Travel, reading, Scottish Rugby, food, music, movies, Cricket,Baseball, Golf, fine wine and cheap beer.
Mr E, Harper Lee, C S Lewis,, William Dalrymple, Bill Bryson, Charley Boorman, Michael Wood, Louis Theroux, , Kevin Smith, Homer (not that Homer) , Pytheas the Greek (A man before his time, Heinrich Schlieman (another man before his time), Paris and the person who figured out that peanut butter and jam worked together..
The Eels, Sigur Ros, Weezer, The Decemberists, New Order, The Smiths, Massive Attack, A Certain Ratio, The Beach Boys, The Who, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, Mozart,The Happy Mondays, Dead Can Dance, Lemon Jelly,Duritti Column, Gregorian Chant,Systems of a Down, Brian Eno, Ambient, Leftfield, We Are Scientists, Craig Armstrong, Union of Knives, Radiohead (especially the non plinkey-plonkey stuff, more Sigur Ros, Beck, Lamb, 4Hero, Cocteau Twins, Beta Band, Lisa Gerard, The Guillimots, Arcade Fire.
To Kill A Mockingbird, LOTR, Star Wars (all of them), Serenity, Garden State, Once Upon A Time In America, Where Eagles Dare, Indiana Jones (all of them too), The Goonies, The Big Blue, Betty Blue, Layer Cake, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Cinema Paradiso, Mediterraneo, Quadrophenia, The Kid's Are Alright, Spirited Away, Jean De Florette, Manon De Source, Clerks, Princess Mononoke, Napoleon Dynamite.
Scrubs, 24, Spooks, Prison Break, Ugly Betty, CSI, History Channel, Louis Thereoux, The Long Way Around, American Chopper, A Band of Brothers, Firefly,
To Kill A Mockingbird, Bill Bryson's Books, Philip Pullman Novels, LOTR, The Hobbit, Fried Green Tomatoes, William Dalyrmple's Books, Kidnapped, David Gemmell, Marley and Me, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sunset Song, The Illiad, No 44 Scotland Street Stories, Rebus, Morse.
Good friends