Playing bass, playing drums, playing Worms, playing 'On the Go' with seven glass bottles at parties, listening to sweet musique, sleeping, eating, laughing, being caught in acts of espionage, wondering what it'd be like to be able to drive my sofa to Tesco.
This guy...you'll see why.
Jeff Buckley, Incubus, Cinematic Orchestra, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Bjork, NIN, RHCP, Emiliana Torrini, The Beatles, Graham Central Station, Led Zep, Cream, The Bees, Sublime, Idlewild, James Brown, The Beta Band, Joshua Redman, Dj Shadow, Deftones, Sam Cooke, Uncle John and Whitelock, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Bonobo, Susumu Yokota, Vangelis, Dj Yoda, Idiot Pilot, The Meters, Blur, The Who, My Vitriol, Chemical Brothers, Beastie Boys, Kate Walsh, The Roots, A Perfect Circle, Smashing Pumpkins, Portishead, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Bootsy Collins, Jimi Hendrix, The Verve, Muse, Team Sleep, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Arctic Monkeys, Bobby Womack, Pam Grier, Taj Mahal, The Sparkling Monkeys, Dj Format, The Brothers Johnson, Dizzee Rascal, Beach Boys, Mint Royale, Bob Marley, The Go! Team, Dream Theater, Jelly Jam, Paul Steel, Gorillaz, The Magic Bullet Band, The Stone Roses, Ian Brown, Royksopp, The Pixies, The Mars Volta, Tool, The Stranglers, Robochrist, Johnny Cash, Autumn Red, Third Eye Blind, Sting, The Police, Bill Withers, The Futureheads, Primal Scream, The Pharcyde, Kings of Leon, Mc Pitman, Dilated Peoples, J5, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Parliament, 808 State, Public Enemy, Porcupine Tree, Beck, Aphex Twin, Prince, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Interpol, Soulwax, Pearl Jam, Liquid Tension Experiment, The Division Group, Bizet, The Prodigy...you get the picture. Just anything with a bit of feeling, or naked ladies on the cover.
Smokey and the Bandit, Transformers: The Movie, Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Man's Shoes, Battle Royale, Alien 3, White Men Can't Jump (I need that t-shirt), Leon, When The Wind Blows, Natural Born Killers, Blues Brothers, Philadelphia, Shaft in Africa, any Monty Python film and anything that has Arnold Schwarzenegger in it. That covers the main drag I guess.
Void.
I'm not really a book person but the one's that I remember are:
"The Hobbit" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Kingdom of Fear" - Hunter. S. Thompson
"Simulacra and Simulation" - Jean Beaudrillard
"My War Gone By I Miss It So" - Anthony Lloyd
"American Scream" a biography of Bill Hicks written by someone.
They're all good.
Anyone who uses the expeiences they've had (good or bad) to add a little happiness, depth, intelligence and forward thinking to human conciousness be it through art, music, film, comedy, literature, politics, jam-making...whatever. It doesn't matter as long as they did the best they possibly could, anything less is just a waste in my eyes.