Collecting small rocks. And writing. Throwing jelly beans at small animals, and laughing.
People who will accept me for the man I can't help being. I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing...
The Godfather (all), Star Wars (all), Amadeus, Spartacus, Barry Lyndon, El Cid, Edward Scissorhands, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Lord of the Rings (all), Young Frankenstein, Alien (also sequels except the last one), O Brother Where Art Thou, The Lion in Winter, Transformers: The Movie, Nosferatu: The Vampyre, Seven Samurai, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Elephant Man, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Cinema Paradiso, Labyrinth and more...
Alexei Sayle's Stuff, 'Allo 'allo, Babylon 5, Beavis & Butt-Head, Between the Lines, Big Train, Blackadder, Black Books, Blake's 7, Brass Eye, The Brittas Empire, Bottom, Cadfael, Chance in a Million, Coupling, Cruise of the Gods, Dad's Army, The Day Today, Doc Martin, Doctor Who, Dune, Ever Decreasing Circles, Family Guy, Father Ted, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Have I Got News For You, Hornblower, I'm Alan Partridge, Jam, Joking Apart, King of the Hill, The League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Millennium, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Neighbours, Newman & Baddiel in Pieces, Not the Nine 0' Clock News, The Professionals, Q, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Red Dwarf, Robin of Sherwood, Roswell, Scotch & Wry, Sharpe, Spaced, Steptoe & Son, Terry Jones' Crusades, 24, Watching, Weir's Way, The Young Ones and more...
The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy (and all sequels, Douglas Adams), The Happy Return (and all Hornblower books, CS Forester), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon), The Prince (Nicolo Machiavelli), The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Suetonius), The Fall of the Roman Republic (Plutarch), Anything by Hanif Kureshi, anything by George Orwell, anything by Bernard Cornwell, Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott), The Brus (John Barbour), the Richard Bolitho books (Alexander Kent) and more...
My namesake the late Tom Weir, for being on TV at 2 in the morning over the last year (at time of writing) and making sense in a crazy mixed up world.Optimus Prime.Robert the Bruce, who kept going and never gave up and won in the end without the help of any apocryphal spiders.Kerr Avon from "Blake's 7", played by Paul Darrow; for delivering his lines with no change in tone ever and still being brilliant, for being the first TV hero who was a ruthless bastard and for his delivery of the line "I said, shut up. I apologise for not realising you are deaf".The guy who practiced his golf swings by projecting balls at David Blaine when he was in his glass box high above London. He could just have heckled him , but he was better than that, he showed a perfectly-judged sense of the surreal and made my day when I heard about it.And probably others who I may add at some point.