Music:
The Kinks, The Smiths, Pavement, Morrissey, Robyn Hitchcock, Graham Coxon, Billy Bragg, Led Zeppelin, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Pentangle, Pink Floyd, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Embrace (the DC one), Neil Young, Syd Barrett, Kaleidescope, Billy Nicholls, Crass, Television Personalities, Cleaners from Venus, XTC, Pop Will Eat Itself, Senseless Things, Yes, Field Mice, The High Water Marks, The Jessica Fletchers, Felt, Ballboy, Rialto, Orange Juice, The Band, Harry Nilsson, Adam and the Ants, Jens Lekman, The Tough Alliance, Hkan Hellstrm, SKWBN, Hefner, Teenage Fanclub, Belly, Breeders, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Herman Dune, Belle and Sebastian, Giant Drag, Soft Boys, Soft Machine, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Lederhosen Lucil, The Boy Least Likely To, Le Sport, TIAC, Camera Obscura, Raymond & Maria, Mojave 3, Brakes,
Movies:
Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Bergman, Woody Allen, Wim Wenders, Hammer Horror, Pedro Almodovar, Michelangelo Antonioni, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Chan, Everything really
Television:
The Avengers, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), The Prisoner, Doctor Who, Black Books, Spaced, Shameless, My Name Is Earl
Books:
Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Tom Robbins, Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Douglas Adams, George Orwell, Yukio Mishima, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Coe, P G Wodehouse, James Bond, Modesty Blaise