Gigs, socialising, throwing parties, singing, buying presents and treats for people, giving people love, the peen, furthering my knowledge of everything, modern art, beatbox, comedy
JOHN HUGHES (God), Brian Wilson
The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Prince, The Faces, Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin, Wolfmother, The Strokes, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, David Bowie, Earth Wind and Fire, Eminem, Wyclef Jean, Blackalicious, Zero 7, Air, Lemon Jelly, Kings of Leon, Tenacious D, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Gorillaz, The Buzzcocks, The Undertones, Disco Tex and the Sex o Lettes (!), Kanye West, Madness, Steely Dan, The Swingle Sisters, The Four Freshmen, Pete Doherty, Paul Weller, Gwen Stefani, No Doubt, Gogol Bordello, Radiohead, Nina Simone, The Libertines, Willy Mason, Union Street Runners, The Guillemots, Badly Drawn Boy, Jonny Cash, Bill Withers, Shuggie Otis, Drori Hansen Furniture, Jimi Hendrix, Simon & Garfunkel, Doc Watson, Neil Young, Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grapelli, Marvin Gaye, The Rifles, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Bob Marley, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, The Specials, The Smiths, Morrissey, Shlomo, Kila Kella, The Maccabees, Basement Jaxx, The Mau Maus, Ian Brown, Blur, Pulp, Bjork, Richard Ashcroft, Blondie, Out of the Blue Oxford all male a capella group Classical: CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW, Gundula Janowitz, Maria Callas, Verdi opera especially Rigoletto & La Traviata, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert, Rachmaninov, Shostakovic, Puccini, Ravel, Massenet, Tallis, Stanford, Brahms, Liszt, Poulenc, Chopin, JS Bach, CPE Bach
It's all Gone Pete Tong, Sin City, 28 Days Later, The Big Lebowski, Shaun of the Dead, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Labyrinth, The Goonies, Ferris Beuler's Day Off, Swallows and Amazons, Face Off, The Princess Bride, The Breakfast Club, Napoleon Dynamite, Clueless, Forrest Gump, A Fish Called Wanda, Drop Dead Fred, Total Recall, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future movies, Notting Hill, Pulp Fiction, Christmas Vacation, Zoolander
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spaced, Peep Show, The Office, Extras, The Simpsons, Futurama, Time Trumpet, I Am Not an Animal, Blackadder, Big Train, Brasseye, Bill Bailey, Eddie Izzard, anything with David Attenborough (living legend), The Joy of Painting - heaven for hangovers, Luois Theroux The River Cottage with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Two Fat Ladies
Tuesdays with Morrie & The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom are amazing books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner, Peter Benson, Wall and Piece - Banksy: love his work, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde, Othello is my favourite Shakespeare play, and Shakespeare Sonnets, Richard Scarry - I love Lowly Worm and his applecopter! JILLY COOPER
Action Man, He-Man, Bananaman, Chunk from The Goonies, POB, The Why Bird, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein, Ron Mueck, Richard Scarry, Jimmy Saville (think he might be a paederass though)