buying records and playing guitar, walking and thinking, sleeping and not sleeping, hello kitty, miffy, converse, long train journeys, apple macs, the sound of fresh guitar strings, cups of tea
nick drake, radiohead, the strokes, joy division, box five, melt-banana, aphex twin, pixies, godspeed you black emperor, low, the fall, galaxie 500, arab strap, portishead, lightning bolt, rufus wainwright, television, arcade fire, dresden dolls, ivor cutler, autechre, venetian snares, the smiths, nellie mckay, the durutti column, white stripes, the beatles, tegan & sara, pj harvey, the locust, the modern lovers, my bloody valentine, erik satie, franz ferdinand, scott walker, sleater-kinney, squarepusher, yeah yeah yeahs, smoosh, wire, the pipettes, buzzcocks, velvet underground, jeff buckley, the beach boys, boards of canada, stooges, bjork, brian eno, leonard cohen, mogwai, explosions in the sky, susumu yokota, kraftwerk, sigur ros, slint, ramones, goldfrapp (before they went a bit crap), the 13th floor elevators, slumber party, willy mason, hendrix, boredoms, roots manuva, antony & the johnsons, nirvana, link wray, dylan, lou reed, sufjan stevens, the zombies, bad brains, eels, the black keys, cat power, the dears, cassetteboy, regina spektor, sun ra, martha wainwright and so on
hana-bi, spinal tap, battle royale, audition, shaun of the dead, the wicker man, 2001, dr. strangelove, lost in translation, back to the future, labyrinth, ring
brass eye, jam, peep show, the mark steel lectures, the office, alan partridge, big train, the apprentice
haruki murakami - norwegian wood; patrick humphries - nick drake; ian macdonald - revolution in the head: the beatles records and the sixties; richard p. feynman - surely you're joking, mr feynman! dario fo - accidental death of an anarchist / the pope and the witch; oliver sacks - the man who mistook his wife for a hat; jon ronson - them: adventures with extremists