), The Nazis: A Warning From History, Auschwitz and the Final Solution, most things on National Geographic or the History Channel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Robert Frost: Hampshire, Tuesdays with Morrie (make me feel that little bit better about the world we live in), Lord of the rings, The Da Vinci Code/Angles and Demons, If This is a man, The Prince, Plagues Progress: A Social History Of Man And Disease (ebola anyone?), Love All The People : Bill Hicks, Ethics: A Study In, Harry Potter, Choke, Redemption, Schindlers Arc, Anything by Lawrence Block, The five people you meet in heaven, Manking: Have A Nice Day!, The Dark Half, His Dark Materials, The Merchant of Venice, Between good and evil, Post Office, Blink, The Republic, Symposium, The Geneology of morals, Straw Dogs, Leviathan, Bob Dylan: Chronicles, The Tipping Point, The Truce, LAbyrinth, and last but not least that literary classic...The Stone Cold Truth : the 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin story
Oskar Schindler, Bret 'Hitman' Hart, Edward Norton, Bill Hicks, Primo Levi, Lawrence Rees, Jonathan Sacks