Gary Numan, Mew, Sugarcubes, Fleetwood Mac, Wolf Parade, At The Drive In, St Etienne, the Rapture, Beatles, Steve Reich, Thomas Dolby (the male Kate Bush), Kate Bush, Goldfrapp, Strawberry Switchblade, Faith No More, System Of A Down, Talk Talk, Clap Yer Hands, Rickie Lee Jones, Santana, We Are The Black Lights, Everything But The Girl, Public Image Limited, Rage Against The Machine, Magazine, Rush, Herbie Hancock, Mark Kozelek, Tower Of Power, the Clogs, Nine Black Alps, Magnet, Lizzy, Rockwell, Enter Shikari, Pierre Boulez, Nils Petter Molvaer, the Tubes, Sparks, Fela (and Femi) Kuti, Ashra, Clan Of Xymox,The Big Dish, Kitaro, Tim Buckley, Aaron Copland, Oasis, Gil Scott-Heron, Bernard Szajner, Kashmir, Nick Drake, Walter (and of course Wendy) Carlos, Klaus Schulz, Neverending White Lights, 2Pac, Philip Glass, Bjork, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Neil Diamond, Mansun, Starsailor, Andy Williams, Phoenix, Kansas, P Funk of all varieties, Neu!, David Axelrod, Paul Simon, Chic, Deodata, Charles Wright and the 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Mr Mister, British Sea Power, Maximo Park, UNKLE, Device, Lalo Schifrin, Claudine Longet, AC/DC, Sundays, Chaka Khan, Hal, Ultravox, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Cat Stevens, Steve Reich, Lily Allen, the Chameleons, Donald Fagen, Daft Punk, His Name Is Alive, Dan Hartman, Planet Funk, David Kitt, Zep, Joy Division (but not New Order), Jose Feliciano, Camille, Labi Siffre, Boards Of Canada, Mars Volta, Tangerine Dream, Marvin Gaye, Japan, Edgar Froese (and Edgar Winter)
Network, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later (et 28 Jours Plus Tard!), Napoleon Dynamite, Times Square, Airport 1975, Lost In Translation, Koyaanisqatsi, Threads, Boogie Nights, This Is Spinal Tap, Scanners, Prey (the Norman J. Warren one from the 70s), V For Vendetta, The Odd Couple, Once Upon A Time In America, T2, The Poseidon Adventure, King Of Comedy, Rollerball (1975; emphatically NOT the 90s remake), Around The World In Eighty Days, Punishment Park, On The Waterfront, Shivers, Carnival Of Souls, Fight Club, Klute, La Planete Sauvage, The Warriors, 2046, Dawn Of The Dead (the 1978 one; although the 2004 remake wasn't bad), Solaris (both the 1972 one and the 2004 are perfect), Finisterre, American Pie, Ed Wood, Bullets Over Broadway, The Medusa Touch, A Scanner Darkly, Snatch, AI, Being There, Alphaville, La Bateille D'Alger, Sleeper, West Side Story, The Ladykillers (the 1955 one; the 2004 remake is one of the worst things ever made), Passport To Pimlico, Vanishing Point, Mayday 40,000 Feet!, The Groundstar Conspiracy, Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Targets, Juggernaut, Annie Hall, The Towering Inferno, Why We Fight ...and tonnes of others
Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cheaters, Friends, Flying Heavy Metal
fiction The Road (Cormac McCarthy), This Perfect Day (Ira Levin), Cloud On Silver (John Christopher), Cities In Flight (James Blish), The Autumn Of The Patriarch (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Warday (Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka), Resurrection Day (Brendon DuBois), The Tower (Richard Martin Stern), The Glass Inferno (Thomas N Scortia and Frank M Robinson), Futility (Morgan Robertson), anything 87th Precinct (Ed McBain), anything Kafka, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and The Man In The High Castle (Philip K Dick), The Stand and The Shining (Stephen King), Omnibus vols 1, 2 and 3 (HP Lovecraft), 1984 (George Orwell), Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut), Firebug (Robert Bloch), anything JG Ballard, Ellander Morning (Jerry Yulsman), The Calling (Bob Randall), Solaris (Stanislaw Lem), The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck), The Keep (F Paul Wilson) music A Cure For Gravity (Joe Jackson), Praying To The Aliens (Gary Numan), A Multitude Of Sins (Hugh Cornwell), Fargo Rock City (Chuck Klosterman), Our Band Could Be Your Life (Michael Azerrad)aviation Fate Is The Hunter (Ernest K Gann), Inside The Sky (William Langewiesche), Mayday 747 (Reynolds Locke), Hijacked (David Harper), Terminal Three (Hugh Miller), Jetstream and Random Track (both Austin Ferguson), Miles To Go Before I Sleep (Jonathan Scott), The Higher They Fly (Christopher Hodder-Williams), Flameout and Supersonic (both Basil Jackson), The Pilot (Robert P Davis), Flight 902 Is Down! and The Vatican Target (both Hal Fishman and Barry Scott), Collision (Spencer Dunmore), Mayday and Orbit (Thomas Block)non fiction Half Gone (Jeremy Leggitt), The Emperor and Shah Of Shahs (both Ryszard Kapuscinski), On Liberty (John Stuart Mill), The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations (David Landes), Future Shock (Alvin Toffler), Dark White (Jim Schnabel), The Fatal Shore (Robert Hughes), The Upside Of Down (Thomas Homer-Dixon),The Mysterious Unknown (Robert Charroux), Hostage (Can Coughlin), The Rights Of Man and The Age Of Reason (both Thomas Paine), Utopia (Thomas More), The River (Edward Hooper), Blowback and The Sorrows Of Empire (both Chalmers Johnson), A Bright Shining Lie (Neil Sheehan), Money For Old Rope (Charles Glass), Great Political Theories vols 1 and 2 (both Michael Curtis), Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon), Jihad Vs McWorld (Benjamin R Barber), City Of Quartz (Mike Davis), The City In History (Lewis Mumford), From Beirut To Jerusalem (Thomas Friedman; but his other stuff, esp The World Is Flat, is deluded nonsense), The Bermuda Triangle and Without A Trace (Charles Berlitz), Republican Party Reptile (PJ O’Rouke; but his later stuff, most spectacularly Peace Kills, is a disaster), Going Postal (Mark Emes), Moondust (Andrew Smith), Saved (William Hoffer)
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.