Music, music, music! Techno. Electro. Pop. Electro-pop. Power Ballads. Nightclubbing. Good Hollywood Movies. American comedies especially Seinfeld. Jumble sales. Record fairs. Finding a nice pair of trousers in H&M for £14.99. Hats. Caps. Guinness. Independent record shops, greasy spoon caffs, curry houses and pubs!
Buggers and Jockey Sluts.
Bowie, Prince, Blur, Kate Bush, Gorillaz, Vitalic, Bloc Party, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, CSS, Tiga, Good Shoes, Envelopes, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Tiga, Ellen Allien, The DFA, Ulrich Schnauss, Ladytron, Mylo, Radiohead, Chemical Brothers, Kiki & Silversurfer, LCD Soundsystem, Goldfrapp, Jacques lu Cont, Neil Diamond, Whitey, Super Furry Animals, Soulwax Nite Versions, (early) Manic Street Preachers, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Talking Heads, Madonna, Human League, The Specials, The Beat, Peaches, Gonzales, Depeche Mode...
It's a wonderful life, jaws, dirty harry, blade runner, when harry met sally, harold and maude, alien, donnie darko, sexy beast, ferris bueller, wicker man, good fellas, mean streets, king of new york, the dead zone, true romance, rear window, the man who knew too much, rebecca, american werewolf in london, the terminator, breakfast club, fargo, big, the wedding singer, the graduate, one flew over the cuckoos nest, the shining, swingers, zoolander, close encounters, edward scissorhands, about schmidt, napoleon dynamite, dawn of the dead, rosemary's baby, grosse point blank...
The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Larry Sanders, Cheers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Friends, the Sopranos, 24, The Office, Big Train, Spaced, Extras, Jonathan Ross, Vic & Bob...
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.
David Bowie, Jerry Dammers, Phil Oakey, Damon Albarn (for the music), Andrew Weatherall...