Stroszek . Music (see below), Gigging, Reading, Politics, History, Writing, T'Internet, British Comedy, International Relations.
Stroszek
Wire
Bauhaus
The Smiths
McCarthy
Buzzcocks
Manic Street Preachers
Sigur Ros
The Cure
Morrissey
Billy Bragg
Mercury Rev
The Sleepy Jackson
The Psychedelic Furs
Joy Division
The Kinks
The April Skies
The Vaselines
The June Brides
Love Is All
The Kills
New York Dolls
Johnny Cash
The Velvet Underground
The Wedding Present
Elliot Smith
David Bowie
Stereolab
Sparks
Magazine
Jeff Buckley
New Order
The Teardrop Explodes
Devo
Interpol
Public Image Ltd
Camera Obscura
Kraftwerk
The Flaming Lips
T-Rex
Roxy Music
The Raw Herbs
Pulp
Television
Phil Wilson
Puressence
The Chesterfields
Mogwai
Depeche Mode
Echo & The Bunnymen
Souisxie & The Banshees
R.E.M.
Coctaeu Twins
My Bloody Valentine
Suede
Television Personalities
The Sex Pistols
Pop Will Eat Itself
Jesus and Mary Chain
Gotan Project
Scout Niblett
Orange Juice
Air
Jonathon Richman & The Modern Lovers
The Clash
Stellastarr
The Wolfhounds
Stroszek, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Woyceck, Aguirre, Wrath of God (generally anything by Werner Herzog), Veronica Guerin, Withnail and I, Boys Dont Cry, Bowling For Columbine, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Apocalypse Now, Intacto, Fight Club, The Idiots, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Mississippi Burning, 28 Days Later, The Shawshank Redemption, Wilde, The Magnificent Seven, 24 Hour Party People, Trainspotting, The Great Escape, Once Were Warriors.
TV is mostly awful. However, British comedy is wonderful. Have I Got News For You, Blackadder, One Foot In The Grave, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Monty Python, The Royle Family, Alan Partridge, The Young Ones, Bottom, Phoenix Nights, The Office, Father Ted. Otherwise: Question Time, Later...With Jools Holland, Top Gear, Newsnight.
Politics, history, IR, philosohpy. Favourite authors include: Chomsky, Wilde, Self, Yahuda, Singer, Orwell, Fitzgerald, LaFeber, Porritt, Said, Russell. Last life-changing book read is Bertrand Russel's 'Why I Am Not A Christian'. Last book read was Octave Mirbeau's 'The Torture Garden'