adopt your own virtual pet!
The Smiths/Morrissey, John Barry, The Jam/Paul Weller, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Cramps, Sparks, Bacharach/David, Undertones, Jane Birkin, Miles Davis, The Pixies, Bowie, Mareva Galanter, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Irving Berlin, Edward Elgar, Duke Ellington, Gustav Holst, Gustav Mahler, Glenn Miller, Cole Porter, Igor Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Bolan, Devoto, Morricone, Led Zeppelin, Scott Walker, Mozart, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Francoise Hardy, Sex Pistols, Wedding Present, Syd Dale, Beethoven, Syd Barrett, Elvis Presley, Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Serge Gainsbourg, Popol Vuh, Bach, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Frank Sinatra, Joe Meek, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Peter Maxwell Davis .... etc, etc....
Francois Truffaut, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Roman Polanski, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, F.W. Murnau, Wim Wenders, Sam Peckinpah, Jacques Tati, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Wiene, Kenji Mizoguchi, Launder & Gilliat, Jacques Rivette, Jean Renoir, Georges Clouzot, Jean Cocteau, Powell & Pressburger, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam, Mitchell and Kenyon, Alfred Hitchcock, Georges Franju, Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergio Leone, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alexander Mackendrick, David Lean, John Casavettes, BTF, etc etc.... but NOT bloody Tarantino!
Anything old like The Saint, The Baron, Danger Man, Man in a Suitcase, The Champions, The Prisoner, Department S, the original Randall and Hopkirk(Deceased), Strange Report, The Persuaders, Jason King, The Avengers, Star Trek (Original series only), Doctor Who, Callan, Travels With Pevsner, Public Eye, Budgie, The Sweeney, Monty Python, Quatermass, Ghost Stories for Christmas (M.R. James etc), Thriller, Metroland (and other John Betjeman related programmes), Arena etc..
Arthur Machen, John Betjeman, George Mackay Brown, H.P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Wyndham, Charles Dickens, Alan Bennett, Philip Pullman, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, Wilkie Collins, Edward Ardizzone, M. R. James, John Buchan, Herge, Walter Tevis, Nikolaus Pevsner, Graham Greene, Nigel Kneale, Samuel Pepys, Bram Stoker, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carrol, Ambrose Beirce, Susan Hill.....and on...
All of the above...and more! Too many to list.