Fashion Design, Travel writing or anything thick with plot like John Irving, film, especially musicals or world cinema, Psychology and mind bending like Derren Brown, Poetry, have recently discovered Wendy Cope, Photography, new places with live music. Japanese culture, especially lifestyle of Geishas.
Germaine Greer, Howard Hughes, Eddie Izzard, Jack and Meg White, John Irving, Audrey Hepburn, Matthew Mchonanhey, Kate Bush, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Cook, John Cusack, Jackie Chan, Robert. M Pirsig, Mark Thomas, Jane Austen, Oliver Sachs, Betty Page, Gael Garcia Bernal. Get your layout at WiseGuys.co.uk
old skool Hip Hop, Northern Soul, Motown, Funk, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, The Cure, Kelis, The White Stripes, first three Stereophonics albums, Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Peaches, The Libertines, The Subways, Prince,The Specials, Some Kate Bush and some Bjork, both have moments of madness but total genius also, James Brown , loving Nizlopi,The Raconteurs, Wolfmother and the Kooks at the mo and many more...
The Rocky horror Picture Show, My Fair Lady( My two all time favourites) Scarface, Carlito's Way, True Romance, The Jerk, The Man with two Brains,Leon, Moulin Rouge,West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet, The secretary, The Shawshank redemption, Oldboy, Kung Fu Hustle, The Breakfast club, Shine, As good as it gets, Girl interrupted,Boys don't cry, Pride and Predjudice, Sense ans Sensibility,Mansfield Park, The cider House Rules, The world according to Garp,See no evil hear no evil, Brewsters millions,Fight club, Ferris Buellers day off, The Scarlett Pimpernell (Danny Kaye was fab), The Man with two brains,French Kiss, Benny and Joon, The Jerk, Battle Royale, Y mama, The motorcycle diaries, Amelie,Cinema Paradiso,Donnie Darko.
Peep show, America's next top model, most things with Jonathan Ross or Frank Skinner, Lost, although it does bug me as it is so god damn slow, Trauma, six Feet under, used to love Ally Mcbeal, My name is Earl i think is the funniest thing on TV at the mo. Oh yes and Takeshi's castle.
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), 1984 (George Orwell), Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance (Robert.M.Pirsig), A Prayer for Own meany (John Irving),The world according to Garp (John Irving), The Glass Palace (Amitav Ghosh), The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith) ,Catcher in the Rye (J.D Salinger), Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell), Mansfield Park (Jane Austen), The curious incident (Mark Haddon). I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou). Reading 'In cold blood' by Truman Capote at the mo.
Meg and Jack White, Madonna, Germaine Greer, John Irving, Audrey Hepburn.