playing the guitar and decks, listening to music, going to the pub, sinking a few pints the simple things really
Banksy (I do have a Banksy about 10ft from my front door which is pretty cool), The Cat Empire (who are playing this summer),
Pretty much anything, currently in my CD player at the mo is Cab Calloway but also John Frusciante, NOFX, Mason Jennings, Jack Johnson, Xavier Rudd, John Butler Trio, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Radiohead, The Postal Service, 65 days of Static, Billy Talent, Menomena, My Chemical Romance, TANAOU, Skeeter, The Jealous Sound, Incubus, Deftones, QOTSA, Quarashi, System of a Down, Mr Bungle, General Patton, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Bloc Party, Eels, I am Kloot, Kings of Convienience, Little Birdy, Metric, Mystery Jets, The Go! Team, The Kooks, Weezer, Easy Star AllStars, King Chango, Manu Chau (Manu Negra), No Doubt, The Cat Empire, NUFAN, G Love and Special Sauce, Jose Gonzalez, Regina Spektor, The Shins, Willy Mason, Fingathing, Leftfield, Midfield General, Mr Scruff, Talvin Singh, YMO, Blockhead, Cinematic Orchestra, Gotan Project, Zero 7, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Concord Dawn, London Elektricity, Calibre, Nu Tone, Pendulum, AIM, Jaga Jazzist, Jazzanova, Damian Marley, Gorillaz, Kelis, Slick Rick, Wu Tang, Dead Prez, Sian Supa Crew, Daara J, Hilltop Hoods, Q Bert, Grandmaster Flash, Blackalicious, Blak Twang, DJ Vadim, DJ Craze, DJ Format, DJ Yoda, Jehst, Kano, Lethal Bizzle, Phi Life Cypher, Rjd2, Roots Manuva, Rodney P, The Mithcell Brothers, TY, The Streets, Yungun, Buck 65, Dangermouse, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Deltron 3030, Dilated Peoples, Haiku D'etat, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Cut Chemist, J5, King Geedorah, Lobage, Mark Ronson, Mos Def, NERD, Outcast, People under the stairs, Sage Francis, Saul Williams, Soul Assassns, The Pharcyde, The Roots, MF Doom, Bob Dylan, Boker T + MG's, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Beatles, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Pablo Moses, Courtney Pine, Django Rienhart, Curtis Mayfield, DJ Shadow, Gil Scott Heron, Kool and the Gang, KC and the Sunshine Band, Alot of Motown Records Stuff, All of Soul Jazz Records, Doc Watson, Ojos de Brujos, Pretty Girls make graves, Sublime, AFI, Nittin Sawney, K'naan, Soul Rebels Brass Band, The Hush Sound, Plan B, The Aliens, GymClassHeroes - Pretty Much Anything, My Left Retina and Yes Boss Records Stuff
Apocalypse Now, City of God, Resevior Dogs, Kill Bill, Mallrats, Shogun Assassin, Shoalin vs Wu Tang, Starship Troopers, Spartacus, Devils Advocate, Crouching Tiger, + more.
Fast Show, Alan Partridge, Red Dwarf, Early Doors, Mighty Boosh, Shameless, MoTD, Question Time, Working Lunch, This Week/Daily Politics, Aircrash Investigation, The Worlds Most Powerful/Biggest ....., My Name is Earl, Family Guy, Futurama, music programs
Brief History of Time and other physics related - Bryan Greene etc, 1984, Laurance Lessig books on open source copyleft, Isaac Asimov, Dostoyevsky
Albert Einstien, Ghandi, Karl Marx, Nelson Mandela, Jimi Hendrix, Harold Bishop, The Dalia Lama