Street photography, Lomo cameras, architecture, walks on the beach, amusing my cat, desserts with friends, looking for a well-mixed martini, writing and reading 'poetry', art & design, backpacking & long train journeys, shopping at Country Road, worshipping Cate Blanchett ...
Cate Blanchett. But they tell me I have to stay at least 50 yards away from her at all times. So that's gonna be tough.
Genres: Brit rock, Female singer-songwriters, Ambient, Chillout, Classical, Big Band Jazz ... Bands: Suede, Pulp, Blur, James, Coldplay, U2, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Pixies, Michelle Shocked, Tori Amos, kd lang, Eddi Reader, Indigo Girls ...
Oscar & Lucinda, The English Patient, Talented Mr Ripley, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Rope, Contact, Gosford Park, Amelie, Three Colours Trilogy, Fargo, Mulholland Drive ... Directors: Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Anthony Minghella, Kryzstof Kieslowski, Alfred Hitchcock, Coen Brothers ... Performers: Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Frances McDormand, Jodie Foster... Genres: Lit adaptations, epics, American indie, foreign language flicks ...
Authors: Jeanette Winterson, Shakespeare, Neil Simon, PJ O'Rourke, Paul Theroux, Stephen Dunn, AS Byatt, Helene Hanff ...