Music, film, art, photography, walks in the sun, going to new places, camping, forest adventures, pub quizzes, fireworks, treasure hunts, weekends of fun, mixtapes, rowing boats, rounders, stone-throwing competitions, being allowed to DJ, badminton, netball, training for races.
People who say sorry if they step on your toes.
stuff that makes me smile; Nick Cave, Mr Coxon, David Bowie, Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, Primal Scream, Le Tigre, The Cure, YYY's, The Smiths, Blondie, Ballboy, Bloc Party, PJ Harvey and SFA, Televison, Velvet Underground, Billy Childish, Yo La Tengo, Smog, Interpol, Beck, The Clash, Patti Smith, Arcade Fire, Portishead, Talking Heads, Folk Implosion, Spiritualized, Fourtet, Beirut, Young Knives, Underworld, The Broken Family Band, Hefner, Malcolm Middleton, Tom Vek, Jens Lekman, Jeffrey Lewis, The Faint, Mogwai, My Latest Novel, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Richard Hawley, Bonnie Prince Billy, Suburban Kids, The Ballet, Clap your hands say yeah, Johnny Cash, Scott Walker, Nick Drake, Death in Vegas, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen...
eternal sunshine, goodbye lenin, edward scissorhands, the garden state, lost in translation, the science of sleep.
Peep Show, Lost and Louis Theroux... mmmmm Louis Theroux.
Any Paul Auster..Moon Palace is the best book in the world- read it!, What A Carve Up- Jonothan Coe, The Unbearable lightness of being- Milan Kundera, Atonement- Ian McEwan, Love in the time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The David Shrigley, fact books, an atlas. Ones with stunning pictures in them.
Sophie Calle, Mr Shrigley, Edward Hopper, Lucien Freud, Jean Coctea, Nick Cave