Mexicans, guns, bad habits, sad cowboy songs (and shirts), posh Chinese restaurants, nurturing hope, grunge revivalists, owning too many video game consoles (the current number stands at five), drowsy Sundays, tea, occasional hedonism, starting more books than I finish, shuddering at the words 'pension' and 'mortgage', obsessively browsing the archives at YouTube, clean underwear, Bombay Sapphire, random mix tapes, thinking about short stories but not actually writing them, turning down the Freemasons, flawed people with good intentions (of which I am one) mismanaging my finances, death metal, startling coincidences, the perfect pint of Guiness, busting the ghosts of the past, random adventures, taming the universe, repeatedly losing my cash card, using journalism as an excuse to blag everything, hating The Kooks and avoiding psychic vampires. Those fuckers are everywhere.
Rodrigo y Gabriella, Kyuss, Hank Williams, Boards Of Canada, Gallows, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Feist, Pixies, The Go! Team, Ozma, Weezer, Veruca Salt, Kaki King, DJ Shadow, The Inkspots, Morbid Angel, Link Wray, Hot Chip, Cannibal Corpse, Slo Burn, Queens Of The Stone Age, Daft Punk, Iron Monkey, Belle and Sebastian, Kraftwerk, The Beta Band, Grandaddy, Helmet, Ramones, Tortoise, Slint, Black Sabbath, Autechre, Public Enemy, The Wolfe Tones, Pavement, Buzzcocks, Elvis, My Morning Jacket, Lightning Bolt, anything off the Katamari soundtracks, Mice Parade, The Johnny Burnette Trio, Vince Taylor and His Playboys, Little Richard, Cats On Mars, twangy 60s surf rock, Tom Waits, Calexico, and lots of other bands that make me look cool if I list them.
Aliens, Tampopo, Bubba Ho-Tep, Napoleon Dynamite, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Festen, Dawn Of The Dead, Starship Troopers and anything by The Coen Brothers as even their shit films are good.
Spaced, Scrubs, Northern Exposure, Back of The Y, Scrubs, Nathan Barley, Heroes. Family Guy Def Leppard videos, etc
The Time Traveller's Wife, His Dark Materials, The Crimson Petal and The White, The Lovely Bones, God Is A Bullet, Hammer Of The Gods, The Man Called Cash, Heavier Than Heaven, The Warlord Chronicles, The Dark Half, Tourist Season, Sick Puppy, Prozac Nation, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time, Lord Of The Rings, etc etc etc