Platting soup.
Rafael Benitez. Martin Scorcese. Ringo Starr. Terry Jones (Python).
Shack, Beach Boys, Flaming Lips, Iggy and the Stooges, Kraftwerk, Sufjan Stevens, Grandmaster Flash, Bowie, Roxy Music, The Shins, Mott The Hoople, Amsterdam, Rain, Slade, Brian Eno, The Beatles, Joy Division, The Kinks, Sly and the Family Stone, The New York Dolls, New Order, MC5, Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, Pete Wylie & The Mighty Wah! The Smiths, The Chieftans, The La's, Cast, The Buzzcocks, Happy Mondays, The Farm, The Clash, Public Enemy, Michael Nyman, Ry Cooder, The Wolfetones, Thin Lizzy, The Who, The Real People, Jegsy Dodd, The Squares.
Some Like it Hot. Apocalypse Now, Sunset Boulevard, Night At the Opera, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Play It Again Sam, The Ladykillers, Anything with Jaques Tati or Buster Keaton. Duck Soup. Woody Allen.
The Sopranos. The Fast Show ("I was very, very drunk..."), Trigger Happy TV, Phoenix Nights, Match of the Day, I'm Alan Partridge, Edge of Darkness.
Anything by Don De Lillo, Paul Auster, Dickens, Joseph Conrad ..."Gotham: A History of New York til 1898" is superb. As is any book on the history of New York City."Tristram Shandy""Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain.
John Lennon. Bill Shankly. Mohammed Ali. Kenny Dalglish. Mick Head. Pete Wylie. Bill Hicks. Joe Strummer & Mick Jones. Tony Benn. Bessie Braddock. John Peel. Billy Liddell, Woody Allen.