Snowboarding and anything that's fun.
Erm, well, to start with… 2 Many DJ's, Air, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Bentley rhythm ace, Beth Orton, Biffy Clyro, Bjork, Blue States, Boards of Canada, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Bryan Ferry, CocoRosie, David Bowie, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Death in Vegas, Deep Forest, Delays, DJ Format, DJ Shadow, Duke Spirit, Dungen, Erlend Oye, Ethiopians, Evil Nine, Fairport Convention, Feist, Fingathing, Fischerspooner, Four Tet, Groove Armarda,Guillemots, Idlewild, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jeff Buckley, John Cale, Johnny Cash, Kings of Convenience, kraftwerk, Ladytron, Lamb, LCD Soundsystem, Lemon Jelly, Luke Vibert, Massive Attack, Maximo Park, Nada Surf, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Nine Black Alps, Pendulum, Plaid, Plump DJs, Polar Bear, Portishead, Propellerheads, Radio Soulwax, Rapture, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Richard Hawley, Rio Kiley, Rufus Wainright, Scratch Perverts, Secret Machine, Shout Out Louds, Silver Jews, Smog, Stanton Warriors, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, The Bees, The Beta Band, The Doors, The Cribs, The Dead 60's, The Fiery Furnaces, The Futureheads, The Go! Team, The Hidden Cameras, The Knife, The Koreans, The Mars Volta, The postal service, The Rakes,The Shins, The wrens, Tom McRae, Tosca, Tricky, UNKLE, VHS or BETA, We Are Scientists, Zero 7, Zoot Woman… that will have to do for now!
The Life Aquatic, Napoleon Dynamite, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Godzilla (1954), Donni Darko, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Mallrats, Gattaca, Blade Runner, and many, many more.
Robot Chicken, Penn and Teller - Bullshit! and documentaries.
1421 The Year China Discovered The world by Gavin Menzies, Mr Nice by Howard Marks, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, all the Hitchhikers Guide by Douglas Adams, Life of Pi Yann Martel, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Bridge by Ian Banks , White Apples Jonathan Carroll, Schilds Ladder Greg Egan, The Elegant Universe Brian Greene (Ill finish it one day!!!), The Foundation stories by Isaac Asimov, 1984 by George Orwell and The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins are a few that i like.
Ray Mears