Brinksmanship. Hijinks. Enjamberment. Antidisestablishmentarianism. Games of chance. Games of skill. Architectonics. Child's play.
I dunno, why do people make computer friends? It's not for love, is it now... indie-lovin' Bristolians would be good. Aspiring hard-rock trios would not be.
A Silver Mt Zion, ABC, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Annuals, Annie, Arcade Fire, Aluminium Babe, Blonde Redhead, Born Ruffians, Blood Red Shoes, Bowie, Belle and Sebastian, Belly, Black Mountain, Blondie, Blur, Blood Meridian, Broken Social Scene, The Breeders, Be Your Own Pet, British Sea Power, Kate Bush, Bat For Lashes, The Besnard Lakes, Broadcast, Neko Case, The Cure, Cold War Kids, Catherine Anne Davies, Cocteau Twins, Controller Controller, CSS, Cooper Temple Clause, Destroyer, The Delgados, Dresden Dolls, The Decemberists, Dream Syndicate, Dirty Pretty Things, Tanya Donnelly, Dinosaur Jr, Justine Electra, The Essex Green, Final Fantasy, Fear Of Flying, The Faint, 50ft Wave, Feist, The Gossip, Piney Gir, Great Lake Swimmers, Giant Drag, Gang Of Four, PJ Harvey, Imogen Heap, Howling Bells, Hidden Cameras, Hot Hot Heat, Imogen Heap, Kristen Hersh, Hole, Immaculate Machine, Islands, Jesus And Mary Chain, Joy Division, Joy Zipper, Jane's Addiction, KLF, Lesley Keffer, The Long Blondes, Libertines, Jenny Lewis, Ladytron, Los Campesinos!, Love Is All, Low, Liars, Metric, Amy Millan, Modest Mouse, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Matson Jones, Mansun, Miss Derringer, Manic Street Preachers, AC Newman, Nirvana, New Pornographers, New Order, Marissa Nadler, Numbers, The Organ, Pearl Jam, Pink Mountaintops, Pixies, Prince, Queens Of The Stone Age, REM, Radiohead, Revl9n, Rogers Sisters, Rolling Stones, Stars, Slumber Party, The Strokes, Scissors For Lefty, Sunset Rubdown, The Smiths, The Shins, Spiritualized, Smashing Pumpkins, Patti Smith, The Pipettes, Suede, Springsteen, Sleater Kinney, Swan Lake, Scanners, Regina Spektor, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Throwing Muses, Talking Heads, Twenty Twos, Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack, Tokyo Police Club, Tilly And The Wall, 10,000 Maniacs, Von Bondies, Wolf Parade, Patrick Wolf, White Stripes, Walkmen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neil Young, You Say Party! We Say Die!, etc...
Everything by David Lynch, many things by Tim Burton, Apolcalypse Now, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, a lot of cheesy blockbusters like Lord Of The Rings and the original Star Wars trilogy, I'm not precious
Twin Peaks, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spaced, The Daily Show, Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons before it became rubbish, Pop World, Arrested Development, Ren and Stimpy, The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge, Brass Eye, Channel 4 News (it's bostin'!), 24 (before they killed Almeida the bastards), The Thick Of It, etc
David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Laurence Sterne, Doris Lessing, Susan J Faludi, Douglas Coupland, Hunter S Thompson, Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath, Peter Shaffer (if he counts), Euripides (I'm not being a ponce, he's damn good), Ted Hughes, etc...
Optimus Prime..?