My interests mostly seem to involve writing a ground-breaking phd thesis about masochism and film. And dancing around. And laughing involuntarily at random thoughts. And taxidermy for some reason.
Josh Homme
Look, I'm doing this properly now. But I still like Beyonce Nick Cave and Meatloaf. And also: The Distillers, Peaches, Leonard Cohen, Tool, Monster Magnet, Iron Maiden, Rachel Stevens, The Evens, William Elliot Whitmore, Fiona Apple, Saul Williams, Ugly Duckling, Roots Manuva, Duran Duran, Beck, the Deftones, Sublime, Amon Tobin, the Pixies, the Be Good Tanyas, Pantera, De La Soul, the Fratellis, Hole, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, John Cale, Death in Vegas, Machine Head, Kelis, Philip Glass, Four Tet, Ry Cooder, PJ Harvey, Rocket From the Crypt, Frank Black, Bjork, Har Mar Superstar, Clouddead, Andrew WK, Beastie Boys, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Dolly Parton, Sigur Ros, Madrugada, Pharrell Williams. That is enough for now.
Many films including such directors as Christopher Nolan, Todd Phillips, Liliana Cavani, Takeshi Miike, Lars von Trier, David Cronenberg, Eli Roth, David Lynch, Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Rob Reiner, Pedro Almodovar, Speilberg, Fassbinder, Michael Haneke (who I regard as being a genius although I await the Hollywood remake of Funny Games with trepidation), Ridley Scott, Neil Labute, Gasper Noe, etc etc
Ant and Dec (even though Dec is a sexual pervert)
Here are some authors I like: Julian Barnes, Will Self, Pat Califia, Dorothy Allison, Toby Litt, Sarah Waters, William Goldman, Vladimir Nabokov, Cynthia Heimal, Lemony Snicket, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, Walter Moers, Jasper Fforde, Donna Tartt. My favourite books of all ever are Perfume, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Carter Beats the Devil and the Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle.
Last night I had the rather unlikely dream that Ronnie O'Sullivan was knighted so now perhaps I must admit he is my hero.