Hedonism, Live Music, Bass guitars, Pubs, Ficiton, Cereal, Comics, Friends, Jhonen Vasquez, Corduroy trousers, Jazz, Xbox, Sushi, Board games, Writing, Tolkien, Sci-fi, Dr. Seuss, The Quaffing of Ale, Philanthropy, Poetry, Zombies, Pizza, The 'net, Stop-motion animation, Cheese and Biscuits, Postmodernism, Running, Cartoons, Well-fitted jumpers, Anthropology, Keeping the Details covered, eBay, Saxaphones, Surfing, Filming, Cycling, Monkeys, The Tau Empire, Saxaphone, Bowling, People.
Anyone interesting and honest; people from Cardiff and Bristol, and further afield.
Listen to Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos; I look for honesty and emotion in songs and I don’t think you can find more anywhere else.
The obligatory list: Tori Amos! The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Damien Rice, AFI, John Coltrane, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Primus, James Jamerson, Taking Back Sunday, Green Day, Otis Redding, Panic! At the Disco, Rage Against The Machine, Capdown, Lightyear, Tsunami Bomb, Eric Clapton, The Distillers, Beethoven, Jack Johnson, No Doubt, Gwen!, The Killers, The Subways, Nelly Furtado, The Metro, REM, The Mars Volta, The Beatles, 5,6,7,8's, Be Your Own Pet, James Brown, The Zutons, P-Funk, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Melt Banana, Tom McRae, Sublime, Saves The Day, Blur, Joey Nightmare, Less Than Jake, Incubus At the Drive-in, The Mad Caddies, The Blues Brothers, The Specials, Patti Smith, Madness, Cat Stevens, Stevie Wonder, Feeder, The Aquabats, Bad Religion, Ska P, The Dresden Dolls, Operation Ivy, Minor threat, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rancid, Brand New, The Strokes, PJ Harvey, Flogging Molly, Langur, The Ivories, Regina Spektor -
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Films are good.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Shaun Of the Dead, Labyrinth, Garden State, Rashomon, Dark Star, La Haine, The Thing, Ring, The House of Flying Daggers, All of the View-Askew-universe films, The Star Wars trilogy, The Limey, City Of God, Pulp Fiction, Charlie Chaplin!, The Godfather trilogy, Twelve Monkeys, La Jetee, Memento, Indiana Jones trilogy, Lost Highway, The Alien Quadrilogy, Ugetsu Monogatari, Donnie Darko, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ran, Shrek, Amelie, A Cock and Bull story, Finding Nemo, Mulholland Drive, The Lion King, Out of Sight, The Corpse Bride, Ichi The Killer,Un chien andalou, George A. Romero’s Saga; ‘Of The Dead’, Scream trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blast from the Past, Tank Girl, Battle Royale, Tokyo Drifter, Leon, Stand By Me, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Matchstick Men, Seven, Audition, The Hole, Edward Scissorhands, Pitch Black, La Sons Soleil, Apocalypse Now Redux.
I don't actually have a TV, but I do like these shows:
Red Dwarf, Scrubs, Farscape, The Simpsons, I’m Alan Partridge, Invader Zim, The O.C, Family Guy, Futurama, Buffy!, Star Trek, Hearts and Arrows, Channel 4 News, 3 Minute Wonder, Blackadder, Frasier, Garth Mareghi’s Darkplace, The Office, Extras, Bodger and Badger, Spaced -
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Actual books: One flew over the Cuckoos nest, The Wasp Factory, Sons and Lovers, Frankenstein, Any Shakespeare!, The Lord Of the Rings, The Hobbit, The portrait of the artist as a young man, Animal Farm, Dracula, Down and out in Paris and London, The French Lieutenant's woman, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, The Vampire the Masquerade Saga, Gormehghast trilogy, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in th Rye, Flanimals, How to survive a robot uprising, Ariel, Any Edgar Allan Poe, the Melancholy death of Oyster Boy, The Duchess of Malfi, Green Eggs and Ham, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, The Day of The Triffids, Heart Of Darkness, The Time Machine, Of Mice and Men.
Comics: All Jhonen Vasquez: JTHM, I feel sick, Filler Bunny, Squee, even the Bad art Collection. Ultimate Spiderman, Fables, Ojo, My faith in Frankie, Pirate Club, Ultimate X-men, The Filth, The Ultimates, Lenore, Bear, Y the last man; the greatest comic currently running (well, joint with USM); the story of the last man alive and his monkey: