People, things, stuff, cod psychology, haddock psychology, memetics, sex, food, travel, painting/drawing, singing like an eejit, dancing, walking, plumbing, petty theft, incoherent musings on the meaning of life the universe and everything, playing one or several musical instruments with virtuouso ineptitude - simultaneously whenever possible.
BBW GSOH for NSA... Oh fuck, wrong site... as you were chaps.
From The Smiths to Sibelius, Clash to Cure to Katchachurian, Albinoni to Armstrong via Armatrading, and all the way to Zappa.
Tom Waits, Regina Spektor, The National, At Swim Two Birds, Pulp, Ian Dury all good. Nick Cave, Costello and The The have also been getting played a lot recently, FWIW. Precisely fuck all, I should think.
Children of a lesser god, The History Boys, The Wedding, Hairspray, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, All Quiet on the Western Front, 39 Steps, Sweet 16, Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List, Ice Cold in Alex, Life of Brian, Road to Perdition, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid...
GBH, Boys from the Black Stuff, Canal+ late-night lesbian special double-feature, obviously, HIGNFY, The Office (UK version), Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Crackerjack, Magic Roundabout, Crystal Tips and Alastair, Captain Pugwash, The Clangers.
Ah! Lots and lots, although I'm not at all what I'd call well-read: Solzhenitsyn, Marquez, Houellebecq, Tom Robbins, Iain Banks (avec ou sans M), Hunter S., Some of the Amises, Gore Vidal, Fitzgerald, Kundera, Bulgakov, Peter Handke, Stendhal, Eliot (TS), Murakami, Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett. A friend recently turned me on to Bukowski and Brautigan - for which arse-felt thanks.
I could go on and on here, so count yourselves lucky...
Feynman, Pete Livesey, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Gorbachev, Mandela, Bazalgette, F. Spencer Chapman, Stephen Pinker, Coshipi, Dawkins, Gaudi, James Hunt.