My toes. They're fascinating.
Oh dear, must I?
Just about anything... classical, jazz, big band, trendy crap that I listen to secretly in my flat alone hoping no one will know, The Libertines, a nod to Portishead as well as a little MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, Velvet Underground, Nothing better for heartbreak than Tom Waits and some bourbon, Who doesn't like The Verve, Bloc Party, Kid Carpet (sooooo silly), Athlete, Magnetic Fields, Postal Service, Kaiser Chiefs, U2, Arctic Monkeys, Travis, I've a thing for Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short at the moment - makes for good bus ride listening, The latest are Hot Chip, Sigur Ros, Kasabian and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly
Philadelphia Story, Fight Club, Funny Face, A Bronx Tale, Pride and Predjudice (the BBC one - not the wannabe Wuthering Heights new one), Completely bizarre little film called Unconditional Love (easily the strangest and funniest thing I've ever seen), Alice in the Cities, Winter Light, Decalogue, As for the french... La Guerre est Fini (really anything involving Yves Montand cause he was dreamy), La Vie en Rose (she should win an oscar for that performance and also the french title "La Mome" is much better), De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté, Cléo de 5 à 7... and that's enough en francais for now. Gosford Park, Closer (because I wish I could write dialogue that well), Brief Encounter, and though I'm vaguely shamed to admit it - I'll watch Chasing Liberty every single time it's on. DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!
West Wing. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. More "Reality" crap than I'm willing to discuss with anyone other than Danielle. A certain nostalgic affection for Buffy and Angel (Shut up D.). The L Word (Go Kate!). Bones, Weeds (The little boxes song makes me so ridiculously happy), Mythbusters is beyond fantastic and slightly unhealthy amounts of CNN - 360 is becoming a problem. Also it seems I've fallen prey to the overwhelming craptasticness that is Hex. Oh dear.
Love them almost without exception, but notably... Possession, Love in a Cold Climate, Brideshead Revisited, Raise High the Roofbeams Carpenters, Persuasion, Snobs, Prep, Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights Trilogy, obviously Harry Potter, my favourite when I was little was a book called Carbonel and also The Pet of the Met. As for the authors: Tom Stoppard (Oh my god is Rock 'N' Roll amazing), Alan Bennett, T.S. Eliot (who is to blame for my current thesis topic), Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare, Yeats, anyone with the sufficient crazy to craft a good villanelle (previously mentioned Thomas and Plath come to mind), A.S. Byatt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Greene, Harold Bloom, Julian Fellowes, more plays than I could even begin to count. Can't say enough about The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - wept for ages. Everyone should read this book, it's lovely. Currently working my way through Suite Francaise and there's always mass quantities of texts on modernism, though that's about to become more of a required reading sort of thing.
The women of my family - my Amazons.