A woman as bemused by the modern world as I am.
In no order at all: Weezer, Beastie Boys, Richard Thompson, Joy Division, Basement Jaxx, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Public Enemy, Gomez, Supergrass, Echo and the Bunnymen, Primal Scream, N.E.R.D, Queens of the Stone Age, Guns N Roses, Goldie Lookin Chain, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Motorhead, Armand Van Helden, Mercury Rev, Snow Patrol, Foo Fighters, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Ash, At the Drive In, Beck, Bad Religion, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Dandy Warhols, Hanson, Evan Dando/The Lemonheads, Pixies, Grandaddy, Mogwai, MC5, Iggy Pop, John Lennon, Stephen Malkmus, Nelly Furtado, Outkast, Rage Aginst The Machine, Super Furry Animals, Genesis (prior to the departure of Peter Gabriel), Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath (pre Dio), Fairport Convention, The Band, Nic Jones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Albert Hammond Jr, Led Zeppelin, The Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, The Cure, The Special Goodness, Space Twins, The Who, U2, Jimi Hendrix, PJ Harvey, Arcade Fire, Charlotte Hatherley, They Might Be Giants, Bloc Party, Kasabian, Scissor Sisters, British Sea Power, New Order, Flaming Lips, Kanye West and more...
I could go on forever...so just a few: Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull (any Scorsese in fact) Trainspotting, Fargo, Les Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows) Akira, The Usual Suspects, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, The Great Outdoors, Night Of The Hunter, Godfather 1+2 (not 3!) Donnie Brasco and so on and so forth...
The Sopranos is the best show ever. Also: The Simpsons, I'm Alan Partridge, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Bottom, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Spaced, Phoenix Nights, Frasier, The Fast Show, The Office, The Mighty Boosh etc...
Too many to mention: Matilda by Roald Dahl, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres, Lemmy's Autobiography, Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind, Father Ted scripts by Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, Terry Pratchetts Discworld books, Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series, Harry Potter and so on...
Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Noddy Holder, Lemmy, Beck, Jonny Depp, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Che Guevara, Al Pacino, John Lennon, Bobby Gillespie, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Joe Strummer, Bob Marley, Richard Thompson, Robert DeNiro, Kurt Cobain and many more Rockers, film stars and dregs of society!