Travel (I can bore people endlessly talking about it), Music (Gigs), Film, Literature, Photography...
Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson (Shame, no hope there), Mark Thomas, Bill Bryson,
In no particular order - except !!Super Furry Animals!! The Libertines-Babyshambles-Dirty Pretty Things, Razorlight, Happy Mondays, Oasis, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Stone Roses, The Smiths, Jamiroquai, Muse, Kasabian, The Fratellis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Electric Six, Maximo Park, The Streets, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Euros Childs, Gruff Rhys, Goldie Lookin' Chain, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, OutKast, Nirvana, Cypress Hill, Queens of the Stone Age, The Clash, The Doors, Joy Division, The Zutons, Elliot Smith, The Specials, Madness, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Cold War Kids, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Gogol Bordello, Graham Coxon... and many many more.
The Big Lebowski, The Lost Boys, Twin Town, The Usual Suspects, Carlito's Way, Downfall, Stander, Goodfellas, Blade Runner, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Anchorman, 24 Hour Party People, The Killing Fields
The Sopranos, Lost, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Barry Welsh is Coming, Phoenix Nights, Peep Show, King of the Hill, Spaced, Father Ted, Black Books, The Office, Extras, I'm Alan Partridge, Big Train, The Mighty Boosh, The Blue Planet, Planet Earth
The Lost Executioner - Nic Dunlop, First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung, The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, The Damage Done - Warren Fellows, To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee, 1984 - George Orwell, Stupid White Men - Michael Moore. All the Tolkien stuff, Mr. Nice & Senor Nice - Howard Marks, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson, As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela - Mark Thomas, The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown