Music,film,books,spectator sport..football,cricket,Rugby,internet radio,History,Maps,cooking,travel,politics(but not politicians),pubs but not clubs,second hand book and record shops,walking,photography, museums,cycling.
decent, honest,grounded, caring people, kindred spirits, people who aren't afraid to deviate from "the norm".
Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd,Soft Machine,Bob Dylan,Broadcast,Beach Boys,The Kinks,Kraftwerk,Can,Tangerine Dream,Amon Duul II,Faust,Ash Ra Temple,Cluster,Popol Vuh,Neil Young,The Byrds,The Youngbloods,Jefferson Airplane,Ghost,Karen Dalton,Country Joe and The Fish,Velvet Underground,Judee Sill,The Fall,Joy Division,The Smiths,Robert Wyatt,Genesis(early),P.J Harvey,Van der Graaf Generator,The Seeds,The Gentle Soul,Buffalo Springfield,The Who,Neu,Captain Beefheart,Yahowha 13,Sun Ra,Thelonious Monk,Boards of Canada,West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,Traffic,Moby Grape,Quicksilver Messenger Service,Silver Apples,Love,Kaleidoscope,The Chocolate Watch Band,The Litter,Neigb'rhood Children,White Noise,Ultimate Spinach,Godspeed Your Black Emperor,Gandalf,H.P Lovecraft,Incredible String Band,Comus,Funkadelic,The Electric Prunes,Kevin Ayers,Tim Buckley,Nick Drake,Johnny Cash,XTC,James Brown,Skip Spence,The Beatles,The Small Faces,The Pixies,Magazine,David Bowie,Portishead,Rolling Stones,Charles Mingus,Leonard Cohen,The David,50 Foot Hose,Led Zeppelin,Music Emporium,Miles Davis,Phil Ochs,Radiohead,Patti Smith,Slowdive,The Milennium,Saint Etienne,Spirit,Stereolab,United States Of America,Suicide,The Trees,Gong,Yes,Scott Walker,Frank Zappa,John Coltrane,Ladytron,13th Floor Elevators,Interpol,Van Dyke Parks,Fairport Convention,Isaac Hayes,Roxy Music,Cocteau Twins,Caravan,Curtis Mayfield,Deep Purple,Hot Tuna,The Dukes Of Stratosfear,Phil Spector,Talk Talk,Joe Meek,C.A Quintet,John Cale,Philip Glass,Michael Nyman.
Mean Streets,Dead of Night,Passport to Pimlico,Kind hearts and coronets,White Heat,The Ladykillers,When the wind blows,Brazil,Carnival of souls,Citizen Kane,Amores Perros,A Clockwork Orange,Breathless,La Dolce Vita,1984,Dr Strangelove,Easy Rider,Once upon a time in America,Heavens Above,I'm alright Jack,Kes,Shaft,Taxi Driver,The third Man,Radio Days,Take the money and run, Sunset Boulevard,Quadrophenia,Brief Encounter,Last Exit to Brooklyn,A Canterbury tale,The Wall, Short Cuts ,La Dolce Vita,Life Of Brian,The Meaning of life, Amores des perros etc etc
Sky sports,The History Channel,National Geographic,The Discovery Channel and any good comedy..Monty Python,Peter Cook,Carry on films, Curb your enthusiasm, The daily news with Jon Stewart,Six feet under,Ealing Comedies,The Sweeney, Twin Peaks,The Sopranos etc etc
Fave authors include: George Orwell,B.S Johnson,John Fante,Charles Dickens,Charles Bukowski,Hunter S Thompson,Edward Bunker,Hubert Selby Jnr,Raymond Chandler,James Ellroy,Graham Greene,Raymond Briggs,Aldous Huxley,Jack keroauc,Thomas Hardy etc etc
I don't have heroes per se and i loathe celebrity worship and believe normal people doing ordinary jobs helping people are just as valid if not more so and far more worthy of acclaim than any movie star, rock star or celebrity.