The Lithium Teapot , Scrabble, backgammon, Connect 4, canasta, The Lyceum Tavern (pre-boring facelift), what people like, gin and tonic, hardback books that look impressive on the tube but make you swear oaths of hellfire on the way home, comics, sharks, languages, cross stitch, The Photographer's Gallery, that swimming pool bit under the Waterloo Imax underpass, cigarettes, tangled chats
I'd like to meet:
Sarcastic twats. Grammar Nazis. People who drink too much wine and enjoy cocktails. Conversationalists. Good bands. Electro nuts. Boardgame enthusiasts. Those who give up their seats to the elderly. People with enthusiasms, convictions and ideals who don't change them easily and can persuade me why they're amazing. Unless you're a proper Nazi, a Mail reader or a disco nut in which case we might as well shake hands and part ways now.
I would have loved to have met Dylan Thomas. I'd probably have ended up punching him though.
Movies:
Grease 2, The Royal Tenenbaums, Jaws all-of-em, Mean Girls, Benny and Joon, My Own Private Idaho, Cabaret, The Station Agent, Blanche, To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar, Singin' in the Rain, Educating Rita, Disney when it's not attempting to be 'topical', L'Auberge Espagnole, Before Sunset, Dark Water, The Parole Officer, The Snowman, Batman Begins, The Lost Boys, House of Flying Daggers, Carlito's Way, Spiderman 2, Almost Famous, Annie Hall, The Birds, Cinema Paradiso, Dead Poets Society, Mannequin, Don Juan de Marco, Inside I'm Dancing, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Notorious Bettie Page ..
Television:
Oz, Black Books, America's Next Top Model, Ugly Betty, My Name Is Earl, Spaced, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls (before it got rubbish in season 7), Lost, Blackadder, Spaced, Red Dwarf, That 70s Show, cartoons, Scrubs
Books:
She, Katherine Mansfield, Dylan Thomas, Cold Comfort Farm, Running with Scissors, The Chewing Gum Rescue, The Curious Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Tender is the Night, The Reader, Manon Lescaut, Carpe Jugulum, A Hundred Years of Solitude, Purple Hibiscus, John Donne, Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8), Neil Gaiman, Kafka On The Shore, A Necklace of Raindrops, Stephanie Plum, The Invisibles, X-Men, Love and Rockets
Heroes:
AA Gill, Neil Gaiman, David Bowie, Stella Gibbons, Dorothy Parker, Camilla Batmanghelidjh, Paris Hilton..
