see below and leeds utd
Not sure: this is really just my personal jukebox at work - hence the few friends but hey, i'm picky!. I suppose these days I'm sometimes stuck for someone to go to gigs with - my mates now all having dropped sprogs - so i guess you never know, eh?
the tindersticks, orbital, nick cave, pulp, interpol, goldfrapp, arcade fire, scott walker, massive attack, beck, elvis costello, roots manuva, it takes a nation of millions to hold us back, lcd soundsystem, roxy music, the national, pixies, boards of canada, beastie boys, my bloody valentine, northern soul, pj harvey, maximo park, bran van 3000, low (as in bowie), basement jaxx, dusty springfield, cud, fatima mansions, the killers, curtis mayfield, the divine comedy, new order, michael nyman, a.r.kane, parade, outkast, the smiths, avro part, bummed, st etienne, the go-betweens, bruise etc etc
david lynch, orson welles, hitchcock, tarkovsky, billy wilder, fritz lang, coen bros, les enfants du paradis, almodovar, naked, battle of algiers, sergio leone, europa, ran, tetsuo I and II, company of wolves, the beat that my heart skipped, divided we fall, shane meadows, jan svankmajer, pan's labyrinth, requiem for a dream, city of god, the killer, festen, burnt by the sun, red road, the lives of others etc etc
conviction, our friends in the north, holding on, thick of it, league of gentlemen, the office etc etc, and 'boring' things like newsnight and those few surviving documentaries that tell us about all the off-the-beaten-track and bad stuff that happens in the world (the last gypsies, the valley etc.). but really no US TV shows save the sopranos and the simpsons.
don't get enough time for reading these days what with work but: jonathan coe, gravity's rainbow, stasiland, the damned utd, etc