Frisbee tree golf, comic books, public tutting, collecting lost gloves, self doubt, toast fests, coffee, girls in leather trousers, agreeing to things without really thinking through the consequences, pondering, tree climbing, teaching children to burp, listing things, commas, smiling without a reason, cheeses, quantum physics, making cards, poker, bridge, facts, boggle, sandwiches, going to the library on a Saturday morning, finding small amounts of money, cake, spotting that the entire row opposite you on the tube are wearing denim jeans (you shout "Jeanrow!"), putting the word "The" in the names of bands that have no "the" in them,
A space assassin. From the future. With a sneer.
The New Pornographers, The Stereolab, The Giant Sand, The Clash, Yann Tiersen, The Studmenn, The Magnetic Fields, The Postal Service, The The, national anthems of the world, Guided By The Voices, The Suns of the Tundra, They Might Be The Giants, Jonathan Coulton, that song that's in your head at the moment, Soap Opera,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Hommes Femmes Mode d'emploi, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, any dumb vampire movie, any movie that has the line "we could be gods", The Matrix, The Jerk, What's Opera Doc?, Duck Amuck, The Thin Man, my super-8 movies from the early 1990s, the films of Pavel, Idiocracy, In The Mood For Love, Quest For Love, any director's earlier funnier work, Peter Greenaway, Mexican wrestling movies, School For Scoundrels, Casanova,
Arrested Development, Heroes, Church Windows, Buffy, Tomorrow People, The News, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pages From Ceefax, Dollby City, John From Cincinnati, University Challenge, Andy Barker P.I., Blockbusters, Planet Mirth, The Double Deckers, White Horses, Entourage, The Tick, Lost, High School Dance,
"Buried For Pleasure", "Dudley There Is No Tomorrow! Then How About This Afternoon?", Jack Womack, Jonathan Carroll, Max Barry, Russell Hoban, colouring in books, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Gatsby, Jonathan Lethem, Anita Loos, books of matches, CLR James, Tintin, "Who Murdered Roger Ackroyd?", Lemony Snicket, The Idler, Richard Yates, Graham Greenes, Jerry Cornelius, The Axis of Time, How I Live Now,
Judge Dredd, Chuck Jones, the coelacanth, Jean-Luc Picard,