Music:
The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, A.C. Newman, Micah P. Hinson, M. Ward, The New Pornographers, Joanna Newsom, Herman Dune, Arcade Fire, Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright, Billie Holiday, Cat Stevens, Fiery Furnaces, Ed Harcourt, Richard Hawley, Kaiser Chiefs, Ladytron, Aimee Mann, The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Bowie, Flaming Lips, Suede, Pulp, Blur, Roxy Music, The Smiths, Moz, Neil Diamond, Dolly, Justin Timberlake, film scores, showtunes, Franz Ferdinand, Pink Grease, The Magic Numbers, Luxembourg, The Boyfriends, The Futureheads, [YOUR BAND'S NAME HERE FOR 99p], things off The OC that I probably shouldn't like but do.
Movies:
Darling, True Romance, Random Harvest, The Odessa File, Pillow Talk, Alfie, Amelie, Vertigo, Donnie Darko, Heathers, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Double Indemnity, Charade, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A Matter of Life and Death, It's A Wonderful Life, Splendor In The Grass, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Fish, Very Bad Things, Shampoo, Magnolia, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Lost in Translation, Doctor Zhivago, Waterloo Bridge, Rebecca, Roman Holiday, The English Patient, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Shining, The End of the Affair, Lolita, Barefoot in the Park, Life Is Beautiful, Cinema Paradiso, Charade, L'Appartement, Central Station, Bonnie & Clyde, L'Ete Meurtrier, Hitchcock, David Mamet, Polanski, a lot of bad stuff I won't admit to.
Television:
A LOT of trash: 24, Lost, Heroes, Waking the Dead, The Secret Life of Us, Six Feet Under, Life on Mars, Nip/Tuck, Peep Show, The OC, Most Haunted, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Spooks, Smallville, Miss Marple, CSI, Angel, those ones about people trying to property develop and stuffing it up, Art Deco Designs, Without A Trace, Ever Decreasing Circles, Sex and the City, Black Books, Strangers with Candy
Books:
Patrick Hamilton, Julian Maclaren Ross, Ask the Dust by John Fante, Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger, The End of The Affair by Graham Greene, Bret Easton Ellis, The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell, Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann, Truman Capote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bring On the Empty Horses / The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Dorothy Parker, Will There Really Be a Morning? by Frances Farmer, The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell, The Penguin Book of Hollywood, Secret London by Andrew Duncan, Haunted London by Richard Jones - so that's books about old Hollywood, books about old drunken literary types, and books leading you down dark dingy London alleyways then...