Music:
Blur, Belle & Sebastian, The Beach Boys, The Jam, Billy Bragg, The Smiths, The Gossip, David Bowie, The Clash, The Ramones, The Shangri-Las, Spearmint, The Lovin' Spoonful, Elvis, Madness, Patti Smith, The Specials, Twofold, The Pogues, Pulp, Suede, The Postal Service, Squeeze, Shystie, The Streets, The Beatles, Mylo, The Housemartins, Simon & Garfunkle, SFA, Supergrass, The Black Keys, The Boredom, The Ravonettes, Phil Spector, Blondie, The Pretenders, Klaxons, The Boomtown Rats
Movies:
Pulp Fiction, Napoleon Dynamite, Quadrophenia, The Graduate, Dumb & Dumber, The Virgin Suicides, Secrets & Lies, Mike Leigh films, Lost in Translation, American Beauty, Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, Hairspray, Die Hard, Amores Perros, Buffalo 66, On the Waterfront ... and thrillers - where are they?! Pan's Labyrinth is amazing!
Television:
24, Six Feet Under, Nighty Night, Hollyoaks, Queer as Folk, Human Remains, I'm Alan Partiridge, Brass Eye, Jam, The Mighty Boosh, Britpop Now, Twin Peaks, Deadwood
Books:
Ah - too many ... Just read Time's Arrow - it's brilliant! Loving Magnus Mills, and just read a cool novella All My Friends Are Superheroes.