MUSIC, FOOD, MUSIC, FOOD, booksbooksbooks, can I just keep rewriting the same words? Am currently in love with Nathan Barley, the series, not the man, I hasten to add.
kith and kin. Or Kath and Ken. Or Kate and Kev.
LOADS. Tori Amos, early Basement Jaxx, The Beatles, Bjoerk, certain Blur albums, Jacques Brel, Manu Chao, Elektryczne Gitary, Phil Jeays, Jens Lekman, Massive Attack, Milosc, Momus, some Morcheeba, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Pulp, The (Real) Tuesday Weld, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Frank Zappa.
Also film scores, such as Elfman, Jon Brion, etc.
All the great Russian composers, as well as some polish composers;
Most folk music, but especially central to east european, e.g. gipsy, jewish, polish, hungarian, etc.
Also many. Currently: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, City of God, Dzien Swira, Black Cat White Cat, Batman Returns, Hotel Rwanda.
don't like telly. Like comedies such as Blackadder, Spaced, Red Dwarf, Simpsons, and the like.
Martin Amis, Graham Greene, Dostoevksy, Margaret Atwood, Iain Banks, Ian McEwan, many more. Anything dark and grim, basically.
Batman.