Music, alcohol, gigs, books, music, guitar. Make of that what you will.
Anyone I can learn from.
The Ataris, Jeff Buckley, Tom McRae, John Tams, The Waterboys, Uiscedwr, The Immediate, Nils Lofgren, Elliot Smith, Seth Lakeman, Maria McKee, Billy Bragg, Led Zeppelin, Apartment 26, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Nick Drake, The Pixies, Adam Cohen, The Distillers, Placebo, The Kinks, The Smiths, The Cure, Ray Davies, Billy Talent, Ian West, David Ford, Open Hand, Jimmy Eat World, Descendents, Kevin Divine and the Goddamn Band, NHOI, The Undertones, Jack Off JIll, My Morning Jacket, Kinesis, Muse, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Manic Street Preachers, Amen, Bowling for Soup, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Cave and the Bad seeds, Alanis Morissette, Whipping Boy, NoFX, Matchbox 20, Letters To Cleo, Easyworld, Anemic, 'Adagio for strings' and 'O Release Me' make me cry and I think Seligkeit is pretty. etc etc etc....
Bowling for Columbine, Anything by Baz Luhrman, The Butterfly Effect, Jeff Buckley Live, The Ataris Live, Nico:Icon, Sharpe (or anything with Sean Bean in for that matter) etc...
erm.... Sky Movies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9
Horse Sense for People (anything by Monty Roberts), Dream Brother, Bitch, Prozac Nation, High Fidelity, Nausea, 1984, Bolivian Diary, Down and Out in Paris and London, Generation Xetc etc etc
Monty Roberts, Jed, Jeff Buckley, Tom McRae, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Richard Naaf, Orwell, Sartre, Patti Smith...do you wish me to continue?