getting drunk. stalking. smoking. swearing. more drinking. eating. kissing. cuddling. laughing. being lazy.
Ryan Gosling - grrrrrrrr!!!. Bruce Parry. Rick Stein. Simon Reeve. Wayne Coyne cos I think he could possibly be the loveliest person on the planet.
wilco. futureheads. blur. coxon. clash. dexys. duran. take that. field music. pulp. maximo park. QOTSA. foos. the godfathers. cerys mathews. catatonia. contempo. flowered up. the autumn defense. bright eyes. rilo kiley. kate walsh. shins. my morning jacket. flaming lips. polyphonic spree. webb brothers. girls aloud. rick astley. xtc. jellyfish. haircut 100. lloyd cole. julian cope. edwyn collins. elvis costello. burt bacharach (especially together). shed seven. bluetones. beatles. small faces. rod stewart. specials. swede. richard hawley. longpigs. chiefs of relief. rufus wainwright. grandaddy. rumble strips. elbow. byrds. crosby stills & nash. the mamas & papas. my chemical romance.
the phenomenal, and my all-time fave, dirty dancing (i carried a WATERMELON??). dirty dancing 2: havana nights. pretty woman. almost famous. singles. say anything (cameron crowe rules). clerks. mallrats. dogma. jay and silent bob strike back (ditto kevin smith). old school. dodgeball. dude where's my car. major league. the wedding singer. heathers. grace of my heart. baby it's you. sur mes levres. la haine. the beat that my heart skipped. romuald et juliet. like water for chocolate. pedro almodovar (also like poncey subtitled films - whoda thunkit?). anything super-emotional that really tugs at the heartstrings, preferably where someone dies (steel magnolias, message in a bottle, the notebook - sorry if i gave anything away there). all brat pack films. amelie. half nelson. garden state. sideways. velvet goldmine. a star is born (the babs 'n' kris version). the way we were. an affair to remember. a matter of life and death. the station agent. hal hartley, todd solondz, baz luhrmann.
strictly come dancing. dancing on ice. freaks and geeks. one tree hill. the OC. black books. peep show. shameless. seinfeld. casanova. dr who. buffy. angel. firefly. dawsons creek. young americans. a whole bunch of american teen angsty cheesey crap. tribe. cookery programmes. CSI (all cities). without a trace. people's century. animal hospital. beavis & butthead. the sarah silverman show. family guy.
john irving. all the little house on the prairie books. little women. rock autobiographies. i'm with the band: confessions of a groupie. bye bye baby. david sedaris. jay mcinerney. douglas coupland. nicholas sparks tearjerkers. timolean vieta come home. smashed - story of a drunken girlhood. bitch goddess notebook. the lovely bones. like water for chocolate. stuff that makes me laugh out loud on the tube/bus so i look like a nutter. stuff that makes me blatantly cry on public transport (tears, snot, the whole caboodle).
Paul McCartney. Ringo Starr.