Cycling, Films, Art, Travel, Music, Dancing, Cooking, People, Fun stuff, Serious stuff, Nature, Nuture.
my destiny - not you :p
Highly aesthetic people without a shallowness problem
People who have opinions and stand by them regardless of whether they'll make them popular - who aren't afraid of being seen as a wanker if its their honest opinion *high five*
People with a direction and who are good at what they do
People who by their very presense make it a pleasure to be alive
People who give a shit about things
People who LOVE food
Electronic / Electro / Ambient / Trance (e.g. Orbital, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, The Knife, Röyksopp, Mylo, Crystal Castles, Goldfrapp, Autechre, This Morn Omina, Gridlock, Kai Tracid, Felix da Housecat, Northern Lite, Risque, Portishead, Tricky, JoJo de Freq), Rock / Indie (e.g. Out Hud, The Killers, Bloc Party, U2, Our Lady Peace, The Verve, Muse, The Dandy Warhols, The Smashing Pumpkins, Hard-Fi, Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, The Postal Service, The Go! Team, Cansei de ser Sexy, Matthew Good Band, Moist, Bjork, Radiohead, Blue Oyster Cult, Third Eye Blind, Aerosmith, Live), Cheese (e.g. Limahl, China Drum, They Might be Giants, Kate Bush, O-Zone, Echo Image, The Bloodhound Gang, Softcell, A-Ha, all kinds of assorted 80s classics), Orchestra (From Arthur Russell to more non-specific), and a bit of everything else really. I've stopped being a music snob, so am not remotely obsessed with anything listed above, and listen to other stuff with an open-mind.
This is not an exhaustive list
Ring, Battle Royale, City of God, Braindead, Laputa, Totoro, Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle, C.R.A.Z.Y., Whatever, One Night in Mongkok, Amores Perros, Pusher, Dancer in the Dark, Goodbye Lenin, Everybody is a Killer, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Paradise Now, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Like Water for Chocolate, Light at the End of the Tunnel, Farenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Hong Kong films and comedies, Withnail and I, Take care of My Cat, The Beautiful People, Dogma, Snatch, Monty Python, Gormenghast, Clerks, Lord of the Rings, Romeo and Juliet, Hotel Rwanda, Harry Potter, Happy Gilmour, Billy Madison, Bill and Ted, Austin Powers.
Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, My Wrongs, A League of Gentlemen, Chef, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Yes Prime Minister, Cracker, Bonzai, Look Around You, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, How Clean is Your House, Mad TV, Star Trek: Next Gen, Simpsons, Kimi Wa Petto.
Genres: Biographical tales retold as fiction, epic adventures, books based on historical/cultural/sociological/psychological insight, modern humour. I like books that build characters. And most importantly, I love books with happy endings.Recent reads include Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood", "Sputnik Sweetheart", "South of the border, West of the Sun", DBC Pierre's "Vernon God Little", Ben Elton's "Popcorn", Xinrin's "Sky Burial", Danny Wallace "Yes Man" and "The Centre of the Universe", Philip Gourevitch "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda", Ben Kiernan "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79".Old favourites include 'Dune' by Frank Herbert (I'm named after the Lady Jessica), Anthony Bourdan's 'Kitchen Confidential', Irving Stone's 'The Agony and the Ecstacy', Dan Rhodes's 'Timoleon Vieta Come Home', the Harry Potters (I was a hater until I read them), J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings', Xinrin's 'The Good Women of China', Pauline Gedge's 'House of Dreams' and 'House of Illusion', Amy Tan books, Roahl Dahl books.GIVE ME HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS!! :) And I hope there's gonna be Harry Potter and the Midlife Crisis. I am a sad Harry Potter geek.
Jay and Silent Bob. Steve Irwin.