Being with beautiful girlfriend, the one and only, MadamVic. Movies, music, friends, books, the usual kind of stuff.
Anyone who makes time to talk to me. Oh, and DangerMouse!
Anything and everything. Rock to pop, classical to jazz, movie scores, some electronica. In particular Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Ocean Colour Scene, Pink Floyd, Dave Matthews Band, The 88, Oasis, Jean Michel Jarre, Stereophonics, Ray Lamontagne, Manic St Preachers, Keane, The Zutons, A-Ha, Queen, The Beatles, The Stones, REM, Eels, Radiohead, Enigma, Killers, Moby, Sinatra, Miles Davis, Tenacious D, Sting, David Bowie, 3rd Eye Blind, Longview, Pulp, ELO, Jeff Buckley, David Gray, John Williams, Howard Shore, Jack Johnson, James, Muse, Snow Patrol....hell, the list goes on and on!
I LOVE films. I adore them. So I find it really hard to be negative about them, hence a ridiculously long list below. Even if the film is absolute dilge I will always look for something good in it. But for the nosey parkers, here's a rundown of my top picks. Here we go.... Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Hitchcock, Aliens, Usual Suspects, Batman Begins, all Disney, Blade Runner, War of the Worlds (1953), Dune, City of God, Willow, Lethal Weapon, The Frighteners, The Rock, Day the Earth Stood Still, LA Confidential, Krull, Saw trilogy, all Pixar, ET, Leon, Heat, Face/Off, Saving Private Ryan, The Maltese Falcon, Top Gun, Superman, Casblanca, Team America, Powder, Karate Kid, the James Bond series, It's a Wonderful Life, The Terminal, Gremlins, The Matrix, Jurassic Park, Flash Gordon, Chinatown, Shawshank Redemption, JFK, Bubba Ho-Tep, Indiana Jones, Se7en, Ghostbusters, The Omen, Jaws, The Godfather, Enemy at the Gates, Rocketeer, Candyman, Carlito's Way, Battle Beyond the Stars, Da Vinci Code, Manhattan, Back to the Future, Die Hard, Manhattan, Wizard of Oz, The Big Sleep, Predator, Pulp Fiction, Minority Report, even numbered Star Treks. Maybe I shoulda listed what i DON'T like! lol
24, West Wing, Babylon 5, Star Trek TNG/DS9, Inspector Morse, Lost, Alias, The Office, Fraggle Rock, Messiah, House, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Life on Mars, Friends, Frasier, Scrubs, Blackadder, Extras, Dangermouse, Monk, Robin of Sherwood, Doctor Who, X-Files, Band of Brothers.
Given my current career choice I guess this list should be populated by 'classics' and all those cool-to-be-seen-with kind of books. But I don't subscribe to that crap. I like what I like, and here they are..... Lord of the Rings, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Name of the Rose, The Devil's Teardrop, Carter Beats the Devil, Shoeless Joe, Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Blood Work, anything by Peter F. Hamilton, Dracula, The Perfect Storm, Harry Potters, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Of Mice and Men, Treasure Island, Future Noir : Making of Blade Runner, Jimmy Stewart biog, various graphic novels (mainly Batman)
Kermit the Frog, Mickey Mouse, my baby and Yoda.