Traditional leisure pursuits, basket weaving & glass blowing, that kind of thing. Tottenham Hotspur FC, fencing, mushroom picking, playing the lute. jive and modern salsa, studying ecclesiastical matters, making home brew ale, baking, and of course English civil war battle re-enactment (as a Cavalier naturally). Taking pictures of myself on a digital camera, gin, the more interesting pubs of london and beyond, music, musicality of any sort, the life and times of winston churchill, bands with a spark of individuality that aren't the worst kind of careerists or drug taking bores, the possibility of true love, surf music, Championship Manager, and its successor Football Manager, fine or not so fine wine, the shape and smell of guitars, black cabs, creatures, the art of being a gentleman, etc etc.
Ted Danson. John Barnes, Roy Scheider, or anyone with "bottle".
Modern Lovers, Tamla Motown, Leonard Cohen, The Who, The Ramones, Gene Vincent, John Lydon, Shangri-Las, Springsteen, The Ventures, Suede, The Sonics, The Pixies, Dion and The Belmonts, Nancy and Lee, Johnny Cash, XTC, The Drifters, Sam Cooke, Roy Orbison, The Kinks, Manic Street Preachers, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Elvis (Before he was in the army).
Die Hard 1 & 2, Heathers, Pump up the Volume, Rocky.
Top Gear, Bear Grylls: Born Survivor
Norwegian Wood, The Postman, Hangover Square, Glamorama, Lord of the Rings, The Idiot, Catcher in the Rye. The Poetry of Keats, Blake, Betjeman, Larkin, and Dylan Thomas.
Johan Cruyff, Jeff Bridges, Ted Hankey, Roy Orbison, Glenn Hoddle, Eva Shack, Wayne Gretski, Douglas Barder, Chris Morris, Jonathan Richman, Carole King and Gerry Goffen, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, John Cusack, Holland - Dozier - Holland.