Making stuff up, running, gigs, Pilates, comedy, raging against the Machine, vacuuming patterns into the carpet, movies, reading, theatre, finding new illnesses I'm about to die of, cooking, drawing, vegetarianism, walking, making stuff up...
Writers with 'kiss my shades!' attitude who 'live life in the raw, grapple with it bravely and attack it with naked fists.'
Discerning readers who see reading as exercise.
Current playlist - A Piece of What You Need, Teddy Thompson; Blues and Lamentations, Kate Campbell; Facelift, Alice in Chains; Isn't Anything, My Bloody Valentine; Dig Lazarus Dig, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Dixie Chicken, Little Feat.
My best of 2008 so far: No Country for Old Men, Juno, Son of Rambow, The Orphanage, Let's Get Lost; In Search of the Midnight Kiss, The Edge of Love.
My best of 2007: The Last King of Scotland, Babel, Notes on a Scandal, Bobby, For Your Consideration, The Lives of Others, Sunshine, Zodiac, Jindabyne, Tell No-one, La Vie en Rose, Lady Chatterley, Two Days in Paris, Atonement, 3:10 to Yuma, Michael Clayton, Control.
My best of 2006 - Red Road, Hidden, Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Goodnight and Good Luck, The Constant Gardener, Capote, Syriana, L'enfant, Romance and Cigarettes, Transamerica, The Squid and the Whale, Lemming, Time to Leave, United 93, Thank You for Smoking, Heading South, A Scanner Darkly, Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed, Casino Royale, Little Children.
Current library loans: Village of Stone, Xiaolu Guo; Two Caravans, Marina Lewycka; The Elephant in the Corner, Aoife Mannix; Perfect Catch, Ian McMillan; Counting the Stars, Helen Dunmore.
No more heroes any more.