Laughing and Jeering, Manual labour, teaching grammar, Learning how to be a TEFLian, Stripes, Southern Spain, Jogging, Swimming, giant sand dunes, Kit's army of dogs, Tapas, fish, veal, Finishing my MA and not knowing what to do with myself now, Grammar, Pluperfects, Dipthongs, Prolepsis, Loose Leaf Herbal Tea, Last FM, Abstaining from Alcohol until the 25th August, Chocolate, Sausage Rolls from the russian girls in Londis (Butters), the amazing lunatic woman working behind the checkout in Sainsbury's Local next to Warren Street station, Sainsbury's cookies, Saving everything to the last minute, Heat and shouting at people who complain about it, Regents Park, Barcelona, Red Apples, Pirating, Music, European Music Festivals, Literature, Philosophy (especially of Mind), Drink, Carnage, ANTI-DANCE, Chicken, Beer, Gin, Melancholia, Capaletti, Tortellini, Lime/Mango Pickle, Arguing with bouncers, Arguing with spanish guys, Working for Edexcel, Sun bathing, Hot Weather that makes you sweat, Sweating, Drunken Texts, Watching Darts, Watching Ray Stubbs and Bobby George singing, dancing and doing air guitar to Status Quo on the darts, Tennesse Fried Chicken in Camden, Chicken Cottage in Holborn, London, Wrestling, Dancing, breaking Gazebos, winning fifty quid on the Grand National (2005), winning 100 from work, complaining about how crap british weather is.
As well as confabulators and jargon aphasics.
SHORA, Fugazi, The Fall, RFTC, Isis, BORIS, The For Carnation, Pixies, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, KNUT, Old Man Gloom, Unwound, Shellac, Big Black, Faith No More, The Melvins, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Pelican, JESUS LIZARD, Neurosis, Mogwai, Godspeed you black emporer, A Silver Mt Zion, Red Sparrowes, Polly Harvey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Slint, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Wire, Gang of Four, The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg, Unsane, Black Heart Procession, Isis some more, Blonde Redhead, Fantomasmelvinsbigband, Arcade Fire, Ella Guru, CHAS AND DAVE, Snuff, NOFX, ATDI, Dillinger Escape Plan, New Order, JSBX, RL Burnside, Tom Waits, B52's, Ennio Morricone, JJ Paradise Players Club, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Technotronic, German Sausage Music, Unitus, The Kramers, The Smoking Hearts, Make Up, REFUSED, Captain Beefheart, Pere Ube, Penthouse, Blood Safari, The Chinese Lungs, The Parkinsons, Deerhoof, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Misfits, The Ramones, Ten Benson, Dizzee, Lightning Bolt, NOXAGT, ISIS.
Lost in Translation, Airplane, Big Lebowski, Taking of Pelham 123, Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars more, Once upon a time in the west
TV is gay apart from Seinfeld, Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Simpsons and wrestling.
'Manuscript found in Saragossa' by Potocki, 'Melmoth the Wonderer' by Maturin, 'The Oxford Companion to the English Language (abridged edition)', ed. Tom McArthur (Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1996), FERNANDO PESSOA: 'THE BOOK OF DISQUIET', 'The selected prose of Fernando Pessoa' and basically any other Pessoa that I can get my hands on. Flann O' Brien: 'The Third Policeman,' 'An Beal Bocht' and 'At Swim-Two-Birds', Elizabeth Bowen, Notes From Underground, Brothers Karamazov, Tennyson 'Enoch Arden', Unbearable lightness of being, Ulysses, Dubliners, Freud, Daniel Dennett stuff, Thomas Nagel and other Phil of Mind geekiness, Any Tintin book, any Andre Gide, The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Hip Priest: The Story of Mark E Smith and The Fall, Our Band Could be Your Life, 'Thom Leaman is Gay' by Thom Leamans mum, The Master and Margarita, The Good Soldier, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil and most Nietzsche, Kristeva, Feuerbach, The Meditations, Nausea, The Fall, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Everything is Illuminated, The New York Trilogy, A House in Paris, Any Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft, and so on and so forth
as well as Mark E Smith, Steve Albini, Ric Flair, Kurt Angle, Nietzsche, and Cosmo Kramer.