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Assuming time and space were no barrier... The boys of The Boosh (Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Michael Fielding, Dave Brown, Rich Fulcher, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry), Gary Oldman, Antonin Artaud, Robert Frost, Jensen Ackles, Christian Bale, Wentworth Miller, Steve Carell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, Michael C Hall, Emile Hirsch, Jean Smart, Sam Rockwell, Sarah Silverman, Creed Bratton, Beth Grant, Mia Timpano...
Indie, rock, folk, classic rock, art wave, new wave, no wave, psychedelica, electronica, old school. I also get easily addicted to score music, soundtracks and a mix of music from the 50s, 60s, 80s and 90s. I think house music serves its purpose but outside of that, it doesn't really interest me. Same goes for most pop and RnB. As a matter of principle, I try not to reject the mainstream outright because all music deserves a chance and every song means something to someone, somewhere. But for the most part, it's usually just not for me. So I've put the song that first made me fall in love with that band/singer in brackets. Take a hint, my music is cool and you should listen to it for yourself. Who knows? Lightning might strike...
The Shins ("New Slang")
Led Zeppelin ("The Battle Of Evermore")
Band Of Horses ("The Funeral")
Jimmy Eat World ("The Middle")
Radiohead ("Idioteque")
Placebo ("Every Me Every You")
Interpol ("Obstacle 1")
The Killers ("Somebody Told Me")
Nada Surf ("Popular")
Goo Goo Dolls ("Iris")
Jack's Mannequin ("The Mixed Tape")
Jack's mannequin mixed tape
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VAST ("Touched")
Nirvana ("You Know You're Right")
Frou Frou ("Let Go")
Imogen Heap ("Hide And Seek")
Bloc Party ("Banquet")
Yellowcard ("Ocean Avenue")
Metallica ("Nothing Else Matters")
Fiona Apple ("Sleep To Dream")
Jefferson Airplane ("White Rabbit")
La Rocca ("Non-Believer")
Gang Of Four ("Natural's Not In It")
Modest Mouse ("Dashboard")
Shout Out Louds ("Please Please Please")
Franz Ferdinand ("Jacqueline")
Tegan and Sara ("Living Room")
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ("Shuffle Your Feet")
Cat Power ("Nude As The News")
My Morning Jacket ("Gideon")
The Smiths ("Bigmouth Strikes Again")
The Honorary Title ("Stay Away")
Blonde Redhead ("Spring And By Summer Fall")
Kansas ("Carry On My Wayward Son")
Epicure ("Tightrope Walker")
Eskimo Joe ("From The Sea")
Sufjan Stevens ("For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti")
The Fray ("Over My Head (Cable Car)")
Snow Patrol ("Chasing Cars")
Johnny Cash ("Folsom Prison Blues")
Elliott Smith ("Needle In The Hay")
Janis Joplin ("Ball & Chain")
Billy Joel ("We Didn't Start The Fire")
Queen ("Innuendo")
The Rolling Stones ("Paint It Black")
Rooney ("I'm Shakin'")
Cake ("Daria")
The Saboteurs ("Steady, As She Goes")
Sarah Blasko ("Always Worth It")
Xavier Rudd ("Green Spandex")
Fall Out Boy ("Sugar We're Going Down")
Paul Simon ("You Can Call Me Al")
Simon & Garfunkel ("Scarborough Fair")
Jeff Buckley ("Hallelujah")
Rachael Yamagata ("Worn Me Down")
Finger Eleven ("Slow Chemical")
Trapt ("Headstrong")
Garbage ("When I Grow Up")
Moby ("Extreme Ways")
The Wreckers ("The Good Kind")
The Doors ("The Crystal Ship")
Creedence Clearwater Revival ("Bad Moon Rising")
Blue Oyster Cult ("(Don't Fear) The Reaper")
Melanie ("Brand New Key")
Journey ("Any Way You Want It")
Bjork ("It's Oh So Quiet")
Thievery Corporation ("Shadows Of Ourselves")
The Go! Team ("Huddle Formation")
Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Scar Tissue")
Jose Gonzalez ("Heartbeats")
Thom Yorke ("Analyse")
Eagles of Death Metal ("Speaking In Tongues")
Lifehouse ("Everything")
Rogue Wave ("Eyes")
The Go-Betweens "Was There Anything I Could Do?")
Nelly Furtado ("Powerless (Say What You Want)")
Stereophonics ("Dakota")
Dixie Chicks ("Not Ready To Make Nice")
Bonde do Rolê ("Marina Gasolina")
Something For Kate ("Monsters")
Five For Fighting ("Superman (It's Not Easy)")
Ash ("Meltdown")
Rufus Wainwright ("Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk")
Boston ("More Than A Feeling")
The White Stripes ("Seven Nation Army")
30 Seconds To Mars ("The Kill (Bury Me)")
Velvet Revolver ("Slither")
The Flaming Lips ("The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song")
Massive Attack ("Teardrop")
Pink Floyd ("Wish You Were Here")
Coldplay ("In My Place")
Audioslave ("Like A Stone")
Bethany Joy Lenz ("Let Me Fall")
Chris Isaak ("Wicked Game")
Tyler Hilton ("You'll Ask For Me")
Something Corporate ("Konstantine")
Nikola Sarcevic ("Vila Rada")
Ray LaMontagne ("Lessons Learned")
Jason Mraz ("You And I Both")
Cold ("Suffocate")
Missy Elliott ("Pass That Dutch")
Bad Company ("Bad Company")
Elixir ("Overlap")
Bodyjar ("Lights Out")
Matchbox Twenty ("If You're Gone")
Foo Fighters ("Times Like These")
Kelly Clarkson ("Breakaway")
LOVE ("My Little Red Book")
Peter Paul & Mary ("If I Had A Hammer")
The Postal Service ("We Will Become Silhouettes")
The Sundays ("Wild Horses")
Bob Dylan ("Knockin' On Heaven's Door")
David Bowie ("The Heart's Filthy Lesson")
Sneaky Sound System ("Pictures")
Funeral For A Friend ("All The Rage")
Styx ("Renegade")
Chambers Brothers ("Time Has Come Today")
Death Cab For Cutie ("A Lack Of Color")
Doves ("Caught By The River")
TV On The Radio ("Wolf Like Me")
The Kooks ("Naive")
The Album Leaf ("Over The Pond")
Howie Day ("Collide")
Josh Canova ("The Wish")
Pete Yorn ("Ice Age")
REO Speedwagon ("Back On The Road Again")
The Presets ("Are You The One")
Roisin Murphy ("Night Of The Dancing Flame")
Junior Boys ("In The Morning")
Lacey and Pasha Hip Hop Sytycd
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Joan Baez ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down")
Daft Punk ("Technologic")
Iron & Wine ("Such Great Heights")
Augie March ("One Crowded Hour")
Youth Group ("Forever Young")
Marilyn Manson ("The Beautiful People")
Kaiser Chiefs ("Every Day I Love You Less And Less")
The Weepies ("World Spins Madly On")
"World Spins Madly On"
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The Wallflowers ("I Started A Joke")
Strays Don't Sleep ("For Blue Skies")
The Replacements ("Here Comes A Regular")
Paul Westerberg ("Let The Bad Times Roll")
The Velvet Underground ("Heroin")
Rock n Roll Soldiers ("Funny Little Feeling")
Citizen Cope ("Sideways")
Nico ("These Days")
Dave Matthews Band ("American Baby")
Hole ("Violet")
Boy Hits Car ("Lovefurypassionenergy")
Our Lady Peace ("Whatever")
The Wombats ("Moving To New York")
Adam & The Ants ("Kings Of The Wild Frontier")
The Strokes ("What Ever Happened")
Siouxsie & The Banshees ("Hong Kong Garden")
The 22-20s ("Shoot Your Gun")
Taking Back Sunday ("This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)")
Neil Diamond ("Shilo")
Flaw ("Only The Strong")
Strata ("Never There (She Stabs)")
Bruce Springsteen ("Dancing In The Dark")
The Futureheads ("The Beginning Of The Twist")
Three Days Grace ("I Hate Everything About You")
Lifer ("Breathless")
12 Stones ("My Life")
Fight Club, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, I Heart Huckabees, Into The Wild, Se7en, Walk The Line, 3:10 To Yuma, Brokeback Mountain, Legends of the Fall, Three Kings, Die Hard 1-4, Juno, Donnie Darko, Requiem For A Dream, Little Miss Sunshine, The Darjeeling Limited, Stranger Than Fiction, Marie Antoinette, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Equilibrium, Running With Scissors, Desperate Measures, Pulp Fiction, Zoolander, Anchorman, Good Will Hunting, Cinderella Man, 25th Hour, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, 300, The Breakfast Club, Shopgirl, The Royal Tenenbaums, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Prestige, Sleepers, Phone Booth, Dogma, Garden State, Meet Joe Black, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Notebook, Napoleon Dynamite, The Last Kiss, Team America: World Police, War of the Worlds, The Last Samurai, Troy, Return To Me, My Life Without Me, Boogie Nights, Blow, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Fifth Element, Shattered Glass, Hannibal, Spiderman 1 & 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3, The Company, Cellular, Behind Enemy Lines, Raising Arizona, Office Space, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Executive Decision, The Last Castle, I'm With Lucy, Anastasia, Mulan, The Nutcracker Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Alice In Wonderland, Big Business, The Court Jester, Back To The Beach, Austin Powers, Wayne's World, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, My Cousin Vinny, Angel Eyes, Back To The Future, Bratz - The Movie!
Bad Sad Movies: D.E.B.S., Sleepover, High School Musical, Flash Gordon, Snakes On A Plane, Waterworld, Catwoman, Can't Stop The Music, Starship Troopers, Narnia: The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe (the old version), Deep Blue Sea, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, A Mom For Christmas, Spiderman 3, Black Sheep, Once Upon A Forest, Druids, Sky High, Jumper, Reign Of Fire, pretty much any movie with Steven Seagal or Jean Claude Van Damme or Chuck Norris or overtly formulaic rom-coms.
The Shows That Are No More:
The Shows I've Been Meaning To Get Into But Haven't Had The Chance: The Daily Show, Boston Legal, Battlestar Galactica, Curb Your Enthusiasm, X-Files, Entourage, Oz, Big Love, Pushing Daisies, The Wire, Californication, House, Skins, The Sopranos, 24, Underbelly, Gossip Girl, Cashmere Mafia, The Tudors, Rome, Dirt, Ugly Betty, Weeds, Firefly, Sleeper Cell, 30 Rock, Dirty Sexy Money, The Riches, The Hills, Six Degrees, Shameless, Outrageous Fortune, Flight Of The Conchords, Samantha Who, Huff, NCIS, Jeeves & Wooster, The L Word, Queer As Folk, Friday Night Lights, Psych, Jericho, Kyle XY, Chuck, Dead Like Me...
The Shows I've Been Into At Some Stage But Got Over Or Stopped Following: Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Nip/Tuck, Smallville, Charmed, ER, Bones, Friends, Tru Calling, The Loop, How I Met Your Mother, What About Brian, Ghost Whisperer, Dark Angel, My Name Is Earl, That '70s Show, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, The Pretender, Neighbours.
Frankie, Empire, Harper's Bazaar, GQ; "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey, "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk, "Northern Lights" by Philip Pullman, "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger, "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen Of Verona" by William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare, "The Sonnets" by William Shakespeare, "The Dressmaker" by Rosalie Ham, "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, "They F*** You Up" by Oliver James, "Lucky Man: A Memoir" by Michael J. Fox, "Legends Of The Fall" by Jim Harrison, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, "The Penelopiad" by Margaret Atwood, "Go Ask Alice" by anonymous, "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx, "Oh, The Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss, "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, "Horseradish" by Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (1-12 so far) by Lemony Snicket, "The Beatrice Letters" by Lemony Snicket, "The Unauthorised Autobiography" by Lemony Snicket, "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Harry Potter 5, 7, 4, 6, 3, 1, 2...
WRITERS: James Frey, Mia Timpano, Daniel Handler, Robert Frost, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothea Wild, Dorothea Viehmann, Antonin Artaud, Margaret Atwood.
FILM & TV: Writers: Sera Gamble, Diablo Cody, Andrew Kevin Walker, David Nutter. Directors: David Fincher, Wes Anderson, The Coen Brothers, The Scott Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Tim Burton, Sofia Coppola, John Waters. Producers: Eric Kripke, Mark Schwan, Joss Whedon, Morgan Spurlock, Judd Apatow. Cinematographers: Newton Thomas Sigel, Darius Khondji, Peter Deming, Eric Steelberg, Lance Acord, Christopher Baffa, Serge Ladouceur. Titleists/Title Designers: Kyle Cooper, Saul Bass, Ari Sachter-Zeltzer. Music Supervisors: Alexandra Patsavas, Lindsay Wolfington, Jennifer Pyken, Madonna Wade-Reed, Ralph Sall, Joe Rangel, PJ Bloom, Brian Reitzell. Costumes: Milena Canonero, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Karen Patch, Lindy Hemming, Louise Mingenbach, Penny Rose. Other: Mika Brzezinski.
ACTORS: Gary Oldman, Michael J. Fox, Alan Alda, Christian Bale, Andy Garcia, MATT DAMON, Steve Carell, Richard Ayoade, Johnny Depp, Peter Stormare, Don Cheadle, Michael C. Hall, Alan Rickman, Mickey Rooney, Danny Kaye, Mark Wahlberg, Brad Pitt, Robert Knepper, Sam Rockwell, Jason Schwartzman, Casey Affleck, Emile Hirsch, Jason Statham, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, James Saunders, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Gabriel Tigerman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Russell Crowe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Radcliffe, James Franco, Marshall Allman, Paul Adelstein, Eric Bana, David Duchovny, Henry Thomas, William Moseley, George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, Topher Grace, James Lafferty, Chad Michael Murray, Bryan Greenberg, Adam Brody, Ben McKenzie, Wentworth Miller, David Krumholtz, Rob Morrow, David Boreanaz, Michael Shanks, Jason Behr, David Conrad, Zach Braff, Greg Grunberg, Masi Oka, Chris Lowell, Gregory Smith, Chris Pratt, Matthew Davis, Justin Long.
ACTRESSES: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Ellen Page, Beth Grant, Zooey Deschanel, Lucille Ball, Jennifer Carpenter, Jean Smart, Nora Zehetner, Marcia Gay Harden, Kate Box, Ellen Burstyn, Anna Friel, Annette Bening, Jill Clayburgh, Amy Acker, Summer Glau, Amber Tamblyn, Jenna Fischer, Calista Flockhart, Swoosie Kurtz, Kristin Chenoweth, Claire Forlani, Sarah Wayne Callies, Hayden Panettiere.
COMEDIANS: Dane Cook, Demetri Martin, Sarah Silverman, Noel Fielding, Richard Ayoade, Pablo Francisco, Monique Marvez, Jon Lajoie, Hamish & Andy, Merrick & Rosso, The Chaser, Dylan Moran, Shaun Micallef, Simon Amstell, John Cleese, Bill Bailey, Maria Bamford, Matthew Newton, Judy Greer, Will Arnett, Wendy Malick, Bob Franklin, Wil Anderson, Caroline Rhea, Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, John Caparulo, Bob Marley, Todd Lynn, Patrice O’Neal, Ed Byrne.
MUSICIANS: James Mercer, Kele Okereke, Grace Slick, Melanie Safka, Chan Marshall, Jon Brion, Brandon Flowers, Brian Molko, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Freddie Mercury, Andrew McMahon, Sarah Blasko, Paul Banks, John Rzeznik, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter.
ART: Danielle Freakley, Shaun Tan, Gustave Doré, Alberto Vargas, Christopher Wilson, James Black, M.C. Escher, Valerie Sparks, Bernard Hall, John Tenniel, Andy Warhol.
DANCE: Mia Michaels, Wade Robson, Supple, Jason Gilkison, Jason Coleman, Heidi Groskreutz, Travis Wall, Danny TIdwell, Rhys Bobridge.
FASHION: Anna Plunkett, Zac Posen, Alber Elbaz, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Miuccia Prada, John Galliano, Viktor & Rolf, Alex Perry, Achille Maramotti (Max Mara), Anna Molinari & Gianpaolo Tarabini (Blumarine), Jay McCarroll, J. Alexander, Chuck Taylor, Philip Lim, Akira Isogawa, Natalia Vodianova, Miranda Kerr, Trent Ford.
FICTIONAL: Garfield, Dean and Sam (aka BUT DEAN! and Samawich aka Li'l Stumpy and The Ginormotron aka El Deano and Traumatized Sammy & His Anguished Hair), John Winchester, Bobby Singer, Batman, Captain Jack Sparrow, Harry Potter, Sirius Black, John McClane, Angel, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, Alice Cullen, Loki, Penelope, Helena and Demetrius, Silvia and Valentine.
OTHER: people who know what they want out of life and go after it; people who realise that drugs can profoundly fuck up their lives and therefore say NO; people who have overcome profound addictions that they did not develop for stupid ass reasons; people who don't take themselves too seriously; people who are completely chill (eg. Rob, Bonnie, Victoria, Josh, Laura, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Fielding, Danny Tidwell, Rebel Wilson, Kim Stolz, Chloe Wilson, Leanne of Moustache and all the other Even Stevens of the world - they inspire me to be less neurotic).
Friends and family are a given.