Music:
108, Alkaline Trio, Aphex Twin, Assfactor 4, Avail, Bedford Falls, Beastie Boys, Bloc Party, Books Lie, Billy Bragg, Buffalo Tom, Calexico, xCanaanx, Cap'n Jazz, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Chamberlain, Chariots, Chokehold, CIV, Codeine, Count Me Out, Crime In Stereo, Dag Nasty, d.b.s., Death Cab for Cutie, Decendents, DJ Shadow, Drive by Truckers, Dropkick Murphys, Dugong, Earth Crisis, Embrace, Farside, Four Walls Falling, FTMO, Fugazi, Fuel, Ghosts & Vodka, Grey Area, Guided by Voices, Guns and Wankers, H20, Heroin, Honeywell, Horror Show, Hoover, Hot Water Music, Husker Du, Idlewild, Jawbreaker, Jawbox, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Jimmy Edgar, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Joy Division, Judge, Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Kneejerk, Leatherface, Lifetime, Life Without Buildings, Lion of Judah, Mineral, Minor Threat, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Paint It Black, Pavement, Penfold, PJ Harvey, Policy of 3, Presidents of the USA, Preston School of Industry, Propagandhi, Q and Not U, R.A. The Rugged Man, Rites of Spring, Silent Majority, Shellac, Shelter, Small Brown Bike, Sonic Youth, Squarepusher, State Run, Stay Gold, Sugar, Texas Is The Reason, The Clash, The Fall, The Gibbons, The Jam, The Movielife, The Smiths, The Take, The Weakerthans, Torches To Rome, Turning Point, Unbroken, Waxwing, Neil Young.
Movies:
Anchorman, Blade Runner, Brick, Bullitt, Chopper, Die Hard Trilogy, Elf, For a Fistfull of Dollars, Get Carter, Ghostbusters I & II, Gremlins I & II, Kids, La Haine, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lost in Translation, Mallrats, Night and the City, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Stand By Me, Star Wars Trilogy, The Big Lebowski, The Fifth Element, The Great Escape, The Godfather, The Italian Job, The Warriors, This is Spinal Tap, Tron, Unforgiven, Wayne's World I & II.
Television:
King of the Hill, Red Dwarf, Oz, Father Ted, Seinfeld, I'm Alan Partridge, The Daily Show, Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Day Today, Newsnight, Futurama, Jam, Brasseye.
Books:
Recently read/reading at the moment:Paul Auster- New York Trilogy, Bernstein & Woodward- All the Presidents Men, Hunter S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tobias Jones-The Dark Heart of Italy, Art Speiglman- Maus, F.Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby, Jeffrey Eugenides- The Virgin Suicides, Charles Bukowski- Ham on Rye.In the to read pile: Hunter S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing on the Campain Trail '72, Miguel De Cervantes- Don Quixote, Kurt Vonnegut- Cat's Cradle.
Heroes:
Bobby Hill, Ray Mears, Mark Steel, Larry David.