Music: Collecting anything MUSE.
Live gigs. Driving around late at night listening to music.
Road trips.
Are you dumb?
MUSE, Editors, Mew - (this is going to be a long list) - A Static Lullaby, A.F.I, Aberdeen City, Acceptance, Aiden, Alesana, Alkaline Trio, All That Remains, The Almost, Anberlin, Angels & Airwaves, Ani Difranco, Annuals, The Apex Theory, Aqualung, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, As Cities Burn, Ash, The Ataris, Athlete, August Burns Red, Augustana, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion, Bat For Lashes, Baterz, Bauhaus, Bayside, Bedlight for Blue Eyes, Biffy Clyro, Billy Talent, Blackbud, Blackfield, Bleed the Dream, Blessthefall, Bloc Party, Boy Kill Boy, Brand New, Brazil, Bullet for my Valentine, C/O/R/D, Calla, Canasta, The Casket Lottery, The Cinematics, Classic Case, Cold War Kids, The Coral, Cursive, Damien Rice, The Damnwells, Dance Hall Crashers, Dar Williams, Darkest Hour, Dashboard Confessional, David Ford, Dear and the Headlights, The Dears, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Depeche Mode, Diecast, The Dismemberment Plan, Doves, The Dresden Dolls, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Eisley, Elefant, Emanuel, Embrace, Emmure, Enter Shikari, Escape the Fate, The Evan Anthem, Every Move a Picture, The Exit, Explosions in the Sky, The Faint, Fair to Midland, Fall Out Boy, Feeder, Fiona Apple, Franz Ferdinand, The Fray, Frente!, From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, Frou Frou, Fugazi, Funeral for a Friend, Further Seems Forever, The Futureheads, Gallows, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Get Up Kids, Gogol Bordello, Golem, Grayshot, Green Day, Guillemots, Gym Class Heroes, Hard-fi, Hell is for Heroes, Hellogoodbye, Hope of the States, The Horrors, Horse the Band, Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, Human Abstract, Hundred Reasons, I Am Ghost, Idlewild, I'm From Barcelona, Imogen Heap, In Flames, Incubus, Infected Mushroom, Interpol, IV Theives, Jawbreaker, Jeff Buckley, Jeremy Enigk, Jets to Brazil, Jewel, Jimmy Eat World, JJ72, Joy Division, The Juliana Theory, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, Keepsake, Khoma, The Killers, Killswitch Engage, Klaxons, Kooks, Ladytron, Lake Trout, Lifetime, The Like, Linkin Park, Little Yellow Box, Longview, Longwave, Lords of Acid, Lostprophets, Love Arcade, The Maccabees, Machine Head, Madina Lake, Mae, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Maroon 5, The Mars Volta, Martin Grech, Matchbox Twenty, Mates of State, Maximo Park, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Minus the Bear, Mobius Band, Modern Life is War, Monty Are I, Motion City Soundtrack, Murder By Death, Mute Math, My Chemical Romance, Nada Surf, The New Loud, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, Nodes of Ranvier, Norma Jean, Oh No! Oh My!, Operation Ivy, Ordinary Boys, Ours, Oxford Collapse, Panic! At the Disco, Paramore, Phoenix, Pigeon Detectives, Pinhead Gunpowder, Placebo, Playradioplay!, Portishead, Portugal. The Man, The Postal Service, Powerspace, Presets, Protest the Hero, Pure Reason Revolution, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rainer Maria, The Rapture, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Reel Big Fish, Reggie & the Full Effect, Regina Spektor, Rise Against, Rock Kills Kid, Rocking Horse Winner, Royden, Saosin, Save Ferris, The Scholars, Scissors for Lefty, Seafood, Secret Handshake, Senses Fail, Shadows Fall, Shiny Toy Guns, Shout Out Louds, Sia, Sigur Ros, Silversun Pickups, Skybox, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, Soul Coughing, Spoon, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Stars of Track and Field, Starsailor, Stereophonics, Still Remains, Straylight Run, The Strokes, Suburban Legends, Sufjan Stevens, Suicide Machines, Sum 41, Sunny Day Real Estate, Switches, The Talk, T-Bone Burnett, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Tegan & Sara, Test Icicles, Third Eye Blind, Thriteen Senses, This is Me Smiling, This Will Destroy You, Thursday, Tiger Army, Tokyo Rose, Travis, Trivium, Turin Brakes, TV on the Radio, Underoath, The Used, Vega4, VHS or Beta, The Von Bondies, Waking Ashland, The Walkmen, We Are Scientists, We Are the Fury, Westbound Train, Weston, What Made Milwaukee Famous, White Rabbits, White Rose Movement, The Working Title, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Youth Group, The Zutons (and others, I'm sure)
Donnie Darko, Garden State, Cypher, Fifth Element, Amelie, Constantine, Matrix, Delicatessen, Run Lola Run, Better Off Dead, Four Rooms, High Fidelity, 28 Days Later, Empire Records, Battle Royale, Mallrats, Heathers, Reservoir Dogs, Ocean's Eleven, Harry Potter, Secretary, Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, Say Anything, From Dusk Till Dawn, Boondock Saints, Usual Suspects, Existenz, Stigmata, most cult classics and horror movies
British television is infinitely better than American television, although I have succumbed to Lost and Heroes. I also enjoy my series on DVD: Black Books, Graham Norton, Teachers, Dead Like Me, Sex and the City, Wonderfalls, Keen Eddie, Six Feet Under.
Harry Potter, Catcher in the Rye, House of Leaves, Boys From Brazil, Siddhartha, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Amsterdam, Mists of Avalon, Ultimate Rush, Good Omens, Anne Perry (Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Series), Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chronicles of Narnia, anything by Augusten Burroughs, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Many Lives Many Masters, Celestine Prophecy, Journey of Souls, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
White Rose Movement