Flying , Drawing &c , Guitar, Music in general, Films, Books...
The chaps who stole my offside hubcaps... We need to have a quiet word on the matter.
Well.. I have a few hundred CDs listed alphabetically by artist (I'm a virgo) and then again chronologically by album (year of the rooster), and a few of the larger clusters are found at AC/DC, Tori Amos, Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Bowie, Captain Beefheart, Clash, Clapton/Cream, Cure, Dead Can Dance, Di Meola (with Mclaughlin and De Lucia), Dire Straits (CD rock forever), The Doors, Dylan, Eels, Ben Folds, Free, Genesis (the EARLY STUFF, goddamnit! PROG!), Gentle Giant, Gong, Greenday, Harmonium, Hendrix, Idlewild, INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, Iron Maiden, LED ZEPPELIN, Magma, John Martyn, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Joni Mitchell, Thelonious Monk, Mr Bungle, The Music, Nirvana, No Doubt, Perfect Cirle, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Portishead, P.U.S.A., Prodigy, Queen, Radiohead, R.A.T.M., R.E.M., Rolling Stones, Roots Manuva, Simon/Garfunkel, Smashing Pumpkins, Specials, SPRINGSTEEN, Sting, Tenacious D, U2, Van Halen, TOM WAITS, The Who, Yes, and Zappa. Then there's the classical and whatnot, and the eclectic bits of vinyl... So.. lots.
Grosse Pointe Blank, Withnail And I, Wayne's World, Master And Commander, Star Wars, Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Amelie, Delicatessen, Cite des Enfants Perdus, Fight Club, Lord Of The Rings, Time Bandits, damnit... ANYTHING by Gilliam, except Bros. Grim... Anything by Tim Burton... Kevin Smith's entire works... shamefully, i'm also fond of anything John Hughes... Shaun of the Dead - zombiedom in general... Kill Bill, Donnie Darko, Gattaca, Serenity... loads.. ooh.. and Ghost Busters and Back To The Future and.. and.. shit
Anything with Muppets. The A-Team. Airwolf. Duckula and Danger Mouse. Battlestar Galactica. Firefly and the like...
Dune, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Songs of Innocence And Experience, Master and Commander, Lord Of The Rings, Sharpe, Anything by H.S.T (the good, late, doctor of journalism)... etc etc
Wellington, J. S. Mill, Hunter S. Thompson, Danger Mouse