Outdoors stuff when I can- wild camping, crashing my bike etc. Getting into photography. Got a small boat which I hope to learn to sail.Cooking- give me a recipe and I'll ignore it
I'm going to try this once again. In the order I pull the CDs off the shelves (i.e. random): Belle and Sebastian, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Flying Saucer Attack, Pavement, Slint, Silver Jews, The Kills, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Outkast, Johnny Cash, Calexico, Led Zeppelin, PJ Harvey, Goldfrapp, Kingsbury Manx, Grateful Dead,Smog/ Callahan, Palace and all things Oldham, The Anomoanon, Amalgamated Sons Of Rest, Cat Power, Breeders, Gary Young, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Velvet Underground, Lee Perry, Jane's Addiction, Kraftwerk, Buffalo Tom, Hendrix, David Bowie, Grandaddy, The Streets, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Wilco, Peter Bjorn and John, Appendix Out, Grand Drive, Beastie Boys, Kasey Chambers, Ladytron, Blur, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Air, American Music Club, All Natural Lemon And Lime Flavours, Add N to (X), Cosmic Rough Riders, The Handsome Family, Ryan Adams, Spring Heel Jack, Roni Size, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, Lift To Experience, Free Kitten, The Fall, Thurston Moore, Ui, Pixies, Belly, Cocteau Twins, Frank Black, Boss Hog, Jesus And Mary Chain, Gorillaz, Velocity Girl, Tortoise, Saint Etienne, Nirvana, Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man, Chappaquiddick Skyline, Beachwood Sparks, Dinosaur Jr, Lydia Lunch, Red Krayola, Mogwai, 16 Horsepower, Can, Arab Strap, Looper, Cynthia Dall, Marble Valley, Third Eye Foundation, all things 'M' and Pajo, Gastr Del Sol, Sebadoh, Royal Trux, The Pastels, Smudge, Ganger, Elliott Smith, Hood, Jim O'Rourke, James Yorkston, Woodbine, Folk Implosion, Mouse On Mars, Arctic Monkeys, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes, Jacknife Lee, Neil Michael Hagerty, Franz Ferdinand, Sons And Daughters, Animal Collective, Loose Fur, Young Marble Giants, Stephen Malkmus/ the Jicks, Movietone, Preston School of Industry, Juana Molina, Come, Archie Bronson Outfit, Clearlake, PSAPP, Lemonheads, Husker Du, Queens Of The Stone Age, Brian Eno, The 5678s, The Sundays, Dr John, Boards Of Canada, Magic Numbers, Tricky, Pole, Sigur Ros, Amon Tobin, The Good The Bad And The Queen, Frank Zappa, Bivouac, Four Tet, Simon and Garfunkel, NWA, Woody Guthrie, Bonde Do Role, Luscious Jackson, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Go! Team, Storm & Stress, Breakbeat Era, Liz Phair, Solex, Blondie, Hayseed Dixie, The Kinks, Sammy, Sun Ra, The Yardbirds, Home, Leonard Cohen, RL Burnside, Drugstore, Yo La Tengo, Pizzicato Five, Super Furry Animals, Fiona Apple, The Donnas, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kyuss, Stone Roses, MC5, Speedball Baby, White Stripes, Pussy Galore, The Doors, Paradise Motel,, Sugar, Gumball, Bardo Pond, Swervedriver, Syd Barrett, Dean Martin, Tom Waits, Baby Birkin, Manu Chao, Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac (the blues stuff), Bob Dylan, Leftfield, Mountain, Captain Beefheart, Joy Division, Lead Belly, Emiliana Torrini, Serge Gainsbourg, Kings Of Leon, Suicide, Primal Scream, John Cage, RZA, Chemical Brothers, Cornelius, Perry Farrell, Ride, J Mascis & The Fog, Portishead, fair play if you've got this far in my fairly pointless exercise in vanity..., Death In Vegas, Tom Lehrer, And You Will Know Us By Th Trail Of The Dead..., Brian Jonestown Massacre, G Love & Special Sauce, The Stranglers, Selfish C***, Pharoah Sanders, Hamell On Trial, Gil Scott-Heron, The Black Crowes, The Reindeer Section, Hole, Crunt, Queen, The Specials, The Cardigans, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Madder Rose, Massive Attack, Kid Loco, Nearly God, Nashville Pussy, Sheryl Crow, Regular Fries, Lou Reed, Scott 4, Miles Davis, The Charlatans, St Germain, Groove Armada, Reverend Horton Heat, The Vines, Sly & The Family Stone, Big Tobacco, Beth Orton, Bob Marley, Gert Wilden unt Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Squarepusher, The Rolling Stones, Chet Baker, St Johnny, Creedence Clearwater Revival, RYU, The High Llamas, Lucinda Williams, Porno for Pyros, Thelonious Monk, Swans, Beck, Frank Zappa, JPP, Little Axe, 4 Hero, Boredoms, Tangerine Dream, Eric Burdon & War, The Beta Band, The Mooney Suzuki, dEUS, John Lee Hooker, Echo & The Bunnymen, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Parliament, Jethro Tull, Funkadelic, Blaubac, The Byrds, The Beatles... and a few more, but even I'm tired of this now... Special mention to Alec Marshall/ Lola Flash who haven't made it into my collection yet but will ASAP, and all the other musicians who have been good enough to share their time with me. Someone give 'em a contract!!!
No chick-flicks. Ever. Apart from that no other boundaries but I really don't watch that much
Anything by James Ellroy, most stuff by Cormac MacCarthy, Bret Easton Ellis, some Don Delillo, bits of history, bobs of science. Not big on biographies or self-pity cash-ins.