Looking at the sky, writing music for tv documentaries and adverts, engineering and producing bands, bagels, evolutionary biology, coloured and flashing lights, fast things, willow trees, microphones, flying faders, Herons, being high up, being inaccurate, people, dogs, cats, meerkats, supermeerkats, jellyfish, noises, guinness marmite, underground bunkers.
Anyone who can distract me (it's easy).
People like Aaron Copland, Al Green, Amon Dull, Aphex Twin, Arlo Guthrie, Arvo Part, Atomic Rooster, Bach (all of them), Beck, Bill Withers, Black Sabbath, Blo, Bob Dylan, Brick, Buddy Miles, Butthole Surfers, Calvin Loudmouth Johnson, Can, Captain Beefheart, Chips for the Poor, Chopin, Chuck Berry, Clifton Chenier, Cream, Credence, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, De La Soul, Dr Dre, Dr John, Earl Shilton, Eddie Bo, Ella Fitzgerald, Eminem, Faces, Family, Fat Boys, Fats Waller, Foo Fighters, Four Tops, Frank Zappa, Free, Fugazi, Funkadelic, Goblin, Gorrilaz, Grandaddy, Guns N Roses, Hard Skin, Harry Nillson, Herbie Hancock, Hinterland, Howlin Wolf, Ice Cube, Iggy / The Stooges, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimmi Hendrix, Jimmy McGriff, John Lennon, John Wagner Coalition, Kevin Coyne, Kid Acne, KRS-One, Lalo Schiffrin, Leadbelly, LED, Led Zepplin, Lee Dorsey, Lightnin Hopkins, Lord Funk, Lou Reed, Lynnard Skynnard, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Metallica, Methodist Centre, Mo Mummy, Mongo Santamaria, Mr Bungle, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nirvanna, NWA, Otis Redding, Pantera, Parliament, Pink Floyd, Primus, Quartershade, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Randy Newman, Red Cars, Robert Crumb, Rolling Stones, Roots Manuva, Ry Cooder, Sam Cooke, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Sepultura, Sex Pistols, Sly and the Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop Dog, Sonny Boy Williamson, Soundgarden, Stevie Wonder, Stravinski, Sub Rosa, Sun Ra, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman, Talking Heads, Taste, Tchaikovski, TEAM, Ted Nugent, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, The Clash, The Doors, The JBs, The Kinks, The Meters, The Police, The Ramones, The Skatalites, The Who, Thelonius Monk, Thin Lizzy, Toah Dynamic, Tractor, Trees, Woody Guthrie, Zoo, ZZ Top and lots of others.
Absolutely anything as long as it moves.
Highway to Heaven
By George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Richard Dawkins, Graham Greene, Damon Runyon, Anthony Burgess, Douglas Adams, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, pre 60's SF, rock and roll biographies, cold war conspiracy thrillers, the big book of questions and answers, books of the unexplained about things that have been explained for a long time, large books about films which hold up my monitor speakers.
Robert Sheckley