Music, meditation, singing, life, love, curries, films, space, astronomy, metaphysics, books, clubbing/dancing, a bit of hillwalking, cycling, massage therapy, my family, my friends. Oh, and Hobbits.
Buddha
An Extra-terrestrial (friendly)
Jean Sibelius (his music is so powerful)
Gustav Mahler (ditto x 1000) - his 8th symphony sounds as though galaxies are forming
Keira Knightley (her Elizabeth in P&P was damn fine)
the cast of Spaced, so they can give me a starring role as The Ravenous Naan Guzzling Currybeast of Old Aberdeen.
Ghandi
Hobbits - real ones, with their fine brew and Old Tovey (the finest weed in the South Farthing)
Some examples of what I listen to (this is just a tiny fraction of what I like. I can't remember any of the other stuff!!)
Dance - House, old skool, funky stuff total spaced out trance...
James Holden; Silicone Soul; Aphex Twin; Strauss & Roggenbuck; Leftfield; Mr. Scruff; The Chemical Bros; Richie Hawtin; Humate; Sasha; Faithless
By the way, Sasha & John Digweed's Northern Exposure Vol.1 is THE Roll's Royce of trance mixes. It totally takes your mind somewhere else :o)
Ambient - William Orbit; Brian Eno; Jean Michel Jarre, Aphex Twin; Plastikman; Vangelis; Air (Moon Safari); Enya; Ulrich Schnausse; Hybrid
Classical - Beethoven, Mahler, Vaughan Williams, Arvo Part, Craig Armstrong, Sibelius, John Taverner, Bach, Mozart, Barber, Mendelssohn..... feck, there's loads of them and they're all brilliant!Rock/Pop - AC/DC; Franz Ferdinand; The Killers; Tabla Science; The Bees; Kasabian; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; The Bravery; Kaiser Chiefs; Foo Fighters; Muse; Aqualung (Strange and Beautiful gets me every time); Braund Reynolds; The Shins; Muse; The Fratellis; The Foo Fighters
Soul/Motown - Smokey Robinson; Wilson Pickett; Solomon Burke; Sam & Dave; Otis Reading; Arethra Franklin
Jazz - Miles Davis; Ella Fitzgerald; Louis Armstrong; Tony Bennet; Frank Sinatra; Oscar Peterson; Dave Brubeck
Prog rock/60s&70s rock - Pink Floyd; Velvet Underground; The Hollies; Yes; ELO (yeah, cheesy. But fun!); Jethro Tull; The Byrds; The Youngbloods; Jefferson Airplane;
Folk/folk rock - The Waterboys; Catherine McPhee; Runrig; Capercaille; Clannad; Jackie Leven; Dick Gaughan
Soundtracks - Anything by Thomas Newman, but especially his scores for American Beauty and The Shawshank Redemption; John Williams' earlier stuff like Raiders of the Lost Ark & Schindler's List.
My favourites:
Sideways
Lord of the Rings trilogy
K-Pax
Garden State
Amadeus
A Matter of Life and Death
Local Hero
Restless Natives
Shawshank Redemption (it's everybody's favourite, right?)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird (regory peck's finest two hours!)
American Beauty
Indiana Jones trilogy
Donnie Darko (The Director's Cut)
The Truman Show
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Watership Down
Annie Hall
Brazil
Baron Munchausen
Manhattan
Shaun of the Dead
Back to the Future, pt. 1 (One Point Twenty One Jiggawatts!!!)
The Italian Job (original 1968 version)
The Matrix (1st film)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Monty Python's Life of Brian and Holy Grail (they count as one, they're so brilliant)
Immortal Beloved
The Ninth Configuration
Star Wars (original trilogy)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
The Party
I'm a total film geek and I wear my anorak with pride. The sound of rubbing nylon still brings a tear to my eye!
Don't watch too much of actual TV these days. I'm more into my movies. Things I do watch:
Family Guy
Spaced
Father Ted
Doctor Who
Nature films (especially The Blue Planet - excellent series)
Lost
BBC News 24 (I like my media fix now & then)
Most recently read within last 12 months that I can remember... (this list is getting longer 'coz I just keep adding to it) Mahamudra Tantra - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
How to Solve Our Human Problems - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Billy - Pamela Stephenson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
Man & Wife - Tony Parsons
The Crysalids - JohnWyndham
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Without Feathers - Woody Allen
Holidays in Hell - PJ O'Rourke
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
Bridget Jones 2 - er, m'lass urged me to read this. Honest!
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Buddha (this includes my teachers Geshe Kelsang Gyatso & Venerable Tharchin)
Einstein
Beethoven
Gustav Mahler
Sibelius
David Attenborough
Carl Sagan
Simon Rattle
Saint Geldof
John Williams
Ghandi