Literature, music, film esp. cult and film noir, politics, propaganda, cultural theory, human rights, human wrongs, l'amour, la lune, travels, photography and visual arts. Poetry. Language. Beaches. Paaaarties.
Nice people with lovely manners. Absolutely no riff-raff or roughs.
Glam-rock, Bowie, punk, The Shangri-las, electronica, funk, soul, hiphop, dub, ska, dance.
Cabaret, Metropolis, most Hitchcock esp. Vertigo and NxNW, film noir/Brit noir/new wave, Eisenstein, all Pedro Amadovar, all Kieslowski, Powell and Pressburger, a bit of Ken Loach, Tarkovsky; Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, Pan's Labyrinth, Wild at Heart, Withnail and I, Taxi Driver, The Big Lebowski, Godfather II, American Beauty, Wings of Desire, Chinatown, A Streetcar Named Desire. Kenneth Anger esp. Scorpio Rising.
Yawn.
Dostoevsky, Dickens, Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Austen. Wuthering Heights. PB Shelley, Yeats, Auden, Akhmatova. Wilde. Iain Banks. Ian McEwan. Graham Greene. Waugh. Orwell. Mayakovsky.Froth on the Daydream. Loads of history/politics/cultural theory.
Bowie. William Blake. Shakespeare. Karl Marx. Vivienne Westwood. Mary Wollstonecraft. PB Shelley. Oscar Wilde. Prince Rogers Nelson.