Music, indie girls, books, footie, cricket, coventry city fc, making a fool of myself when drunk, quantum physics (no really), history, music, watching documentaries about the Mongol empire, failing to be healthy, music, winding up my flatmate about his Scotch accent. Music
Winona Ryder or Annie from Giant Drag
Classics: The Clash, New Order, Pavement, Billy Bragg, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Super Furry Animals, The Smiths, Joy Division, Pixies, Beach Boys, Aphex Twin, Curtis Mayfield, Lee Scratch Perry, My Bloody Valentine, The Strokes, The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Dinosaur Jr, Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, REM, Sonic Youth, Blur, Pulp, Sufjan Stevens, The White Stripes, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Futureheads, British Sea Power, The Rakes, Teenage Fanclub, Franz, Devendra Banhart, Stereolab, The Jam, The Specials, Husker Du, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, The Cribs, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes etc etc.
New stuff:Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Giant Drag, The Research, Dan Sartain, Kubichek!, Shout Out Louds, We Are Scientists, Field Music, The Spinto Band, Howling Bells, Fields, Mono Taxi, ¡Forward, Russia!, Love Is All, Datarock, Hot Club De Paris, Tapes 'N Tapes, You Say Party!..., The Rifles etc etc
Films are overrated as an artform. But I do like Escape To Victory and the South Park movie. And Woody Allen films. The Godfather series is great. Some David Lynch films. Some mad Japanese stuff like Tetsuo (though I wouldn't say I actually enjoyed it as such), all those classic Hong Films like Hard Boiled and The Killer and so on. And war films in general.
The Simpsons, The Sopranos, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing, repeats of The Office and I'm Alan Partridge and, of course, Match Of The Day
Fiction: Catch-22 (the greatest novel ever), anything by Neal Stephenson, anything by Paul Auster, The Secret History, The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy (If I could've written one book...), The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, anything by Murakami (they're all basically the same novel anyway, but it's a good one), this Russian guy called Victor Pelevin (Life Of Insects/Oman Ra both excellent), John Fowles, loads more I can't think of right now
non-fiction: The Penguin History Of The World (how else would I have known about the Mongols or their torture methods?), lots of science books eg Hyperspace by Michio Kaku (although it's a bit hard going), The Elegant Universe by Brian Green, anything by Steve Jones. What else? I can't remember its name but I read this great book about the Mongols and their invasion of Europe in the 12th Century. Dylan's Chronicles, biographies and autobiographies of other interesting people... I'll read anything really, except the Daily Mail or The Sun
Joe Strummer, Johhny Cash, Billy Bragg, Keith Houchen, Larry David, Chris Morris, Matt Groening, Freddie Flintoff, Joseph Heller, Anthony Soprano Jr, Peter Hook