Music, cooking, skating, shopping, eggs'n'beans'n'rock'n'roll.
About half the number of people i've actually met. Then i'd like to forget most of those people too.
You name it. Then i'll tell you about the other stuff on top. OK then, be like that. Well.....deep breath....Sukpatch, Ultravox! (no Midge, OK? got that? First three albums ONLY), Lowgold, Wim Mertens, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Television Personalities,The Members, the Flys, Belle & Sebastian, Husker Du, Gravenhurst, The Loft, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Clash, Spizz Oil/Energi, Laura Marling, Lee Perry,the Heliosequence, Couch, Nick Drake, The Stars Of Heaven, Gloria Mundi, Joy Division, Bert Jansch, Richard & Linda Thompson, Sandy Denny, The Chalets, Durutti Column, XTC, Pablo "Lubadika" Porthos, You've Got Foetus on Your Breath, Denison Witmer, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, John Betjeman, Big Black, Talk Talk, Lucinda Williams, Ranking Dread, Black Flag, Broken Social Scene, the Shins, The Shop Assistants, The Church, The Clash, Ranking Toyan, Roger Eno, 2 Bad Mice, 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Dead Men Walking, Aberfeldy, Crass, Dillinja, Swell Maps, The The, Simon & Garfunkel, DJ Hype, Bix Beiderbecke, Miles Davis, Sham 69, SOS Band, The Ruts, Euromasters.....
Stuff 'em. Boring. Actually....apart from The Belly Of An Architect. And Legally Blonde. And Animal Chin and "Footage" (for the Blender bit at the end)
See above.
Neil Stephenson, "The Diamond Age"
John Betjeman, Joe Strummer, Moe Berg, Dan Treacy, Frank Nasworthy. Raoul Dufy, Levertov, Rexroth and Williams.