music is probably the best thing in the world, i love making it and listening to it, i play the guitar, sax, clarinet. i guess it makes life worthwhile.
everything else: roller hockey, snowboarding, mates, movies, life, your mum...
srv, jesus, you.
BLUES, SOUL, INDIE, D&B, FUNK, ROCK, JAZZ: stevie ray vaughan & double trouble, muse, rolling stones, radiohead, the strokes, foo fighters, pendulum, stevie wonder, jackson five, herbie hancock, the beatles, the smiths, shy child, blur, paolo nutini, infected mushroom, yo la tengo, modest mouse, the shins, dirty pretty things, huey lewis & the news, faithless, david bowie, back door slam, the clash, velvet revolver, the killers, vaughan brothers, audioslave, red hot chili peppers, rage against the machine, jimi hendrix, blues brothers, starsailor, pearl jam, oasis, tommy emmanuel, nick drake, jimmie vaughan, arlo guthrie, aerosmith, van halen, guillemots, pink floyd, beardy man, mountain, dave brubeck, regina spektor, otis rush, rodrigo y gabriella, mr. hudson & the library, albert king, muddy waters, paul harrison, albert collins, lightnin' hopkins, t bone walker, george clinton, hot chip, fat boy slim, dr.john, jack johnson, queens of the stone age, eric bibb, eagles of death metal, john mayer, bb king, led zeppelin, laura james, lynyrd skynyrd, queen, the eagles, the fratellis, the beach boys, bloc party, belle & sebastian, courtney pine, eric clapton, arctic monkeys, ac/dc, guns n' roses, bloodhound gang, rory gallagher, robert cray band, silvertide, michael jackson, soundgarden, van morrison, snow patrol, sly & the family stone, the temptations...
a clockwork orange, rambo movies (particularly the bloodbath that is rambo 4), misery, anchorman, dodgeball, the 40 year old virgin, casino royale, predator, the shining, red dragon, apocolypse now, sin city, full metal jacket, bruce almighty, die hard movies, cliffhanger, eraser, pulp fiction, silence of the lambs, superman returns, the phantom of the opera, kill bill movies, godfather movies, american history x, superbad, american psycho, commando, terminator movies, lethal weapon movies, halloween, borat, la haine, layer cake, rocky movies, downfall, wild wild west, shaun of the dead, seven, the crow, lucky number slevin, bourne movies, last action hero, trainspotting, lord of the rings trilogy, 300, deliverance, anger management, twins, monty python movies, the blues brothers...
family guy, the simpsons, american dad, friends, scrubs, friday night project, star stories, studio 60 (even though i watch it fairly intermittently), friday night with jonathon ross, louis theroux stuff, the peter serafinowicz show, peep show, father ted, futurama, grand designs, never mind the buzzcocks, would i lie to you, live at the apollo, the office, extras...
catcher in the rye (in a non-mark chapman kind of way), a clockwork orange, the wasp factory, fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72, the spire(!), fight club, misery, srv: caught in the crossfire, the shining, fear and loathing in las vegas, the godfather, the sicilian, american psycho, a peoples' tragedy, gulag...i'll read most things.
musically, there's srv, tommy emmanuel, slash, hendrix...mainly guitarists i guess, but there's courtney pine too.
can't say there are many others though, i guess music's the biggest part of my life so no one else other than musicians really inspire me.