Gigs, travel, reading, listening to music, Lush, beanies, going to museums, exploring architecture, clubbing, playing the piano and keyboard, shopping sprees, thinking, ignoring the tv
Kevin Spacey, Larry David, Lucille Ball, Jarvis Cocker.
Dirty Pretty Things, Blur, Oasis, The Libertines, Pulp, The Cure, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Yeti, David Bowie, Maximo Park, Elastica, Madness, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The La's, Gorillaz, Eminem, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield, anything Bacharach and David, early Elton John, Supergrass, The Stone Roses, Ian Brown, Tenacious D, The Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, The Stranglers, Jeff Buckley, Paul Weller, The Jam, Eels, Gershwin, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Blondie, The Paddingtons, Muse, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Bobby Darrin, Nirvana, The White Stripes, Graham Coxon, Dexys Midnight Runners, Patrick Wolf, Hard-Fi, Client, Kaiser Chiefs, The Raconteurs, The Mardous, Arctic Monkeys, Kylie, Bjork, The Smiths, Morrissey, REM, Rage Against the Machine, We are Scientists, El Presidente, The Strokes,The Streets, Gogol Bordello, Joy Division, New Order, Metro Riots, Beck, Scott Walker, The Walker Brothers, T-Rex, The Buzzcocks, The Young Knives, Battle, Richard Hawley, Pigeon Detectives, Take That, Jamie T, The Carpenters, The Hives, Adam Green, The Sessions, The Voyeurs, Guillemots, Boy Kill Boy, The Long Blondes, Love, The Cooper Temple Clause, Clinic, The Pixies, The Rapture, The Rifles, Kate Bush, Radar, Switches, Airtraffic, Amy Winehouse, Ramones, The Undertones, The Drones, Garbage, Magazine, Inspiral Carpets, Art Brut, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Doves, Nine Black Alps, Pink Floyd, Brakes, 808 State, Sub Sub.
American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Alfie, Pillow Talk, Bridget Jones Diary, LA Confidential, Strictly Ballroom, The Odd Couple, Days of Wine and Roses, The Truman Show, School of Rock, 12 Angry Men, The Remains of the Day, Catch Me if You Can, The Out of Towners, It's a Wonderful Life, Forest Gump, Charade, North by Northwest, The Thomas Crowne Affair, Sabrina, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, The Fortune Cookie, Down with Love, The Girl Can't Help It, Wilde, The Producers, North by North West, Rear Window,The China Syndrome, Shaun of the Dead, The Way we Were, Annie Hall, As Good As It Gets, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dial M for Murder, Sideways, The 39 Steps, Closer, Gosford Park
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, Southpark, Black Books, Father Ted, The West Wing, Peep Show, Big Brother, Big Brother's Big Mouth, The X Factor, Rising Damp, The Two Ronnies, Neighbours, Eastenders, Have I Got News for You, The Simpsons, Jonathan Ross, Louis Theroux, The Hotel Inspector, Alan Partridge, The Royle Family, Saxondale, The Likely Lads, QI, Jeeves and Wooster, Kingdom, The Apprentice, Dragon's Den, Ugly Betty, Dirt, Bones
Barchester Towers, The Warden, Sense and Sensibility, Prozac Nation, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, The Republic by Plato, House of Cards, The Odyssey by Homer, The Road Less Travelled, anything by David Sedaris (very funny), biographies and autobiographies such as Morrissey and Marr; The Severed Alliance, The DaVinci Code, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime, Cider with Rosie, Stupid White Men and Dude Where's My Country by Michael Moore, Blink, Making History by Stephen Fry, The Dice Man, cookery books, anything about social issues, architecture, art; theology and history books (The Reformation and The Renaissance especially) and ofcourse anything by Bill Bryson.