Printmaking, photography, painting, graphic design, art history, dancing, wandering, learning how things work, pretending to know something about music and popular culture.
Pulp, Suede, Interpol, The Legends, Rufus Wainwright, The Cure, Elliott Smith, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Loveninjas, Joy Division, Belle & Sebastian, Super Furry Animals, Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, Air, The Dandy Warhols, Quasi, The Hives, Eels, Sigur Ros, Hefner, The Dears, Melody Club, Pavement, Blur, New Order, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ash, The Smiths, Ratatat, The Stone Roses, Duran Duran, My Bloody Valentine, Bauhaus, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Refused, Depeche Mode, Magnetic Fields, David Bowie, Spiritualized, Galaxie 500, M83, Primal Scream, Marion, Shed Seven, Slowdive, Nick Cave, Moving Units, Cut Copy, Muse, Placebo, The Delays, The Rapture, Broadcast, T. Rex, Goldfrapp, Patrick Wolf, The Walkmen, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Graham Coxon, The Bluetones, Elastica, Doves, The Hollies, Manic Street Preachers, Sambassadeur, Rialto, Ride, The Charlatans, Longpigs, The Radio Dept., Love Is All, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Fountains of Wayne, Britpop, Swedish indie pop, not so guilty pleasures
Rushmore, Trainspotting, The Knack... And How To Get It, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, A Clockwork Orange, Edward Scissorhands, Punch-Drunk Love, Legend, Zoolander, Last Night, Mallrats, Detroit Rock City, Brain Candy, Harry Potter (all four), This Is Spinal Tap, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Buffalo 66, Everything Is Illuminated, Quadrophenia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sleeper, Take The Money And Run, The Wicker Man (the old one, not the new crap one), Head (the Monkees movie, you perverts), anything Tim Burton
The Young Ones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Monkees, South Park, Heroes, Undeclared, The Daily Show, Kids in the Hall, Twitch City, Da Ali G Show, Father Ted, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Little Britain, Holmes on Homes, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, MTV dating shows.
Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, J.D. Salinger, Anton Chekhov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Bellow, Oscar Wilde, comic books and graphic novels, art and design books and magazines.
Jarvis Cocker, Brett Anderson, Joss Whedon, Peter Saville, Robert Smith, Morrissey, Pee-Wee Herman.