Factory Records, football (QPR), cricket ( dodgerscricket.org ), web design, blogging, fanzine writing (Scream City), cycling, Real Ale, coffee, travelling.
I'd like to meet:
Gerry Francis, Jerry Seinfeld, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sarah Cracknell, Alex Cox, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, David Lynch, Mick Jones, Alan Erasmus, Ed Templeton, Lawrence Weiner.
Music:
FAC stuff
52nd Street, A Certain Ratio, Abecedarians, Ad Infinitum, Adventure Babies, Amateur Night In The Big Top, Biting Tongues, Cabaret Voltaire, Cath Carroll, Crawling Chaos, Crispy Ambulance, Karl Denver, The Distractions, Anna Domino, John Dowie, The Durutti Column, Electronic, ESG, Fadela, Happy Mondays, Kevin Hewick, The Hood, Hopper, James, Jazz Defektors, Joy Division, Kalima, Marcel King, Kreisler String Orchestra, Life, The Little Big Band, Steve Martland, Meat Mouth, Stephin Merritt, Wim Mertens, Miaow, Minny Pops, Monaco, The Names, New Order, Northside, OMD, The Other Two, Pleasure Crew, Quando Quango, The Railway Children, RAW-T, Red Turns To, Revenge, The Royal Family & The Poor, Section 25, Shark Vegas, The Sixths, Space Monkeys, Stockholm Monsters, Streetlife, Swamp Children, Thick Pigeon, The Tiller Boys, To Hell With Burgundy, Tunnelvision, Vermorel, The Wake, The Wendys, X-O-Dus, Young Offenders Institute
Non-FAC stuff
Saint Etienne, Rammstein, The Human League, The White Stripes, Kooky Records, The Retro Spankees, Winston Echo, gnac, The National Parks, maps, Sigur Ros, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Air, Bloc Party, Kings of Leon, Radiohead, The Orb, Add N to (X), Adrian Sherwood / Tackhead / Gary Clail / On-U Sound, Nick Cave / Grinderman, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Richard Hawley, Jay-Z, Nas, Smog, Pixies, Kasabian, Dog Chewed The Handle, Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beta Band, Styrofoam, Beck, Orbital, Jarvis Cocker, Isan, Miwon, Massive Attack, Pet Shop Boys, etc, etc...
Movies:
Repo Man, Drowning by Numbers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apocalypse Now, Inland Empire, Clean Shaven, Reservoir Dogs, The Science of Sleep, Apocalypto, Hue and Cry, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Rushmore, Napoleon Dynamite, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, Bad Taste, Atonement, The Darjeeling Limited, Dan In Real Life, Stranger Than Fiction...
Television:
The Comic Strip Presents, Twin Peaks, 24, The Other Side of Midnight, The Day Today, The IT Crowd, Flight of the Conchords, Play at Home, The Tube, The Late Show, Aquariavision HD
Books:
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Cult Movies 1-3, Homage to Catalonia, South Sea Adventure, Alexander the Great, Don't Make Me Think.
Heroes:
Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus, Martin Hannett, Peter Saville, Rob Gretton - without whom, etc.
