Reading, writing, talking, shopping, eating, drinking, watching films, thinking, lazing, laughing.
Friends - any like minded aesthetes
As already stated but we can include: The Pixies, NERD, Terranova, Basement Jaxx, Daft Punk, Mogwai, Beethoven, Mozart, Any opera by Puccini. Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Spiritualized, Spaceman 3, New Order, Editors, Nouvelle Vague, The Smiths, Saint Etienne, Belle and Sebastian, Saint Germaine, Bjork, Beck, Rufus Wainwright, Television, Death Cab for Cutie, Charlie Mingus, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Nick Drake, Air, The Pipettes, Interpol,The La's, Teardrop Explodes, Sterolab, Love, Espers, The Concretes, British Sea Power, Royksopp, Kate Bush, Annie, ESG, Goldfrapp, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Killers, Prince, Peaches, Le Tigre, Mylo, Gwen Stefani, The Faint, Daft Punk, Avenue D and so forth.
Lynch Lynch and more Lynch, any fast talking picture of the 30s - His Girl Friday for example, Spanish cinema - Medem/Almodovar, Lost in Trans (but doesn't everyone love it?!) Darko (of course), Jeunet, The Scream Films, I know what you did last summer, Three Colours trilogy, The Bicycle Thieves, Wim Wenders, Hal Hartley, Dekalog films, La Haine, John Waters.
Comedy particularly: Black Books, Peep Show, Little Britain, Nathan Barley, Jam, Brass Eye, Sex and The City, Seinfeld, Frasier, Family Guy/Simpsons/Futurama (cartoons rock don't they?), Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Curb your enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Larry Sanders, Bill hicks, Doug Stanhope.
Again, already stated but other favourite authors include: Any of the Russians, anything Jewish, Peter Carey (we share a birthday), Beckett, Donna Tart, Jean Rhys, Sarah Waters, John Irving: any big, chunky American novel will do! David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, The Rotter's Club, John Fowles, Martin Amis, Iris Murdoch, James Joyce - most books really are splendid.
Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, Brunel, Chaucer, Florence Nightingale, Jamie Oliver (really - the man fuckn rocks)