Virtually any and every type of music as long as its not cack, Hull City AFC the mighty tigers, gigs, festivals, travelling, meeting lively, funny, fit or interesting people, getting involved in good ethical business ideas, having a wee drink or three. On the nerdier side of life I'm hugely interested in language and linguistics and get quite excited by psychology and existentialism too
Trashy pop, scummy indie, northern soul, psychedelia, electronica and hip hop; British Sea Power, LCD Soundsystem, My Bloody Valentine, Elastica, The Smiths, Maximo Park, M83, Nick Cave, Chungking, Dusty Springfield, 2 Many DJ's, Dinosaur Jr, The Fall, The Cribs, Straitjacket fits, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Primal Scream, A R Kane, ABBA, Blondie, Arcade Fire, Curtis Mayfield, Belle and Sebastian, M.I.A, CSS, MGMT, Lightspeed champion, Glasvegas, David Bowie, Pixies, Jamie T, Stone Roses, Lily Allen, Kate Nash, The Long Blondes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beck, Massive Attack, Stevie Wonder, The Postal Service, The Scratch Perverts, The Wedding Present, Peaches, Dizzee Rascal, The Avalanches, The Flaming Lips, Foals, Nancy Sinatra, The Favours, Sonic Youth, Love, Ulrich Schnauss, At The Drive in, Pavement, Primal Scream, Fonda 500, Bitmap, The Fall, Half Man Half Biscuit, TV on the radio, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jibberers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Leftfield, Curtis Mayfield, Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, Spacemen3, Shuggie Otis, Sigur Ros, Television Personalities, The Charlatans, New Order, Joy Division, Prince, Adam Freeland, Mercury Rev, Boards of Canada, Elastica, Radio Dept, The Legends, The Streets, The Specials, Charlotte Hatherley, Ash, Daft Punk, Hot Chip, NWA, Outkast, Kanye West, Go! Team, Supergrass, Ultramarine, Hot Hot Heat, Manu Chao, a-ha, Basement Jaxx, Renegade Soundwave, Mylo, Big Star, Blackalicious, Coldcut, Girls Aloud, Galaxie 500, The Housemartins, Grandaddy, Television, Velvet Underground, The Brilliance, Kal Els Cape, The Talks, The City ghosts, End of Level Baddie, Rumble and Squeak, The Sorry Loves, The Libertines, Madonna, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kate Bush, The Killers, Louis Armstrong, Henry Mancini, Michael Nyman .......
Too hyper and restless to sit through most films but in recent years have watched and enjoyed Memento, Harold and Maude, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, early Mike Leigh films, Withnail and I, Shaun of the dead, Bugsy Malone, Rumblefish, Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Taxi Driver and, err, ET. Seriously people, recommend me some films that are worth spending a couple of hours of my life on, I really don't have a clue!!!!
Don't really watch much but try and make the effort to see The Simpsons, Peep Show, The Mighty Boosh, Green Wing and Dragons Den plus classic tee hee stuff like Blackadder and Monty Python if its on, plus any interesting looking documentary type things as and when I've got the patience
Anything by Michel Houellebecq, most Shakespeare, Crime and Punishment, Ulysses, Frank Tallis, W H Auden, Philip Larkin, T S Eliot, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Brett Easton Ellis, Arthur Miller, George Orwell, Harold Pinter
John Peel, Winston Churchill, Stephen Hawking, Adam Pearson, Tim Berners Lee, Spike Milligan, Mark E Smith, Peter Taylor (currently under review due to unforeseen circumstances), Warren Joyce, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Lex Luther, Luther Blisset, Luther Vandross........