Writing, both music and the other stuff... escaping the corporate life in favour of something less financially rewarding. Playing in bands, making my wife watch Dr Who and Buffy, that sort of thing. Oh, and changing continents every few years keeps things interesting too.
Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, David Tennant, Joss Whedon, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, Martin Scorcese, Irshad Manji, Al Pacino, Stacy London & Clinton Kelly (although not as one of their subjects) Sam Harris
David Bowie, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Johnny Marr, the Beatles, Neil Young, Jeff Buckley, Elvis Costello, David Francey, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Gil Scott-Heron, Little Birdy, the Smiths, Morrissey, Regina Spektor, Neil Diamond, Suzanne Vega, Scott Walker, Beck, The Wailin' Jennies, Grant Lee Phillips, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, the Sadies, Elvis, Amy Winehouse, Feist, Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly, Dallas Crane
The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Withnail & I, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, the Deer Hunter, Chinatown, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Untouchables, Amelie, Abres Los Ojos, the Exorcist, Life is Beautiful, Lost in Translation, Manhattan, Fargo, the Squid and the Whale, Fight Club, Syriana, Midnight Cowboy, Babel
Dr Who, Buffy, Angel, Sopranos, Carnivale,(what happened to that show??) Battlestar Galactica and, er, What Not to Wear
The Great Gatsby, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Grapes of Wrath, Crime & Punishment, the Razor's Edge, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Focault's Pendulum, Slaughterhouse 5, Our Man in Havana, the Busconductor Hines, the Restraint of Beasts, the God of Small Things, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, the Last Temptation of Christ, the Shipping News, Letter to a Christian Nation
Sean Connery, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Douglas Adams, Joss Whedon, Shakespeare, Umberto Eco, Martin Scorsese, Phillip Larkin, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Joel & Ethan Coen, Robert Burns, Tom Baker, Johnny Marr, Graham Coxon, Johnny Greenwood, Jimmy Page, George Harrison, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen, Kurt Vonnegut, Sam Harris, Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, my grandfather William Murphie