Making work when I can. There's never enough time. Films films films. Music music music. books books books. The odd walk. Eating. Loads. Sleeping's pretty great.
The Beatles, Velvets, The Flaming Lips, Kate Bush, Yo La Tengo, Teenage Fanclub, Bonnie Prince Billy, Martha Wainwright, James Yorkston, Richard Hawley, Anthony and The Johnsons, Joan as Police Woman, New Order, The Smiths, Devendra Banhart, Daniel Johnston, Gorkys, Kings of Convenience, Eels, Calexico, Kings Of Leon, Boards of Canada, Spidermonkey, The Ghosts, Honeytone Cody, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Goldfrapp, Low, Simple Kid
Anything by Pedro Almovodar, black and white movies featuring Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis etc. Bill Murray! I love Robert Altman films especially Short Cuts and Gosford Park. Lots of others; Cave of the Yellow Dog, The Graduate, Red Road, The Lives of Others, Anchorman, Napolean Dynamite, Rebecca, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I read A Tale of Two Cities recently and it might just be the best book I've ever read. I was totally bowled over. Now I'm off to read the rest of Dickens' back catalogue. This could take some time.
The Flaming Lips for their sheer psychedelic brilliance humour and humanity. Seeing them live is akin to a religious experience. I'm not joking.