Chewing the fat- and occasionally spitting it out with vitriol... ;-)
New friends and old friends
PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Danielle Dax, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Broadcast, Chicks On Speed, Nina Simone, The Clash, Pixies, White Stripes, Crass, Current 93, Coil, Shock Headed Peters, Peaches, Soft Cell, Goldfrapp, PIL, Einsturzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, The Zutons, Scissor Sisters, The Killers, Bloc Party, The Fall, LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, Tricky, The Birthday Party, Kings of Leon, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Orbital, Can, Dead Kennedys, The Cure, The Human League, David Bowie, Bjork, Slits, Specials, SPK, Heaven 17, Cabaret Voltaire, Laura Nyro, Underworld, Eat Static, Psychedelic Furs, Yazoo, Throbbing Gristle, Swans, Meat Beat Manifesto, Julian Cope, Nurse with Wound, The Cramps, Fini Tribe, The Kinks, Diplo, Nancy Sinatra, Roots Manuva, Rahzel, The Roots, Jurassic 5, Ozomatli, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Zongamin, Playgroup, Billie Holliday, Moloko, The Beat, The Specials, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Beepoid Poolord, Robots in Disguise, Zero 7, Maceo Parker, Nouvelle Vague, ESG, Delta 5, J Davey, Add N to X, Primal Scream, Sarah Vaughan, CSS, The Klaxons, The Horrors, Jeff Buckley, Seu George, Vampire Weekend, Rachel Unthank, Foals
Breakfast at Tiffanys, Roman Holiday (anything with Audrey Hepburn), Withnail and I, The Wicker Man, Mary Poppins, Destry Rides Again, Blue Velvet, Sideways, The Company of Wolves, Close Encounters, The Empire Strikes Back, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, The Secretary, Some Like it Hot, The Philadelphia Story, Amelie, Alien, Bladerunner, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wiseblood, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Shining, Spirited Away, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Benny and Joon, Sleepy Hollow, Basquiat, Saving Grace, Gone with the Wind (fiddle-dee-dee!), Dancer in the Dark, Photographing Fairies, American Splendour, Now Voyager, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, The Magnificent 7, Dodge City, Who Shot Liberty Valance, A Fist Full of Dollars, A few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Harvey, Calamity Jane, Singin' In the Rain, Easter Parade, Meet me in St Louis, School of Rock, Zoolander, Nacho Libre, Clerks and Clerks 2, Son of Rambow
The Revolution will not be televised... I quite like the IT Crowd and Father Ted though... and Never Mind The Buzzcocks and QI and University Challengea and Grand Designs and anything with Monty Don or Dan Cruickshank, oh and Countryfile... and Sam likes In the Night Garden ;-)
Just William; Mary Poppins; Moomins; peter Pan; Alice in Wonderland; But also... Armisted Maupin, Charles Dickens, Terry Pratchett, jane Austen, JP Donleavy, Martin Millar, Iain Banks, Clive Barker, JRR Tolkein, Philip Pullman, Iris Murdoch...more as I think of them (lots of non-fiction biogs and autobiaogs and how-to and wherefore sort of books...)
http://www.guerrillagirls.com/ and Jean du Buffet, PL Travers, My Mum and My Dad