Playing my guitar and singing badly, playing with someone else's Fire Poi but not doing it right and learning to speak Spanish. Or German. I can't decide yet.
You - now and naked. And if that doesn't scare you enough, bring a friend.
Dirty Pretty Things (for holding the crown of best live gig I've seen (Carling Academy, 2006)), Pixies, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, DJ Shadow, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Queen, Scott Matthews, Joy Division, Belle and Sebastian, Louis XIV, Bloc Party, Beatles, White Stripe, VHS or Beta, Zutons, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, QOTSA, Prodigy, Primal Scream, Neil Young, No doubt when I'm feeling quirky, Massive Attack, Manics, Malinky, Mike Oldfield, Placebo, Franz Ferdinand, Rage Against the Machine, Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, We Are Scientists, Muse, Maximo Park, !Forward Russia!, SOAD and miscellaneous stuff.
hmmm....Requiem for a Dream, Apocalypse Now, Stigmata, Schindler's List, Fight Club, Snatch, Layer Cake, Being John Malkovich, Truman Show, Lost In Translation though you need to be well pasted to fully enjoy it, City of God, Blade Runner, Das Boot, 24 Hour Party People is probably the funniest film I've ever seen...and any Sergio Leone western with Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. Der Untergang.
Don't watch the stupid-box. Well, only for movies.
Stuff about the Romans, Greeks, Mongols - any ancient civilisation, it's all good. Crime novels too. If they're set in some ancient civilisation - we're onto a winner.
Freddie Mercury, the big flamboyent, moustachioed camper. What a trooper he was, god rest his soul and his yellow spandex trousers.Carl Barat, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, Thom Yorke....pretty much anyone who has made good music in the last century. In my humblest of humble opinions of course.