music, calligraphy, reading, walking, beer, chocolate
friends, Romans, countrymen...... ..
Where to start.....this will probably change and grow with time.....in no particular order.... Old stuff: Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Doors, Free, The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, T Rex, The Who, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Iron Maiden, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Roxy Music, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Police, The Stranglers, Bob Marley, U2, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, Christy Moore, James Taylor, Joan Armatrading, Kristin Hersh, Loreena McKennitt, Massive Attack, Nick Drake, REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mozart, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Ludovico Einaudi........ .Recent stuff: the loveGods, smallwhitelight, Bauer, Belarus, Matt Kilford, Lighterthief, The Dacoits, Rats ruined my brain, The Wonderfuls, Drookit Dogs, Angryman, Sound Corruption, Christa Couture, Coldplay, Interpol, Snow Patrol, KT Tunstall, Within Temptation, The Zutons, Winterville, Pure Reason Revolution, Karma Deva, Firebug, Scarlet Soho,3 Daft Monkeys, Kovak, Sarabeth Tucek, Jacob Golden
Casablanca; all Wallace & Gromit; Touching the Void; Seven years in Tibet; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Pirates of the Caribbean; Bend it like Beckham; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; House of Flying Daggers; Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't watch much TV
I read a lot so this is hard... most recent good books include Saturday by Ian McEwen, Parting the Veil by Jay Davies, The Snow garden by Christopher Rice, Labyrinth and Sepulchre by Kate Mosse, The Boudica series by Manda Scott. Most books by Anita Shrieve, PD James, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, JRR Tolkein, Dick Francis, Lyndon Stacey, Mary Stewart's Merlin stories, Manda Scott, Jenny Pitman, Frank Tallis, Ian McEwen, Khaled Hosseini.
Anyone who puts the welfare and human rights of others before their own. Those working for organisations such as Amnesty International that support people that are persecuted, imprisoned and often tortured or killed for their beliefs. Anyone living and working in disaster areas around the world...