Reading , writing, watching films, eating out and cooking.
Quite a varied range from UK Hip Hop (the Brotherhood, Skitz, Sindecut, Rodney P, Skinnyman, MUD Fam, Sway, Artcha, C-Mone, Klashnekoff, Kyza, Caramac, Ghost etc.), US Hip Hop, Old school UK Garage (trek, imagine, diamond rings, buddha finger, its the way, hobsons choice etc), Indie stuff (arctic monkeys, the hoosiers), Motown , Soul and RnB.
Dead Mans Shoes, Romero's 'Dead' trilogy and the remakes, 28 Days Later, Long Time Dead, most Adam Sandler films, Carlito's Way, Cross of Iron, Platoon, The Wild Bunch,Carlitos Way, Deathwatch, The Omega Man, Solyent Green, Event Horizon, Old Boy, Deathproof, 8 Mile, The Birds, Vertigo, Saving Private Ryan, Stalingrad, The Rocky series, 5 dEADLY vENOMS, drunken master, invincible shaolin, prodigal son, a better tommorrow, the killer and a tonne of others.
law and order is my current addiction =O) but i also really enjoy the simpsons, dragons den and grand designs.
Clive Barkers 'Books of Blood' are still a real inpiration, John Burdetts Bangkok series (8, Tattoo and Haunting), jack Ketchum, Stephen King (with Nightshift and Nightmares & Dreamscapes being favourites), Arthur Conan Doyle, HP Lovecraft, Graham Greene, Robert Westall, David Gemell, Chester Himes (the Harlem cycle is simply amazing), Isaac Asimov, John Case, Ken Bruen and a lot of other authors.
some of the above writers are probably my heroes, although i don't really have any-just people i admire.