music / clubbing / photography / graphic design / radio / internet (css, accessibility, design) / djing / walking (but not proper lets-go-on-a-big-long-hike type walking - just 'walking about') / riding my tatty old bike / gadgets / food / keeping fit
i am also interested in ____ hydrogenated vegetable oil / date-expired foods / mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids / evil hypnotism / cats
paul hudson & peter levy
i seem to quite like the following things.
genres ____ techno
hard techno
minimal techno
detroit techno
progressive house
electro
electro house (well some of it)
classical
minimal composers
acid house
deep house
'underground' house
tech-house
hip-hop
leftfield hip-hop
old skool hip-hop
trance
electronica
IDM
warp
breakbeat
drum-and-bass
liquid drum-and-bass
italo disco
hard house
ambient
early music
choral music
field recordings
and also quite a bit of cheese
artists ____
kraftwerk / speedy j / monolake / underworld / vince watson / oxia / the youngsters / joris voorn / alexander kowalski / orbital / technasia / modeselektor / ame / trentemoller
akufen / matthew dear / basic channel / steve bug
radiohead / theaudience / embrace
basement jaxx
global communication / sufjan stevens / christ. / leftfield / rjd2 / aim / matthew herbert / dextro / ada / dj shadow / subtractivelad
lionel richie / s club 7 / girls aloud / abba / scotch / elton john / madness / nine inch nails
steve reich / arvo part / gyorgy ligeti / philip glass / brian eno
djs ____
james holden / calibre / marcus intalex / sasha / john digweed / dave seaman / andy farley / damian lazarus / twitch wilkes / paul glazby / jp & jukesy / tidy boys / annie mac / hernan cattaneo / ricardo villalobos / nick warren / adam beyer / terry francis
black comedy / good horror / crap horror / violence / mild peril / frequent jousting / cheesy 80s / japanese / world cinema / etc
favourite films (in no particular order..) ____ ring / the blues brothers / the goonies / full metal jacket / 2001 a space odyssey / clockwork orange / if... / the lion king / the shining / blazing saddles / battle royale / wayne's world / the wicker man / alien / terminator /
other films i've enjoyed ____ calvaire / austin powers / shaun of the dead / salo / working girl / audition / the witchfinder general / kontroll / superman / sheitan / time bandits / next door (naboer) / severance / borat
hardly watch any tv at all, but when i do i try and catch decent new comedy, but that's quite rare. i also quite like doctor who.
tv shows i've liked over the years ____ the prisoner / spaced / the day today / brass eye / alan partridge (or pretty much anything armando ianucci like time trumpet) smack the pony / chewin the fat / still game / big train / murder one / e.r. / friends (when it was funny) / simpsons / family guy
quantum leap / tfi friday / going live / live and kicking /
if by hero you mean 'someone you look up to', then i would probably say... Cannon and Ball.