...ignorance. That explains the vastness of my record collection.
BATTLE FERRETS!
13 & God, 13th Floor Elevators, 22-20s, 3 Inches of Blood, 5'4", 5ive (NOT the boyband pop shit), 65daysofstatic, The 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Abominable Iron Sloth, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O, Aeon, Aereogramme, AFX, Alfie, The Aliens, Amon Tobin, Annuals, Aparatec, Aphex Twin, Aqualung, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Anthrax, Olafur Arnalds, Arnocorps, At the Drive-in, Audioslave, The Awesomeness, Badly Drawn Boy, Ball of Confusion, Devendra Banhart, Bat For Lashes, Battles, BEAK, Beck, Jeff Beck, The Bees, Bell X1, Brendan Benson, The Beta Band, Biffy Clyro, Bikini Atoll, Bilge Pump, Biomechanical, Andrew Bird, The Birthday Party, The Black Crowes, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Black Dog Allstars, The Black Keys, Black Label Society, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blind Melon, Blood & Time, Blue Oyster Cult, The Blueprint, The Blueskins, Boards Of Canada, Bonzo Dog Band, Boris, Bossk, Breed 77, The British Expeditionary Force, British Sea Power, The Bubble Project, Buckethead, The Burning Dice, The Byrds, Cable, Chris Caffery, CAKE, Call To Mind, Capricorns, Captain Face, Cardboard Radio, Cardiacs, Caribou, Casket Salesmen, Nick Cave, Cex, Cha Cha Cohen, Channels, The Chapman Family, The Chemical Brothers, Children of Bodom, Chikinki, Chippewa Falls, (Chris) Clark, CKY, Codes In The Clouds, Coheed And Cambria, The Cooper Temple Clause, Copy Haho, The Coral, Cornelius, Chris Cornell, The Corrections, Cowtown, Crowded House, Cuba, Cult of Luna, The Cure, d_rradio, Daft Punk, Dark Tranquility, Days of Worth, Dead Fly Buchowski, Dead Meadow, Death From Above 1979, Death In Vegas, Deerhoof, Deftones, Del Amitri, Depeche Mode, Dethklok, Dextro, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dirty Projectors, Dirty Three, Dirty Vegas, DJ Shadow, DJ Spine Vice, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Don Caballero, Dragonforce, Nick Drake, Dream Theater, Dressed In Wires, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Bob Dylan, Eagles Of Death Metal, The Earlies, The Early Years, Eaststrikewest, Echo & The Bunnymen, Editors, Eels, The Egg, El Destructo, The Electric Soft Parade, Essen, Experimental Audio Research, Explosions In The Sky, Extreme, The Fallout Trust, FC Kahuna, Fear Factory, Feeder, Feedle, Field Music, Fields, Final Fantasy, Neil Finn, Tim Finn, Finntroll, Flies Are Spies From Hell, Flight Of The Conchords, Foo Fighters, The Former Cellmates, Found, Four Day Hombre, The Frames, Freedom Drive, Bill Frisell, Fuselage, The Futureheads, Fuxa, Laurent Garnier, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Ghandi Rules OK, Ghostsmut, Adam Gnade, The Go! Team, God is an Astronaut, Jacob Golden, Gomez, Gong, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Grails, Grandadbob, Grandaddy, Grandmaster Gareth, Martin Grech, Guano Apes, Half Man Half Biscuit, Hard ‘n’ Phirm, Nick Harper, Hatebreed, Hayseed Dixie, Imogen Heap, Jimi Hendrix, Holy Fuck, Hope Of The States, Horse Corpse, Hot Hot Heat, The Hours, Dave House, Hundred Reasons, I Am Kloot, I Concur, Idlewild, iLiKETRAiNS, Immortal, Incubus, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Iron Skull, Isis, Joe Jackson, Jakob, The Jam, Jane's Addiction, Jawbone, Jazz Thrash Assassin, The Jesus And Mary Chain, John Butler Trio, Johnny Phonic, Joy Division, Kataklysm, The Kazoo Funk Orchestra, Rose Kemp, Kid Carpet, Kid Harpoon, Killing Joke, Killswitch Engage, Kill Yourself, King Creosote, King Crimson, Kings of Convenience, Kaki King, Kings of Leon, Kiss The Dawn, Kneejerk, KoRn, KrauL, James LaBrie, Laika Dog, Lamb of God, Mark Lanegan, Language Lab, LCD Soundsystem, The League of International Super Best Friends, Led Zeppelin, Lemon Jelly, The Levellers, Logh, The Longcut, Lords, Lorimer, The Low Lows, Machine Head, Madrugada, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manic Street Preachers, Maps, Marmaduke Duke, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Mastodon, Jonah Matranga, Maximo Park, Maybeshewill, M.Craft, Melvins, Mendeed, Merz, Meshuggah, Metallica, Midlake, Million Dead, Mint Royale, The Mirimar Disaster, Misty's Big Adventure, Modest Mouse, Modified Toy Orchestra, Mogwai, Moleck, The Mothers Of Invention, Motorhead, Mr. Bungle, Mr_Hopkinson’s Computer, Mr. Scruff, Muddy Bee, Mushi Mushi, The Music, Mylo, My Morning Jacket, My Two Toms, My Vitriol, Napoleon IIIrd, The National, Neurosis, Nine Black Alps, Nisei, No153, Andrei Nosov, Nova Robotics, The Pattern Theory, Paul Oakenfold, Dustin O’Halloran, Omni Trio, Opeth, Ozric Tentacles, Panic Cell, Parisman, Peace Burial At Sea, Pearl Jam, Pelican, Pendulum, A Perfect Circle, Peter Bjorn & John, Glen Phillips, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Polyphonic Spree, Porcupine Tree, Porno for Pyros, Portishead, Praxis, The Pretty Things, Primus, The Prodigy, Propellerheads, The Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Limited, Pure Reason Revoloution, Puscifer, Quack Quack, Queens of the Stone Age, The Quiet Kill, Radiohead, Radius System, Rage Against the Machine, randomNumber, Razmataz Lorry Excitement, Red Sparrowes, Fionn Regan, REM, The Residents, Reuben, Rhapsody (of Fire), Gruff Rhys, Rhysmix, Rival Schools, RJD2, The Rob Beadle Triangle Band, The Robocop Kraus, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Rolo Tomassi, Josh Rouse, Russian Circles, The Russian Futurists, Ryoga, Saxon, Saxon Shore, The Scaramanga Six, The Sea Nymphs, Seasick Steve, Secret Machines, See My Sound, Semifinalists, Sepultura, Seven7, Severn, Shack, Shigeru, Simple Kid, Sinai Beach, Slayer, Slipknot, The Smiths, Smog, Soberskin, Soilwork, Son of Dave, Souler Rico, Soulsavers, The Sound Explosion, Soundgarden, Spacemen 3, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Spiritualized, Spitball, Squarepusher, Stapleton, The Stone Roses, Stone Sour, Story One, Aaron Stout, The Strange Death Of Liberal England, The Stranglers, Strapping Young Lad, Stratovarius, Sucioperro, Sunna, Sunn O))), Suns of the Tundra, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, System of a Down, Tangerine Dream, Tankard, Tapes n' Tapes, Terry Scott Taylor, Tenacious D, Terra Firma, That Fucking Tank, Thee More Shallows, Therapy?, These Monsters, This Et Al, This Will Destroy You, A Thousand Lies, Threemovements, Timbuk 3, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tong Menn, Tool, Devin Townsend Band, Fuzz Townshend, Tribe of Judah, Tunng, Turin Brakes, Luca Turilli, Frank Turner, TV On The Radio, Type O Negative, The Ukrainians, ULTRABRAiN, Una Corda, UNKLE, u-Ziq, Laura Veirs, Tom Vek, Vertical Montanas, Vessels, The Vines, Jeff Wayne, Weapons (of Mass Belief), Weezer, The White Stripes, White Zombie, The Who, Why?, Wilco, Will Haven, Wintersun, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Akira Yamaoka, Yes, Thom Yorke, Yourcodenameis:milo, Youthmovies, Frank Zappa, Zero... etc etc etc
Twister, Renaissance, Saw II, Shaft, Leap of Faith, Conspiracy Theory, Gone With The Wind, The Manchurian Candidate... see if you can figure out why!
I don't watch much telly, but I do enjoy good comedy programs, anything which uses stop-motion animation, anything a bit weird, and the few good music shows you sometimes find. I quite enjoy discovering films by channel hopping late at night / early in the morning too!
Nick Neilsen's E.L.V. 1 & 2 are probably the 2 best books I've ever read. I also enjoy William Golding's Lord of the Flies, anything by Terry Pratchett, Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace, etc. I like sci-fi and fantasy artwork books too, from the likes of Chris Foss, Rodney Matthews, Roger Dean, Oscar Chiconi, Paul Kidby... oh, and graphic novels and comics are great too!
Rincewind, Earthworm Jim, Trafalgar Hurlock, Gonzo, Klaymen, Grandmaster Gareth...