Cinema, reading, pub, telly. Also, having good conversations with people.
Anyone who shares none or more of my interests. Seriously, anyone.
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Tortoise, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Dead Kennedys, Fugazi, Shellac, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Electric Six, Sonic Youth, Cheap Trick, Dr John, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, James Brown, Miles Davis, The Clash, Phantomas, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Led Zeppelin, Pixies, Marvin Gaye
A Bout de Souffle, Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud, Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins, The Hills Have Eyes, Switchblade Romance, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Garden State, Team America: World Police, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Three Colours trilogy, Godfather trilogy, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, The Departed, Donnie Darko, Cache, Miami Vice, Collateral, Summer of Sam, Jungle Fever, Top Gun, The Piano Teacher, The Virgin Spring, Persona, Le Mepris, La Terra Trema, Back to the Future trilogy, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Heat, Commando, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Bullet Boy, Dead Man's Shoes, Jaws, Rambo III, The Son's Room, A Short Film About Killing, Electra Glide in Blue, Robocop, Uzak
24, Six Feet Under, The Shield, The Sopranos, Family Guy, American Dad!, Peep Show, The Simpsons, Nathan Barley, Only Fools and Horses, Neighbours, Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective, The Office, The Thick of It, Brass Eye, The Day Today
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell, The Atrocity Exhibition and Millennium People by JG Ballard, The Trial and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend, Starter For Ten by David Nicholls, The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart, The Outsider by Colin Wilson, City of Quartz by Mike Davis, Down and Dirty Movies and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind, Manufacturing Consent: Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward Hermann, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Don Johnson, my parents, and Dr Mark Betz, my dissertation supervisor.