Literature, especially poetry. Negative capability. Mental health. Cats. Interesting cloud formations. Comedy.
Whoever.
Kirsty McColl, The Smiths, Elvis Costello, Garbage, Thomas Dolby, Eels,60s and 70s soul, Bach, the Hokey Cokey, whatever...
Fargo; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Powell and Pressburger esp. I Know Where I'm Going; The Awful Truth; Some Like It Hot
BBC 4 - most of it; Smack the Pony; Green Wing; Seinfeld; A Very Peculiar Practice; Our Friends in the North; Pulling;documentaries on abstruse subjects where you think you should be taking notes - 'Century of the Self', 'The Power of Nightmares - that kind of thing. I find 'In The Night Garden' oddly soothing but am disconcerted by 'Lazytown' and actively repulsed by 'Rolly Mo'.
A Room of One's Own; Staying Alive and Being Alive; Beyond Black; Muriel Spark esp Loitering with Intent; Alice Through the Looking-Glass; The Golden Notebook; Who's Sorry Now?; Marion Milner; Lucy Ellman; James Thurber; Betty McDonald esp. 'The Plague and I'. Guilty secret: Georgette Heyer.
S J Coleridge, Nelson Mandela, Miroslav Holub, Kirsty McColl, Stevie Wonder, Muriel Spark, Powell and Pressburger, Camilla Batmangelidh (is that how you spell it?), Marion Milner, Germaine Greer, Jenny Eclair, Billy Connolly, Larry David, my husband.