Travelling, eating out, drinking out, snowboarding, skiing, any beach activities, ditto for mountains. Reading, writing, photography, Vodka Tonics and Corona and Desperados. Bars, pubs, clubs all feature highly. Oh and music of course....
anyone who can make me laugh with a good supply of politically incorrect jokes.anyone.and especially people who like brown rice and veg and earl grey tea and big socks and long baths with music and summer mornings and cycling to work (i'm going to get me a bike) and pretty shoes and lovely myspace comments with hearts...songs that make you cry and fresh laundry and peanut butter jelly sandwiches and voicemail messages that keep you warm and raw carrots dipped in houmous or marmite and hot cross buns and neck kisses and wine that makes you cry with laughter and eyes that shine...and big track pants with stretchy waists on sunday mornings and the smell of new books and the smell of old books and food babies and sunday roasts and ice cream and...laughing till you wee and lying on the grass and smelling the rain on warm tarmac and calls from your mum and lazy mornings drowning in bed and morning naughtiness and unexpected mail - old school and handwritten...Tickles your fancy? Then send me a message too. It's only polite and manners are free after all. Unless you're one of my students in which case, don't bother. Blocked and Denied. Sorry...harsh but fair I think. You should be working anyway, not wasting time on MySpace ;-)
aimee mann, ani difranco, arctic monkeys, counting crows, clap your hands say yeah, third eye blind, the beatles, the eagles, elbow, paul westerberg, pink floyd, bob dylan, the wallflowers, get cape wear cape, hootie, ben harper, ben folds, beth orton, speech, arrested development, creedance clearwater revival, dandy warhols, editors, eryka badu, jack johnson, jazon mraz, james brown, foo fighters, fiona apple, sarah mclachlan, portishead, smashing pumpkins, rage against the machine, air, yeah yeah yeahs, dirty pretty things, sigur ros, gomez, jewel, joni mitchell, kaiser chiefs, GK&TP, tom waits, stone roses, the white stripes, matchbox 20, semisonic, presidents of the united states, pearl jam, ray leMontagne, paul weller, paul westerberg, harry connick jr., elvis, the strokes, the smiths, stina nordstein, stone temple pilots, gnarls barkley, rolling stones, barenaked ladies, donovan frankenreiter, keane, coldplay, RHCPs, greenday, belle&sebastian, air, the killers, maxwell, lenny kravitz, mr scruff, ian brown, finlay quaye, the magic numbers, pavement, smashing pumpkins, dave matthews band, we are scientists, hard-fi, marvin gaye, the bravery, liz phair, chemical brothers, groove armada, nirvana, razorlight, u2, stephen fretwell...and so many more
Gotta love 24 (I'm also a closet OC fan...I know that doesn't do me any credit!)
Dracula (Bram Stoker), Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (Richard Bach), The Golden Gate...a novel in verse (Vikram Seth), pretty much anything by Margaret Atwood, and Ian McEwan, We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver), The Time Traveller's Wife, London Fields (Martin Amis), Last Call (Tim Powers), Famous Last Words, David Copperfield (Charles Dickens), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), The Outsider (Albert Camus), Moksha, Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegurt), The Virgin Suicides, The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath), Girlfriend in a Coma & Microserfs (Douglas Coupland), The Lord of the Rings (JR Tolkein), Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, To Kill and Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Wuthering Heights (Bronte), Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks), In Cold Blood (Truman Capote), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Matilda (Roald Dhal), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), The Buddah of Suburbia, Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), The Berlin Stories, The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks), Never Let Me Go & Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro), The Maltese Falcon, Snow Falling on Cedars, White Teeth & The Autograph Hunter (Zadie Smith), Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou), Go Ask Alice, We All Fall Down, The House of Spirits, Slaughterhouse Five (KV), The Little Friend (Donna Tart), Beloved (Toni Morrison), How To Breathe Underwater, The Big Sleep, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Kate Atkinson), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Funny Boy (Shyam Selvadurai), The Lady and The Unicorn & Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)...whoa...too many!!
Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own life story, right? But we can't all be heroes, in that true sense of the word, cos someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go past...My own heroes? Anyone who takes a risk, works their balls off, gets what they want, and still manages to be kind, energetic and never lose their sense of humour. My dad.